Last night Kate, Julie and I went to see the movie Friday Night Lights. It was a movie about highschool football in Texas. And as much as I like football....I was very unimpressed.....to put it midly. It was basically a rehash of plot devices from Hoosiers, The Rookie, Rocky, Remeber The Titans, and Miracle. It wasn't a very deep movie. It almost seemed to be relying on those other movies for it's plot and character development. And something that really annoyed me was the excessive use of the hand held camera. They went for the NYPD Blue look to make the movie seem edgy I guess. It didn't work at all really. The plot and outcome were completely predictable for anyone who's seen more than two of the movies listed above. The only redeeming thing about this movie was the hits. They filmed some bone jarring hits for this movie. They weren't very realistic but were entertaining in a WWF sort of way. Otherwise even the football action was very poorly filmed. And the "game story" was very poorly told. The Quarterback was shown doing very well all of the sudden without any explination. But I guess it was entertaining to some extent, Kate and Julie got really wrapped up in it. And it did seem to play the heartstrings well to an extent. After the movie Julie left for a conference in NC. She was going to take a nap then get up and drive the whole way, getting there around 7am. I hope she stayed awake the whole time. Kate and I went back to her room. When we got there Kate found an IM from David, apparently a Grandmother he was really close to had passed away. And him being not the most emotionally stable person in the world she decided to go see him. I decided that he did not need our relationship on display in front of him. So I stayed in Kate's room waiting for a CD to burn before going home. She was burning Beethoven's Last Night for me. I really like it, although I think I like the Christmas stuff a little more. Kate is totally in love with it, it's kind of funny. We may go see them in concert, they are coming to Richmond on the 23rd. And I was able to swing it with Nancy to get the 23rd and 24th off from work. We'll probably end up going with her parents. Unless she can find some more people to go with us. Tonight we are going to the mall in Roanoke. And probably go see The Incredibles up there. Right now I need to get some food in my stomach.

Oh yeah I wrote a piece over at Fedora Pundit that I am really proud of.