What Dad said about Banza...
So, I asked my dad about the paper with the message from Banza Kane on it. He looked at me kind of sharply and like he was confused. And said, "Where did you find that?"
"I was looking for that old bat Will gave me, and found it in an old Bible of yours."
"Wow, I haven't thought about that in a long time."
"Where did it come from?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Your uncle Mark and I were thinking about writing book about a vampire hunter, and he wrote that to get us motivated. We never ended up doing it though, too bad."
"Yeah," I said, maybe a little disappointed, "That would have been pretty cool."
I went and saw the movie Sideways with my friend that night (last night), as I was walking out the door I noticed my dad get up from the sofa and head towards the garage (where the attic entrance is, where the piece of paper was...).
He only acted a little off-balance. Just enough for me, and all of my bored, wishful thinking, to wonder if there isn't something else to his story.
Oh, well. Probably NBD.
I enjoyed Sideways. My friend likened it to wine (for those of you who don't know, wine is an integral part of the plot), how the story had so much history, sweetness, bitterness, hope, anticipation (you might need to see one of the character's description of why she likes wine, to understand). I thought that was a very cool parallel to draw, and I felt a little silly for not drawing it myself.
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all they talked about was wine. so boring.*
*irony
Yeah, I guess it was kind of boring. And weird, and too much male nudity.
But the theater was old, smelly, sticky-floored, and the picture was off center of the screen and out of focus. So that added a lot to the experience.
And if you liken all of these things to wine... You start to get a depressed feeling of insignificance, you know? And that makes it all worth it.
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