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I watched a lot of movies over the Memorial Day weekend. Whenever someone asks me what I've seen lately, I always draw a blank, so I'm recording them here for posterity.
The Aristocrats
Brick
Domino
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jarhead
The Matador
I think I'm forgetting one or two others. Oh, I also watched about a third of She's The Man, which was "inspired by" Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but I'm not actually familiar with that play and the movie didn't hold up on its own, so I gave up.
I also watched a documentary about Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, which was well done but very sad. What finally made me tear up was when they showed Roger Waters playing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" live, which is weird because I've heard the song many times before (and knew it was about Syd), but the lyric "Remember when you were young/You shone like the sun" just got to me for some reason. I hadn't really realized before that "Brain Damage" and parts of The Wall were also about Syd (particularly in the movie when Pink shaves off his eyebrows), and just how much of an impact Syd's crack-up had on Roger (they were childhood friends). I then watched a documentary about the making of Dark Side of the Moon, which was also well done and fascinating, and I teared up again when they were playing just the vocal track for "The Great Gig in the Sky".
The Aristocrats
Brick
Domino
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jarhead
The Matador
I think I'm forgetting one or two others. Oh, I also watched about a third of She's The Man, which was "inspired by" Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but I'm not actually familiar with that play and the movie didn't hold up on its own, so I gave up.
I also watched a documentary about Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, which was well done but very sad. What finally made me tear up was when they showed Roger Waters playing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" live, which is weird because I've heard the song many times before (and knew it was about Syd), but the lyric "Remember when you were young/You shone like the sun" just got to me for some reason. I hadn't really realized before that "Brain Damage" and parts of The Wall were also about Syd (particularly in the movie when Pink shaves off his eyebrows), and just how much of an impact Syd's crack-up had on Roger (they were childhood friends). I then watched a documentary about the making of Dark Side of the Moon, which was also well done and fascinating, and I teared up again when they were playing just the vocal track for "The Great Gig in the Sky".