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Star Wars & the musicals

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Daily writing prompt
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
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As an adult, I’ve not been a big re-watcher of movies, or re-reader of books for that matter. Once is usually enough. Sometimes, if I really like a movie, I’ll see it twice in a movie theater. As an adult, I saw both Good Will Hunting and Barbie twice on the big screen.

As a kid, I watched a few movies five or more times. Other than Star Wars, they were all musicals:

Sound of Music (1965)

Leisl and Rolf in the gazebo

Stars Wars (the original 1977 film)

Grease (1978)

Hair (1979)

For the musicals, I also bought the soundtrack albums, so I could listen to them over and over, and act them out with my neighborhood friends. I remember fights over whose turn it was to be Liesl (from Sound of Music) and whose brother could be roped into playing her Nazi boyfriend Rolf. Unfortunately, nobody in the neighborhood had a gazebo, so we had to act that one out by jumping on and off living room sofas. (I am 16… going on 17…thud)

For Star Wars, I bought the sheet music for the main theme by the great John Williams and learned to play it on the piano. I still have it.

I had to pencil in the base notes, because they fell so far from below the staff lines.

Has a more perfect movie theme ever been composed? Are you really even GenX if this piece of music doesn’t give you at least a couple of goosebumps?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

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Favorite films seen on the big screen

Let it go

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What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

Let’s face it, many women spend an inordinate of time (and often money) on their hair.

When I think about the hours and hours and hours I’ve spent blow drying, hot rollering, flat ironing, air wrapping, deep conditioning, curl ironing, highlighting, and otherwise fussing with my hair, I think I probably could’ve used them to get a Masters Degree or some other highly time consuming but useful endeavor.

COVID changed how a lot of us think about our hair. It made us question the point of all the bother. I saw many gorgeous silver foxes emerge after lockdown was over.

For me, I quit constantly blow drying, especially in the summer. It’s OK to let your hair dry naturally. It looks fine, even good, some might say. A friend turned me on to the large selection of curl creams that you can put on wet hair to shape your natural curls while your hair dries naturally. I like this one, available at CVS.

So, if possible, I skip the blow drying and, in the words of Elsa from Frozen, Let It Go

The natural look