We'll be moving on, cabbie

The title is a line from The In-Laws. The original with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. Peter Falk is a CIA agent whose son is about to marry Arkin's daughter. Arkin is a mild-mannered dentist, until Falk drags him into a South American mess. In one scene the two are being shot at when they discover a taxi-cab. They climb in and Peter Falk casually tells the driver, "we'll be moving on cabbie." It's a great line mostly because of the casualness in Falk's voice and Arkin's hysterics. I haven't seen it in years. I'll have to watch the movie again.

I was trying to think of how to start this post and the line came to me. This past month has been a bit tough for a bunch of reasons I won't go into. Nothing terrible just not the best. Every time I've sat down to write a post, I've thought about how silly it all seems. And then I've shut the case on my laptop and done something else. I just wasn't ready to talk.

Tonight I'm ready to get back to blogging. I have artists to share and adventures to tell. I'm relaxing finally and I'm coming to terms with the fact that I don't have to write anything I don't want to. I've been holding myself back waiting for the right mood, right topic, right situation. I'll be moving on, cabbie.

(Seriously, rent it. Hilarious. One of Falk's best and Alan Arkin is hysterical as straight man. Don't bother with the remake. )

Quotability

Quoting movies is practically an Olympic event in my house. My brothers and sisters and I are constantly throwing out a movie quote, following up on someone else's quote, or challenging each other to name the movie. When you get all five of us together (a rare but wonderful occurrence) you can bet that every third sentence will be some sort of quote. We can happily recite entire movies building one on the other. We joke that it's our only way to communicate with each other but it's not far off base. We tend to talk in quotes.

I mention this because in Naxx on Monday, the guild was quoting Ghostbusters (that was your whole plan Ray, Get Her?). At knitting last night someone threw out a Godfather quote. And later on last night, one of my guildies and I went through a good chunk of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Go away or I shall taunt you a second time). I am surrounded by movie quotes.

And this got me thinking. I would say that Holy Grail is one of the most quotable movies of all time. I would rank Ghostbusters right up there. For my family Tommy Boy and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels comes in as close finishers. And Anchorman (which I haven't seen) is quickly becoming a favorite. And we are constantly finding new movies to quote and new ways to incorporate them into a conversation. The same way a friend of mine uses puns, we use movie quotes. But I'm curious. What does everyone out there think of as some of the most quotable movies?

A Bear in His Natural Habitat....a Studebaker

Again big bonus points for recognizing that quote. 

I had to post this. With all the holiday stress I needed to post something fun. Jeff will kill me for it but it really does fit him. That is where I see him 90% of the time he is home.