Xana-what? Xanadu

So the best laid plans seem to be coming last minute as of late. In the past few days I have managed to see lots of random people and do random things. It’s always nice to have that—the unexpected night (or day since not working) of fun.

Case in point-last night. Kira (Yeah—name change on the field) e-mailed me and a few others about how the NuArt was doing a midnight showing of the camp classic ‘Xanadu’. This was certainly exciting since I have never seen the film on the big screen and hadn’t watched it properly in a few years. So Joy and I made plans to meet up with Miss Kira to go and catch the film simply because Joy had never seen it and I needed to go and get my gayk (gay geek) on.

We arrived rather early and got the chance to hang out and chat and catch up. It was fun and even more so once we caught up with Kira. We drank sodas and debated whether we needed to be in line since no one seemed to be there. We talked about roller skating and work and boys and it was fun.

It was also quite fun to be in a half filled theatre of gay boys, their hags, and older couples (who probably saw it on their first date) who knew all the words and all the lines to the film. Nothing beats being reassured that one is not crazy for loving something as abstract as a bad eighties roller skating musical of dubious quality.

And after I arrived home last night I realized that it’s great to hang out with people whom you like but don’t get to see much. That doing something off the wall with someone different is something I need to do more often. I also learned that the theme song of the film ends different in the film than on the soundtrack.

Olivia hits a much more realistic note.