Thursday, July 5, 2012
We Interrupt Your Scheduled Programming...
...to announce that there will be no What The F!#& Should I Read Friday this week because tomorrow I will be on a plane and not Writing About Books as I would prefer to be. But Jericha, I hear you say, you could just write the post RIGHT NOW and SCHEDULE it for tomorrow! Well yes, technically, but I am typing this in a tiny hippie cafe in the middle of nowhere, Vermont, population 83, and I'm about to go hike up a mountain to say goodbye to New England in properly dramatic form and therefore feel excused from doing anything that might be considered productive today. So instead I'm going to give you a slice of one of the world's greatest and weirdest movies to check out, and you'll just have to be happy with that. Did you know Dr Seuss wrote a movie? Because he totally did, and it's about a evil piano teacher and it scared the holy bajeezus out of me when I was about four and it is ALL OF THE AWESOME. Also, weird but true? The kid in this movie? I was way close to his grandson back in high school and had NO IDEA until one random day when I mentioned the movie and said grandson was like "oh yeah, that was my grandpa." Which remains, in my mind, utterly fabulous and interesting although it's probably more like me saying "guys guys guess what I totally listened to that one song before it was famous!" whereupon everybody gives a total absence of flying f!#&s. Regardless, this movie is AH MAY ZING and also it is a musical. So here it is. go find the whole thing because it is EVEN BETTER and weirder and more Seussian. I will write to you again from the other side of the country!
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Have a good flight! Keep your wings on.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest thing about my ideal house, by the way, is that it would be mostly underground with a living roof. I love the living roof at the Academy of Science, and I want one. There are some other things, too, but that's the huge one.
Yes! Underground with a living roof FTW! That's definitely on my list of Stuff To Learn How To Build.
DeleteI have ideas on how to get sunshine in, but I'm not really sure if they'd work. But it's what I want. With a garden right on top of my house.
DeleteI'll check it out. Totally didn't know Dr. Seuss wrote a movie. That's really interesting. Thanks for posting! :D
ReplyDeleteIt really is amazingly Seussian, too. There's a whole dungeon full of musicians, for one thing, all of whom play Seuss instruments. And a pair of roller-skating twins connected by their beard. And a giant pickle juice machine. And that's just the first three things that come to mind...
DeleteI love Dr. Seuss, and I had no idea he wrote a movie. Funny clip! The county sink inspector?! I'll have to look for the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteHave a fun trip!
Thanks, Eve! And yes, you should absolutely watch the whole thing. It's a Seuss-lover's dream. And the songs are VERY catchy.
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