Movie Night

I have a great collection of movies. It’s getting to the point where I either watch a movie, or just read, which I kind like. Everytime I go to the video store, my first glance is in the previously viewed section that sells recnet movies. I guess that I am thinking that I might as well buy a movie i like for 8 bucks as opposed to renting one for 4 and having to bring it back the next day. So I have stacks of these things. There is comedy, drama, romance, even a couple sci fi. So the question is, why in the world would i keep buying these things?

Well, I guess I feel that I should. One day in the future, I am going to have my own place, with my own lving room. I wanna have one of those L-shaped counches that seems to stretch around the whole living room. There will be a nice-sized TV, and some of those lights that go up and down, not just on and off. And hopefully (it is a day-dream afterall) there will be a fireplace. I think that a lot of guys would have this kinda of place for “the guys” but i don’t think that is the way it will work for me.

On Sunday afternoons, I probably won’t be watching football. I can imagine a cold and rainy fall day when it seems like it is dark outside, and there is no reason to be anywhere but on that huge couch undera pile of blankets with a fire roaring nearby. And that someone that is really special to me will call, asn ask if she can come over. I’ll tell her that she should know better than to have to ask. And she’ll come dressed in is clothes that are fitting for a dreary fall afternoon. Baggy sweatpants, her hair pulled back and stands falling in her face; her form hidden from me because she is wearing one of my favorite sweatshrits that she refuses to give back. And I let her keep it because we both know that I think she looks cute in it.

she’ll come over and talk about the day she had as she looks over my collection of movies and thinks about what she wants to watch. Then as the lights go down, and we get under a thick blanket and the movie starts she asks me why I have so many movies. That’s easy, I say to her, I have been building a collection for days exactly like this one. I have all these movies so that when she came into my life we would never have to out to see a movie on sunday afternoon, we could just stay in and watch one together, alone.

I would hope that at that moment, she would put her arms around me, and we could sit in each others closeness as the movie starts. A sunday afternoon, cold and dreary, a nice living room, comfy clothes under a mountain of blankets, her in my arms, and the feeling that I have found what I have been looking for all the while. There could not be a better way to spend a rainy sunday afternoon.

Peace and Love…Mikey