Robin Hood: Prince of Leaves
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00:27 Thursday, 13 January, 2005
Endwell, NY


I watched Robin Hood with my Dad tonight on DVD. He'd gotten it from Hawk for Christmas. I like Robin Hood. It's a good movie. I've seen it, like, a dozen times, but the last time must have been years ago, because there's a lot of it that I just hadn't caught on to before. Like, I feel like I understand the story much more deeply than when I was a kid. It almost made me wonder at how I followed the story at all the previous eleven times I'd watched it, for the number of times tonight that I said to myself, Oh, now I get it. I guess it was just an exciting story, even if I didn't truly understand, for instance, why Robin and the Sheriff hated each other. It didn't really matter. They always have, from even before the movie started playing (because of Robin Hood lore and the Disney movie and all that), so I probably didn't care how the movie went about establishing their relationship, I just wanted to see them kill each other.

Anyway, I saw the wedding scene and I was like, Wow, that's what I want my wedding to be like. In the woods with leaves all around and earthy colors and none of that big, huge, white, flowery, candley stuff. Marian had this beautiful head-thing made of leaves and flowers, like you see in old pictures of Saint Nick or whatever. It's probably all pagan in origin, but I don't care. It's beautiful. And everyone was dressed in their nicest clothes, but that didn't involve dresses and suits, it was just the earthy clothes they owned, just clean and tidy. I liked that. I don't like what people 'dress up' in these days. I mean, I never had the opportunity to think of 'dressing up' in any other way, but this setting provided so much more life and color and closeness. Guys' suits are (probably by design) ridiculously boring. And women's dresses, though beautiful, are almost always a single color, which is boring. I don't know. It just looked nice. I'll have to watch it again and analyze more of what made me like it; these are just the things that stick in my mind now. I just remember instantly liking it and wanting MY wedding to be like that, and I'm just trying now to figure out why. But I really don't need to worry much about it until I find someone who wants to marry me in such a fashion, anyway.


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Swing Kids
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23:20 Thursday, 06 January, 2005
Endwell, NY

Have you ever seen the movie Swing Kids? If you haven't, you should. It's amazing. It's about these kids in Nazi Germany, and one of the things that was purged was swing music, because many of the artists were black or Jewish. But the kids loved it, and went underground to listen to it, because the 30's and 40's were truly the best years for big band swing, and its energy was unstoppable. Anyway, parts of the movie were depressing and stuff, cause it's a drama about war and stuff. I've got the sound-track on CD and am listening to it now. It's got some amazing swing on it, but the tracks are in chronological order with the movie, and includes the film score, which is the non-swing background music. Some of these pieces are appropriately depressing, and listening to it becomes an emotional roller-coaster. It's in the back-ground for me, so I don't consciously notice it, but I'll be happily bopping along to the swing, and then a film-score piece will come on, and I'll start feeling my heart wrench and stuff, and I have to change tracks on the disc. It's kinda funny.


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