confession of an obsession

I remember the day well.
I was in Stone Harbor with my family. It was 1994. I was 14. My brother was 12.
Stone Harbor is a pretty kid-friendly place. It is dry. Lots of families go there in the summer months, especially those with young kids. It was the first summer that my parents felt I was responsible enough to take my brother out to do things on our own.
We decided to go to the movies one night.... and what a glorious night it was....

We went to see the movie Hackers.

Now... I fully admit... in no way is this a realistic movie. Kids (thank GOD) do not even dress like that, let alone hack like that. It was a movie before windows was big, but computers were just becoming so. It was back during the days when Prodigy blew us away, but we had to use basic commands to get it to run. Life was good.

My brother and I came out of that movie in awe. We loved it. It made enough of an impression on him that one of his first passwords was a tribute to the movie... and it made enough of an impression on me that I watch it every time it is on tv.

This is where the obsession (and subsequent confession) comes in. I do not own the movie Hackers. I am not sure why... maybe it is because it is played fairly often on fx... and with the advent of Comcast Digital, it plays nearly every week on one of the 700 channels. I have already admitted that it is not a great movie... in its own right, its a "teen" movie.... but I cant help myself, every time it comes on, I have to watch it. Its pathetic. I confess.

I dont know what it is... why I have to watch it. Of course Angelina Jolie is a babe in her wierd clothes... and the lead guy is pretty cute too... who knew that they would get married after meeting on this set! And it has that creepy guy in it who did Dell commercials for awhile.... or maybe it was 7 up.... I dont know, but he freaks me out, so thats no reason to watch it either... the computers they use are hilariously outdated.... but I will tell you what ISNT outdated: the older ceo corporation type lady who has no idea what computers are about and starts flipping on the dude who programmed the Da Vinci virus when the hackers "unite" and attack the Gibson. What makes a Gibson so special anyway? It probably is nothing now...

So really I just dont know what it is... I have no desire to own the movie... but gaurenteed, if I am flipping thru the channels and I see that Hackers is on... whether it just started or has a half hour left, I will watch it. And I will still get excited and be like ooh thats cool, even if its completely unrealistic. sigh.


So thats my obsession.... I consider it one of those strange things that most people dont really know about me, a quirk if you will.



And now that that is off my shoulders, I am going to go back to packing for Florida. I wonder if they will show Hackers down there....