Last night I went to bed at about 9 o’clock. I woke up at around 1 and couldn’t get back to sleep for about half an hour. One of the weird things that I thought about was the movie “Duel”. I have no idea why I thought of that. I haven’t thought of that movie in probably ten years or more. But, I remember the movie vividly. I was only three when the movie came out, so my first time seeing it was on tv. That movie freaked me out. Especially the part when he was stuck on the railroad tracks and his Dart wouldn’t start. Man, Dennis Weaver played the part perfectly. And the scene with the snake farm was just too strange. I love the ending, with Weaver wedging his briefcase against the accelerator and ramming the truck, and later we see the driver of the truck’s cowboy boot. Anyways, what a great movie. My friends and I growing up in elementary school and high school used to talk about that movie a lot.

After thinking about that for a while, I tried to think of other movies that my friends and I liked. There were the blockbusters like Star Wars of course, but one of the more obscure ones we liked (and that we only saw on tv) was The Mechanic starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent. That chase scene on the cliffs where Steve McKenna (Jan-Micheal Vincent) says, “This is getting hairy,” was awesome. Another choice line was “Brucine…” But the best one had to be, “Chickin’ Lickin’ is lickin’ chicken.” Hehehehe. “Wise guy.”