SHUT UP and go to the MOVIES already.

I had a grand plan tonight to write about sports.  I watched football all Saturday and was reminded about the beauty of sports, and I just couldn't wait to write about it.  But tonight I am really tired having just lived a very long day and I don't think I would do what I wanted to say justice.  So I'll leave that for tomorrow perhaps or sometime later this week when I can really express what I feel about the subject.

So you will have to take this small taste of the ongoing subject that I always seem to reference on this damn thing.  And that of course is....You guessed it, MOVIES!!!  So here is the thing.  I know that people think that movies are slowly but surely dying and with streaming and red box and all the other ways to get it fast and get it quick people just don't want to go out to a movie house and watch a picture show.

Movies seem to be going and going fast.  I mean with your Kardashians that we have to keep up with, and the Duck Dynasty, and the Dancing with the People who won't give up their 15 minutes, and all the other reality TV that we all love to watch it's no wonder why they are fading.  And not to mention the streaming where we all go to binge watch our favorite programs or the shows that we've all heard about but never could get into, but now we want to be a part of that office discussion.  I'm talking about you... Walking Dead, Scandal, Orange is the New Black.  And I'm saying all this because I really do think that it's a shame that more people out there are worried about if Olivia Pope is gonna finally get with Fitz than have seen a movie like 12 Years a Slave, or About Time, or Dallas Buyers Club. 

And the thing is that I'm just as guilty as all of you when it comes to this.  I'm not here to point a finger, well I guess I am but at least I'll point it at myself as well.  Because the truth is that it's not okay.  It's not okay to care more about these than some of the great cinema that is out today.  It's just not. Because as a friend of mine always tells me these shows give you that cheap and predictable thrill that you know at this point in the episode X is going to happen, and that they are going to leave you hanging so you have to stay tuned for next week, or next month, or next year.

A movie gives you 2 hours to get it right, and then it's gone, but when it's done right it can stay with you for a lifetime.  Which is why at the age of 28 I still find myself writing down, "Do or do not; There is no try."  or that a personal motto of mine is "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'". 

And I know that every couple of months I write about movies and how great they are and blah, blah, blah.  And if I sound like I'm over the top, it's just because I'm really passionate about it.  This weekend for instance I saw two of the best movies I've seen this year, and I cried in both of them for completely different reasons but they both moved me in a way that made me feel great about being alive.  

Inside Llewyn Davis was, well what I thought to be a beautiful love note to folk music and that time period when it was alive and just starting out.  It was touching, and funny, and dark, and complex, and beautiful all at the same time.  And then tonight after a shit day of classic Brandon Ponder fuck ups I got to sit down and watch a quite little powerhouse of a movie really in Nebraska.  With a score that is still ringing in my head hours after I watched the movie.  And this portrait of a life that I know oh too well because I in some since have lived it or people very close to me have or are living it.  And that made me stop and think about the lives of my parents.  The lives they had before me, the lives they lived as I grew up, and even now the lives they continue to live while I'm hundreds of miles away.  

And I don't get these feeling from watching TV.  I don't get this electricity that makes me want to say up and write even when I'm dead tired after watching a TV show that I love.  So just do something for me this week.  Go to a movie. Take your wife, your husband, your best friend, your girlfriend, your mother, your father, your son, your daughter, your brother or sister, hell just take yourself.  Sit in that dark room  with popcorn and a drink and just get lost in a story.  And after it's all said and done, talk to someone about it.  Why you liked it, why you hated it, if it changed your view on the world, or if it reminded you of something from your past.  I dare you to do that, and I promise you'll feel a whole hell of a lot better about everything.