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Bruce and ME!

Last night, Dave and I saw the new Bruce Springsteen documentary made entirely by fans called " Springsteen & I. " It was awesome! All these people from all around the world sent in videos of themselves sharing memories, funny concert stories, and reasons they worship The Boss. The film was a collection of silly fanatic confessions and awesome old concert footage of a young Bruce. My favorites were the emotional speeches about how his music had touched their lives; the songs weaved into their days. None of them had met the man, but they talked about him like an old friend. We found ourselves shaking our head in agreement quite often. Yup, his concerts really are phenomenal. Yup, we've all had that moment when you feel like he's singing just to you -- even in the nosebleeds section of the biggest venues. Nothing beats the rush of singing along with 20,000 other reverent fans. That time when you become besties with the guy next to belting out "Blood B...

Quote That Was Killing Me - Emma Edition

Every once in a while I get a quote so lodged up in my brain that it haunts me. I hear it over and over again, in the speakers voice, and I wrack my brain trying to come up with the name of the movie it comes from. The latest quotes was "...keen to be near you.." -- said in a low, melancholy British man. Of course, I assume Austen, but can't come up with the movie. I did more searching tonight and found the source of the quote. Hooray hooray! It is Austen. Well, movie Austen. From "Emma," the version with Gwyneth Paltrow. It's said by Mr. Knightly played by yummy Jeremy Northam. (Knightly being one of my fave Austen men, though the age difference grosses me out a little.) Watch the quote here  from YouTube. And from the script: Mr. Knightley, during the proposal scene: " So, I rode home anxious for your feelings, keen to be near you. I rode through the rain and I would ride through worse than that if I could just hear your voice telling me...