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Confession: I'm in love.
I've been in love as long as I can remember. Childhood memories of the two of us together, lazy Sundays curled up drinking tea, when I'm sick and stuck in bed--they have been by my side all my life, never wavering no matter what I was interested in.
I'm in love with magazines.
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There was whistling in the library the other day and I couldn't help but follow the tune. The whistler and I started chatting. He told me there's always a tune in his head. I mentioned, sadly, that I never have one in mine.
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Once upon a time a video rental store named Hollywood Video helped me realize that the goal is not to just watch movies, but also to have fun in doing so. It was because of them that I learned the definition of 'cult classic', discovered who Tom Servo and Crow were, and first witnessed the fascinatingly complex relationship between the city of Tokyo and Godzilla. Some of my favorite all-time Christmas memories involve nights spent with flurries against the living room window, a room lit only by the Christmas tree and a TV screen, and a big stack of Hollywood Video VHS rentals.
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The holiday season brings with it family gatherings, delicious food, and gifts, but it’s also filled with big movie releases. Both Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are big days for the box office, and the movie studios make sure there are lots of great new movies out there to draw us in!
As a book lover, when a movie is based on a book, I prefer to read the book before seeing the movie; movies almost always have to drop (sometimes crucial, in my opinion) elements of a story in order to fit it into 2-3 hours, and I prefer to experience the full story first. I also prefer to have my own “picture” of characters in my head first; in the past when I’ve seen the movie then read the book, I inevitably have the actors from the movie in my head when I later read the story, and my imagination feels left out of the process.
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