I think when people come to my house, they think of three things: damn this dude is messy, he sure drinks alot, and this guy has more movies than Blockbuster. I’ve sort of stalled out because of money problems (if you feel generous e-mail me!!!….I’m not too proud for donations!) but I was going at a good pace of about 5-7 movies a month. I own somewhere upwards of 200 DVDs.

As a result I get alot of “well I know where I can go if I need some movies” type statements. More often than not I don’t mind. I tend to remember fairly well who has what and I’m not an asshole about getting my movies back unless you take something like Goldmember or Baby Boy (something I’m prone to watching alot). I generally won’t let anyone take a movie I haven’t watched yet though.

Anyway I recently got Road to Perdition in the mail. For some reason, unknown to me, I kept putting off watching it. People would come by and want to borrow it and I’d be like “Nope, haven’t watched it yet shawty.”

Well, Sunday I got a call from Jeralyn. She needed to come to Atlanta, so of course I wanted to ride along. If anything I could be in town for Che’s birthday and wash a couple of loads of clothes for free (it’s $2 a load where I live….the facists!!!!!). In packing I decided to go ahead and put Road To Perdition in my bag.

Well somewhat ironically I ended up watching it with my dad. It’s always kind of interesting watching a movie about father/son relationships with your father. It was a well made movie though. A bit sad at times, but the message was somewhat positive in the end, at least in my opinion. I’m not into providing spoilers, but I will say that Road to Perdition is a movie well worth seeing. In a weak Academy Award field this past year I’m surprised it didn’t garner more nominations. Tom Hanks and Jude Law both deserved praise.

Anyway, I won’t be here in Atlanta for too much longer. Nina and I are meeting Che for lunch at Gutbusters, hopefully we’ll be joined by a couple of guests. I went to the new Longhorn Steaks by our house last night and met my friend Lyndsey and her sister Jamie. It was really good to see her.

I try to “run into” as many of my people as I can when I come to town. I’m in Atlanta so infrequently now. I feel like an out of towner at times now. Could it be that I’m becoming a Nashvillian?