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jetpack_monkey1. Pre-ordered Doctor Who Season 1 like a mofo.
2. Based on Awesome Girlfriend's comments, finally ordered Veronica Mars Season 1 from Amazon.
3. While I was at it, ordered this, that, and another thing. Also bought the girlfriend a present.
4. Might have also ordered one or two other things. Okay, three.
5. While Awesome Girlfriend was on errands, started my Veronica Mars catch-up process. Got through My Mother the Fiend and the first 15 minutes of One Angry Veronica. Comments to come later. Oh, the comments.
6. Went to The Mall with Awesome Girlfriend, in search of new pants, as my current two favorite pairs have simultaneously developed holes in the right knee. It's a conspiracy of denim, I swear.
7. While at The Mall, found a Sam Goody that was closing. Everything must go, including DVDs at half (already ridiculous) price. Picked up Meet Me in St. Louis, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes, A Mighty Wind, The Hudsucker Proxy, A Simple Plan, Tromeo & Juliet, and The Toxic Avenger for a steal. What? I'mnotaddictedreally.
8. Found that The Gap at The Mall (and I can usually only find jeans that fit at The Gap) had mysteriously swanned off.
9. Had pretzel bites with hot cream cheese and a cool glass of lemonade. Yummy. Awesome Girlfriend had same, but with Nacho cheese instead.
10. Found an Old Navy and bought pants there. Was surprised to find that the jeans that I'd been wearing comfortably for the past 2 years (handed down to me by my mother, oddly enough) were not, as I thought 32x34, but 34x32. I did think that they were a little short, but the waist really suprised me. Must be the bony out-jut of my hips.
11. Checked movie times. V for Vendetta was not playing for another hour and a half, alas.
12. Sallied forth to the nearby Petsmart. Cooed at every dog that approached the limits of the word "cute." Awesome Girlfriend bought toys for her rabbit, hoping to distract him from his salacious advances on her hand.
13. Found a fly-by-night book outlet and purchased a neat book by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Out of Sight) called Getting Away With It where he and Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, The Three Musketeers) just spend pages going back and forth, interview-style, about artistry in movies. Not really an interview so much as a dialogue, and completely awesome. Cost: $1.08.
14. Feet started to ache in that "okay, I understand you're having fun but can we sit the fuck down now" sort of way, so Awesome Girlfriend and I head back to the theater for "V for Vendetta." I unwrap my new DVD purchases in a way that has become ritualistic to me while watching advertisements for products that I will never buy and trivia about films I will never see. No, I don't know what they were looking for in Doogal. There are 7 people in the United States who do, and they all think that The Wiggles are completely rad.
15. Trailers -- had seen Superman Returns and X-Men 3 on my computer screen. Neither more impressive in the theater. Superman Returns will probably be neat, but I still worry about the vast number of characters in X-Men 3 and the fact that it's Brett "Chris Tucker is my comic muse" Ratner at the helm. Mission Impossible III might look cool if it wasn't Tom Cruise. Sorry, JJ, but my money goes where the crazy people who tell me that my drugs don't work aren't. See if you can sort out those negatives.
16. Movie -- wins. Not perfect (some logical gaps), but still a highly entertaining and mostly thoughtful piece of celluloid. And I love Hugo Weaving. Always have, but the love continues. Natalie Portman is now forgiven for Episode III. And II. And I. This was a ballsy movie to make in this day and age, and I'm glad somebody did.
Oh, and as a matter of fairness, all Amazon links contain my Associate ID, so 5-7% of any purchase made through that particular session (if you stay at Amazon and order something else) will be donated to the "Nate's Passing It Off as Preparation for Film School" Fund. It's very exclusive.
