In Hindsight: This is the first “throwback” movie I haven’t seen since I originally wrote about it. I purchased the DVD years ago and haven’t watched it. The Deer Hunter is known for its Russian roulette sequences. I became aware of the movie when an older boy in our town died, specifically imitating scenes in the film. I find it curious that I didn’t address the tragedy when I wrote this, because it’s the reason I watched. I don’t remember being upset by the news (I didn’t know him) but my ambivalence suggests otherwise.
In the first paragraph he blew my mind. By the fourth I felt my kidneys explode. But wait, that’s not all – if you click now, we’ll throw in a set of steak knives!
In the news… I keep hearing about public restroom bills being introduced around the country. This is one of THE hot legislative topics right now. Type “bathroom legislation” into Google and you’ll see. I started taking notes…
NEWS: Puppet Restrooms
MUSIC: Springsteen Nassau 1980
MOVIES: Some Kind of Wonderful
HUMOR: You Chose WHAT Song For Your Wedding?
…do we hold celebrities to a higher standard? I don’t think so. Think of local scandals you’re familiar with – the minister who ran off with the church secretary, the legislator who took a bribe, the teacher who had an affair with a student. Probably none of these were held to a lower standard than the celebrity who did something similar. In many ways, the celebrity enjoys more support than the less famous person does. But our understanding of the nuances of a local situation becomes more sophisticated, less black-and-white, because we’ve considered similar issues in popular culture.
I was thinking about songs people choose for their weddings. Have you noticed how inappropriate some of these are? (Yes, I realize I’m not one to talk.) I went to DJ web sites and looked at “top wedding picks.” The same dumb songs turned up again and again. As Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya said in The Princess Bride, “I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
On July 28, 2013, Bruce Springsteen performed in Kilkenny, Ireland. During the song Dancing in the Dark, he invited a young boy on stage to play guitar with him. Afterward, he surprised the boy by letting him keep the guitar. Fans everywhere rejoiced in the generosity of their hero, but like many stories, this one has a dark side…
Fifth in a series of “throwback” posts. This review was written in 1987, when the author was 17 years old, still in high school, and obsessed with movies.
…live.brucespringsteen.net released another classic show in its entirety: the famous New Year’s Eve concert at Nassau Coliseum, 1980. This marathon stood as his longest show for the next three decades – 38 songs in 3 hours, 48 minutes. (Many claim Springsteen used to perform 4-hour concerts all the time, but that mark wasn’t actually broken until Helsinki, 2012.) Arriving just six weeks after another New Year’s Eve show (Tower Theater, 1975), carefully mixed and mastered, this might be the first one from the vaults to be unanimously voted a must-have by fans.
Another movie you should see except it’s pretty boring is Still Alice, which is very realistic and exactly what happened when my uncle had alzeimers disease, which makes you forget things and people except things that happened to you a long time ago. Sometimes we need to see movies like this to understand things that other people go through in their lives. If you don’t want to see it which I totally understand maybe you can see a different movie but just go a little early and sneak in to see part of Still Alice, which is what I did. I think that is still o.k. because it’s not like the movie is selling out or anything.
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