Oh, I’m not here with these fellas. * July 20, 2006
It all started with a few myspace comments. A couple of other fanatics left quotes on my page. It was in my head.
I tried to rent it, but Blockbuster didn’t have it. We’d cancelled Netflix, so I couldn’t get it there. I went to Target, but they don’t sell it. I was going crazy.
I had to drive across town to Best Buy. The urge was too strong. I had to see it.
Finally, last night, after weeks of frustration, I got to watch it.
People, I love this movie so much. SO MUCH. I’d actually forgotten how much I love it… until I put it in the DVD player. Several times I found myself just sitting there grinning like an idiot. There may have been dancing. That stupid movie brings me so much joy.
I love it when they play at Villapiano’s and their fan precedes them. I love the man in the really nice camper. I love it when they hear their song on the radio for the first time and they’re all dancing in the store. I love it when they play in Illionois on the giant record and Lenny sings lead and Tom Hanks does the fist pull and the head bob. I love Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. I love it when Lenny gets married, and TB Player goes to Disneyland, and Guy gets to meet Del Paxton. I love it all.
It’s a movie that means a lot to me. It’s tied to a lot of good memories and a genuinely joyful time in my life, and every time they play the song in the movie (which, admittedly, is an awful lot), it makes me happy. When it ended I wanted to start it right back up again. (I didn’t, but I probably will watch it again this weekend.)
I. LOVE. IT.
*I’ve got a pig in competition down at the livestock pavilion, and I am going to WIN THAT BLUE RIBBON.
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i love that i have a vivid and joyous memory of every single vignette you mentioned and i love that i can no longer watch this movie with people who haven’t seen it because i quote the ENTIRE thing.
and i love that i called your sister 2 weeks ago from chicago because i saw a license plate that said “Illinois: Land of Lincoln” and she was SO excited.
“i want something peppy, something happy, something uptempo, something snappy…”
(p.s. if you get in another bind like that, call me. i’ve got it on dvd.
This is one of my family’s favorite movies too – SO FUN.
I often quote the part where Jimmy says, “You want something snappy? Iiiiii quit! I quit! I quit!”
And the end – swoon.
The IL state fair is here in about a month – you should come!
It cracks me up that you didn’t own the movie until now…You have way more will-power than I do. When I love a movie enough that I would write in capital letters about it, I buy it almost immediately. I’ve only seen that movie once and I don’t think I even got to see the whole thing when I watched it!
I think it might have fallen out of my brain for a while. I had the VHS in high school, but never got around to replacing it with the DVD. The all of a sudden that movie was in my head and I had to have it!
Oh how I love this movie! We should be close friends.
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-the land of Lincoln.
- “I’m reluctant to sign anything that has to do with my music” “are you kidding? a man in a really nice camper wants to put our song on the radio…I’m signin’, you’re signin’, we’re all signin’”
-hey Guy! Weren’t you the drummer for the tempos?”
-Does chad get a solo on wipe out? every song’s wipe out to chad.
-Chad fell down
-(sniff, sniff) I’ll have another one of these with no straw.
I could do this all day…someone stop me.
Excellent.
i don’t know what it is about that movie, but i honestly think that everyone who has ever seen it can quote at least one line from it because it is just that good.
as julie pointed out earlier that movie has so much meaning for us and it cracks me up that most of our life, or at least our jr. and sr. years in high school, come flashing back to us when we remember it.
way to go tom hanks… job well done
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