We Have Achieved Something Amazing...

...and I keep forgetting to tell you all about it.

On New Year's Day 2007, a group of people gathered in mine and Robbo’s living room at 10:30AM, and it began.

It was Rock-A-Thon, and we had a mission. We were going to watch all five Rocky movies before stumbling a few blocks to South Side Works to see the new film (and stumble, we did.) The first five films, incidentally, clock in at a total of around nine hours. I was pretty much Rock-ed out after Rock-A-Thon.

I’m not gonna lie. This was like a religious experience. I mean, unless you’ve been exposed to a total of 11 straight hours of Rocky movies (including the new one, duh!), you cannot possibly imagine how it feels. And because Joe couldn’t be bothered to show up until 4:30PM, we had to take turns continuously calling and updating his answering machine on the saga. (“Joe, I just wanted to tell you, Adrian’s in a coma.” “Joe, I thought you ought to know, Mickey just died.” ) Which I’m sure his girlfriend loved. Especially since she hates all of us.

To make a long story short, Nikki successfully held back tears when Apollo died, Robbo threw up, Huffman was loud and people dug my potato pancakes. Successful day. Well, minus the vomit.

I also really liked the final installation of the Rocky series. I definitely got misty-eyed every time Rocky went to Adrian’s grave. (Oops! Haven’t seen the movie yet? Sorry. She’s dead.) As soon as I got home I hugged Robbo and told him I loved him. Yeah, it was moving. (Wondering why he was at home while we were at the movies? Because it was about halfway through the movie that aforementioned vomiting happened, and he just went home afterwards. Yeah. Just went home. Oh, Robbo.) I also thought that the ending was the perfect way to end the series, especially because Rocky 5 was so crap-tastic.

I suppose it was a good thing we own this:

Yeah. The Rocky Anthology Box Set. OOOOOH yeah!

Next up, Rambo. Yeah, Rambo IV is coming out in 2008. Who's up for Ramb-A-Thon??