Yesterday Blog Girl was out with her friends and I was trying to get some other writing done when I decided to turn on the TV for some diversion. I checked out one of the on-demand channels and they were showing “Weird Science” and I watched it for the second time in 21 years.

The first time I watched the movie was in the fall of 1985 during a weekend movie theater marathon and fast food festival with my brother, who had come to visit me while the now ex-wife bitch and my children were away. We spent Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night watching 8 different movies at various theaters, talking like we hadn’t in such a long time and subsisting on fare from Subway and Pizza Hut. I remember we saw “Weird Science”, “Back to the Future” and “Rambo: First Blood Part II”, but I can’t recall the other 5 movies we saw (so Blog Brother, if you’re reading and YOU remember, drop a comment). I even checked out this site trying to jog my remembrance of the movies we watched, but no luck.

What I DO remember is that it was one of the best weekends I ever spent! That weekend has remained in my memory and is always recalled with a fondness that few memories can match. When I catalog happy memories, that one is always there. And as absolutely inane as “Weird Science” was, I still smiled while watching the entire movie yesterday because of what I associate it with.