Last night's evening entertainment: Bubba Ho-tep.

It's kind of a ridiculous premise--a still alive Elvis and JFK fight a mummy--which sounds pretty cool, but I wasn't sure that it would translate into an actually good movie, since they could have just as easily relied on their initial premise to sell itself and done nothing else to supplement it. Thankfully, it turned out to be a warm, laid-back movie with just the proper amount of dignity and respect for its characters, as they fight on knowing they are well past their primes and death is quickly nearing.

Of course, I fell asleep halfway through it and had to finish it this morning...

This is beginning to be kind of a problem, in that maybe the last three movies I've started after 10 PM had me dozing off before the end. The obvious reason for this probably is that I'm most likely not staying up as late as I usually have in the past, and something triggers the sleep mechanism whenever I'm tired and watching something. (I've also probably trained myself for this... when I first got a VCR for my room, I would put movies in late at night expecting to fall asleep to them, then picking up where I left off the next night... probably hot the most healthy bedtime ritual in the world.) But it's also making me think that I'm getting too old.

My dad's taken me to quite a handful of movies over the years. About half the time, he has fallen asleep at some point during the movie. How, especially when it has usually been the loud action movies he's dozed off at, I don't know. But now I'm starting to believe he does this because he's middle aged. Because I'm doing it now.

Of course, I'm not falling asleep in the middle of the day with blasts of sound coming at me in all directions... but still.

I'm turning 24 this year. I'm still pretty sure I should be 19.