Friends In Movies

I love movies. My movie knowledge is like a super power.

It's embarrassing because I would totally pick mind reading as a super power but instead I got

 Movie Knowledge

Anyway that was a weird and long way to say I like movies!

I will watch anything....action, horror, romance, comedy, thriller

I don't care for the overly gross slasher type films made strictly to shock

Buddy films and movies about friends are some of my favorites.

I love the line from Sleepless in Seattle when Meg Ryan's character and Rosie O'Donnell's character are talking and Meg Ryan says

"She looked like someone we would be friends with"

I love this line because I was thinking the same thing about Meg and Rosie's characters.....

they seemed like someone I would be friends with

Add it to my list of weird because I have on more then one occasion imagine myself inserted into a particular movie as the other friend

Don't even get me started on Sex in the City I would totally be a part of that group....

if I lived in New York, had a cool job, made lots of money and of course they were real

The friendship between Carrie and her friends is amazing....the scene where Charlotte stops Big from coming any closer to Carrie after he leaves her at the altar is so emotional and protective I cried.

The young girls in the movie Now and Then remind me so much of myself and my friends growing up

I could go on with this all day but I want to get to my "Blog Friend" of the day

Today I want to talk about Stacey over at http://wearnailpolish.blogspot.com/

Stacey is funny, irreverent and awesome

She has admitted to saying this that should not be said and this is what makes her blog a great read

You never know what Stacey is going to blog about....it could be running a marathon it could be nail polish that changes color with your mood. She has touched on serious subjects but mostly her blog is FUN!

We have done co posts which are great because we love to see the sameness and the differences in our choices.

In my real life Stacey is referred to as "My Best Blog Friend" or " BBF"

as in "I see you and your bbf did a joint post again"

If you are not already reading Stacey's blog I highly recommend you do!

So do you have a favorite friend based movie you would like to share? Or a BBF that maybe I am not yet following? If so let me know!!!!

Have a Tantalizing Tuesday!

Favorite Movie Quotes

Shhhh I probably shouldn't be blogging today....it's Good Friday and I should be respectfully quiet.

But I can't so don't tell okay?

When I was younger my parents used to make us come in from playing and sit quietly from 12 -3pm. During this time we were to pray and think about Jesus dying on the cross. Truthfully we were thinking about getting back outside to finish out game of Spring (tag but you could "spring" players captured by whoever was "it"). This may have also been a plan devised by my parents to get their 11 children to all be silent at the same time. Who knows.....

Anyway....

I wanted to do a post of my favorite quotes from movies. And then I promise to be quiet for the rest of the day.

One more thing these are in random order. 

And purely for fun they have no intellectual or moral integrity as you will soon find out.

"After all tomorrow is another day" -Scarlett O'Hara Gone With the Wind
    ****I like this quote so much I have it tattooed on my person.****

"A boys best friend is his mother" - Norman Bates Psycho 




"I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas'n Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?"
 - Lloyd Dobbs Say Anything


"Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with hot babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter." - Kip Napoleon Dynamite

"I just want them to know they didn't break me." - Andie Pretty in Pink


"I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a life time of nothing special." -Shelby Steel Magnolias

" I dream of  love that even time will lie down and be still for." - Sally Owens Practical Magic


"What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Maximus Gladiator


"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" 
-Narrator Stand by Me

"I am your number one fan. There is nothing to worry about. You are going to be just fine. I am your number one fan. " - Annie Wilkes Misery 


"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." - Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter (The Sorcerer's Stone)


"Why is it when something happens it is always you three?" 
- Professor McGonagall Harry Potter (Half Blood Prince)


"Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket." - Mikey The Goonies

Okay I will stop there I could do this all day....

Have a nice quiet Good Friday (or not I won't tell)

Childhood Friends

I was thinking about a question I read somewhere

I don't remember the exact wording but it was something like :

What book represents or reminds you of your childhood.

So here is a question I pose to you....

What Book (or movie) most represents your interaction with your childhood friends?

My answer is The Body (aka Stand By Me) for my book choice or Then and Now for my movie choice.

Why The Body?
To me the body was more then about the boys going out in search of the body of a dead neighborhood kid. It was about exceptance and adventure. It was about finding friends you could count on and being able to just be yourself.

Growing up I had two great friends Kathleen and Karen. They are sisters Kathleen my age and Karen one year younger then us. Their grandmother lived two houses away from the house I grew up in. Which is how we met Kathleen and I just toddlers thrown together by our mothers probably so they could have a minute to themselves. We ended up attending the same Catholic elementary school and our friendship grew within those walls during the winter months when we only saw each other during those school hours.

I picked this book because it is set in the summer and when we were growing up....

 the summers belonged to us!

Everything about us changed in the summer. We had no school worries. No thoughts of not fitting in. Our parents barely existed in our summer world. We were the queens of the neighborhood.

Summer Life was an adventure to be had and it seemed to stretch on forever.

Back then all we had was our imagination and we made up games, invented danger, drama and ways to scare ourselves. Behind the house Kathleen and Karen shared with their mother and five brothers and sisters was a tall stone wall. It rose at least ten feet high but back then it was like looking up at a sky scarper. Their house sat low on a hill so the top of that wall on the other side was only waist high. To access the other side of the wall you had to go down an alley between two houses.

We were not supposed to go there.

We were not supposed to sit on the wall.

We definitely were not supposed to slip over the wall and climb down into their backyard.

But we did

And we always got caught...a ratting sibling...a big mouthed neighbor....

Like The Body our adventures involved camping out.

We lived in the city so we slept in sleeping bags on small patches of backyard grass or laid across wooden front porches. Also like The Body my older brother made it his goal to torment us as much as possible without getting caught by my mother.

We were inseparable. We were the keepers of each others deepest secrets and darkest fears.

 I never felt left out by not being their sister.

Our story doesn't involve the discovery of a dead body

Although we did think we killed my little brother once

We blamed Karen

Every summer we found ourselves. We were brave, smart and funny. Slowly we started to carry that confidence into the school year. And when we forgot we had each other to help us remember.

The Body ends with with the friends going their separate ways and sadly all but Gordy die young.

Our story ends happier

We all have families now and although we don't see each other very often we can still count on each other

 They were both there for me when my Dad died 14 years ago.

And I hope they felt my love and support when their Mom died last May.

My children know their names and have heard the stories of our adventures.

We are legends if only in my own mind!

So how about you?