MOVIE FREAK

[red]

I slept late last night because of watching that movie Zero DArk Thirty. I rented it thought my husband would like CIA/Iraq, Pakistan, Afgha/Al Quaida Bin laden kind of movies. He liked it but slept on it It is a very interesting one. I got another movie to catch up but i think i prefer to sleep more tonight. he he.....

[Edwin]

Yes, Red, there comes a point when you have to decide if you want more pleasure, or if you need more rest? Also there comes a point when you really don't have much choice because you get so tired. Often you have a better time after you are rested, so sleep and rest are needed! So, I think you made the right choice! I understand your husband sleeping while the movie is playing. That happens to me on a regular basis, and Carol says, "Turn the movie off and sleep; I don't want to have to rewind it and watch the earlier parts because you were sleeping." Sometimes it is a temporary things, and after dozing a minute I am wide awake! Other times I really am tired and sleep, and the best solution is to sleep a while. I never lay down during the day because I don't want to sleep a long time, so if I sleep in a chair I will wake up sooner, and then still be able to sleep at night, which I prefer. Especially during the last few months after working so hard on the cellar, I fall asleep driving also, so our youngest daughter tries to help me drive whenever she is able.

Anyway presently we are watching "Fools Rush In," which Jeffry Lyons, WNVC-TV, says is "One of the most endearing, delightful love stories in years!" Jeffrey Lyons is no longer with us, but perhaps what he wrote might mean something. We have just barely started watching this movie, so time will tell.

[Edwin]

I think "Fools Rush In" would have been a fun movie to have watched, but in the first part of the movie the Lord's name was wrongly used, so we shut it right down, and we won't be watching that movie! I wish we could have watched it, because I think it might have been a fun movie. We had a friend who had a machine that took out bad words so that they didn't have to listen to them. We watched "Golden Christmas, A tail of Puppy Love," and it was a very good romantic feel good movie. I would recommend it. We also watched "Crooked Arrows," which was an American Indian story about them playing lacrosse as part of their history. This movie was very well done, and I would recommend it!

[Edwin]

The last place we lived before we moved here, I was in two musical groups. I played my trombone with an orchestra, but most of the others were stringed instruments, accordions, guitars, manelins, vibraharps, violins, and my bass trombone with the large bore and 10 inch bell was overwhelming for the group. Finally the leader asked me if I had a mute?! Yes, I had a mute, but muting a trombone destroys the effectiveness of the music, the tone, and so on. Well, I did use my mute, because without it my trombone was the only instrument that could be heard! Carol and I also sang with a little musical group there. She sang alto and I sang tenor. The music director sat me beside the school teacher, because although he was brilliant teach who won national awards and teachers all over the country come to his classroom to learn how to be an effective school teacher, he was lacking in the music department. He had a beautiful and full bass voice, but he couldn't read music, and even after he learned it he was lucky if he sang if correctly. They sat me beside him, because I could read the music, then he would follow my lead and everything was cool, and we had a great sounding musical choir/chorus. We sang some Christian music, negro spirituals as well as popular music from the 50s and 60s when I grew up. One song we sang was the theme to the movie, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou." I had a solo part in that, and the director's husband was really impressed with my tone and singing ability on that solo, and said he just loved to hear me. That was one of only two compliment I ever got from my singing voice/ability. The other from from an elementary school teacher who heard me singing to elementary school children. Anyway, I found a church hymn/song that has the same identical music as the theme music for that movie. Carol recognized that right away when she heard me play it on the piano! So much fun!!!!

[Edwin]

We enjoyed watching the Western Movies, except for a couple that had language using the Lord's name in vain, and we skipped those. There were about 20 of them, and we watched most of them. Some of them had familiar people in them, some I recognized their faces but couldn't remember their names. Others were John Wayne, Freddy Fender, who is a Mexican musician, and Dale Evans to name a few. They were fun to watch!

[Edwin]

We watched the very last movie of Ma and Pa Kettle. They had to replace Pa with another actor, which was not the same, and many people don't like that movie, but I think Marjory Main makes the movie great. She was a preacher's daughter, and to keep from marring his good name, she changed her name when she went into acting. I liked the movie though with the continuation of Pa being the lazy do nothing husband and father, with all that humor, to the 15 kids they had in their family. I you get a chance to watch any of these Ma and Pa Kettle movies you would enjoy the humor!

[Edwin]

We are now watching "Where the Red Fern Grows." This is a very good movie about a boy who grew up on the 1930s and 40s. He was interested in coon hunting. He saved his money working at odd jobs until he had enough money to buy 2 coon hunting dogs that were little puppies. The first movie goes to a point in which one of his dogs is killed defending the boy against a mountain lion/cougar. The female companion to that dog died of a broken heart missing its mate. Now we are on the second part which has the boy grown, and his grandfather just died. It was also a very good ending where the boy was grown, injured in the WWII, moved off to Los Angeles, California after giving his dog away to another boy. It is a very good story!

[red]

It is a relaxing day for us so we watched couple of movies The Call and Abraham Lincoln: the vampire hunter. I wonder if it is true that Lincoln was a vampire hunter. lol
The Call movie is a thriller one it was my first time to see my husband so thrilled that it move him off the couch ha ha ha ha.... I like the way Halle Berry's acting it is very effective. Anyway, it was fun me and my girls had some screams..i did let them play at first half of the movie but later part the girls can't help but joined us and curious of what is going on in the movie.

[Edwin]

Red, I also enjoy Halley Berry's acting. I don't know about Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunter! That sounds far fetched! We watched this evening "Mr Imporium." This movie had Debbie Reynolds, and Marjorie Maine, two great actresses! It was a story of a movie star that was in Itally, and the son of the King fell in love with her. After his father the king died, he became the king and did not see his lover for 12 years. When he met with her in Beverly Hills, California, he was going to act the part of a King who fell in love with a girl. He was prepared to renounce his throne to stay with his girl, but his son was leaving England to do his duty as a 17 year old boy, so he got on an airplane provided by the US government, told her that he would see her later, flew off to make his speech to his people and continue ruling in Itally. This movie makes you wonder whatever happened next?

[Edwin]

Red that is wonderful that your family can have so much fun watching a movie or movies, and your husband can end up off the couch because he is so happy! Then your kids get into it also, and it is fun for everyone in your family. I used to be a television addict, but I got weaned off from television. We still enjoyed watching movies sometimes, but I kind of even lost interest in watching movies. I played the piano all except for when Carol and our granddaughter were watching movies. After she went to stay with her aunt Carol wanted me to watch movies with her, so that is one thing that we can both enjoy doing together. So, Carol and I are still watching movies together and enjoying that. We spend a lot of time doing it, and it seems sometimes a waste, but anything that helps you to relax and gives you some joy is worth a lot!