It really is a "Kick in the Head"!

Daughter #2, who is all of 14 years old, had discovered Dean Martin! His music and now all the films of the 50's. How you might say? Well, it stated with taking her to see...

A cute, if you can say that about a movie focusing on the last two week of life on earth before everything is obliterated by a comet. Carell, is his usual geeky guy, his wife, literally running away from him as the terrible news comes over the radio. Knightly plays a quirky girl with quirky problems and the movies is about the love affair that blossoms between the two in a time when nothing else really matters other than being with someone you love.
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD is the kind of movie, you stare at the screen as the credits roll, debating how you should feel or say about it, "yeah, that was a great movie, really enjoyed imagining the end of the world!" But it was a good movie and how does my daughter's new found interest in Dean Martin fit in, you ask?
Knightley's quirky character is in love with vinyl records, as in if you only had fifteen seconds to take what is important to you out of your house, what would you take? The answer for her, as much of her record collection as she can carry.
So a few days later, Daughter #2 comes home with a load of vinyl records just like Knightly has in her arms on the movie poster. Do we have a fully functioning record player.....no. That is okay, she likes the look of the covers and plasters her room with them, searches Itunes and the internet for 50's music and so now, as she is getting ready for school, Dean is wafting up through the floor boards from her room to mine and I am constantly thinking I left a movie on somewhere, because I didn't realize how many movies still to this day are using his songs ( according to imdb.com.....)
like.....

"Ain't that a Kick in the Head"

is in 

We did a trip to Grandmother's house and I come by my love of movies naturally,both parents are avid movie watcher, though both like the old stuff and in the comfort of their own home.
Before the luggage was in the house, Daughter #2 was scouring my mom's movie collection and with some suggestions we watched.....

Traveling over the mountains we had stopped by chance at a 50's retro cafe, it's walls covered in posters of Elvis, I Love Lucy and there Daughter #2 discovered James Dean....

Can't say I was ever crazy about James Dean, never could get past his mumbling...

Seen a bit more films of Rock Hudson, but can't say he is on of the actors I love to watch and....

Elizabeth Taylor is usually just too much for me, which I know is part of the era from which she came. But as a whole I have always enjoyed the movie GIANT, it ponders a pretty heavy question, racial equality, even if it does it in a 1950's kind of way.
That is why I love movie and it is so fun to watch another generation get into them. They give connection, one era to another- a kid in the new millennium digging back over 50 years ago to find something interesting, a connection from one generation to the next and what I love the most, the universal truths about our lives, happiness, loves, fears never change whatever decade the story if from!