The Blockbuster Movie

I just went up to Blockbuster to check out the 3rd Harry Potter movie (Prisoner Of Azkaban), cause I’ve been waiting for it to get returned at the library and it’s taking forever. Anyway. I didn’t call the store first to see if it was in. I just kind of assumed it was in (cause don’t they have a million copies of everything anyway?).

When I got there, it took me a while to get acquainted. It’s been so long since I’ve actually stepped foot in a movie store that I had forgotten how the movies were categorized. I looked like a deer in headlights. I just stood there staring and looking around at the different sections. I almost found myself looking for a catalog. So I did what anyone in my position would do. I walked along the outter edge where all the New movies are. I passed movies I had seen, movies I will never see and movies I want to see….but which I can just wait to borrow from the library (of course). Unlike Harry Potter movies. Those I CANNOT wait to see anymore. They’re constantly being checked out at the library and I need to get them all in before I have more important things to do, like homework. So finally I make it over to where all the Harry Potter movies are. However, I wasn’t the only one. Standing next to me was a woman on a mission. She started grabbing ALL of the Harry Potter movies at once. She had the first….then the second…and then the fourth. I could tell she was looking for the Prisoner of Azkaban (the third) like me. All we saw was a picture of what the cover looks like in the movie’s place. I immediatly started walking towards the counter to ask the employee if he could see if any had been checked in. The thing is….the lady started walking to the front as well. So we were both walking super duper fast like we were in a race, both of us taking different routes to try to beat the other. Now that I think about it, I should have started doing cartwheels and backflips like they do in the movies and commercials, cause it was definitely the kind of moment that called for it. When we got to the counter the Blockbuster dude was on the phone AND helping a customer already. I started helping myself to the recently returned movies, leaning waaaaaaayyyy over the counter so that my boobs flattened all the way out and came out the sides. Sort of like a sideways mammogram. The lady just stood there staring at me and fondling her three Harry Potter movies impatiently. As soon as Blockbuster boy got off the phone, I mean as soon as his mouth stopped moving but before he actually hung the phone up…. I asked him if he had any Prisoner of Azkaban movies behind the counter. Then the lady interjected and said how funny it was cause she too was looking for it. I just looked at her and smiled politely thinking “don’t even think about it lady.” I could tell she wasn’t about to back off if he had only one available. Just as I was about to turn to her and say “Look lady! I came all the way here specifically for this movie and you have a whole pile to watch in your arms…etc etc” he came running up with two.
Both of us thanked him immensely and I felt relieved. I really didn’t feeling like having an all out smack down over the Prisoner of Azkaban with this lady. I mean, seriously. She was about to hog all the Harry Potter movies. I wasn’t about to let that happen. So I am happy. No need to bust out with my nunchuncks afterall.

So I got my movie AND managed to squeeze into my pile the entire 5th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I can’t wait!! *drool*.

In fact, the experience I just had in the movie store felt so much like such a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode that I could’ve sworn I saw a camera rolling behind the comedy section. Only I was Larry David.

Two Worms

Check out this movie of Jeff showing my nephew how to do the worm (from last November). Oliver’s on his way to becoming a pro breakdancer.

Party Girl and Cheese

We somehow found time to squeeze in a movie last night. A fun 1993 Parker Posey movie called Party Girl, which is apparently a rite of passage for anyone thinking about or attending library school. Parker Posey plays a selfish and self centered 24 year old named Mary who finds herself in quite a bit of trouble after throwing one of her infamous “rent” parties. She turns to her librarian godmother who bails her out of jail and gives her a job as a clerk so she may pay back her debt. The godmother doesn’t expect much out of Mary, always comparing her to her flaky dead mother. Mary attempts to prove her wrong, but more often just lives up to her already tarnished reputation. It isn’t until she takes her life more seriously that she grows up. In the end, she not only ends up falling for a young Lebanese man (so cute), but for librarianship itself. Awww……

It has it’s moments of cheese of course. The movie could have done without the steamy sex scene in the library stacks (which was pure comedy for us). And the flirtatious scene between the dj and pole-like dancer in the club. But I guess every good/bad movie has to have one or some of THOSE scenes. For Jeff to have said he likes it….means it has some kind of redeeming quality. Unless it is the overwhelming taste of cult classic blinding all judgement. Mmmmm…..

Taken in small doses, cheese is good for you. This movie should be on your list of cheeseball movies to see. Unless you are lactose intolerant, in which case I will say…your loss!

Did anyone see this when it actually came out?! I can’t believe I never heard of it before now. Hmmm….let’s see… I would have been in 11th grade (16 yrs old) when it came out. I must have went and saw Reality Bites the one night I had money to go out and see a movie. Ha ha!

Specs and I just got done watching a really great movie…..American Splendor. I can’t believe I didn’t see it or hear about it years ago. Where was I? I’m sure some of you already saw and knew it was splendid, but I’m always last to know these things.

Now for those of you who haven’t seen it, go borrow it from your local library. Kay! You won’t regret it.