Date with Wes - lots of links!

So I got off work a couple minutes early and walked towards the parking garage across from the theater and there was Wes! I felt like I was having a date night in the city a little, even though I was just seeing a movie screening a block and a half from work. We decided to have an early dinner at Mel's, and it was unusually empty. We got our food quickly and ate in no time. I remembered the last time the two of us were there we got in a fight because Wes insisted he could not trade in his truck for a lesser vehicle, and I told him that was hogwash. It's silly the things people bicker about, isn't it?

So anyway, we got to the theater a good hour and a half to two hours before the movie, and I wanted to see if there was a line for the screening yet. Outside the theater there was a crazy long line, but I knew it couldnt be for this movie because the people waiting in line were primarily asian and male. I asked a cop who I figured had answered the samew question at least 20 times already. It was a line for the release of a new PSP video game at the Play Station store. Wow. Wes recommneded they get a life. I still don't know what game it was, but it was funny.

Once inside, there was a rather long line and I was surprised, but we soon figured out that the line for for an earlier screening of the movie 21, which also looks good. We found our line and were very close to the front, so we sat and waited, had some popcorn. I spotted a familiar face, but wasnt sure it was a guy I once knew because this man's hair was about 2 feet longer than the guy I once knew. Then we ended up sitting next to him in the movie so I asked, and sure enough it was. It was cool to catch up and I felt special for still running into people I know in the city even though I dont live there anymore.

The movie we saw, Stop-Loss, was very good. A little slow in some parts, and the spliced army commercial parts were lame, but the general gist of it was interesting. I didn't know anything about Stop-Loss, which is something that can happen to a person who enrolls in the army. In a time of war, after you fulfill your contract you can be sent back for more time if your country needs you. It's a convenient way for our country to avoid a draft. They refered to it in the movie as a 'back-door draft'. After the movie, before the credits they showed some interesting real-life statistics regarding stop-lost soldiers in the US. So basically they took our real-life war and real-life american ideals and played out a fictional story. It was the first real anti-war mega-hollywood movie I've seen and I think it sent a good message. After the stats rolled and the credits came out I heard one good "Fuck Bush" from the audience. They never really tackled the question of why we are in this war, but they did address why a lot of the soldeirs are there.

Anyway, I am tired, I am dreading weigh-in today and I can't wait to watch american idol. thats all.