I learned a long time ago that some people are nostalgic and some people are not.

I happen to be one of the ones who are. I think about the past. Sometimes I think about the past until it hurts. I get emotional over old places and things and people. I can’t help it; it’s just the way I’m wired. And like I said, I have learned through personal experience that you cannot make a non-nostalgic person feel nostalgic no more than you can make a nostalgic person not feel those things. People are just different.

This week’s video takes place at my childhood theater… or more accurately, the parking lot where my childhood theater used to be. The theater closed in 2014 and sat abandoned for eight years before they finally tore it down. Like the town crier I let everybody I knew that they were about to tear down the old theater. I thought hundreds of people would show up. Maybe they would change their mind at the last minute. Maybe someone would buy and restore it. Maybe there would be protests. Maybe so many people would show up that we could stand around the theater and lock our arms together and stop the hellish machines from tearing down our memories.

In the end, none of those things happened. I sat in my car, alone, and watched them turn the theater into rubble, and eventually haul that rubble away.

When old places are gone, they’re gone. You can go back to the physical location, but the building itself is gone.

On this week’s video I wanted to reconnect with that space. I wanted to revisit the movie theater. I wanted to eat movie theater snacks and watch movies while camping in that parking lot.

I hope you enjoy this one because it wrecked me to make it.