MOVIE CLUB* SUGGESTIONS (these are merely suggestions, because there are no rules):
1) There are no rules.
2) Club should aim to meet once/month, at alternating homes of club-members.
3) Two movies should be supplied/month by monthly host(s).
4) Movie choices are at the discretion and the sole choice of the monthly host; however, a few guidelines should be maintained:
- Movies should be rated PG13 or lower
- If rated R, rating should not be due to excessive violence (when in doubt, ask the Jehovah’s Witness)
- No Martial Arts films! If I can not show you all my Italian horror faves, you are not allowed to show me anything starring Chin Ka Look
5) Club Membership is open to the general public, so long as nominated members are not deemed to be complete dorks and/or just too un-cool to hang with. Those found to have incredibly bad taste in film will be slowly and methodically made to feel uncomfortable until they voluntarily leave the club.
6) We reserve the right to make other suggestions at any time.
So we had our first Movie Club meeting on Saturday night, at my place. We had about nine people over to the pad, along with The Old Man and I…of course, two of those people were under the age of two, but they still count. The films I chose for our first meeting were Mumford & Memento.
I also had lots of M&Ms in the house.
I chose these particular movies because I lurve them and, oddly, not many people I know have seen them. Mumford is one of those movies I have seen many times, will watch when it’s on and I am flipping through channels, am constantly telling people they need to see...and yet, most people have never even heard of it. I have not seen Memento as many times, but I do like it a lot and was shocked that it is also a movie which nobody but two others in The Club had ever seen.
What turnip truck did these people just fall off of, anyway?
(You may have noted that Memento actually breaks one of the Movie Club Suggestions, as it is rated R. However, it is not all that violent and the Jehovah’s Witness can tolerate a few F-Bombs being dropped.)
After I spent the day cleaning my house, it was a mucho fun night of movie-watching and kid-playing; but it was nice and almost sedate as compared to most of my get-togethers. Everybody stayed sober and was out of my pad before midnight and we didn’t scare the neighbors with the noise level this time. We ate pizza and enough junk food to send a normal woman in to sugar shock and of course, despite my best efforts to throw food at people as they walked out my door, I am now left with tons of said junk food at my house...at least, I am left with what I did not inhale yesterday while lounging around the house in delicious laziness.
Yesterday was grand. More grand than any day in recent memory. Why? Cuz all I did was lay around the house all day, reading...well and eating my weight in junk food, but it was really the lazy reading which made the day so monumental. The Old Man left the house mid-morning to go visit his kids and grandkids; I stayed home and read an entire book (Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk), read some other fiction online, napped and just generally relaxed in solitude.
Ah…
*Differs from Fight Club, in that we aim to avoid actual, physical violence unless absolutely necessary.
1) There are no rules.
2) Club should aim to meet once/month, at alternating homes of club-members.
3) Two movies should be supplied/month by monthly host(s).
4) Movie choices are at the discretion and the sole choice of the monthly host; however, a few guidelines should be maintained:
- Movies should be rated PG13 or lower
- If rated R, rating should not be due to excessive violence (when in doubt, ask the Jehovah’s Witness)
- No Martial Arts films! If I can not show you all my Italian horror faves, you are not allowed to show me anything starring Chin Ka Look
5) Club Membership is open to the general public, so long as nominated members are not deemed to be complete dorks and/or just too un-cool to hang with. Those found to have incredibly bad taste in film will be slowly and methodically made to feel uncomfortable until they voluntarily leave the club.
6) We reserve the right to make other suggestions at any time.
So we had our first Movie Club meeting on Saturday night, at my place. We had about nine people over to the pad, along with The Old Man and I…of course, two of those people were under the age of two, but they still count. The films I chose for our first meeting were Mumford & Memento.
I also had lots of M&Ms in the house.
I chose these particular movies because I lurve them and, oddly, not many people I know have seen them. Mumford is one of those movies I have seen many times, will watch when it’s on and I am flipping through channels, am constantly telling people they need to see...and yet, most people have never even heard of it. I have not seen Memento as many times, but I do like it a lot and was shocked that it is also a movie which nobody but two others in The Club had ever seen.
What turnip truck did these people just fall off of, anyway?
(You may have noted that Memento actually breaks one of the Movie Club Suggestions, as it is rated R. However, it is not all that violent and the Jehovah’s Witness can tolerate a few F-Bombs being dropped.)
After I spent the day cleaning my house, it was a mucho fun night of movie-watching and kid-playing; but it was nice and almost sedate as compared to most of my get-togethers. Everybody stayed sober and was out of my pad before midnight and we didn’t scare the neighbors with the noise level this time. We ate pizza and enough junk food to send a normal woman in to sugar shock and of course, despite my best efforts to throw food at people as they walked out my door, I am now left with tons of said junk food at my house...at least, I am left with what I did not inhale yesterday while lounging around the house in delicious laziness.
Yesterday was grand. More grand than any day in recent memory. Why? Cuz all I did was lay around the house all day, reading...well and eating my weight in junk food, but it was really the lazy reading which made the day so monumental. The Old Man left the house mid-morning to go visit his kids and grandkids; I stayed home and read an entire book (Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk), read some other fiction online, napped and just generally relaxed in solitude.
Ah…
*Differs from Fight Club, in that we aim to avoid actual, physical violence unless absolutely necessary.
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