RMWMTMBM Archive

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

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…

Read More

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

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…

Read More

31 Day Film Challenge, Day 1: Your Favorite Film

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…

Read More

31 Day Film Challenge: The Rules

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…

Read More

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

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…

Read More

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

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…

Read More

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

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…

Read More

31 Day Film Challenge, Day 6: A Film That Reminds You Of A Certain Event

Like yesterday, I found today’s prompt for the 31 Day Film Challenge really difficult.  I can think of dozens of songs that remind me of certain events in my life, but I had to think long and hard to come up with a film that did the same.  (I’ll just refer you to my explanation…

Read More

31 Day Film Challenge, Day 5: A Film That Reminds You of Someone

First, I want to say that it’s been really great seeing everyone’s 31 Day Film Challenge picks show up each day on the Facebook page for our Challenge. I’ve got a lot of new movies to watch. Today’s pick was surprisingly difficult for me.  There was a similar prompt on Day 5 of the original…

Read More

31 Day Film Challenge, Day 7: A Film With Your Favorite Soundtrack

For today’s pick I’m making a somewhat ticky-tack distinction between a film “soundtrack” and a film “score.”  My favorite film score is definitely Ennio Morricone‘s composition for The Mission, one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music ever written as far as I’m concerned.  I picked The Mission on Day 1 of this Challenge,…

Read More