"Movies"

I went to a lot of movies in the 1980s, mostly in and around the Boston area. On my very first night there, I went to see Woody Allen’s Zelig at the Sack Paris Theater on Boylston. It was during the early 1980s that I discovered that popcorn and apple cider were made for each other. I would go to the matinees because they were cheaper, and I nearly always had popcorn and cider to accompany the film. Most of the theaters I attended regularly no longer exist. My favorite was Off the Wall Cinema in Central Square, Cambridge. It was at Off the Wall that I discovered the genius of Buster Keaton. The little cartoon accompanying this post is my homage to Buster.

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Movies

© 1985 Brian Hutzell

Going to movies is ecstasy to me

Cause I like to torture myself by pretending

I'm living the scenes on the screen

It's more fun than reality

Sit in the theater

Popcorn and cider

Absorbed in the action, my eyes open wider

I'm wishing these dreams were happening to me

Nothing wild ever happens to me

Fake life is better than no life at all

If movies can thrill me

I'll go to them all

Fantasy's wonderful, fiction is fun

But I'm lost when the movie's done

Going to movies is therapy to me

I don't find it hard to pretend I'm a star

I'm living the glamorous life

Imagining I'm satisfied

Sit there for hours

Stripped of my powers to enter the workforce

These moments are worth more than experience

Does that make sense?

I'm living vicariously

Fake life is better than no life at all

If movies can thrill me

I'll go to them all

Fantasy's wonderful, fiction is fun

But I'm lost when the movie's done

"Buster"

Brian Hutzell