Month: June 2024

Working In Memphis: A Documentary

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Film, Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary 0 Comments

I thought I might interrupt the 31 Day Film Challenge for a moment to update you readers on my own little adventure into film-making.  I’ve undertaken a project this summer that I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time: a documentary film about “working” Memphis musicians. For what it’s worth, all the photos in…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 26: A Song By a Band/Artist You’d Like To Have Dinner With

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

I’m going to assume that today’s prompt means for me to pick among living artists/bands, partly because it would be really creepy to have dinner with a dead person, but more so because the idea of choosing a dinner guest from all the living and dead artists ever is far too daunting a project for…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 28: A Song You Like By a Band/Artist You First Discovered in the Last Year

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

It’s funny how the process of “discovering” an artist or band happens sometimes.  Nowadays, when almost every venue for purchasing or pirating music auto-recommends artists/bands to you, it’s very easy to get caught in a self-reinforcing loop of your own tastes and, correspondingly, it’s very difficult to just stumble upon something genuinely “new” to you. …

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 29: A Song You Like By a Band/Artist That Isn’t from North America, Europe or Australia

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Since we’re now on the penultimate day of the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), I wanted to take a moment to say a few things about this whole venture.  First, I have to confess that, in my view, The Sequel’s prompts weren’t nearly as satisfying as the original 30 Day Song Challenge’s prompts. (Today’s…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Seuqel), Day 30: A Song You Never Get Tired Of, No Matter How Many Times You Hear it

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 30 Day Song Challenge, 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), 30 Day Song Challenge 2014, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Today marks the end of the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) and, although I’ve complained about the prompts several times this month, I think this prompt for the final day is an especially good one. I also realized over the past week that it’s going to be difficult to drop many of the habits…

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31 Day Film Challenge: The Rules

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Starting today, July 1, I’ll be participating in the 31 Day Film Challenge on this blog.  It will be similar in structure to the 30 Day (The Sequel) Song Challenge that I just completed in June and the original 30 Day Song Challenge that I completed in June 2011, only this time with movies instead…

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31 Day Film Challenge, Day 1: Your Favorite Film

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

One thing I learned from my participation in the 30 Day Song Challenges (the Original and the Sequel) is that I almost always second-guess my selections the very day after I pick them.  I’ve pretty much resigned myself to that phenomenon now and so, instead of laboring for hours and hours to be certain of…

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31 Day Film Challenge, Day 2: Your Least Favorite Film

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

I just want to say in advance that I don’t think my pick for today is the worst movie ever made.  I took a peek at what Wikipedia lists as “the worst films ever made” (allegedly determined by “reputable critics in multiple reputable sources”) and discovered that I had not seen a single one of…

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31 Day Film Challenge, Day 3: A Film That Makes You Happy

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Most people who know me also know of my unabashedly-fangirl affection for the 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body, which tells the story of an endurance contest in which roughly two dozen small-town Texans compete to win a Nissan hardbody truck. The concept is simple, really: everyone puts his or her hand on the…

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31 Day Film Challenge, Day 4: A Film That Makes You Sad

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Day Film Challenge, Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Psychology researchers James J. Gross and Robert W. Levenson published a study about 15 years ago entitled “Emotion Elicitation Using Films” in which they determined that the “saddest” movie of all time was the 1978 tearjerker The Champ (starring Jon Voight and a very young Ricky Schroder).  In particular, Gross and Levenson determined that this…

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