After I posted my last Blog, I got an e-mail from my good friend, Andy, who lives in the frigid central Ohio area. I met him decades ago, late 1980's I believe. I was living in a 2 bedroom townhouse when Andy, his Mom, sister Amy (with baby), brother Tim, friends Greg and Perry moved in several doors down from me. My first thought was, "2 bedrooms and a ton of people. My God, they must be Boatpeople." You know, where 8,000 people crowd into a rowboat to escape some despot country. In time, we became great friends, party animals supreme. They're all very talented musicians, by the way. We used to go to the Indycar races at Mid Ohio Race Track and have gone to several Inianapolis 500 Time Trial weekends. I dubbed us the "BoatPeople Racing Team". Had signs made and all. We've gone camping together, flown cars through the air into people's yards (well, Greg, son Dan and I did), gone on non-stop trips to help sandbag the great Mississippi Flood of '93 and driven to south-central Pennsylvania just to be in a Blizzard (36" of snow in 12 hours after we got there). Lot's of fun. Charlene has met them and gives them (mostly) two thumbs up. Anyway, back to the e-mail Andy sent me after my last blog about movies. Here's what he wrote as he quoted one of my lines:
And I quote "Julie and Julia again? Hey, I've seen it 4 times so far."
WHHHATT??? We gonna have to have a redneck boat people racing team intervention and get you out of California before it's too late!!!!
I almost died laughing. Years ago, Andy and I had a discussion about the kind of movies we liked. Me, I like 'Chick Flicks' and Andy likes 'War movies, Action movies'. I ask him why he liked War movies and he replied, "They're historic, they're educational and they blow shit up!". Yea, great Boatpeople answer. So, I guess Cows and Boatpeople rock!
But Andy must remember that my all-time favorite movie still is, Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now"................
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