Mr. C.K. Dexter Haven!

I’m not sure why I don’t own The Philadelphia Story. It’s pretty much my favorite movie, and exactly what I want to be watching right now, but I don’t have it. I just checked Target and Best Buy online and they don’t have it in stock… I’d have to order it. I wonder if Blockbuster down the street would have it… I should really go check that out. I need me some Cary Grant/Jimmy Stewart. And Katherine Hepburn is a class act all her own. Her Tracy Lord is awesome.

But I kind of think it’s going to rain… which is ok since it’s freaking 90 DEGREES in this house because it’s that hot outside…

You Know You Can’t Resist John Travolta in Wranglers

I am having WAY too much fun on YouTube tonight.

Ok, so I’ll completely unashamedly admit that Urban Cowboy is one of my all-time absolute favorite movies. It stems back to a memory, but in all honesty, it’s a feel-good, great old country music, John-Travolta-at-his-finest-post-Grease-and-pre-Pulp-Fiction, awesome soundtrack 1980s cowboy movie.

This song is one of those it’s-the-reason-I-buy-the-soundtrack songs:

Frank Abagnale, Jr.

“Catch Me if You Can” was on TV tonight. Think that’s at all correlated with the fact that “Frank Abagnale, Jr.” showed up #4 on Google Trend’s Top 10 Trends tonight?

“Ella, you’re full of love.”

I. Love. Old. Movies.

When I got home from work tonight, I noticed that my roommate’s car was already here. I got super excited for the potential girls’ night/cooking night/movie night, that I ran up the stairs to make sure she wasn’t already making dinner. She wasn’t! I suggested cooking, wine and movie night, and she was in before I could pour the first glass. We concocted a delicious spaghetti with meat and veggie sauce* and finished my bottle of Peachy Canyon Red Zinfandel.

Brief interruption for a wine review It was good, but not as good as Gnarly Head. It tasted really ripe, like eating berries off of the vine. A little earthy, but not too.

Ok, that’s all. Anyway, so Milo and I ate our spaghetti sitting on the floor in the living room, watching Bells Are Ringing, a “Sweetheart of a Musical,” with Judy Holliday and Dean Martin. I love old movies! I love her dresses, their songs, the dancing, the dialogue. And then there are the gentlemen, always so charming and debonaire, like Cary Grant always is or like Van Johnson in “In the Good Ol’ Summertime.” And I LOVE spaghetti and wine and eating dinner at the coffee table, so tonight was pretty much a success.

*Meat and Veggie Sauce: One jar of Classico 4-Cheese Pasta Sauce (so far, this is my favorite brand of flavorful spaghetti sauces); 1 small yellow onion, 1-2 cloves of garlic, 1-2 small zuccinis – peeled and chopped into cubes, and 1 lb. of ground beef. I sauteed the veggies in EVOO, to which I added garlic powder, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and parsley flakes. If I had any, I would’ve also added tomatoes and maybe even a bell pepper. Brown the beef, saute the veggies, and then add it altogether with the sauce. DELICIOUS and so much room for tweaking it however I want.

I love cooking.

Don’t You Forget About Me

I think one of my all-time favorite movie moments is the moment The Breakfast Club sees Ally Sheedy’s Extreme Makeover Molly-Ringwald Edition. Watching pubescent Emilio Estevez drooling over her is one of the cutest boy-meets-girl cheesy moments in all Hollywood cheesy moments. Almost as good as when Molly Ringwald gives Judd Nelson her precious diamond earring in dramatic, forbidden lovers fashion.

I love this movie.