Last night, Mark and I took a cranky-pants toddler who is obsessed with “walk!” and “steps!” to a little birthday dinner. After watching several games of Pac-Man, cruising up and down the table, chewing on some cheese bread and spitting it out, and generally causing chaos, Mark decided to take her home.
That was totally my intention, and I probably would have made good on those goals if my cousin Craig hadn’t started talking politics.
Normally I avoid those conversations – nay, debates – like the proverbial plague. Honestly, I don’t enjoy talking politics with most people, and you know combining family and politics is a dangerous cocktail.
Regardless, I stayed last night and debated chatted. And . . . left with a headache. And cold pizza.
Hughes died on Thursday, and yesterday our local radio station played a collection of songs from his movies. I only heard a few while I was on the way home from the pizza party that wasn’t, but it was fun to remember songs like “Don’t You Forget About Me” and the song I refer to as, “Bom, Bom, Chick, Chicka Chick Pow.”
Out of all Hughes’ movies, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my favorite, with Breakfast Club coming in a close second. The Brat Pack gave us the spontaneous and yet cleverly choreographed group dance. And Ferris gave us so many quotable quotes:
- Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?. . . Bueller?. . . Bueller?
- Oh, he’s very popular Ed . . . They think he’s a righteous dude.
- The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands.
- He’ll keep calling me. He’ll keep calling me until I come over. He’ll make me feel guilty. This is uh… This is ridiculous, ok I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go. What – I’LL GO.
- Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I'm probably going to botch this quote…I'm not recalling it real clear, but here goes, "Cameron is so uptight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his *** you'd have a diamond in a week!" — Ferris Bueller. Now I want to watch the movie…we watched a lot of Ferris during our sleep overs!
Hmm interesting… I just read another blog this morning about John Hughes and many of his movies and quotes from the movies. (I thought of you and your good memory of lines from movies). Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles where two of my faves. I might need to rent Ferris Bueller since I can't remember anything about that movie.
I have fond memories of almost all of those movies. Ferris Bueller is one of those movies that I never get tired of.
"The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom; I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh… you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school. "
Of course, like most of my favorite movies from the '80's, when I went back and watched it, I realized there was a LOT more cursing in it than I thought there was!
I must Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink are mine…. I was a hopeless romantic with a very big crush on Jake Ryan and …Duckie on Pretty in Pink…. hee hee…
And yes, I was that girl, in Sixteen candles, with the back brace, bending over the water fountain. Yep…. and I still love the movie!!
Thanks for the memory.
I found you from the link at Simple Mom, talking about (in)courage. What a wonderful thing. I can't wait to be (in)couraged!
My favorite has to be Breakfast Club.
I love all a lot of his movies, too, but I can't get over Annalyn walking:D You just waited so long for those steps!
Thanks, Busy. On Friday she was just wanting to walk holding onto our hands, but today she took 4-8 steps at a time over and over and over! We kept cheering for her, and she kept laughing – it was just GREAT FUN. :D I'm sure I'll share more this week!!
Some Kind of Wonderful was my favorite, though it wasn't the most popular. My favorite quote?
Keith: You can't tell a book by its cover.
Watts: No, but you can tell how much it's gonna cost you.
I love how you went from politics to move talk — that's smooth!
I hadn't heard John Hughes passed away. Rest his soul.
Growing up on the Northside of Chicago I had the pleasure of knowing many of the places he filmed his movies — the streets of downtown Winnetka where Uncle Buck tried to coax his rebelous niece back in to the car — or New Trier West HS where he showed up in his clunker — or even the house and the Christmas Eve church from Home Alone. I love John Hughes movies!
Hmmmm….I'd have to say of course Ferris Buehller ranks right up there — but I loved Uncle Buck, the original Home Alone, Sixteen Candles and of course, who didn't love DUCKY in Pretty in Pink?!!!! :) I had a total girl crush on Molly Ringwald!
Love ALL of them. Favorite Ferris Quote: "Never had ONE lesson."
OH I just saw that he did Vacation, too. ("The Moose out front shoulda toldja.") And Planes, Trains and Automobiles, both of which are annual (and often much more often than annual) watches in our home. Aww. What a loss.