Wanted to take the SO out to Burton's Alice in Wonderland yesterday evening. I don't care critics find it insipid; it's Tim Burton.

Sadly our town only harbours two cinemas - one for the Hollywood flicks and the building is chiseled that way for that purpose. In other words: dead atmosphere, nice seats and the stairs sticky with spilled soda. The other cinema is more orientated to art-house and smaller movies but I can never suppress the same feeling I get of bearded neo-hippies wearing faded woolen sweaters. The place is very un-hip. Although I immediately admit that un-hip is a very un-hip word in itself.

Anyway, little choice. When arriving at the cinema of non-choice, we already got a bad feeling: the place was packed, among others with young folks strutting with large cotton hearts tied to their heads. The atmosphere was... rowdy. The kind of rowdy you get with stag parties. Thursday night is the night students go out, and there are copious amounts of them in this city. They are even represented in the city council. It makes it a lively city, so it's not all bad all the time.

But when we asked for tickets, the ticket lady kindly informed us that there were only seats available in the second row, and we'd share the movie with over 3000 students. I hang my head and she wasn't surprised when we moved out of the queue.

So we moved to a pleasant bar nearby (no smoking!!), shared apple pie and I proceeded to lose (twice) to a game of checkers to my SO, much to her delight.

And that's my story. What other movies should I go to? I'm out of touch.