Wizard of blogs?

so, yesterday--which happened to be Hallowe'en--I was flipping through the channels and came across "The Wizard of Oz," being played on the Vision Network. To my surprise--they cut the doorman scene--the freakin' "well, bust my buttons" scene--this is wrong and should be criminalized. who's the person that has to sit in an editing room at a television network and decide which crucial scene to cut from a timeless classic film--i do not envy him/her.



anyway--i was saying to Dan, my roomate, that it is pretty weird that i, according to my parents, used to watch "The Wizard of Oz" like every day, sometimes twice a day for a year or so when I was about two years old. The reason I just realized that this is weird is--how has that movie freakin' shaped me!? If I watched it that often at such a crucial cognitive developmental stage--it really must have made an impression on me and had a huge influence on my personality and way of thinking. Hmm..maybe this is why I was obsessed with witches when I was 8 years old. and why i love red shoes (even though I gave both pairs of mine to Value Village recently). and why i am infinitely intrigued by fantasy and dream worlds and Faerie, in general. (not fairies--the literary concept of the land of Faerie)-- see Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" for a specific description of what I mean. wait--you're probably not interested or as big of a nerd as i am!



well, ryan adams & the cardinals new album, cardinology, was just released. it is awesome, of course. i should go to sleep, seeing as it is 3 am--i hope to dream about ryan adams--fingers crossed. ....i am pretty cool--don't forget it.



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