As I write this (3:50 am), The Great Outdoors is playing on the country music channel. It seems odd to see that movie on CMT, but I guess that doesn’t matter these days, since the precedent of ECW wrestling on The Nashville Network, and the more recent O.C. on Muchmusic. Regardless, it’s a damn fine movie. John Candy and Dan Akyroyd have a great chemistry and though it’s pretty typical 80’s comedy in a lot of ways, the movie has a lot of charm. I shall purchase a DVD of The Great Outdoors for the purpose of ensuring that at least the people in my immediate vacinity are aware of it.

Here’s a look at our current movie library. See if you can guess where the list changes from mine to her’s?

American Psycho
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(Leon) The Professional
Monty’s Python’s Meaning of Life
The Life Aquatic
National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1
X-Men 2
Memento
Batman Begins
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Twelve
Beetlejuice
You’ve Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry Met Sally
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Owning a copy of this movie is the first step. HA!)
Mona Lisa Smile
The Break Up

Quite the switch there, eh? I find it humorous that we’re so stereotypical as our movie choices relate to our gender roles. Linds has got a lot of romantic comedies, and I’ve got half action/thrillers and half retarded comedies. Hers also seem more like her favorite movies. Christmas Vacation is one of her very favorites. Loaded Weapon, on the other hand, I only own because I couldn’t find it any where to rent but it was cheap on eBay. To each their own, friends.

Speaking of eBay, my most recent online purchase was the soundtrack to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a gander for curiosity’s sake. It’s the b-movie sequel to the b-movie classic Valley of the Dolls. And it’s pretty funny and has some cool music in it, but on the whole, it’s not a great movie by any definition. But, the interest is that the writer was a young man named Roger Ebert. The same Roger Ebert who was the most well known name in film criticism for decades. I don’t mean that in a “this guy is the critic and he wrote this piece of shit” way, cause I don’t mind the movie at all. But it does change your perspective of how you viewed his criticisms. I’m looking forward to when that album comes. My credit card bill, not so much.

I’m not used to having cable with this many channels. There’s so many movies on at all times. I’m going to watch the rest of Great Outdoors and go to sleep. Tomorrow, I’m going to try and watch less TV.