Friday
Watched a little TiVo and went to live tv for a bit. Happily discovered one of my all time favorite movies was on, The Warriors - When I was a teenager, I saw this movie at the theater once a weekend for three weekends in a row. I loved this movie.
This movie was one of those character-defining movies for me, like Young Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein (like a lot of comedy films) instilled in me my sense of goofiness and enjoyment of all things silly. The Warriors instilled in me a sense of not taking crap from anyone (well, until I joined the military, heh).
At the time, I thought this was the baddest of badass movies. (C'mon, I was 15). With time, however, it's become one of my favorite all time cheesy movies. Sure, there are a few classic moments of badassness that's still awesome, but I think at this point cheesiness > badassness. A gang on rollerskates? In bluejean overalls? Gang fight in the men's room? I'm thinking they must have been a gang from the Chelsea district. Still, that was one of the funnest fights in the movie, right after the park fight with the baseball furies.
I would buy the new X-box game based on the movie, but I hear it's woefully short. So I'm gonna wait for it to hit Blockbuster and rent it. "Warriors...come out to plaaayyyy...."
Saturday
My niece and nephew wanted to take my wife and I (along with their parents) to see a noonish showing of the Wallace & Gromit movie at the Muvico Egyptian theater. Apparently, we should have re-checked the movie show times that morning. As it turned out, they weren't showing Wallace & Gromit anymore. So we had lunch at Chevy's instead.
I played a fun game of Civ 4. My leadership skills blow, but for my first game, I'm just happy I won. I forget who I was compared to on the leadership scale, but I was wayyyy down the list (but not at the bottom). I won by brute military force and economics (had the most money). This is about the extent of my knowledge in how to play this game.
Sunday
Played Dungeon Siege II - while the gameplay is sort of boring, the back story sounds interesting enough for me to keep at it.
Mowed the Lawn of Woe!! Hopefully the last mowing of the year.
Watched a bunch of TiVo recorded shows like CSI, CSI:NY, L&O:Criminal Intent, Harvey Birdman, Drawn Together and Family Guy.
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'Lo, there do I see, the line of my people, back to the beginning, 'lo do they call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave...may live...forever. X-Box 360 Gamer Tag - Smogster