Happy New Year indieWire folk! I am a bad blogger. I still think it is a few days after New Year's, but in reality I leave for Sundance on Thursday and haven't blogged in at least a month. Sometimes my best intentions just don't get me to the keyboard. My new year celebration was truly a unique one. I went to a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland called Rock Hall. Instead of dropping the ball a la Times Square, they drop a rockfish from a 100 foot crane. They also have a crazy hat parade that lasts for 5 minutes down the 2 block long Main Street. The winning hat was a mock duck blind. I loved it.
For years I have refused to make New Years resolutions, but I will slightly break the rule and share some 2006 musical enlightenment. I was home alone watching HBO a few weeks ago and I happened to tune in just in time for the opening scene of FOOTLOOSE. Something took hold and before I knew it, I was bopping around in my living room and tapping my toes like the c/u foot shots in that scene. I hadn't felt that kind of pure unadulterated joy since I got my first slim, sleek, Sony walkman from Santa in the early 80's. Perhaps it is an ipod commercial in the making, but I had seriously forgotten the joy of musical discovery, which is what I felt back in the day, bopping around the neighborhood playing 'Let's Hear It For the Boy'. I made a pledge to myself to load some tunes into that newly acquired ipod and try to go back to my roots, which may also involve dusting off the vinyl collection and even fixing the belt on my 8-track. I hope some people reading this may be inspired to dust off whatever cd, tape or record made you get silly in yesteryear and press play again. Indulging in guilty pleasures is a resolution worth sticking to.
P.S. The Xanadu soundtrack is numero uno on the guilty pleasures list. I wonder if that is even available on Itunes? They are light on the soundtrack selections.
P.P.S. I cannot believe I just confessed my Footloose dancing to the indieWire community.
P.P.P.S. Happy Birthday Amy Dotson - one of my Silverdocs partners in crime! :)