The Moose Goes to the Movies Part 1: Almost Famous
We’re going to start this off with a little mental exercise. Think back to the first time you felt cool. When I say cool, I don’t mean the mass-produced coolness that gets sold back to everyone in an attempt to sell you the next hot product. I mean the real feeling, the one you get when you sneak into your first “grown up” concert or when you and your friends decide to raid your older sibling’s room for all of the goodies that felt forbidden to you then, even if they seem like such mundane paraphernalia now that you’re older. Got that image in your mind? Good. Keep it there until it feels like it is going to spill out the side of your skull. With this exercise, you would think that I am preparing to tell you all about a movie that places weight on that inherent coolness. In that sense, you could also think I stand at 6 feet tall and have shiny white teeth. But I’m a short angry man with teeth the color of lemons here to let you know that we're talking about being uncool. We’re talking about Almost Famous, the 2000s film directed by Cameron Crowe about a 16-year-old baby faced William Miller coming of age while in the midst of following blooming band Stillwater in the rocking 70s, getting the once in a lifetime chance to write for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Before we digress into that, however, a quick little note. This is the first part in a weekly series covering the favorite music centric movies of the writer, yours truly, and the things we can at least try to glean from any of them. Next week's diatribe will be on the 90s cult classic Empire Records. When it comes to this piece though, at least half of this will be incoherent. A quarter of it will be downright idiotic. Who knows what the last quarter of this will be, but somewhere in there is some kernel of truth I’m trying to pop. Now that I have finished my expository drivel, let's get onto the rest of the show.
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