Calling Julie Andrews…
December 31, 2007
My daughter loved this movie. She had to have the soundtrack downloaded onto her iPod. She sang and danced her way through the movie. And cried when Maria went back to the abbey. The boys mostly tolerated the movie.
She also accusingly asked, “Why don’t you ever make us clothes out of curtains?”
Posted by Chris @ 11:39 am
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So - why don’t you make clothes out of curtains??
Just kidding - my favourite movie too!!!!
December 31st, 2007 at 11:43 amAnd was your reply, “I’ll get right on that”?
December 31st, 2007 at 11:59 amI love this movie also. Your daughter has great taste :-)!
December 31st, 2007 at 12:05 pmIt’s hard to compete with Julie Andrews. Just make sure not to show her Mary Poppins.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:10 pmRemember the skirt you wrote about? If it looks like curtains? You could give it to her *nodding gravely*
December 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pmGood golly I love that movie too.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:23 pmLOL.
you’re such a failure. [wink, wink]
December 31st, 2007 at 12:24 pmHA! One of my boys actually asked me that when they first saw this. I think he (please don’t ask which one) was around three at the time. Was devastated when I refused. Also was not pleased at the laughter the request caused.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:25 pmLove it! Also my all time favorite movie…and also my youngest loves it and will
sit thru the whole entire thing, the others as well tolerated it.
Have to laugh, we had spent the weekend at brothers in Boston and as
the six of us and the five of them sat down to eat my six year old leans over and says ,
“momma this is like being a VonTrapp” it took us a few seconds to figure out what
she was talking about….until she said, “we should be wearing curtains!”…
Happy New Year to you and yours and all your readers!
December 31st, 2007 at 12:28 pm“Barely tolerated”? Consider yourself lucky. My oldest (son/13) can’t stand Julie Andrews. I think he inherited that gene from his dad, who also can’t stand Julie Andrews. He runs screaming from the room if the tv happens across any movie with her and he doesn’t hold the “powah” in his hand (ie…remote).
I need to see if I can fool him by finding a copy of Victor/Victoria…heh, heh, heh…
Curtains indeed. Keep her away from Gone with the Wind…LOL.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:32 pmI have some lovely floral curtains. Send me her measurements.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:49 pmToo funny! This is my all-time favorite movie too!
But I’ll pass on clothes out of those ugly curtains.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:53 pmAww, I love Sound of Music. My in-laws were *in* Austria the last two weeks. How unfair is that?
December 31st, 2007 at 1:00 pmHappy Holidays Chris
December 31st, 2007 at 1:11 pmWe too watched the sound of music last evening. It brought back so many memories!.
When it was released,( back before you were born?) my aunt took my sister, me and our elderly grandmother to the theater to celebrate Elizabeth’s 10th birthday. My grandmother loved the music and the sound track was one that played many many times in their home. My children, associate it with the tape their grandmother gave them for Christmas many years back. Whatever it was a nice waltz down memory lane and rare family time (these days) that I enjoyed greatly.
mak
HA! A child after my own heart.
When I was little, my dad used to sing, “How do you solve a problem like KALISAH?”
December 31st, 2007 at 1:21 pmOf course she loved it! My favorite movie. Of course being named after a character makes it a mandatory favorite!
December 31st, 2007 at 1:21 pmCan you believe I have never ever seen that movie? ha.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:32 pmDamn that drop-out nun Maria and her play clothes cut out of draperies! A clear rip-off from Scarlett O’Hara and Mammy turning the “po’teers” into a fancy velvet dress.
Anyway, I too was compelled to watch some of ‘The Sound…’ last night, but only willing to do so with Radiohead playing in the background. Your daughter and my gay friends who love musicals would not at all like such a mash-up.
Many blessings to you and your family for 2008 and beyond. I know I speak for hundreds when I say that your writing has provided entertainment, inspiration and some great gut laughing in a world that is so nuts and wrong. You’re better than “brown paper packages tied up in string.” (And what’s with that, anyway?)
Always with love and admiration…
Chris says: Awww, grace, you know the feeling is mutual. And my older sons love Radiohead and would have loved to sit in a room with someone who instead of breaking into songs, mocked the show.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:38 pmROFLMAO!! Now *that* is a classic line! Just one more thing she can talk to her therapist about twenty years from now!
