Concerning the past week, there were really only two days of note, but they were definitely interesting and fun days, so at least I have content to write about. That includes seeing a barefoot redneck in a public bathroom, and it was NOT Britney Spears...
As Monday was dull, let me skip ahead to the next day and I had free time on Tuesday, so for the first time in months I went to the Silver Moon Drive-In in Lakeland. Yes, some are still around, and that one in particular has been in operation since the 40's. I decided to go there as it's been so long, and while one of the screens showed Iron Man 3 twice, the other one had a double bill of Pain & Gain and the Evil Dead remake, I figured it was best to view those movies that way, as I wasn't sure about either and the total for both movies... 4 bucks! No kidding.
Turns out, I really enjoyed the wild over the top bombastic dark comedy known as Pain & Gain and I was always interested as it's based on a true story and I am biased towards those, and I did not know anything about the case beforehand but now I need to read the epic-long Miami New Times article from the late 90's about the case. It is a REALLY weird case, for sure, and I hear the movie is mostly factual as to what actually happened, which is a relief to someone like me. And I am someone who usually despises Michael Bay films. Evil Dead, though... oh boy did I not like it at all. I always thought it was stupid it even got remade, as the original film is awesome. I don't really care for Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness but I know I am in the minority there. I did keep an open mind, but besides a lot of gore the movie was just crap, with a terrible nonsensical story and four of the five main characters you spend almost all your time with being complete A-hole asstagonist douches. The only one that was fine was the long-haired bearded hippy dude. I have no idea why so many have gone wild over it; the original is SO much better.
By the way, it was in their small cramped bathroom that I saw a redneck at the urinal and he was barefoot. Gross. Then again, at least that guy wasn't at the drive-in acting like an idiot, as I always see and hear when I'm there. There are always a few Troglodytes and jerks around doing dumb annoying things. But onto better things... before I went to Silver Moon, I was at Lakeside Village, an open-air mall. I ate there and I went to their Books-A-Million, where I did make random purchases. Inside that bookstore is a joint known as Yogurt Mountain, one of many different self-serve yogurt places all across the country. They all seem to be the same so I imagine the trend will die off eventually and only a few will last for any length of time. Anyhow, while I was there I had the cherry amaretto, as hey I enjoy drinking amaretto sours when I'm at the bar. It was good.
Wednesday was boring so let me skip ahead to Thursday. I was originally thinking of going to the Tampa Bay Rays game on Saturday, as I hadn't been in Tropicana Field since May of last year, and I was itching to see some action. Plus, Saturday home games in the summer, the Rays have an older performer there to perform a short concert. I presume it's about a half hour long, but I've never been to one. Well, the performer there on Saturday was... KENNY LOGGINS. I was greatly amused for the 80's-tastic nature of getting to hear 65 year old Kenny sing his famous hits from the decade of excess and cocaine. Due to various factors, though, I decided to go to see them play on Thursday against the Toronto Blue Jays rather than Saturday against the San Diego Padres. I've seen them play live against both teams before. Turns out, both Thursday and Saturday's games were rather exciting. The Jays game went into the 10th inning, so I got some bonus action, and the Padres game had the team be up big before San Diego came back, and in the bottom of the 9th the Rays won it with a home run, so both were quality and at least I got to watch Saturday's game on TV.
As for the Jays game, my time there was about the same as usual, meaning that while I was hoping some fans around me would have rested their vocal chords more often, overall it was fun times and it was one of the most exciting Rays games I've seen live. The only thing I remember from the time I saw the Jays at Tropicana Field was that for about an inning some random old bearded dude who reminded me of Kris Kristofferson came to me and started babbling on about how he was running for some local office position and mentioned some of the odd jobs he had in the past, and I had no idea why he did this as I did inform him I did not live in the area so it's not like he won my vote with his rambling on. Yet again, something that I think can only happen to me and no one else.
Before I made it to St. Petersburg to watch the game, I went to Sarasota and for the second time I went to Trader Joe's. No, I am not a hipster! I just enjoy their products and some of it is unique and hard to find anywhere else. Going there once in a blue moon is fine with me. Thankfully there is one a little bit closer to me than in the city billed as the home of Macho Man Randy Savage... oooh yeah! There's one in Gainesville. If only they had one in Orlando...
Friday and Saturday I relaxed, so let me get to yesterday. I went to Walmart, mainly to pick up some soda. That went fine, although you can imagine the sort of people there on a Sunday afternoon. I've never seen anyone there with bare feet-amazingly enough-but there certainly were plenty of misbehaving yelling obnoxious little kids around; good job, parents!
I'll be back as usual next Monday in the afternoon. Not a lot is planned yet, although one evening will be spent almost entirely in a theatre as I watch a few different movies back to back to back. I'll have plenty to talk about, I am sure.
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