after much encouragement from amy to see almost famous, i finally made the time for it last night... after the opening credits i was hooked, and after 30 minutes, i knew i was going to love it...
i love the coming-of-ageness that william goes through - and this sense of cool vs. uncool... in this real vs. non-real world... i really can't express it in words right this second... even though the coffee is kicking in, i just don't think i'll do it justice...
i know i'll never be the cool kid... i'm okay with that... in our weekly ritual of freaks and geeks episodes on tuesday night, we (dave, alyssa and i) tried to decide whether we were the "freaks" or the "geeks" - as we all had our laptops in our laps while we watched, we knew our fate... as much as we wanted to be the "freaks..." i always dreamed of being cool... and i think that's why i never was... if i would have owned up to my uncoolness, i probably would have been a lot cooler... i thought william was cool... not because he was famous but because he was real... and unafraid...
i love the quote that now resides on my sidebar... "the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool"
cameron crowe is brilliant... but he's probably never been cool... how cool is that?
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ahh...brilliance. yes. i love that movie! and i love cameron crowe (elizabethtown comes out in july). he's such a great storyteller without trying to be. and i definitely think he's been an outsider often times in his own life. but i love his unconventional heroes...just think about them...lloyd dobbler, jerry maguire, william miller...all ordinary guys who do something extraordinary that give them a special place in our hearts.
i think crow is so real and he relates to so many people because he tells it like it is.
there's a point when even the cool kids are just trying to be cool.
i watched can't buy me love last night and it's kind of along the same lines. even cindy, who is considered the coolest most popular girl in school, is just trying to find a way to fit in and have everyone like her. but in order to really be cool, you have to find your true identity, not in other people, but within yourself. only then, can you truly be yourself.
i've never been the cool kid myself and i'm glad i never really obsessed over it. as far as freaks and geeks go...i think maybe i was lindsay. i hung out with the freaks, but i wasn't really one of them.
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