the best I can manage on a rainy Friday.
Omg can it just be tomorrow already!
I was at the video store on Wednesday night, staring at the box for "Paris, Je t'aime," trying to remember whether I had heard anything good about it. A guy walked up, seemingly out of nowhere, and picked up a different movie. I think maybe an action movie, definitely something I haven't seen.
So far so good, right? Normal movie store behavior. The guy asked me if I had seen it. I said, "nope."
But this is what got my attention: he pointed at this Sandra Bullock movie and said "You should watch that. You would like it."
I guess if the guy had been hot, I would have said, "Ooooh, I'll check it out, thanks!!" But he wasn't.
And really, I would only watch a Sandra Bullock movie if, at every moment she is on screen, Matthew McConaughey is also on screen without a shirt on.
So, without suggesting that any unsolicited movie recommendation is a come-on, I wonder if anyone ever has been picked up at the video store. Does that rate as a place to meet women? I was at Video Review on Battleground (or Lawndale or Westover Terrace, I'm not sure). Is there a video store that is better to find a date?
btw, I got "Hot Fuzz." Simon Pegg is my real boyfriend and all others are impostors.
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Are you sure he was coming on to you by suggesting a sandra bullock movie? It might have been an insult.
Posted on February 1, 2008 11:29 AM
I hadn't thought about it that way. He might well have been. But he said it in a friendly way and didn't really have that snide, hipster sort of look.
I think I'm pretty good at telling if I'm being insulted. In person, at least. I had four years of orchestra in high school to learn the signs.
I'm trying to think of what movie I would suggest to someone if I wanted to send that kind of message: Jackass is the obvious one. Maybe Gigli. Or Crossroads.
Posted on February 1, 2008 11:42 AM
the best i can do on a rainy day....hmmm I went on a date to see The Passion Of The Christ. that was a mistake. I thought i was showing her that i could religious until i said "yeah the Jews weren't the best people, but the Romans are the ones that killed him. So why would someone hate Jewish people and be a Roman Catholic? Needless to say that was our one and only date. I also went to see the ninth gate on a date. Neither of us understood the movie that well and had nothing to talk about. My lesson is "heaven and hell movies are not first date movies."
As for going to the video store...I haven't been in one for the better part of a decade. I either went to the movies, bought it on pay per view or On Demand or saw it at a friend's place. Maybe that could stem from the fact that i think i still owe about $20 in late fees to that one at the corner of west market and muirs chapel.
What is a good time of day to try to pick someone up at the rental store? I would assume between 5:30 and 8 however, I'm not going to stand around the store for that long it might look creepy.
Posted on February 1, 2008 11:53 AM
I can't say i've ever been picked up/tried to pick anyone up in a video store, but paris je t'aime is a great movie if you're still wondering, as long as you don't mind subtitles. I think that video stores (or music or bookstores, or somewhere like Ed Mckay's) could work as a meeting place, just because you can pretty immediately tell whether you might be into the same sort of movies/music/whatever.
Posted on February 1, 2008 12:58 PM
I always feel like I'm not "indie" enough each time i go into ed mckays. i think i may be a barnes and noble kind. and speaking of which, I'll go over there today. i have a buddy who works in the cafe area.
Posted on February 1, 2008 2:02 PM