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Tonight I realized that childhood dream of mine of watching Transformers: The Movie in a theater. It almost didn’t happen, though!

Durham is a terrible town. It’s worse than Raleigh in that they make it very easy for you to get lost. I arrived at the right block in time, but took 25 minutes before I could navigate around to the right point to enter the parking complex. The show was scheduled to start at 7:30pm and I didn’t make it to the box office until 7:45!

The good news is that they had plenty of pre-show stuff on the front stage and I walked into the theater just as the lights began to dim.

All in all, it was a fantastic night. I never thought I’d experience that again.

My girlfriend and I went to see Coraline the other night. It was a fantastic movie! I just wish that the theater we saw it at was equipped for 3D. There were so many shots where you could tell that the movie was made to be seen in 3D.

I’ve never read the book, but my girlfriend is a (self-proclaimed) Neil Gaiman whore. I was surprised to find out that the Y.B. character was not in the book at all! He was specifically created for the film. I guess they needed some kind of “boyfriend” type, even if they didn’t become anything more than close friends.

The movie also greatly reminded me of the game, Psychonauts. That game was so good! I should play it again soon.

I don’t watch much TV, but I do have some favorite shows. My one guilty pleasure of those shows is Hell’s Kitchen (and to the same effect, Kitchen Nightmares).

I do enjoy looking at food. I’ve never complained whenever my girlfriend puts on the Food Network while we’re snuggling on the couch. But more than that, I think I just enjoy British people yelling at Americans. It tickles me whenever Gordon Ramsay abusively calls someone “donkey”.

There’s been a trend of that over the past ten years, I’ve noticed. From The Weakest Link to It’s Me or the Dog. Either there’s such a void of creativity coming from Hollywood that they’ve opened the doors for a British invasion or Americans just welcome the idea of us getting schooled by the English.

I just saw one of the most ridiculous movies ever. It’s called Pumpkin and it stars Christina Ricci. She plays a sorority girl who falls in love with a retarded kid she met training for the Special Olympics and their forbidden love affair.

At first I thought that it was just a really weak, lame “After School Special” type of movie. But about 30min into it, it went from stupid to ridiculous. The kind of ridiculous that can take something that’s bad and wrap it around to being good.

I’m just a fan of what Adam West once described as the “Theater of the Absurd”.