Yayfun! I got to see Chungy, Marcelina, and Lizziebeth again finally! We all met at Sleeny’s house, where I gave her the book of Paul McCartney paintings I alluded to in NY. We went to “Read My Lips”, a French movie about a deaf girl who gets in a relationship with an ex-con. I saw that the theatre’s (The Magnolia, at the corner of Lennon and McCartney–actually Lemon and McKinney) midnight movie at the moment is “Amelie”, one of my favourite movies, so I’m excited. They’re also bringing back “The Producers”, “Ziggy Stardust”, and a bunch of other stuff. Har.
After the movie, we began a rather intricate series of vehicular choreography. We decided that it would be fun to watch “The Wizard of Oz” with Pink Floyd, so we first went to Blockbuster to rent Wizard. I impulsively bought the FotR DVD as well. Hurrah! Then, because I unconsciously left in the direction of my (and Elizabeth’s) house, rather than Marcelina’s house, we dropped off all our stuff. Then, we went to dinner at Zuzu’s, a Mexican restaurant, where we argued over who was the most corrupt. I argued that Marcelina and Elizabeth were the most corrupt, as a result of their summertime snogfests. Marcelina, Elizabeth, and Chungy declared that I was the most corrupt, as I had seen naked men in my figure drawing exploits at Parsons. I disagreed, saying that I had now been desentized against the male figure, and that if anyone ever tried to seduce me, I would pull out my sketchbook. We all made fun of Chungy for being embarrassed about the practically nonexistent nude scenes in “Read My Lips”. It was amusing.
Next, we went to Marcelina’s house, where Elizabeth, Chungy, and I watched movies about pie (doubleposted in Blogspotting) while Marcelina searched the house for her “Dark Side of the Moon” CD. Eventually, she gave up, and we had to settle for the LP. Fortunately, the record player is 5 feet away from the TV, so it all worked out. Elizabeth went back to her house to get some Ben&Jerry’s, at Chungy’s request, Chungy drove herself to my house to have her car handy, and Marcelina and I drove back in my car, as she’s been generally forbidden from operating motor vehicles due to her crash safety record. I got online to look up when you were supposed to start and flip the record and such, only to find that it doesn’t work with the LP due to the time required to flip. We decided to try anyway, as we had already rented the movie. Of course, the four of us were mystified as to how to operate my dad’s record player. There are so few knobs and switches — it’s crazy. We tried every switch on the player, to no avail. It had always been my dad operating it in the past; he never told me how to work it. We called my mom downstairs, who was equally stumped, and she called down my dad, whom I hadn’t realized was home. I didn’t see how he finally got it to work, but he did. Yay dad. We spent about 10 minutes trying to get the two in sync until we were satisfied.
The power of suggestion is a wonderful thing. We spent all of Side One pathetically marvelling at coincidences such as “It looks like Toto is laughing!” and “If that bell had been a second later, it would have corresponded with the appearance of the witch’s bicycle!”. We are all complete freaks. Of course, just as Dorothy was about to leave her house to enter the world of Technicolor, Side One ended. We stared. Marcelina flipped the record as I paused the film, but then none of us had the faintest idea how to get the turntable going again. We eventually gave up and watched FotR, resolving to find a CD copy of “Dark Side of the Moon” and try again later. Ah, well. It was fun while it lasted.
The entirety of LotR was spent in a state of MST3K, about 3/4 of the comments in reference to Cassie’s “Very Secret Diaries”. Pure genius, that. I lamented not getting to meet her in NYC. I showed Marcelina and Elizabeth (Chungy had left halfway through Wizard) my “Still the Prettiest” shirt and Megs’ scantily clad hobbit picture. They loved them. After it was over, we watched the Two Towers preview, which was absolute gravy. And Jo is right, I absolutely adore Pippin now. Too cute! ::hearts:: Afterwards, Elizabeth drove Marcelina home, and I went to sleep. Hurrah and yayfun!
