Girls Just Want To Have Fun

"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" always makes me think of Amy, Susan, Thea and Becca (in "poster" order). We love that song, we love that movie, and we love that poster (below). We always try to recreate the poster when we're together, but we always forget a few key details. (Example: everyone but me should be wearing sunglasses -- but for some reason I always think only Becca should be wearing sunglasses.) The gist is always there, though.

Our most recent version of this picture was taken this Christmas. Makes me happy.
Now on to the movie ...

So I read yesterday that they're planning to do a remake of the movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun.

#1) I'm not ok with this. The original version was glorious perfection.

#2) I will be slightly more ok with this if I can be an extra in the movie.

Everything about this movie is greatness to me ... the clothes, the hair, the dialogue and the dancing. Lines such as ... "Decisions are the worst" (which I repeat often) and "Velcro -- next to the walkman and TAB it is the coolest invention of the 20th century."

Watch the trailer and enjoy. They don't make 'em like this anymore. (This rivals the Teen Wolf trailer in terms of ridiculousness, but don't let that fool you. You'll still be hooked.)

We Are Family

Today is my grandmother's 84th birthday. Happy Birthday Bobo!!!

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Ale and I went to see Every Little Step tonight at the Angelika. Loved it, loved it, loved it. If you haven't seen it or heard of it, it's a documentary about the casting for the 2005 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line.

I'm a fan of A Chorus Line. My dad took me to see it one summer at Fair Park when I was in junior high or high school, and then we saw Pearce HS's production of it our junior year (I think). Incidentally, I am convinced that I remember Jessica Simpson being in that production. I'll verify w/ Scott.

Here's the trailer for Every Little Step. Go see it.

Where Does the Good Go

I could, and frequently do, listen to "Where Does the Good Go" (by Tegan and Sara) on repeat. There's something about it that I love, and I'm determined to find a way to include it in a screenplay.

I've had bits and pieces for two screenplays floating around in my head for the past two years, and I recently wrote out the opening montage for one of them. I was pretty pleased with it, but I had a nervous feeling that a similar scene already existed. So after some research tonight, I realized I had basically just recreated a pivotal scene from Elizabethtown. Heartbreak. 

It's an interesting feeling to have your mind craft a story you feel you need to tell, but you don't really know how it begins or ends. You also have no idea if anyone would care enough to read a book or see a movie about it.

I need some inspiration, and I would like for that to come in the form of a dinner with Aaron Sorkin and Diablo Cody. So if you're looking ahead and trying to figure out what to get me for my 30th birthday, please try to go ahead and hook that up.