So I just saw the movie version of "Rent" with my sister. Not surprisingly, she cried (sorry, Re, you know you're a much bigger sap than me. Well....than most people.) It was a good movie, Taye Diggs is as hot as always. But I had a pretty big problem that started early on and lasted through most of the film....

....I couldn't get Everybody's got AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! out of my head. I even stopped myself from laughing a few times. And then I felt really bad: there I was, sitting next to Sapster Magee, in a packed theater on opening night, and I had to bite my lip to stifle the snickering. Eventually, the laughter faded.

But then I spent the remainder of the movie trying to remember if that fun mocking was from "Team America" (fuck yeah!) or from the Red Scare show we all saw at Second City a while back. Needless to say, my attention wandered, as did my sentiment and sympathy for the characters.

Man down on "Rent" the movie.

* Random, non-connected thought of the day: I really don't understand nametags worn by folks in the service industry. All the employees know each other's names, and if and when a customer chooses to address the person by their 'hello my name is,' said customer receives a look of the fuck? For example: was at the Panera for dinner, getting a pa-neye-neye (haha, SM) and I thanked "Kyle," the young gent serving me up my food by saying:

"Thanks, Kyle!"

Kyle's response? (the fuck?-ing) "Do I know you?"

The prosecution rests.