Love that movie. One of those that I could watch anytime.
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yes, one of my favorite movies. (maybe top 5? 
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I like it more than the book. The book is good, and there’s a few bits that were cut out from the movie that I like, but the movie softens a couple of the characters just enough.
Like, the whole point of the story is that Rob is kind of an a**hole (who is getting better), but book Rob is definitely worse, and I like that the edges were filed off a bit for the movie character. Barry too, though maybe it’s just that Jack Black is awesome enough to make the character better that way.
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Jack Black is brilliant in the movie. The scene near the end, when we finally see his band, is awesome. Love Cusack’s reaction.
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Speaking of actors with excellent annoyed/frustrated faces, John Cleese is certainly a master.
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I heard the great actress Maggie Smith passed away recently. I think it was yesterday. I know and appreciated her work mostly from her role in Harry Potter as Professor McGonagal and The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie.
Maggie Smith played the school teacher Jean Brodie at an all girls school, Marcia Blaine in Edinburgh. She is dismissed for straying from the curriculum and influencing her students with radical views & fascist politics. One of my favourite movie scenes with Maggie Smith, the confrontation between Jean Brodie and one of her students Sandy, also brilliantly played by Pamela Franklin.
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On this day 5th of October 2012, Tame Impala released their second album Lonerism. One my fav TI songs, “Keep On Lying” wasn’t a single from the album, but rather a hidden gem.
So I watched this again the other day and it occurred to me that it’s a perfect allegory/accompanying tale for We Are Hope Despite The Times (bear with me but I never understood why it was the movie that “ruined Kevin Costner’s career”- I loved it at the cinema in 1995).Dennis Hopper is great (and gets so many wonderful lines- “Lets not get ahead of ourselves” “Don’t just stand there kill something”) his boat which sinks is the Exxon Valdez (!) and Kevin Costner is all “actions speak louder than words”.
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Jonathon brought to my attention on facebook, released 50 years ago, 24th February 1975, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, one of my favourite records. I first bought this album on cassette, I had a radio with cassette player, didn’t own a record player until my late teens.
One of the tracks I really love. “Night Flight”
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Over the 3 day Easter weekend I spend with family & visiting or calling relatives I don’t get a chance or make enough time to catch up with otherwise. Not sure why this is, I don’t know, life gets busy. What I love about festive religious days is how it can bring people together, hopefully in a good way. The TV channels here usually screen the epic religious movies over Christmas & Easter. I really love this scene from the musical movie Godspell, indeed, God save the people. Happy Easter.
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R.I.P. Brian Wilson. A true musical visionary. Pet Sounds is an all time classic, and songs like Good Vibrations and God Only Knows will be spoken about a lot in the coming days. (And rightly so.) But this slice of pop perfection is my favourite of his. Thanks for music, Brian.
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