I’m under the weather. The runny nose, the sore throat, the whole works. There are a few good parts to being sick. These include copious naps, bedside treatment from Mom and the comfort of a good movie. But these aren’t just any movies. These are films I’ve seen 1,000 times that make me feel happy and temporarily healthy. The hours of coughing and sneezing just tick away when you’re in the middle of fart jokes and/or crocodile tears.

Steel Magnolias
It’s tough to beat middle-aged women laughing and crying over men loved and lost, terminal illnesses and country living. It gets funnier and sadder every time I see it.

Tommy Boy
If you don’t feel better after watching this movie, you might want to go to the hospital because whatever you have is pretty bad. It’s hilarious, charming and surprisingly suspenseful for a comedy. Read More »

I have a really bad habit of singing along to songs I don’t know. I like to sing. It makes me happy. And if I feel so inspired, I don’t really mind if I’ve never heard the song before. I try and predict the next note, and sometimes I’m right….

This bad habit extends to songs I do know, but whose lyrics I’m slightly confused about. I get it in my head that the line should be one way—the first way I heard it—and despite the world being “itch,” and not “bitch,” I feel like it’s OK to give my own interpretation.

Then there’s the songs I just have no idea about. Do you remember that scene from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley and David Spade are trying to sing along to It’s the End of the World as We Know It? “Six o’clock, TV hour, hum-diddy-dum-dum, du….” Yeah. Does anyone know the words to that song? Or how about Bruce Springsteen’s Blinded by the Light—did he really just say “revved up like a douche?” Read More »