so this person i know named casey commented on my last post about how i should discuss the winner of the recent Christmas movie poll. i don't really know how to take this. i'm second only to God in making casey who she is today. when i first met her i thought, "this girl...this is not my kinda girl." but now she's totally amazing, and i rightfully take most of the credit. the thing is, i've shaped her so much, i can't even tell who she really is anymore. so when she mentioned me commenting on the poll, i don't know if she was being sarcastic or that she expected me to do that - like the time she elbowed me at an ash wednesday service when i saw a pregnant woman nearing the front of the line because she could tell what i was thinking before it happened. anyway, it doesn't really matter. i was always planning on commenting, and so here it is.
i gotta say i'm not all that surprised Christmas Vacation won. it's rich on so many levels. i think maybe the greatest thing about it is it seems that every time i watch it i catch something new - or there are things other people point out to me. only like a year or so ago my friend jana pointed out to me that in one part randy quaid (eddie) is wearing a green dickie (sp?) under a white sweater. i had never seen that, and i lost it when it happened. then there are those little things that i never stop laughing at - like when his hands are all sappy and his wife's hair sticks to one hand and the lamp the other. or when eddie (i think) touches the windmill and all the blades fall off. it has really timeless lines: "can't see the line can you russ?" "that's pretty low mister. if i had a rubber hose i would beat..." "well why is the carpet all wet todd?! i don't know margot!!!" there's such animosity between practically every character in the movie. to me that rings true during the holidays. pretty much all the national lampoon movies before and after sucked - but for one great moment, they got it all right.
so i guess that's it. i'll be thinking about a new poll. and you, keep doing what you do.
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still. haven't. watched. it.
"the little lights... they're not twinkling..."
you're dead to me.
how dare you take credit for my whole person. that's trash.
and it was certainly the latter. it was inevitable that you would have to comment. i'm just surprised you didn't say something about all the people who DIDN'T pick your choice. how dare them.
-a person you know
well, i didn't vote in the christmas movie poll... 1) because you didn't have die hard as an option and 2) i didn't know about until after it had ended. but mostly the first reason.
and i don't give two walnuts for national lampoons christmas whatever-its-called. in truth, i just don't get why its so "funny".
and, casey, you can take some solace in that i'm wholly responsible for all the good in david. which i realize isn't much. ooh. smoke.
-steven
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