Thanksgiving, 1990

Happy Thanksgiving. I can't remember who won, but I was rooting for Georgia Tech as always. Ironically, maybe, I ended up going to UGA. Unironically, I did not give a damn about football while there. This opinion was re-enforced by watching people vomit in the streets at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon. Nein danke. I'll keep my vomiting indoors and after sunset.*

*Bonus fun-fact: Despite the insinuation, I have not vomited since I was 10-years-old (almost 20 years).

Silents is golden

One of the greatest silent films of all time, shown in a classic movie palace with accompaniment by possibly the greatest living organ player in the U.S. (Dennis James). This is the kind of stuff I live for. It's like stepping into a time-machine.

Zombie Attack!

Zack Snyder gets it all wrong: zombies can't run. Also, I'm pretty sure the mall setting is supposed to be a loaded symbol. I knew these things at 14, so how is it that a grown man with millions of dollars and a giant crew doesn't seem to get it? I guess it's all part of what makes him "visionary."

That said, if the movie was named Zombie Attack! or something, I would have liked it and assumed it was a very lazy homage to Dawn of the Dead. But calling it a remake just invites the criticism...

I love stupid comedies

I guarantee, I walked out of every single one of these movies happier than I ever have been as an adult.

The Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey stub is from the Merrit Square Mall "North" theatre on Merrit Island, FL. When visiting my grandparents there, going to this movie theatre was one of the only ways to keep from turning inside out as a result of sustained boredom. I look back on this with a wince of regret because adult me wishes I had spent more time talking with my grandfather before he passed away. But ten year old me lacked this perspective and, really, any emotional maturity, therefore spending an hour and a half with time traveling idiots who give Death a wedgie seemed far more appealing than spending even five minutes with my family. Ah, who am I kidding... put in the same situation today, I would still probably go see Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. I'm not that much more mature, and any mortality-linked perspectives will still lose out to my desire for cheap laughs and a projected movie show.

Understand, I was really into Bill & Ted. I ate their breakfast cereal, and used the cassette tape case that came with it to carry around my Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack cassette (in 1991 it was probably sharing that 3-cassette space with the Ghostbuster's II and Back to the Future III soundtracks...)