Day 341. Saturday night at the movies. (7/12/13)

So we've hit Saturday night and we're debating what to watch. Strictly has finished (for me, the judges marked Abby's quite glorious Viennese Waltz a little on the low side to be honest) and we're a little stuck for what's next.

Matty decided that we should watch something from the Sky+ planner. I suggested 'In Search of Blind Joe Death', the John Fahey documentary that I recorded from BBC4 (worth the cost of the licence fee on its own)

J asked 'who's that?'

"A guitarist" I answered.

"No"

There was a blues documentary on prior to the John Fahey programme, we caught a little of it live before J went to bed and left me to watch the mid season finale of Walking Dead (poor start to the season, picked up with the return of David Morrissey's character, went into the season break with an episode of genuine 'Oh. My. F***ing. God' style brilliance). There was a bit of BB King live, a bit of footage of Beale Street's bars, the birthplace of the blues.

"Was that where you wanted to go?" Asked J as the camera panned across a room full of guitars and I drooled slightly. J took one look at my glazed expression and asked a simple question;

"Why did I fall for a musician?"

I don't have an answer, I'm sure there must be one, maybe it's worth you all asking her.

So, no Blind Joe Death then. What we're watching instead is 'Lady & The Tramp' (just passed the 'We are Siamese' sequence; you may not realise it but you know every single word) Matty's choice. He would have liked it to be 'Lady & The Tramp 2' as it contains his 'Goggy' - a small dog that he got with a McDonald's happy meal when he was two. He used to rub the dog's tail on his nose to go to sleep in his buggy. He couldn't say doggy so 'Goggy' it became and 'Goggy'  it stayed and he's never going to give up that little dog, it will go to University with him and he doesn't care who knows that fact.

So, he's thirteen, he's out playing football in the rain with his mates, going to the cinema as a group to watch 'Hunger Games', asking if I'll buy him The Conjuring when it comes out on Monday. (It's a horror film. Hint; no.) but he's still young enough to want to watch 'Lady & The Tramp'

It's great.

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