Leeann
December 31st, 2007 at 2:00 pmWhat was up with the movie starting at a different time than Comcast had it listed at in the guide? I missed the whole first hour! But by humoring very tolerant husband by switching around on the commericals, also blessedley missed the puppet show so I don’t have that song stuck in my head all week. Remember when the Wizard of Oz was a yearly Thanksgiving evening tradition? Having it on DVD just isn’t the same.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:00 pmThose toes!
December 31st, 2007 at 2:09 pmOh, I LOVE “The Sound of Music.” And it was also my favorite movie growing up. Well either that or “My Fair Lady.” It’s a tough call.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:18 pmThis was one of those rare movies that enthralled me as a child when I saw it in the movie theater (not on VHS or DVD). It was the same with Mary Poppins. I must of had a crush on Julie Andrews when I was 8 years old.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pmOne of my all-time favorite movies. And of my family’s. We were such geeks, we did the Sound of Music tour in Austria. It was so neat…and a little disappointing, because the scenes were all shot in different places, and then put together in a pastiche. I wanted so badly to walk throught “the” house, and the gardens, and the gazebo, and look up at the trees in the drive, etc. But still, it was worth it. I have pics of me by the goblin statues in the park (where they have their picnic and run around singing the do re mi song).
December 31st, 2007 at 2:30 pmWhoa! Your 4 yr old daughter has an Ipod?! Dude, that just made me feel incredibly old and so not up with technology. Hey if I do get one, can she show me how to use it?
December 31st, 2007 at 2:33 pmChris says: *I* don’t even have an iPod. So I’ll join you in feeling all old. I bought my daughter a refurbished iPod shuffle which was comparable to getting her a CD player, which she really, REALLY wanted. And the added bonus of no CDs to get scratched.
We enjoyed the movie last night too. My daughter was certain the father, “Captain”, was a pirate!
December 31st, 2007 at 2:56 pmOh we watched this last night and it was wonderful. It is great when we get our kids to love the classics….the good stuff!
December 31st, 2007 at 3:42 pmHrrmm, my newly 7 yo son loves this show, and loved seeing the play performed live last year. He loves all the big musicals. Should I worry? *wink* Last night, however, he asked for us to turn the TV off and then fell asleep, which was my cue to check his temp - that’s right, only a 102.6 fever keeps him from Ms. Andrews appreciation. I will note that his iPod plays Kung Fu Fighting about 90% of the time, but I guess that doesn’t get him big masculine points either. (It’s so funny, though, because he sings along with it, even the big “huh!” and the “de-de-de-de-deet-deet-deet-deet-deeeeee” instrumental parts, and doesn’t realize he is doing it.) He does play and watch sports and army guys, though, if that’s any masculine comfort.
December 31st, 2007 at 4:00 pmyes. why don’t you get right on that?
December 31st, 2007 at 4:06 pm–steph
LOVE SofM; we had to buy the DVD. My foursome (that IS including the boys) will do their own little version of ‘So long, farewell’ complete with my oldest carrying the youngest up the stairs. Hilarious.
I was in the play in high school and it’s on the agenda for summer 2008 at our local community theatre. We’ll be at auditions!
Can’t get enough SofM!
December 31st, 2007 at 4:16 pmHmmm…I think I like Carol Burnett’s curtain dress better, rod and all!
December 31st, 2007 at 4:46 pmWell.Where are the curtain clothes for all of your kids? My boys would rebel if I made them wear such as that.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:06 pmI too watched it last night….and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well, in between the barfing. I was sick……
But the movie was great!!!
December 31st, 2007 at 5:51 pmSomeday you’ll be able to use that as a threat - “what do you mean you don’t want to wear that outfit we spent 5 hours in the mall searching for - do you want me to make your clothes out of curtains?” Ah-h. Sweeeeet.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:00 pmI LOVE that movie, but I am weird like that.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pmMy brothers ran screaming when I watched it…as does my husband.
OK… the sewing thing… For Christmas I was supposed to make a jacket for my daughter. Three days ago the fabric made it to the table - and that’s about it. My 20 year old son sees the fabric laying out and asks if I will make him some plaid pants - I’m assuming this has to do with his current golf craze. (At least I hope that’s it.) So does anyone have any ugly plaid curtains?!
January 1st, 2008 at 8:11 pmGlad to see you are raising her right.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 amI LOVE musicals.
I think your daughter and I would get along wonderfully.
i always wanted my mom to make me dresses from drapes!
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm