Monday's Music Moves Me: So Does the Movies!

 
Welcome back to our rockin' good meme Monday's Music Moves Me! The exciting music meme that XmasDolly and I are hosting, now along with Larry from Cakeblast and Callie from JamericanSpice. Won't you play along... here are the rules:

  First step: You need to run on over to You Tube, (or wherever your find your songs/videos) and get your pick for the day according to the theme. Upcoming themes are over on Dolly's blog on the left sidebar.

Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" button (over on XmasDolly's blog on the right sidebar)

Third step: Dance with (follow) your hostesses (that would be me and Dolly);   grab our buttons; then sign the linky, either here or on Dolly's blog - they are linked.

Final step: Start lookin' for a partner and boogie on down to her blog (or his - Hi, Larry & Dave), and say hello   by leaving a comment, and tag (follow) her/him. If you've been tagged (followed) be polite, and go on over there, leave a comment and tag (follow) her/him back.

This week's theme is "Movie Title" so pick a song that is also the name of a movie. My choice this week is a song that is by one of my favorite female singers, Carly Simon, and from a movie with Bond, James Bond (Roger Moore - not my favorite Bond, I'll admit)..... "Nobody Does it Better (The Spy Who Loved Me)"..... enjoy:

 

Don't forget to link up here or over at XmasDolly and visit the other participants and follow their blogs and keep on rockin'. 

Happy 50th Anniversary to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"

Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director because I adore suspense movies... NOT horror movies (that's Bill's forte) but the kind of movie that has you sitting on the edge of your seat and holding your breath.  Alfred Hitchcock was the MASTER.  Fifty years ago today, the movie Psycho was released in theaters.  It was something truly unique to its time because before that movie, people used to come into the theater at any time during the movie and then stay for the beginning of the next to "catch up" on what they had missed.  For the movie Psycho, Hitchcock refused to allow anyone to  be seated late, lest they miss any of the film's surprises and horrors, and urged audiences not to spoil the ending for other viewers.  He also bought the rights to Robert Bloch's source novel really cheap, then bought as many copies of the book as he could to keep the plot twists hidden from potential moviegoers.

I remember the first time I saw the movie, I was so afraid to take a shower when I was home alone, but at the time, I was living in a small two room apartment with my first husband that only had a shower (no tub).  But I told myself that I was locked in the apartment on the second floor and the door downstairs was locked and my inlaws were in the apartment downstairs, so I was perfectly safe!  So, anyway, my (now ex-)husband came home from work while I was in the shower and snuck in the bathroom and scared the snot out of me - yeah, really funny!!  I used my inlaws bathtub for the next week because I was too scared to use the shower after that.

Hitchcock was such a master showman that he released a six and a half minute "teaser-trailer" for the movie Psycho in which he took viewers on a tour of the Bates Motel and the Bates House, pretending to be about to spoil the plot while keeping crucial details hidden.  You really have to watch it... Hitchcock is amazing, enjoy:







So happy anniversary to Psycho... I think I'll find it on TV this weekend and watch it again (I now have a really big Jacuzzi tub) just to celebrate.

Until next time..... Lorie

Now The Weirdo/Freak has a Movie?????

Talk about freaky looking!!

So, now that we are FINALLY done with all the coverage of the pedophile Michael Jackson's death; and then the controversy over his autopsy; then the custody of his children, IF they even were his children. Then there was the question of whether his death was an accident or murder.... After weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of coverage .... and on and on and on. Coverage that seemed to NEVER end, claiming how wonderful he was, {weirdo} and how fabulous he was, {sicko} and how everybody LOVED his music... NOT!! Now there is a movie coming out about him.... and it is starting all over again. ARRGGHH!!!!!


I don't know about you, but I HAVE.HAD.ENOUGH!!! If I never saw, heard, or spoke of Michael Jackson again, it would be too soon.



Thanks for letting me rant.... Until next time..... Lorie