I'm letting down my whimpers...I'm taking my curlers out...
Maybe The Sound of Music is my favorite movie, ever.
EVER.
Cliche?
Maybe I felt like watching it the other day...
Maybe I was thinking about an old high school friend who shares a SOM obsession, wondered what she was up to, and behold, she had a new Facebook album up of a recent trip to Austria...
Maybe I want to go to Vienna/Salzburg/etc right now too.
Maybe I just want to be an Austrian fraulein.
Maybe I think Brookie has a telopathic powers because she texted me the other night wanting to watch it with me.
Maybe my sophomore year here Emily, Brookie and I went on a bike ride and belted SOM songs. And some people clapped!
Maybe when I was little I used to sing "So Long, Farewell" and inched my way backwards up the stairs like Gretl.
Also, I would do the "Do Re Mi" dance jumping up and down stairs...I was a budding choreographer, yep.
I would also sing "Confidence" sprinting around the house, charting my abrupt stop.("...And all those children, heaven bless them, they will look up to ME...")
Maybe I have the 40th Anniversary edition and maybe I've watched watched all 6 hours of the special features. Twice.
That footage of Gretl being carried out of the water after they capsize that canoe?
Totally candid.
The house? Two different ones used for front and back.
Maybe I still have a crush on Freidrich...even though he's old and I suspect he's gay (from watching the special features)...
Maybe I loooove Uncle Max.
Maybe I think the nuns are genius.
Maybe when I was about 5, I loonnnnged to be 16, then 17, then 18...but those years have sinced passed.
My aunt Lisa and Cousins Elizabeth, Lola, and M.E. at THE gazebo...love!
Maybe I'll be eternally jealous of Liesl's rebellious 16-year-old love life.
(Click HERE for a full gallery of her and dreamy-yet-misguided Rolf)
Maybe one of the other reasons why I think Gwen Stefani is hella cool is because of the Wind It Up music VIDEO....
Maybe I've always thought Christopher Plummer was a fox.
Maybe I want to fashion a romper out of drapes and have a picnic in the countryside.
Who else loves SOM? C'mon...
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OH MY GOSH!!! I crave watching it too!! I used to do the Gretl goodnight as I scooted up the stairs, too! Oh my lovely-also-part-Danish friend--our souls just crave this kind of stuff. I love you for posting this!!
You are awesome. I have not seen SOM for so many years, but loved it when I was little.
YAY!!!! i LOVE this movie. this post is so awesome. and christopher plummer is SUCH a fox in his amazing suits.
ah. i miss you.
i do! i do! oh my gosh. i'm so jealous you went to all those places. if you need a travel buddy... ever... i'm your girl. xoxo. have a lovely weekend.
I'm glad the magic of SOM has touched all of you...
Amy, actually I have NOT been to Austria as of late. and girl, i'm always down for traveling too!
Maybe I was just thinking last night about how I want to go to Vienna and Salzburg last night. AND I LOVE, L-O-V-E SOM. You're not alone.
and the name of my street here in Copenhagen is Havevej, which doesn't mean anything to you perhaps, but it rhymes with Edelweiss and that's how I remember it. come visit!
ali!!!! hahahhaha SOM. oh wow.. it even gets close to our obsession with HITS. (holiday in the sun) miss ya!
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