Looking like a young punk

How odd -- leapfish and I are having some friends over tomorrow for a monthly movie night.*  To prepare, lots of grocery shopping. Also, some beer purchasing. And I got carded! I must be dressed like a young punk today. I can't understand why I'd be carded in daylight.

* we're stealing iambic_cub's gang's AFI Top 100 idea, with a variation: we combined the list with the IMDb Top 100, then removed all movies after 2000 and before 1940, and then removed all movies that are part of a series or have sequels, and then finally gave everyone two vetoes to remove movies they hated. This left us with 78 movies (download the XLS). Tonight we're starting with the fantastic North by Northwest.

$7.88 Movies: Lost in Translation

Bought some groceries today, and since I was unsupervised and feeling somehow disconnected from the world I spent half the bill on cheap-ass movies. This series will examine each of these movies after I have watched them. (There were only three.)

Lost in Translation was awesome. I wish I'd seen it sooner. I love the way the camera drank in a scene, rarely moving. Bill Murray was fantastic, but I love deadpan so he always gets me. I don't really know what else to say about it actually, but it was certainly $7.88 well spent.