12.06.2021

MONDAY MEDITATIONS : 12/05/2021


The majority of people, if they look to a specific calendar day to make personal changes, set goals, forgive themselves, and let go of the past, use New Year's Eve. But I do this every year on my birthday. And this time around the sun has left me with a whopper of a list. Both from very personal and artistic standpoints. 

I have never hated movies more. We're talking bottom of the barrel, smelly garbage water, stinky fucking bullshit. So forget you, Covid future film world. I am returning to the Golden Age of Cinema. A fantastic trend has occurred, and that is, that all of the finest classics are being remastered and re-released, for permenent home pleasure. Yes, I am saddened by the loss of the movie theater experience, but I am gaining a giant film library that I can share with my family forever. I know I said a lot there and I will delve more into the emotional weight of these changes at a different time. 

So this year I will be spending my new job monies on boutique blu ray blind buys (say it, it's fun),  hopefully making more than one pilgrimage to The Archive store in Connecticut, and amassing a mighty loot at a future horror movie con. Oh yeah, and this is Christmas. We get the shit. 

- Babes


1. "There's Always Tomorrow" by Janis Orenstein

2. "Christmas" by The Who

3. "Christmas Canon" by Trans Siberian Orchestra

4. "2000 Miles" by The Pretenders

5. "Christmas Wrapping 2020 (All I Want for Christmas is a Vaccine)" by HAIM

6. "All Alone on Christmas" by Darlene Love

7. "December Will Be Magic Again" by Kate Bush

8. "I Like Life" (Reprise) by Albert Finney

9. "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" by Vince Guaraldi Trio

10. "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole

1 comment:

Dan The Movie Man said...

I tend to do my resolutions for my Birthday too! And one of my next planned ones sounds remarkably like yours here. Aside from joining a friend or family member, or if a classic's screening anywhere, the chances of me going to the cinemas of my own accord should diminish greatly. While purchasing DVDs and Blu-Rays (typically of things from the past) should increase. Or remain the same.