Is it just my imagination but has every recent Christmas movie featured at some stage a shot of a TV in the background showing It’s a Wonderful Life. Funnily it’s never Hulk Hogans Santa with Muscles epic opus in the background……
I use the term epic opus very very very loosely.
Is it my imagination but when I am down I reach for sad or melancholy music. Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Johnnie Cash. Wouldn’t I be better off putting on the magical Wonderful Life. Even in the middle of summer, I could get so much from that movie. But I guess I take after my mum. She would reach for the sad music.
There’s been a lot of music played recently. 22 months of lockdown and isolation. Now everything is pointing towards another national lockdown imminently. How can I help Hawklad rebuild those bridges when the world is this messed up. I guess it’s just about trying to help him ride it out until things finally settle down. But when will it start to settle down. I remember the talk of 2021 being so much better than the year before. How could it be any worse. Well that went to plan.
So tonight there is NO melancholy music being played. Tonight it’s time to watch James Stewart. I think it’s my imagination, but I need that movie tonight. Really need it.
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
I do the same when I’m sad or feeling down. I watch sad movies and do I ever listen to sad music, and well, you know it oddly helps.❤️3
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Goads it’s not just me then ❤️
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No it isn’t or we are two very strange people lol❤️
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Over the past 4 years here in the US we have all wished for simpler times, kinder times and some sort or normality. Retreating to a Jimmy Stewart movie is just the thing to lighten the load of a pandemic and all that it has entailed. May it leave you with some hope for 2022!
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I could retreat there as well
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One can only hope and pray that people behave sensibly and that this pandemic is brought under control.
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Let’s hope Sadje
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Fingers crossed.
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We all need that movie! Definitely! Xx
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We so do xxx
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We all need that film, it’s a tonic filled with hope xxx
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It really is xx
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CHin up, my friend. Chin up.
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In my case chinS these days 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I hope Jimmy helps!
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Always does
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Up or down Floyd, Cohen, and Cash do the trick. IAWL always helps!
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They really do. Often it’s the same songs that mum would play.
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I don’t watch Christmas movies or play Leonard Cohen. Now I could go for Johnny Cash. Maybe https://youtu.be/WOHPuY88Ry4 would cheer you up
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Absolute genius
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Tell yer what always brings a smile to my face, an that’s a rainbow of men dancing just for me, see:
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Nothing like Bhangra to make you feel better!
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That’s so cool 😊
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Of course, and there’s more:
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Oh and feel free to join in you guys:
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The must see film is THE SOUND OF MUSIC – it puts everything into perspective.
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Why did I know you would say that. I’m still waiting to see you do your rendition of that song.
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Send you both lots of hugs this holiday season. I hope putting it on last night helped just a little bit!
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Thank you ❤️
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Isn’t it wonderful, though, that after so many years that movie still comes up. Maybe it’s a sign that we really do hold on to old values. Jimmy Stewart was a wonderful man. I am sure he would be touched to know that his movies are still reaching people and helping them through a tough time.
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He so was. Much missed but never forgotten
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I love that movie, totally love it. I have only seen it when I was a child and a couple years ago. But you reminded me to watch it again.
I think it is normal to reach for music that fits our current emotions. Music is the language of the soul and we need something that makes us feel understood. That can have an uplifting effect too.
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The movie gets better every time I watch it.
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It is one of those movies you already wait for some essential scenes.
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Sad movies just make you sadder. Get a good comedy my friend, you’ll appreciate it more.
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You are not alone. It IS funny how we reach for the sad melancholy music when we are feeling down. Doesn’t really help to bring me out of the funk, though. “It’s a Wonderful Life” is such a timeless story and still relevant. There are so many hardworking parents who feel like they haven’t done enough and that their own personal dreams will never be realized. And the best line in any movie, “To my big brother, George. The richest man in town.” ❤ 🙂
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I so love that movie.
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Sad music helps when your sad. When you’re sad and overwhelmed loud music helps. Not typical rock and roll loud, but like Drowning Pool’s “Bodies”. That helped me when the world just kept collapsing around my ears in 2020. A few other loud songs like that mixed in. But sad music helps lift the blues. It’s a fact, or is in my book.
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Dunno. My kids were in ‘My Dad’s Christmas Date’, so I didn’t really pay attention to the rest of it! 😬
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