The Wall O’ Cool has been restocked with a bunch of awesome titles! Come on down and check it out…they will go FAST.
Entire shelf of Disney titles: Mulan, The Lion King, Enchanted, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Finding Nemo, and lots more!
Other fun titles from my childhood : Black Beauty, The Last Unicorn, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Harry and the Hendersons, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Goonies, War Games and Time Bandits.
Creepy stuff: Poltergeist, Jaws, 30 Days of Night, Creepshow, The Devil’s Rejects, Lord of the Flies and Twilight (it creeps me out how popular that series is).
TV!! Project Runway Season 7, Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1, HBO presents Dane Cook’s Vicious Circle and the first season of Ally McBeal (brand new copy!!).
Other cool stuff: Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Whip It, The Last Holiday,Dog Day Afternoon, Chasing Amy, Passenger 57 and so much more!!
There is also a shelf I like to call, “Bad Ass Chicks with Guns”, featuring talent like Pamela Anderson, Pam Grier, Angelina Jolie and some other chicks that will shoot ya before you can blink. Not necessarily Oscar material…..but fun!
Brave the muggy weather and come on down to Market Street before all the cool stuff gets sold!
(Don’t worry…we have other cool stuff too!)
Summer Time woke up and stretched extra hard. She got out of bed, went to the window and pulled back the curtains with a smile.
“What the *#@%!”, she shouted in frustration. The view outside her window was of a slightly soggy Saturday morning.
“This is why I hardly ever visit Seattle! Maybe if I hang out for awhile, the fog will burn off and I can go outside and be warm.” She flopped back on the bed and looked at the clock.
“I need something to do,” she mumbled. “I know! I’ll go get some movies from that store my friend Moon told me about. Moviecycle in Ballard! She said they have all kinds of cool flicks for real cheap.”
Summer hopped up and assessed herself in the mirror. Spiky gold hair, cupcake pajama bottoms and a Care Bear t-shirt (Sunshine Bear…of course). She nodded to her reflection in approval and threw on her yellow Converse and Rat City Roller Girls hoodie. Keys in hand, she booked it to Ballard.
The cute little store was nestled between a gourmet food shop and yoga studio. Darth Vader stared at her through the window as she walked in the open door (pausing for a moment to check out the bin out front…$2.99! Wow!).
The store was funky and covered in tons of movie posters while mellow tunes flowed from the speakers. The clerk smiled and greeted Summer pleasantly, asking if she had any questions.
“I am gonna browse, thanks though!” Summer shared a smile with the friendly clerk.
The new releases caught her eye, all for only $9.99. Book of Eli was supposed to be really good. And that new Michael Cera movie, Youth in Revolt was hilarious according to Moon. Kristen Bell in When In Rome. She is always a cutie. Summer was stoked to see they also had Legion and The Lovely Bones. Two movies she hadn’t caught in the theater. Cool!
Ooooh, speaking of cool. They had a whole wall devoted to cool things! The Wall O’ Cool! 4 Quentin Tarantino movies, 2 Monty Pythons, All About Eve, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fargo. Summer laughed as she discovered they had The Care Bears Movie, Labyrinth, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Classic kid flicks.
Wow! Look, there’s Death at a Funeral (the cool British version), Donnie Darko, Chasing Amy, American Splendor (didn’t Harvey Pekar just pass away? Paul Giamatti did a decent job playing him.), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Superman, E.T., Knocked Up…..the list of cool titles just kept going.
Summer felt overwhelmed.
Luckily, the clerk helpfully pointed out that she could get three cool movies for only $20! Anything $8 or less and she would be golden.
Summer grabbed The Care Bears Movie, The Darjeeling Limited and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (that one was always her favorite…the scene with the monkey brains just makes her laugh and gag all at the same time…it’s great).
Summer looked longingly at the rest of the store ( “TV shows! Foreign films and stand-up comedy? I will have to come back.”)
The clerk rang her up quickly, checking each disc to make sure they were in good shape. A smile and her change and Summer was out the door headed home to veg out and watch movies until it was time to go outside and shine.
The End
(By the way, you get that she is fictional and we still have those cool movies on the shelf. Just wanted to make sure that was clear…..)
Can’t quite explain why the website was acting up yesterday, but everything seems to be back on track! My only guess is the internet took some time out to enjoy the sun. Yes, summer’s finally starting to poke it’s head through. Likewise, we hope you’ll poke your head through our celebrity-cardboarded windows, or maybe even the door, and see our line of spring-summer delights! Might I direct your attention to the Wall O’ Cool, where we’ve got TV delights such as Strangers with Candy and Full House. Get your classics with Ben Hur and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Hitchcock it up with Frenzy and The Birds. Get your Dunst on with Jumanji, or Batman your way around Newsies. If you like to engage in Risky Business, perhaps you should Kill Bill or throw a Bachelor Party. You could always tell yourself, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. Also, Se7en!