The Industry of Cool

i rented a movie last weekend that i found amazing enough that i thought i would tell you about it. be glad, it's a tuesday and i'm not posting about a song. it was called almost famous and it is the best movie that i have seen in a long time by far. here's the first two paragraphs of the plot line, as found on wiki.

In 1973, William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is a teenager aspiring to be a rock-and-roll journalist, despite the desires of his eccentric, overprotective mother, Elaine (Frances McDormand), who wants him to go into law. Shunned by his classmates (most of whom are two or three years older than he is), he writes for underground papers in his hometown, San Diego. He goes one morning to watch as a local radio station interviews pioneering rock journalist Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman). The two hit it off, and Bangs gives William a $35 assignment to write up a Black Sabbath concert. William, without credentials or a ticket, cannot get into the arena. He meets up with some "Band-Aides," semi-groupies who draw the line at intercourse with rock stars (everything else is fair game) and their leader, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). Then he runs into the opening band on the card, Stillwater, who first dismiss him as a journalist, but then take him to their hearts (and backstage) when he calls them all by their names, praises (in detail) their most recent work, and they realize he's also a fan...

this movie is pretty amazing, so check it out and BE AMAZED.

ALMOST FAMOUS QUOTES
- i'm a golden GOD!
- the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool
- they make you feel cool. and hey- i met you. you are not cool.
- Elaine: Well there it is, your sister used the "F" word.
William: I think she said "feck."
Elaine: What's the difference?
William: The letter "u."
- of course i'm home. i'm always home. i'm uncool.
- yeah, come back here! i'm incendiary, too, man!
- is this maryann with the pot? ... hello?
- please don't give him any more acid...
- they don't even know what it is to be a fan. y'know? to truly love some silly little piece of music- or some band, so much that it hurts.
- yes it's poetry. it's the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. look at the picture on the cover, they're on pot!

okay, enough with the quotes- you get the point... so, check out the movie. if i know you, you will most likely not be disappointed. if i don't know you, stop blog skipping and get a life. :D