If I had the nerve, the guts, the whatever it takes to walk out of the house and sit in a movie theater I’d go see Batman: The Dark Knight. Had I been able to muster the nerve I’d have gone to see the movie Jumper. No nerve here. I’ll have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
By the way, I have some items I’m seeking that I’m willing to trade art for. If you have any of these used items and would like to choose and art piece I’ll mail you the art, you mail me the item. Contact info is on the sidebar.
1) Spiderman 2 DVD
2) Spiderman 3 DVD
3) Dreamgirls (2006) with Jennifer Hudson * DVD’s can be used but no bootleg/pirated copies.
4) The Once and Future King by T. H. White (hardcover)
This just reminded me that a friend of mine use to buy the latest DVD’s and rent them out to people for $2.00 per night. She’d go to their house and get the DVD if they were late. She didn’t wait for them to bring it back 3 days late or anything, if you didn’t show up she’d go get it. It was a help to low income families who wanted to see the latest movies but couldn’t. Some of my friends thought it was horrible but really, I thought it was great. I got to see all kinds of stuff that way. Two bucks no forms to fill out other than an x by the title and the date. Gotta love the idea.
I use to sell penny candy for a nickel in junior high school. I bought it bulk and sold it for a nickel each. I had a locker full of candy and plenty of addicts…I mean students waiting to spend lunch money on candy. I also use to tear out photos (from mags I purchased) of the latest teen craze and sell them for a dollar each. I sold a picture of The Karate Kid in the lunch line one day. Good days those were ….what a young hustler I was.
Now, if you’ll excuse me I have an appointment with some flowers at the gardens which I will be going to after I finish sipping my Almond Joy coffee.
Almond Joy Coffee:
Chocolate syrup
Almond Extract
Coconut (take a bit of water, toss in some flakes, nuke it, strain out the flakes, add the water to your coffee)
Add cream and sugar to taste
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I saw Batman: The Dark Knight. I had the nerve and pushed until I got to see it. I don’t usually go to the theater because I don’t like the background noise of other people talking over the film and having to look between heads to see it. The theater I went to had high risers so you didn’t need to look between heads and the people didn’t try to talk over the movie.
I will evaulate the movie for you — after it was over, Husband and I walked out of the theater and I said “Let’s See It Again!!” I would have gladly paid full price to see the movie a second time. It was the BEST Batman movie I’d ever seen! Yes, it is a dark movie; yes, Heath Ledger protrayed a very sinister, sociopath Joker who was able to bring out the darkness in Batman. Still, there was no question on who was the villian here.
Twists to the story…the mask of the Joker. Why did he actually wear all that makeup? It was the scars, really? yes. But how did he get those scars? The question will not be answered in this movie. I counted three stories on how they came to be, but none were the story of being dropped into a vat of acid. Actually, none of them had anything to do with acid.
In the end, this was the first movie that I went to see in a theater in 5 years and it was well worth it.
I’m thinking of challenging myself. I don’t know. I really want to see this movie and I don’t want to have to wait 2 months for the DVD. Argh, it’s killing me.
No help on the videos here, but damn that coffee sound good.
Wish I had the videos you want, I’d love to do an exchange.
I like that movie rental idea your friend had for low income families, how creative is that?!