Last week we watched Say Anything, which has been one of my favorite movies ever since it hit me between the eyes when I saw it in spring 1989 when it came out. To this day I consider it the best teen romance ever filmed, and I don’t love it one bit less revisiting it now for the first time after quite a few years since the last time I watched it. Say Anything is one of those movies that creates its own world…I mean, sure, Seattle is a real place and all, but a world isn’t just the physical place. It’s the people who live there and the emotional fabric of the lives they lead. I would never want an actual sequel to this movie, but I do wonder whatever became of Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court.
This Peter Gabriel song was used to amazing effect in the movie…so much so that it’s hard to hear the song without picturing Lloyd and Diane in the backseat of his car, or Lloyd holding the boom box aloft. Here is “In Your Eyes”.
Well-wishes
UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this.
Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill.
Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook and Twitter were starting to take up more and more oxygen–bloggers like Drum were every day reads of mine. I still do read a number of blogs every day; this format isn’t dead yet by any means, no matter how much anyone wants to pretend otherwise! But my daily perusal of politically-themed blogs has dwindled greatly, and Drum’s blog is one of the very few I check in with any regularity.
He has been fighting cancer on an on-and-off basis for a while now, and while I don’t really know the nature of his current struggles, he has been silent for several days now and apparently his medical team as of his last post hasn’t been able to figure anything out. While he doesn’t know me from Adam, Kevin Drum does have my best wishes for what recovery is possible.