You know,I'm not a huge movie guy. But every now and then,I think we all find ourselves saying,"wow,I feel like I am in a movie". But if you try to feel like you are in a movie,it isn't right. It has to just happen naturally,where the feeling comes over you slowly,and you finally notice it.
 So my friend is in from out of town on a Sunday night,and he is having problems with his lady,and wants to talk. "Can we go to a real bar?",he says. "Got just the place",I reply. That night at  10 p.m. the place is empty...perfect. His story is sad and funny,and I listen closely. Then on the juke comes Richard Cheese's version of Nirvana's "Rape Me". Odd and apropos,I decide.
 And I glance around the Raven Bar and see the movie we are in,the one Edward Hopper would have directed,had that been his medium.