So for years now people have been telling me to see "The Matrix" and the reason I haven't is... I don't even know the reason I haven't, except that for someone who claims to like movies I actually see very few of them. I'm either too cheap to spend the 9 bucks at the theater or find them too distracting on home video when I'm busy thinking Deep Thoughts.

But I've been doing this netflix thing, mostly to catch up on a lot of cable TV shows I never get to watch because I'm too cheap to spring for anything other than basic cable (are we sensing a money theme here? I'm just poor!)

So, OK, I rented "The Matrix" because Gloria and I want to go see The Matrix II and we need to see The Matrix I first, but of course, Alice invited herself over on our movie night, so I didn't bring The Matrix with me to Gloria's house because I wanted to catch up with Alice and her life, and as a result we three ended up watching an Andrew Lloyd Webber video that was so awful it turned me into Masqueradus and sent me on a murderous killing spree across Sunnydale. Er--I mean San Francisco.

So I watched "The Matrix" last night instead. Good thing about netflix? No due dates on DVDs. Keep'm for a week. Hell, keep'm for two weeks. Keep'm 'til you actually get around to watching the video, which for me, can be months.

( Thoughts on The Matrix )