Why I like stupid movies...

Movies are entertainment: Say it with me - EN-TER-TAIN-MENT... you do not always have to walk away from a movie with a profound sense of enlightenment, weeping for man's inhumanity to man, or touched beyond reason by the abiding love of the main characters... sometimes, it's OK to just enjoy the show! Right now, I'm watching a pretty stupid movie that I've seen a hundred times before, but it's fun to sit back and take in the awful lines and bad costumes. Movies are a great escape: Even a really bad movie might have amazing scenery, a cool soundtrack, or you might see a future star in an early appearance onscreen (Matt Damon in Mystic Pizza, anyone?).
Obscure references in movies can unite groups of people. For instance, the Pharmeceutically-Enhanced Goddess has an away message set to a line from her favorite movie, and people correct her, telling her the word is supposed to be "ruckus"... but they've completely mistaken the line, and the movie itself. She's proud of loving films that very few people have seen, and shares her favorites with close friends. I'm going back to watching my movie now, have a good night.

Snooping and Peeking

Recent personal events have gotten me thinking about how to figure out what a person is like when you have relatively little time to do so. Which would be easier: to ask, and hope that the answers that you get are open, honest and unrehearsed? OR to snoop through a person's book, music, and movie collections to see what stimulates their mind? The internet encourages us to post our "favorites" on every profile page that we fill out. Is this a subtle, sneaky way to reveal more about our psyches than we ordinarily would, or is it just a ploy to figure out what we'll buy next? It seems I'm generating more questions than answers. What a person chooses to let into their eyes and ears indicates as much about their personality as what they choose to wear, drive, or otherwise consume.

Today was supposed to be my first bike-riding lesson, but CK called yesterday to let me know that he's got an opportunity to play softball on a league this summer, and since they have a game today, would it be alright to reschedule? I was looking forward to finally getting this together, but since I hadn't bought a helmet yet, it was not a huge deal to acquiesce. At the time he called, I was driving, didn't have my calendar with me, and was really unprepared to talk to him for whatever reason. The weather yesterday was crappy as heck, rainy led to stormy, so I'm not sure the ground conditions would be optimal for this adventure anyway. It's possible that we'll be getting it all together on Sunday, depending on coordination of priorities and schedules.

Spiderman 3 & Happy Birthday Tia!

What a waste! At least I didn't pay for the ticket, comic boy did, and we both talked through the last half hour of it, solid. Not only did it depart from the comic books in such a way as to ruin a major character and storyline for future movies, it was... boring. Since this franchise has brought in shit-tons of money, I'm sure there will be more movies planned, but I shudder to think what they'll be about. It's no wonder there's a rumor that Kirsten Dunst is refusing to do any more sequels.

In other news, today was the vivacious Stephanie's birthday, so we went out to dinner at Red Lobster, with the fabulous Sherri and the beguiling Roberta. Mmmm, crab claws rock, and I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow, yay!