Movie Night

Okay, so now I work at a movie theater. I went to orientation on Sunday. I’m going to be working with people who are 10-15 years younger than I am… Which on the whole, is something I had not really thought about before orientation. They went through their schpeel about the whole place and the manager giving the tour was pretty cool. He’s very laid back and seems to drop the f-bomb like it was candy. Apparently “fuck” is his favorite noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, and all around word salt. However he manages to keep it from customers somehow.

The tour went over the concession stand which I’m not too thrilled about. You see, when I worked there 8-10 years ago we didn’t have to upsell anything to people. Now we have to suggest larger items. I understand the reasons behind it. For those that don’t know. Ticket sales basically go to pay for renting the film in which you are about to see. The money you spend on popcorn and soda goes to pay for people like me to serve you the popcorn and clean up after your sorry asses. Oh, and please pick up your shit. I mean come on… if you are going to sneak burger king into the theater, at least take the bag of garbage out with you on your way out.

So now I get to look forward to the opening of Star Wars, not to see the movie, but the mass of people leaving crap all over the floors for me to sweep up.

Speaking of movies… we went and saw a movie last night. HHGTTG. It wasn’t a half bad film. Now I’ve only gotten to chapter 22 of the book so far and some of the things in the book are different from the film. I like the way that Arthur and Ford get off Earth a little better in the book than in the film… the conversation between the foreman and Ford was great and the way he got him to lay down in front of the dozer was classic. However they didn’t play it that way for the film… which I guess is fine. The one thing that bothered me about the movie was the premise for them to go get a gun. This gun was a funny concept, however it was totally useless to bring in someone like John Malkovich to play such a stupid role. It seemed the only reason why they went to talk to Humma Kavula(to which you have to yell it when you say it, if you haven't seen the film... umm nevermind) was so that he could chop off Z’s second head and third arm, both of which were hidden most of the time anyway. They then found the gun for Humma Kavula and they just sort of ended the film before they went and gave it to him. I kinda wanted to see why Humma Kavula would want it.

Other than those two things I found the film to be quite funny. Willow got to play another “tiny” role… Alan Rickman as damned funny as the voice of Marvin. It was just pure nonsensical fun. I liked it… the sets were pretty good, although the Heart of Gold was not how I thought it would look. All in all a good film.

I used to have a scale that I’d use when I worked in the movie theater when I was a teen… I’d put this in the Matinee category.

I’ve since revised it a bit…

0) God’s Must be Crazy – Named for the worst film on the planet. It should be shown to inmates instead of putting them in solitary.

1) TBS when you’re bored – If you had nothing to do on a Tuesday Night and nothing else is on besides WWE.

2) Encore on a Friday Night – If you happen to be stuck at home and you want to watch something that will keep you interested

3) HBO – I’d “pay” to see this movie before it went to Encore

4) Cheap Theater – I’d pay to see this on the big screen, however I wouldn’t pay much

5) Dusk prices – They used to have dusk prices at theaters where if you saw the 6:00 show it was cheaper than the Matinee price

6) Matinee – I would go see this, but I wouldn’t pay full price for it. A pretty good film but not THAT good.

7) Full Price – In other words…”Worth the Price of Admission”

8) Opening day – I would stand in line for 2 hours while waiting to get into this film

9) Star Wars – Meaning the original Trilogy, before Lucas made Greedo shoot first, or what I mistakenly did for Episode I. That is I would stand in line for 6 hours waiting for this film to start. Or rather hope that Joe’s mom would take the day off of work and hold a spot in line for us and wait 12 or more hours for us. Then have us almost get in a fight with some geeks and have me put money down on Joe’s mom to take the geek down.

10) Fan boy – I would own every piece of movie memorabilia from this film. I already own the video game and the sound track from it and I quote lines from it on a daily basis. I have a pre-order for the DVD even though it just appeared on Amazon. If they had a convention I would probably attend.

So there’s my scale I will be using from now on. Hope you all enjoy some of my movie reviews. I’ll try and not spoil most of them for you… but then again, if it sucks as bad as “The gods must be crazy” I’ll tell you everything to make you avoid the film and hopefully prevent “The gods must be crazy II” version of the film from ever coming out.

One year ago today

One year ago today I was waking up in a fancy schmancy hotel room after a long day/night before. Flower petals all over the room along with burnt out candles, 9 yards of material, and a white dress strewn over the table and chairs. No longer was I living in sin. Now it was allllll legal :).

Happy Anniversary to my lovely wife. We made it a year now... only 99* years more to go.

Some things I've learned over the last year:
1) Nothing is really "fair" in marriage, only Love and War (according to the bible).
2) Never leave the toilet seat up. Nevermind that you had to lift it before going, now you have to put it back down... if you can lift it to pee, she should have to put it down to pee. Seems 0nly fair... but see #1
3) Dishes don't wash themselves and if you do them she'll find the one dish that you didn't wash all the way.
4) Cooking is fun, but messy. Apparently if you cook you have to clean it right up after you eat.
5) Make-up sex is good.
6) Living with your wife is hard work, but worth it in the end.
7) Living with your wife and a loud bitch of a roomate is even harder, but not rewarding at all, in fact it tends to cost you more money somehow.
8) The biggest fights come from the smallest of mis-understandings.
9) I love kissing my wife's neck.
10) Embarassing your wife in public is fun at the time, but sometimes leads to #8 and then # 5.
11) Laughter is the best medicine, unless you've just had surgery.
12) Be careful what you ask for when your wife wants to "fix" a bodily "injury".
13) I never want to be the car steering wheel of a car my wife drives.
14) Kilts are surprisingly comfortable.
15) Talking and listening are two totally different things and should never be done at the same time.
16) I never knew the word "bird" could be so funny till you hear people on the radio talk about what they stuff in them for Thanksgiving.
17) Did you know there was only one way to fold underwear?
18) Everything we have is hers and there are somethings that are only hers.
19) Sometimes, even going to Wal-Mart can be an adventure.
20) You can be blamed for something even though you had nothing to do with it. You also pay for it too. Eventually it turns out to be #8 and hopefully then #5 again.
21) If she's not happy, then I'm not happy.
22) There are a ton of Brownie points in Flowers
23) Remebering how she likes her burger prepaired goes a looong way.
24) When she says that she wants something in particular to eat, it would be best if you went and got it, despite what you think...
25) There are things that you do that she thinks is cute... then later it annoys the shit out of her.
26) The word "cute" can be a code word and it could also mean "cute". You have to infer when she's saying it as a code word. For example: "This apartment is cute". Means that's it's really nice, it could also mean "small" depending on what's she thinking and you just have to know what she's thinking.
27) She's a strong woman till she gets sick...
28) Every day is different with my wife, some good, some bad, but in the end is worth every pain and joy that it brings.

*give or take :)

AHHHHH MAKE IT STOP!

I've said it before and I'll say it again

The guy who sits in the cuble next to mine is old and stubborn and likes his music. Far too loud I might add... I wouldn't mind if it was good... but come on... ABBA has been dead for years, despite what the ads for Mamma Mia! state. No one wants to hear them anymore...except for dips like Ric.