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Jan 3 2012

The Crying Game.

Its been awhile since we’ve done The Crying Game.  Initially I said I was going to keep up with everything that makes me cry and then share all of the ridiculousness at the end of each month.  But it was just too much.  So I think I’ll just pop in every once in a while and say.

This one gets me every single time.

The parade scene in Ferris Buellers Day Off.  Most specifically the part when Ferris “performs” Twist and Shout by The Beatles

It even just made me cry when I watched it on youtube to find it for this blog post….

I don’t know what it is about it.  I guess its probably a bunch of little things.

Seeing a Beatles song being “performed” in front of an audience?

Knowing that a lot of the footage was just of real Chicago citizens who showed up for the real parade that went through the streets just before this movie one came trailing behind it and really reacted in such a raucous way – singing and dancing along?  (why yes I am a commentary – making of biography-special features watching nerd)

Seeing so many different ages and cultures singing and dancing along to the same rock n roll song?  (I guess it also helps that it is The Beatles)


Sep 29 2009

FINALLY!

beatlesWe finally got The Beatles Rock Band!  I have been having a dang good time with the husband.  Its great to watch and play, and will be good for younger generations who don’t know anything about them.  There is a guy that I work with that is only about four or five years younger than me yet he claims that people from younger generations (even that little amount of time) don’t know who The Beatles are really unless they are “huge old music fans”.  The only songs he knew were Let It Be and Yellow Submarine.  Kids these days!