3 movies

i had a date and we saw 2 movies at her place, she wanted to see 'rain man' and '8 mile' and i had both on DVD. when i was done i left to go see a third, at the MSP film festival, first time at the st. anthony main in minneapolis. nice neighborhood there, near the river. saw 'twelve thirty', since i liked reading about it in the paper, filmed in my native iowa. in fact, some of it was in iowa city, where i went to college. was rushing to get there after getting parked, so i didn't get popcorn though i had a nose for it. went to a convenience store and got some lay's bbq chips after the movie, found out the clerk from saturday didn't add points like he said he would. i liked seeing the old capitol in the movie, i recognized it as being iowa city, a well known landmark on campus. first time attending the film festival, guess i had to get a good idea of what was playing and when. there were some others that interested me, but the scheduling didn't work, like the biographical movie about norman mailer, the writer. may have a chance at seeing them in wider release later on, or even on video. guess that means checking at blockbuster about one that i liked seeing previews of, with a setting in texas and starring melissa leo. liked her in 'frozen river', and had seen her in 'the fighter', an oscar-winning role.
   my date had a book about president lincoln, had just bought it this weekend at a cracker barrel while out of town for a concert. liked reading it with all of the photos, even was interested in hearing about something called cooper union, since it was given credit with making lincoln president.