I should be so lucky. (lucky, lucky, lucky)

[raybear]

Lesson learned last night: Movies that were a favorite from ages17-19 should not necessarily be watched years later unless you're positive it holds up well. Not that seeing Noises Off was absolutely horrible, but it only felt mildly amusing to me, rather than my previous "falling off the couch in laughter" reaction. I did see the play performed more recently and still enjoyed it, so perhaps it was just the movie itself, or even my own changing tastes.

In other news, not too long ago, the conversation of "what songs/music is good while having sex" seemed to be haunting me. I had it a couple times during my vacation, it circulated on a few livejournal communities and individual journals, and then yesterday afternoon on the train I overhead two people talking about the same subject -- unfortunately they moved before I could get a good handle on the conversation.

I have a hard time with this subject because of how my brain works. I'm obviously obsessed with music and have a huge catalog alone stored in my brain, so it's hard to make short lists, but it's even harder because I tend to think of a song first, and then shape the type of sex or fantasy around it second. My imagination is also heavily shaped by my movie obsession (which rivals my music one) so sometimes I think about having sex to a song when there's no actual way for the music to be playing in real-life, but if one were to watch it as a movie, the song would score it for the audience.

In other words, it's not so much that I think of a type of sex I want to have with a type of person and then choose a soundtrack -- it's more that a song, any song, could play, and then I imagine the person, place, activity. Sometimes even a time period. So it's even harder for me to make a list of songs, because I'd have to include all the other details as well.

Right now I'm stuck on desperate puritan lovemaking with the preacher's kid to the tunes of Alison Kraus's "I'll Fly Away" in the back row of a small southern church. Oh yeah.

Comments

[freakysparks.livejournal.com]

I've learned that "old movies don't age well" lesson frequently. "L.A. Story" is still relatively funny, but I started watching "Real Genius" the other night with TBH...rough going, I tell you.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I could probably write a thesis on why all movies in the 80's suck (in an objective, cinematic influence way -- I'm not denying their historical or nostalgic importance), but I'm too lazy and lacking in film criticism writing skills. :)

[thedemonnemo.livejournal.com]

Want some strong evidence for your thesis? Dan Quayle's fave all-time movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which upon watching as an adult is not bad but not the opus I thought it was at 16. Nemo