Road House, y'all!

9-24-15

The 80’s have been on heavy rotation this week in my house.

My movie afternoon with my mom was Heathers, which was enjoyed. I have always liked the flick, and truly, it does seem to hold up. I find myself cringing a bit at the liberal use of the term “fag” and some of the obvious homophobia, but truly that was the times so I can’t get to angry.

Last night, though, was my adventure that was long overdue. Our Tivo has a banner of suggested flicks and shows for us to be aware of. On the list was Road House. Now I have never seen this movie. I know, shocking on every freaking level. It seems like it a rite of passage to experience this cinematic masterpiece. Lucky for us, we had nothing on tap and said flick was available on Netflix streaming. Clearly the movie gods wanted this to happen. I made sure to verify I wasn’t in store for another Red Dawn fiasco in which I expected campy comedy but in the first 5 minutes watched a teacher get gunned down. I knew what to expect in terms of action taking itself too seriously. Time to pop the corn!

Not a comedy!

Damn, there was a lot of naked. I didn’t have issue, but I was a little shocked for sure. I also didn’t know that the masterpiece that is Sam Elliot was in this. Holy crap that man is magnificent. In fact, I was quite disappointed that the blonde broad, played by Kelly Lynch, didn’t die and they let Sam die. What the fuck, y’all? Sure, that ended up being the super trigger to cause Mr. Swayze to explode with rage, but let’s face it; he would have done the same if the chick died so why not do that?

I laughed out loud several times and truly thought it was incredibly fun. I am pretty positive I don’t need to see it again, but that being said, it was a fun time for sure. I also enjoyed the numerous comments made when I posted on Facebook that I was watching it for the first time. Many were confused by this confession that I had never seen it. One pointed out if Ken told the judge he would get the kids, the house and everything. Ha! Truly the entire experience complete with my peanut gallery chiming in led to one of the best nights in a while.

The next movie watching has been determined. Somebody asked if I had seen Point Break what with my lack of Road House cred. I may have received equal scorn so Ken and I will be obtaining a copy soon. I may need to get a list from people so I can make up for lost time.

The afternoon was an interesting bittersweet event. The boys get home early on Wednesdays and with no practice, the house tends to be much more relaxed when it comes to homework and other activities. The boys walked in and Bobby announces he has something to tell us. He proceeds to explain how some of his friends are going to go hang out at Sur La Brea for a little while right now. He didn’t even need to ask me for permission. I told him to go before he even finished talking. Look, I know homework is important but so far this year his has been painless. Plus, I was all kinds of excited at the prospect of him finding his people. Sure, he has a lot of friends, but as time progresses, it is important to have that group of people you can just hang out with. I know this all too well. He said Dax was more than welcome but he declined saying he wanted to get a jump on his homework and he didn’t think that the people Bobby would be playing with would want to play soccer.  In some ways this was good, too, since it gives Bobby some independence and Dax did have a fair amount of homework. Bobby was also great about calling me as soon as he found his friends, and he called me when he was on his way back. I didn’t even tell him to do the call before coming home. I was very pleased with the whole thing. It is a little sad to know he is growing up, but I am pleased that he is friends with so many different people.

My week thus far has also been better what with multiple books found as PDF’s. I read The Martian this week, which I highly recommend. I am now reading a book called All the Bright Places. Total YA throwaway style book, but still good enough to entertain. Buzzfeed continues to release lists of books that everyone should read and I couple that with Goodreads and voila! I have a list of books to hunt for. I would be curious to make a list at the start of the new year of every book I read for 2016. I could also do the same for movies. Might be a fun project.

Work is trying to be busy this morning. Bleah. I suppose I should get to it.