15. “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - A Very Sunny Christmas!” (not sure if this technically counts as a movie, but what the hell, I love it and it’s going here)
Awesome cast photo that I found…
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Blogs to check out…
My Girl, 1991. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky. (Director: Howard Zieff)
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Plot: This funny, poignant coming-of-age story follows a momentous summer in the life of precocious 11-year-old Vada (Chlumsky). While her widowed undertaker father (Aykroyd) starts coming out of his shell thanks to makeup artist Shelly (Curtis), Vada moons over her English teacher and spends time with her best friend, Thomas J. (Culkin). Before the summer’s over, Vada will learn powerful lessons about love and loss.
I beyond LOVE this movie.
"For what it’s worth, I think God is how you deal with everything that’s out of your own control. It’s as good a definition as any."
— Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland (via hellogoodbai)
"To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese. To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo. To huevos rancheros, and Maya Angelou!
To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing, the need to express, to communicate. To going against the grain, going insane, going mad!
Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Peewee Herman, German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa, Carmina Burana, to apathy to empathy to entropy, ecstacy, Vaclàv Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC, to no shame never playin’ the fame game…to marijuana! To sodomy, it’s between God and me, to S&M. La Vie Boheme.
To riding your bike midday past the three piece suits, to fruits, to no absolutes to Absolut, to choice, to the Village Voice, to any passing fad, to being an us for once instead of a them… La Vie Boheme!
Anyone out of the mainstream; is anyone in the mainstream? Anyone alive with a sex drive! Tear down the wall; aren’t we all? The opposite of war isn’t peace — it’s creation.
TO DANCE! No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection, muscle spasms, chiropractors short careers, eating disorders! FILM! Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood, and sleaze! MUSIC! Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, rhythm, power, feeling, harmony, and heavy competition! ANARCHY! Revolution, justice screaming for solutions, voicing changes, risk and danger, making noise and making pleas!"
— Rent, “La Vie Boheme”
2009 Leonid Meteor (via Navicore)
Starlight Over the Rockies (via gainesp2003)
…and the DJ Played All Night Long (via Rolenz)
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“Fresh off the farm just out of school,
Face of an angel and nobody’s fool.
Turquoise boots Atlanta Braves hat,
Denim and lace and you gotta love that.
She rolled into town dreams in a sack,
Old guitar in a blue Pontiac.
She’s taken a vow,
She ain’t turning back,
She knows what she wants,
And you gotta love that.
Long way from home white picket fence,
She turned down a ring from her old boyfriend,
She didn’t take a dime from even her dad,
She’s out on her own and you gotta love that.
She rolled into town dreams in a sack,
Old guitar in a blue Pontiac.
She’s taken a vow,
She ain’t turning back,
She knows what she wants,
And you gotta love that.
She’s tender and tough,
There’s a world behind those innocent eyes.
Since she was a girl,
She’s been waiting for the day she can spread her wings and fly.
She rolled into town dreams in a sack,
Old guitar in a blue Pontiac.
She’s taken a vow,
She ain’t turning back,
She knows what she wants,
And you gotta love that.
She rolled into town dreams in a sack,
Old guitar in a blue Pontiac.
She’s taken a vow,
She ain’t turning back,
She knows what she wants,
And you gotta love that,
Man you gotta love that…”
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-Neal McCoy, “Gotta Love That”
(what I’ve often referred to as “my song” and which is particularly appropriate now as I visit my family in very very Southern Georgia and hear about my great cousins who are baby machines and depending on my grandmother’s money, while my sister and I focus on education… which she assumes means spinsterhood and shaming the family. I often get those confused myself. Who doesn’t?)
#15 - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - A Very Sunny Christmas
#11 - When Harry Met Sally
11. “When Harry Met Sally” (not always what comes to mind when you think holiday, but Christmas and New Years are covered… and are some pretty critical scenes)
The New Years scene (which Entertainment Weekly thought was one of the top 25 most romantic gestures… which I discovered when looking for a photo of this moment!)
#5 - Home for the Holidays
5. “Home for the Holidays” (because it’s nice to see another dysfunctional family every once in awhile)
