a word or two about my friend, phil

i know i had mentioned some time ago that i would say something about phil, if only because of his bizarre shenanigans, but nothing really seemed noteworthy until now.

phil and i dated for a very short time but still remained friends, friends with benefits. we never went out anywhere together. he would always come over and we would watch movies. either something from my collection or something obscure or strange that he would bring over. most of the movies i have are foreign, sci-fi, fantasy or adventure. i just can't do romance movies and admit to it. i'll admit that i will watch one once or twice a year when i need a good cry, but that's not the point here.

even though phil and i had the same taste in movies, there were many fairly recent releases that he hadn't seen such as pitch black and the chronicles of riddick with vin diesel. we saw those one night. another night i showed him a little movie called moon 44 with michael pare. a sleeper that i had first seen in 1991, i think. it's an okay movie, but for some reason it remained with me and i bought it on dvd when i saw it.

back to phil. time has passed since i moved here to illinois and he moved to seattle to his new job. he has made friends with his new co-workers, most notably, a female, who invited him over one night to watch movies. phil told me he was getting settled on her couch and she pops in the dvd and the movie starts and he starts to get nervous. it's moon 44. he said he jumped off her couch and said that he couldn't watch that with her. she, of course, wants to know why and he tells her that he had seen this with another woman (me) and he couldn't see it with a different woman because it holds too much sentimental attachment to him.

phil said she got up to look for a new movie to put in and grabbed something else that we had seen together. to which, he had to tell her he couldn't see that one with her, either. he told me he started rattling off all the movies that we had seen together, that he could not, in good conscious, see with her. unfortunately, it sounded as if this woman had the same movie collection i do, so phil left.

couples, such as they are, have songs and moments to recall their relationships and their dedication to one another, but a sci-fi flick? apparently, it meant quite a bit to phil. i heartily admit i laughed my ass off when he told me that. but then, it's another one of those strange little things about phil that endear him to me. he, is most certainly, one of a kind.