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[lola_leviathan]

I'm endlessly fascinated by people's relationships to mass media, how present it is in our lives, how it shapes our identities, etc. I have a lot of weird, funny anecdotes about this. Here's a list of movies I've seen on first dates:
1. Heavenly Creatures. Yes, we were melodramatic pretentious teenage lesbians, and it was awesome. It was only luck

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[brightpirate]

Oh, adolescence. It makes me think of Ani's lyrics from "falling is like this"

Feels like reckless driving when we're talking
It's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
But no one's going to sympathize when we crash
They'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
and we'll say we didn't know, we didn't even try
one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky

And you know, that could have been us, except we were lucky--doesn't it feel like, despite all the intense love and intense pain and rage that we felt we'd never live through, we were lucky?

[lola_leviathan]

It's true.

I love that song. I used to play it on the jukebox at the pizza place we used to hang out at in high school in Columbus.

[alita42]

As often as you bring that up, it's still going to be funny. ;)
I love the list. It's pretty brilliant.
While I can't say I have many first dates (or that we watch movies during them), I will say that significant movies I've seen with potential significant others is a really odd list.
Seven, Dante's Peak, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, A Beautiful Mind, all of these made the experiences thoroughly surreal, apart from any potential of romance going on. The last doomed our relationship totally. That was the only date we went on. He's a Christian now, so I guess things worked out. Maybe he was then. I don't remember.

[lola_leviathan]

I know, right? And with that one and the Stratford story there is the added narrative benefit that a bunch of other important characters were also there, like the end of a Shakespeare play.

Yeah, I used the word "date" somewhat loosely. I don't think people really go on dates per se, at least I haven't.

There's probably an even more telling list I could make of movies during which I felt significant sexual tension or that were somehow otherwise fraught with significance.

[alita42]

It is SO LIKE the end of a Shakespeare play. Except everyone wasn't either laughing or dead.

I don't remember you playing Ani "Falling is Like This" at Hounddogs, but I also don't remember noticing the song much until my first year in college.

My list of movies with sexual tension is vast and very strange. It includes Spaceballs with two different people and Army of Darkness with two different people. We should write stories about movies and sexual tension. At the very least it could be really funny. ^_^

[lola_leviathan]

I probably only played it like once.

Yeah, this is a humorous topic. I have some good music stories too.

[chavtasticjinx]

Okay, synchronicity!

I was talking to someone about Being John Malkovich earlier today...

I asked if they'd seen Adaptation...

but it was the same group of "kids" who last week asserted that "Tommy" was crap because "the story was, like, TOTALLY not believable! I mean, he's BLIND! How can he play pinball?"

sooooo... no... no they hadn't seen Adaptation.... and they couldn't really comprehend why I'd asked....

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college is hard when you're old like me.

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AAAAAAAAAAANYWAY...

I really want to see Nick and Norah because have a weird weakness for Michael Cera.

[lola_leviathan]

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That's depressing. College is hard when you're surrounded by idiots. Tommy is awesome, regardless of its plausibility.

I may be the only woman alive immune to charms of Michael Cera, but I do enjoy him as a comic actor.

[kirk_tinman]

I saw Layercake on a first date once, which was an awful call, because the british accents were so thick we couldn't understand what anyone was saying half the time, which made following a complicated plot with a lot of double crosses even harder even before factoring in the distraction factor and the fact that neither of us liked that type of crime movie enough to even want to try to follow what was going on. (We also didn't make out.)

Also, after waiting for years to get a decent Hulk movie, the Ang Lee Hulk was almost completely ruined for me in theaters when I saw it on a quasi-date. Ugh. I should have let her pick, that way something dear to me wouldn't have been crushingly awkward. HULK SMASH BAD MEMORY

[lola_leviathan]

That Hulk story is tragic. Your emo dinosaur icon never looked sadder.