I have self confidence issues.

Yep!

Fat bottomed girls: You make the rockin' world go round

I don't think anybody realized this, but concerning the last post the screenshot (is that the proper term? maybe screen capture? who knows?) is from the movie Girl Crazy which is one of the ten (?) movies which Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland starred in together. The reason I specifically picked that one movie was because I feel that it is probably (besides Babes on Broadway) the best exploitation of the song-and-dance couple's talents. Judy was prettily cast in a role which didn't involve her being the unappealing girl, next door (which is usually what she was cast as in Mick and Joots films), Mickey was adorable and not overly cheesy (Andy Hardy? Puh-lease), the Gershwin compositions weren't forced at all in the film and were as natural as possible (unlike An American in Paris wtf. Vincinte Minnelli, you owe me two hours of my life).
Which brings me to the point of such an explanation - I want the soundtrack! Yesterday I spent a good three hours looking for the original movie soundtrack, and I finally found it on amazon.com going for about eleven dollars...

Yeeeeah...
Maybe I will get it when I come back with a new job and all!

Who could ask for anything more?

(Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey)

George and Ira Gershwin, sung by the right people and played by the right band, steal my heart.
Happy Birthday Judy Garland!
(Yay!!)

Are you calling me "darling?"

So the Ting Tings are in San Diego this entire weekend rocking the Casbah and the Miller Lite Independence Jam. And I am not there. (please insert depressed sigh here)

That's okay. Because that just means I get to sit here and wait for TCM's showing of An American in Paris with some ice cream (pretending it's gelato). Hahah, don't worry though - my situation is really not as pathetic as I make it out to be! In fact I am super stoked that I now have just saved $40. So yipee, I can now fill up my tank. woo.

Don't you know that your life could be lost?

I am so extremely ready to go on a gelato run - it is beyond belief!
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Crazy old Maurice hm?

I am extremely stoked because I have just downloaded the entire Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack and put it on my Ipod. Yay me (clap clap clap)!!