I Don't Wish to Fight You

I own probably close to 100 movies. Maybe more. Maybe less. If you count TV on DVD than most definitely.

My roommate loves this because he loves watching movies. He will see every movie at the $3 theater even if it's Barney: The Big Purple Movie (why do I think that's a real movie). And he'll see them more than once if they don't change up their lineup frequently enough.

My roommate went through 4 seasons of the X-Files in less than a month. He would have watched more if I owned more than just those four.

He loves this shit.

And when I come home from work, I love this shit too.
We have been known to make dinner and then sit in front of the tube and watch Scrubs, the Office, or some random movie.

Tonight I told him to pick. After vetoing a few (I mean, Babysitters Club? Why do I own that) we decided on Far and Away which is a ridiculous, kinda long melodrama starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (can't remember if it's pre or post marriage) as irish natives who flea to the new world and fall in love at the turn of the century.

I fucking love this movie even though it was panned by critics and made little money at the box office. Tom Cruise is at his peak in hotness and who can hate on irish accents.

I was wondering if my roommate would love it or hate it. It's basically like The Crow, the other movie that I love (enough to have permanently placed on my body.) You either love it or hate it or just think it's fucking stupid (which is pretty much hating it.)

In the end he liked it but he said it was because he's a romantic and that he found my secret.

That I am a closet romantic.

I immediately denied this. I'm a heartbreaker. I look down on PDA. I do not like flowers.

But at the same time, I demand chocolate on valentines day. I think my friend and her boyfriend are the cutest fucking thing ever (and get mad jealous). And sometimes, I think babies are cute and not the spawn of Satan (SOMETIMES.)

but what is a romantic in this day and age?
It's someone who actually calls instead of sending a text 3 hours later.
It's someone who buys you a real card instead of sending you some e-card.
It's someone who buys you dinner first before drinks.

In the film, Nicole Kidman's character has her legs crossed while sitting. Her floor-length dress is raised slightly because of her raised leg.
Tom Cruise's character Joseph catches some men looking and whispers hastily, "show some decency and cover your ankles, Shannon!"

My roommate looked at me and said "we've come a long way."
Especially since Maxim magazine exists.


I still don't think I'm a romantic. I think all the romantics have to find each other and stay together doing cutesy things like being vegan together and wearing the same boat shoes.
Then you find out they have the cutest furniture you've ever seen and you get envious.

I'm much to kooky to be romantic.
But I'm sure I'll meet someone just as kooky so that we can do such kooky things together as putting eggs on a our peanut butter toast and wearing members only jackets in a completely non-ironic way.
If Tom Cruise can marry Nicole Kidman, anything can happen.