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Cheating

I cheated today. I was really in the mood to watch a movie, but I'm suffering from a really painful 2nd degree burn and chronic back pain (a story for another time) so my doctor gave me Vicodin. So...the movie I watched today is definitely not on the AFI Top 100 List...

I watched Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I'll admit that I have a bit of a thing for Andy Samburg. And if I was a dude, I'd totally go gay for Neil Patrick Harris. This is one of my favorite movies so I knew that I had to watch it, especially if I'm too loopy to really do anything else. Besides, you can't truly appreciate the genius of Martin Scorsese or James Dean while looped up on Vicodin, right?

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