Finding that special someone…

…that special someone who projects an image onto a large screen.

I have acquired such a screen. Now, what’s a boy to do? Ignore it? Leave it in the closet, until a smarter, more ambitious fellow comes along? Hardly. I’m looking for the projector of my dreams…or at least a cheap one that won’t break in two years.

There are some budget models. And considering my apathetic stance towards HD, I’m hardly looking towards high-end stuff. Oh, those endless nights of movies – some from Hollywood, some from the next room – shafts of light across a darkened room, with no tubes or LCD to come between us. And if I get off the couch (when I finally buy one), you’ll be able to see Boris Karloff on the back of my skull!

I want to be the first – and only – kid on my block who has movie nights the old fashioned way.

Yipes.

Realizing…

Does anyone on my block even do movie nights? If so, is it purely Blockbuster fare, or do they take the plunge? Take John Carpenter films, for example. Sure, they’ve seen Halloween, but how about Dark Star?

I watched this movie with some self-proclaimed Carpenter fans, and they thought it was just awful. In fact, they stopped inviting me over after that night. Fine by me. If you can’t appreciate Carpenter’s genius on a small screen, you don’t deserve to see it blown up.