I think it's kinda funny, I think it's kinda sad

[prog]

Just saw Finding Nemo, more or less. Not sure why I forgot that it's always a bad idea to attend the Sunday matinee of a children's film. (It's not the kids who bother me, at least not the ones who are supposed to be there; it's the pre-sentient wee ones who really have no place in a cinema, but whose parents still roll 'em in by the score for kids' films. Probably these parents are the same people who leave their cell phones turned on.) Tolerated it by shutting off my emotions, which also stunted my enjoyment of the film, of course. At least I know that it will be sure-thing fun to see later sometime, with a more grown-up crowd.

Now I'm feeling melancholy because I just heard the black-bileful song Mad World for the sixth time today, since it appears triply on the Donnie Darko soundtrack CD in cthulhia's car. So off to recover by going to a housewarming in Attleboro, for which I am late. Ta.

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[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

There's two reasons for this.

1) It is not always easy finding a baby sitter and a lot of parents mistakenly believe their sub-1-year-old babies are simply going to sleep through the movie and not be a problem.

2) If you look at any product in a store featuring disney characters on it you will see they have 'point values'. Buy a bib with baby mickey -- get 1 point, buy disney bed sheets -- get 2 points... etc. These are 'Disney cultural indoctrination points' and when a child earns enough of them at an early enough age he/she will be fully brainwashed to believe that Disney is synonymous with magic, joy and happiness and will hypnotically buy more Disney products. Taking young children to movies also earns cultural indoctrination points as well.