Last night Handy Man and I had one of those rare times when we had the house to ourselves. It happens only a few times a year. Usually we have a house full, especially on the weekends when the kids have friends over.
What did we do to take advantage of our time?! We watched my favorite movie of all time, Almost Famous. This is my go to movie when I'm feeling down, not that I was feeling down last night, but I had listened to the soundtrack earlier in the day and as it was playing I mentioned to Handy Man we should watch the movie.
After the movie we spent 2 hours listening to songs on vinyl from our younger years, very loudly! We listened to Styx, The Knack, Michael Jackson, Joan Jett, Journey, The Cars and others. We had a blast!
One of the best scenes using music in a movie ever...
Almost Famous was written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It's a semi-autobiographical account of his time writing articles for Rolling Stone as a 15 year old kid. It's a great story and if you love music you will love this movie.
Cameron Crowe has been involved in a few other movies you might have heard of, Jerry McGuire, Singles, Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (his first movie), Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown.
What does this have to do with Pearl Jam you ask?! Cameron Crowe produced a Pearl Jam project called Single Video Theory which chronicles the making/rehearsing of Pearl Jam's 1998 album, Yield.
Cameron Crowe is hard at work making a Pearl Jam documentary, due to be released in 2011, in celebration of their 20 year anniversary. I can't wait!
Love it -- both videos! Eddie et al are so darn YOUNG! Makes me want to be a Ten Club member again. Do they still give out vinyl 45s to members at Christmas?
Your reminiscences warm my heart. I love reading your posts.
Posted by: Lisa | November 15, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Almost Famous is one of my favorite movies!
When our daughter first moved to L.A. she worked for the music company that kid's sister runs in Hollywood called Primal Scream Music.
Everything Cameron Crowe does is wonderful!!
Posted by: Liz C. | November 15, 2009 at 10:13 AM
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Thats very cool! And I completely agree about Cameron Crowe, hes brilliant!
Posted by: Tammy | November 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM
A phenomenal movie and he's from my hometown!
Posted by: Jenn @ Juggling Life | November 16, 2009 at 07:18 PM