movie madness

the plan tonight?

brother and me were going to see "the life aquatic with steve zissou" at 9:40 tonight, come home around midnight and crash... we skate the car to the theater just as the movie's supposed to start, we go to buy our tickets and we get pointed to a sign in tiny print that reads "due to weather conditions, we did not yet recieve our copy of 'the life aquatic'... sorry for the inconvenience" (instead of opening a week ago like in jersey, it was scheduled to open in TN *this* weekend)... well shoot... the next movie we had even a remote interest in at that theater was at 11, so we left, and tried another theater a couple miles down the road... with nothing there that we both wanted to see, we went a block down the road to the net closest theater (one in a mall), where the only movie yet to start for the evening was "closer", which i've seen once, but am *not* seeing again with my brother... hrmmmmph...

by then it's after 10, but we were determined to do *something*, so we drive several miles down another road to check out another theater that i'll be at tomorrow afternoon anyhow :-P... there were no movies starting there after 10, so we moved on to where the next closest theater should be, but turns out since july they've dug it up and are putting something else there... hrmmmph again.

now it's 10:30, we've been scooting around on ice for an hour and we darn well want our movie... so a stop by walgreens for contact solution, and off to the original theater, we finally got our movie...

brother had never heard of it, and it was on my to see list, although i didn't realize it was a *THREE HOUR* movie!... yup, we saw the 11pm showing of "the aviator"... with the exception of an obnoxious group of teenagers in the back row of the theater who talked on their cell phones for the first 45 minutes of the movie, then all left en masse to go elsewhere, it was good.... brother was extremely confused as he had no idea who howard hughes was, but having even a little background made it worth seeing... the filming was really interesting and i really liked how they put together lots visuals... it was weird seeing leonardo all old and crazy looking; i guess when i think of actors to cast in the role of hughes, he's not who i'd originally think of, but he did well.

so yeah, 2:15am, just got home, movie done, and i gotta drive mom to church in 7 hours... this is fun, right?

moral of the story? you let me and brother leave the house together and you never know where we'll end up or when we'll come back... we are just freakin good at joy riding and/or making excuses to stay gone longer... go us :-P

night y'all