Archives for March 2005

Darin and I were at dinner tonight:

            DIANE
        Did you watch the Hitchhiker's trailer?

            DARIN
        It looks great. I don't know why you 
        said you needed to plan your life around 
        April 29, though. It says May 6.

            DIANE
        It said April 29.

            DARIN
        No, it didn't. Who's in it?

            DIANE
        Mos Def plays Ford Prefect. I don't 
        know who plays the other roles though. 
        Like the rock star. What's his name?

            DARIN
        Hotblack Desiato. Something like that. 
        But he doesn't show up until Book 2.

            DIANE
        Oh. Well, they're at some rock concert 
        in the trailer.

            DARIN
        No, they're not.

            DIANE
        Yes, they are.

Beat.

            DARIN
        Where did you see the trailer?

            DIANE
        It was some weird URL. I figured the one 
        at the Apple site had better bandwidth...

            DARIN
        You didn't check the link, did you?

            DIANE
        Uh oh. I figured it was just the same one.

            DARIN
        No. Evidently not.

There are in fact three trailers now available. The one I had seen was (and was attempting to point y’all toward) was Trailer 3. I had seen it at a site that evidently got a hold of it a little ahead of time (when the release date was still April 29 and not whatever they’ve decided upon now).

So now go watch the trailer.

One of the seminal moments of my young life—possibly as a freshman in high school—I found a book at the local B. Dalton’s that said, “Don’t panic!” in large, friendly letters. I picked it up and laughed my butt off (I didn’t say “ass” yet) and kept reading parts of it to people at school, all of whom thought I was an utter nincompoop with a weird book. So be it.

Well, the BBC radio series-cum-novel-cum-TV-series is now a movie, and despite the fact that we all know all of the jokes by now, we’re going. I have now planned my life around April 29, 2005. (Watch the trailer; you’ll get the joke.)