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There’s something about a Cameron Crowe movie that makes me feel really optimistic about life.

I’d like to live in a Cameron Crowe movie.

Can somebody make that happen?

We saw “Casablanca” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” as a double feature at the Music Box Theatre a couple of Valentine’s Days ago.

::side note: They have GREAT butter on their popcorn::

It was absolutely DIVINE. My two favorite films (in that order) on the big screen in an old-Hollywood-esque theatre? How happy was I?

John Malkovich is signing autographs for a homeless man & a guy in a wheelchair.

True story.

The guy in the wheelchair is yelling “Oh my God!” repeatedly.

The homeless man suddenly & excitedly asks, “Why you walkin’ ‘round Chicago all by ya’self? You ain’ got no people witcha. These are the streets of Chicago! Why you walkin’ ‘round all by y’self?”

1. If you come late, don’t stand there, talking, for five minutes while you situate yourself. Some people actually *enjoy* the previews.

2. One can generally feel when the soda cup is soon to be emptied. Therefore, suckle a little less as to decrease the chances of slurping.

3. No one in the theatre came to hear you talk. Not even the person sitting nex to you. So don’t.

Well worth the $9.25 I spent when I saw it.

& guess what? Even though the people at Piper’s Alley thought that they all had to smoosh together to watch the movie when there were rows & rows of seats available outside of the center row/center aisle, people were generally, I would say A-!

So I didn’t have to sigh heavily whilst people were rude, which is nice.

Why A-?

My dear, sweet ex-roommate whom I absolutely adore, came upon some special advanced screening tickets to a film. It’s pretty much a given that the first person we ask is each other when we get these things, being the movie buffs that we are. We’ve been to quite a few together, so it came as no surprise when she asked me to go tonight.

On The Drive every morning, DJ Bob Stroud has this thing called “10 at 10.” He picks a year & plays -oh you guessed it- ten songs from that year at -oh you guessed it- ten in the morning. Tuesday morning, the year was 1970.

*spoiler alert*

A new friend of mine insisted we watch “Rocky Balboa” the other day on DVD. He loved it & told me that if I didn’t, he’d watch any three movies of my choosing. If I did love it, I had to write about it on my blog. Well, I like to write & I like films, so I wrote about it regardless.

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