One of the things I was looking forward to most this summer was the release of “Super 8.” I have a statue of J.J. Abrams made out of chewed-up bubblegum in my closet and I’ve got a totally non-pedophiliac crush on Elle Fanning and Steven Spielberg is aight too, so I knew I had to add it to my “WATCH BEFORE DEATH” list. So you can imagine my anguish when I found out it was going to be released in the US the weekend after I left for Brazil. And then, the kicker – it’s not going to be released in Brazil until the weekend after I get back to the States.

I have no idea when it’s going to end it’s run in American theaters but I’ve been having these chronic nightmares where I get back to the States only to find that I have to wait until it gets released on DVD and my hands are made of ketchup and it always feels so real and I just want to die. So I when I saw this beautiful bootleg copy for sale on a blanket street vendor tonight in Rio, I didn’t hesitate to shell out the $3 he was asking for it.

Now I know what you’re thinking – Nate, why didn’t you just download a copy or stream it online? And to you debbie downers I say, number 1 – my poor foreign internet connection could never handle such a thing, and number 2, where’s the fun in that?

I’m about to pop it in and shut out the world for the next 1.7 hours – here’s to hoping it’s not in Russian!