I heard “Magic Man” while driving home from work,...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

I heard “Magic Man” while driving home from work, and I was reminded how, when I was 14, I learned the very important lesson that when a dude starts talking about his ex girlfriend the first or second or third time you meet him, you run run run away. It was all because of Swingers, in the scene after this one, which I memorized as a teenager, along with Clerks. For a while having those movies for immediate reference was detrimental, but by the time I got to college it left me well-versed in a certain brand of dude bullshit. Unfortunately, there were many other brands of bullshit to wade through, but I came out on top, hey!

Anyway I’m heading to Vegas for the first time in my life on Friday, and everything I know about Las Vegas I know from this movie and Go. Other lessons I’ve learned: don’t search for just “Swingers” on Youtube, and no matter how wordly you are, if you memorized Swingers at 14 all you will always want to say before your first trip to Vegas is “Vegas Baby Vegas.”