Sno-thing to do

     We had lots to do and sno-thing to do this weekend in NYC under a foot of snow, except chill indoors instead of being chilly outdoors, unless you were into the whole play in the snow or I have to dig out my car bits. Besides enjoying reading and music and ticking of items on to do lists it was a great weekend for a Family Film-Pick Film Fest. Scan the cable listings, instant queue your Netflix, arm yourselves with DVD's from the library, Blockbuster or local video store, check your shelves for old favorites, plan the sequence of play, get the popcorn ready, plant your keister down and enjoy the show.

     We watched umpteen movies and shows on Netflix and DVD: The Ugly Truth, Gossip, With Nail and I, Darkness Falls, Serendipity, South Park Season III, Cherished, Fired Up!, Ping Pong Playa, Martian Child, Rocket Science...

Movie Bite: 
Rocket Science (2007)

Hal played by Reece Thompson (right) with his mother's Korean Judge boyfriend's son Heston played by Aaron Yoo (left)

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Two families from contrasting cultural backgrounds in Plainsboro, New Jersey are joined temporarily in the midst of Hal's soul mate, soul searching odyssey, to rise and fall and rise again from their miseries.
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     Rocket Science is a great coming of age flick written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, about a stuttering teen named Hal whose life is cha cha changed when a beauty named Ginny ferrets his talent out for the debating team. In his journey of self discovery and realization Hal learns about the meaning of passion, determination, loyalty, expectations, acceptance, family, friendship, girls and women, the difference between love and lusting, kissing, the Kama Sutra, broken cellos and glass windows, becoming a man and more.

     The dialogue was rich and subtly injected with pearly words of wisdom. Among some notable quotes: "All we have are Sloppy Joes, but they aren't so terrible if you haven't had them before." "The fights you fight today are the fights you fight to the day you die." And my favorite, "Deformed people are the best perhaps because they have a deep resource of anger to draw upon." All true if you really think about it. What spurs one to push to succeed, to change, to better oneself and ones situation if one is content with things as they are.

     As children we can pretend to be superhero's like Flash Gordon, but you can do that only so long, as Hal is told, "You can only pretend as long as you can until the forces of be take that away from you." You don't have to be a rocket scientist like Einstein to be successful. How often we all forget to just be ourselves. Just be.

Great soundtracks:

"Blister In The Sun," "Kiss Off" - Violet Femmes

"Blister In The Sun"- Sam Matthews and Houfei Yang

"The Blob"- Guy Klucevsek and David Garland

"Fight Song Melodies," "Promise of Love," "Do You Love Me?"

"Failed to Open" and more by Eef Barzelay

Score Clem Snide

Rocket Science Soundtrack