{"id":434,"date":"2010-05-20T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2010-05-20T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:39:10","slug":"what-movie-are-you-embarrassed-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/what-movie-are-you-embarrassed-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What Movie Are You Embarrassed to Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ml\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/movies\/1\/0\/m\/B\/O\/musicandlyricsposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[That&#8217;s my answer.\u00a0 A picture&#8217;s worth a thousand words, and while this post is only half that, you don&#8217;t need to read it to provide your answer.\u00a0 You will, however, miss an amazing coincidence unless you read!]<\/p>\n<p>Right around Thursday is when I run out of steam with the work-week and start posting questions on Facebook like, &#8220;What pipe-dream profession do you wish you could have?&#8221; or &#8220;What were the favorite foods of your misspent youth?&#8221;\u00a0 The answers are always great&#8211;etiquette consultant!\u00a0 spy!\u00a0 Lick-em-ade!\u00a0 Hot pockets!&#8211;and add a real boost to my productivity.\u00a0 Some people work best when they are totally unplugged, but I find that as the week wears on, I work best when I have frequent, fun, brief\u00a0distractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m going to try a little experiment: putting the question on my blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to hear answers to the question,<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What movie are you embarrassed to love?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>I ask because of a funny coincidence.\u00a0 Fellow Tenner Jenn Hubbard and I were both psyched to be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/summer_blog_blast_tour_2010_ma.html\">Summer Blast Blog Tour<\/a>, she on <a href=\"http:\/\/kellyrfineman.livejournal.com\/561539.html\">Writing and Ruminating<\/a> and I on <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/2010\/05\/sbbt-stop-jessica-leader.html\">Shaken and Stirred<\/a>.\u00a0 Amazingly, we both referenced the incredible Hugh Grant-Drew Barrymore movie, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Music and Lyrics<\/span>.\u00a0 (Is anybody else noticing the conjunctive titles here?\u00a0 &#8220;Writing and Ruminating&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;Shaken and Stirred&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;Music and Lyrics&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;Nice and Mean&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0 I tigress.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I had to laugh, because while Jenn relates to the youths of today (I haven&#8217;t read her book, <em>The Secret Year<\/em>, just yet, but I&#8217;m dying to), she has a very thoughtful blog, and I&#8217;m basically kind of an entertainment\u00a0snob, so the fact that we both have a thing for this goofy, kind of predictable movie was quite a surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I even cringe to dismiss the movie, because it is so great!\u00a0 First of all, it start out with a dead-on-the-nose (if that&#8217;s not from the redundancy department of redunancy) spoof of an 80s video, featuring Hugh Grant&#8217;s character, called &#8220;Pop! Goes\u00a0My Heart&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qGLXpIojJkg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qGLXpIojJkg<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A movie that can put that together knows what it&#8217;s doing, right?\u00a0 Plus there are incredibly charming scenes of the songwriting collaboration:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9uk2eFTbVY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9uk2eFTbVY<\/a>\n<p>And Hugh Grant is funny, right?\u00a0 Sarcastic but also suave.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to be observant to pull that off, too.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a wicked parody of a Brittney Spears type (I&#8217;ve given you enough YouTube links to last the lunch break, but just put in &#8220;Buddha&#8217;s Delight + Music and Lyrics), a legitimate backstory for our creative collaborators&#8230;Darn it, I&#8217;m not going to be ashamed anymore:\u00a0 I love <em>Musis and Lyrics<\/em>!\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s great.\u00a0 It&#8217;s charming and real and has New York City in the background and Hugh Grant in the foreground, and Drew Barrymore is pretty cute, too.<\/p>\n<p>And now I want to know&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>which movies are you<\/p>\n<p>kind of<\/p>\n<p>sort of<\/p>\n<p>embarrassed to love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[That&#8217;s my answer.\u00a0 A picture&#8217;s worth a thousand words, and while this post is only half that, you don&#8217;t need to read it to provide your answer.\u00a0 You will, however, miss an amazing coincidence unless you read!] Right around Thursday is when I run out of steam with the work-week and start posting questions on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-and-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}