Can anyone point me in the direction of a museum?

Friday night I wanted to watch a movie, but I couldn’t find any DVD to my liking. Bummer, I though, why is it that you can never find a movie your in the mood for, when you are desperately want to do some mindless movie watching?
But I wasn’t willing to give up that easily, and dived into my old video collection…..how ancient! While I was going through my archive a strange thought entered my mind: pretty soon there going to be kids who don’t even know what videos are. Funny, how life seem to keep changing faster and faster. Anyway, that thought reminded me of a little story one of my friends told me some time ago.

One day her cordless phone wasn’t working and she had to make an urgent call. So, she rummaged around in the attic and dug up an old rotary dial phone. Down stairs again, she plugged it in and hooray, a dial tone. She made her call and asked one of her kids to call her at work later that day. Sure, the kid said, looking quite uncomfortable from his mom to the phone, and back again. Sure mom, the kid continued, I’ll call you, but you first have to explain to me how that phone works.

Makes you feel old, doesn’t it? Almost as if you were born in the pre-historic era or something. Other things and memories that can make you feel very antiquated too, things like:

• You remember black & white TV’s
• The remote channel changer in your family was you…..
• Your first computer system is now a museum piece
• You wore leggings when they were around for the first time
• You remember that Twix was called Raider (in some parts of Europe)
• Peanut M&M’s were called Treets and all had the same colour….brown! Chocolate M&M’s were called Bonitos and they had smiley faces on them (oh, and they did melt)
• You played records and cassettes instead of CD’s
• You were around when Sony launched the Walkman, Atari released their first game console and later on we were introduced to Nintendo
• You can also remember the 5¼ floppies and cell phones as big as refrigerators

Okay, enough of that! All those things make me feel like I should be in a museum myself now.

Back to the video. I ended up watching Sliding Doors, almost 10 years old and still fun to watch. About the movie:
We probably all have asked ourselves this question at one point in our life: What if? Well this is a movie about just that. A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. One split second sends her life in two completely different directions and in this movie you can see them both, in parallel. Very interesting to watch and above all very funny.

On Saturday I watched another, more recent, movie: Stranger than fiction. Also very funny, extremely interesting and above all utterly brilliant! Thanks for bringing it to my attention KJ’s Muse.

Now, I am off to the museum, see if they’ll have me ;-)