s-a-t-e-r-d-a-y night

do you remember that song? i don't really but it was entered my awareness through 'wayne's world' when i was a teenager. or was it 'so i married an ax murderer'? i don't know...something with mike myers. my best friend loved mike myers so i saw a lot with him. anyway, we were singing along to the song where they spell out saturday and the friend we were with spelled it as typed in the title. there was an awkward pause.

moving on.

i spent last night doing something i am deeply ashamed of. k&j were kind enough to counsel me so i've already sought help. my crime? i watched, not one but two episodes of 'trading spouses: meet your new mommy' last night. my main defense is that i had nothing else to do. well, that's not true - i'm sure i could have found ANYTHING but that. but i didn't. my other defense is that the teaser commercials just made it sound like it'd be what i like to call hilarious/scary. and it was.

a new age woman and a FANATICAL christian woman switch households for a week. the new age woman goes to louisana and is (ironically) practically crucified by the friends of the family for not being a christian. the hilarious/scary favorite scene of her experience:
evil christian woman 3: so do you beleive in God or in a "higher power"?

she even pantomined the quotations. poor hippie woman. she was only trying to spread love (and hypnotherapy).

the most hilarious/scary scenes belonged to FANATICAL christian woman. she's shipped off to an evil dark world (boston suburb) where they practice satanic rituals (summer solstice party) and make offerings to false gods (they burned insense at the party). then she's forced to do a radio show giving advice about ungodly acts (sex) and her breaking point is when she is forced to work on the show with a practitioner of the darkest art (he was a psychic (a christian one to boot)). she finally put her foot down (she'd been the most demanding person i'd ever seen before this) and decided the family would do what she wanted (they went to church). she appealed to the children for help (she prosilitized each and every one (and they said no, score!)). when the heathen spawn didn't work she appealed to the husband (he validated her having her choice of belief) and he let her down. what more could anyone do? well, she pitched a fit. i mean, full on dramatic clutching of the chest, shallow breathing, crying, wailing. everything. when she finally got back to her family she kicked up the volume and there are all of these shots of her family staring with wide-eyed horror. i expected the bitchy, bossy older daughter to say, "not again - go get mom's medication". well, that's what i wanted to be said. didn't happen. she kicked the camera crew out, "if you are a christian then you can stay. if you are not of the lord then get out of my house. GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

it was entertaining. but i'll never do it again.

so to combat any temptation i may have had to repeat last night's horror - i rented all three of the indiana jones movies. the guy at movie madness helped me put them in order. he just sort of stared at them and was like, "man, i can't think of a better way to spend the night!" i could but you know - i had to work with what i got. anyway, i've only managed to watch the first half of the first one. i'm really tired and have decided to go to bed at 9:30pm on a saturday night. wow.