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      <title>Film:Footloose</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Footloose<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1984<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Herbert Ross<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 18<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 25<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 8<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 2<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Weekly Theme for January 19: Neighborhood Watch</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_January_19_Neighborhood_Watch/625/39796/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/122321/default.aspx'>seely</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/625/discussions.aspx'>Weekly Theme</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/22/2009 2:31:44 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Ragtime Great period peice dealing with racial injustice in the 1930's set against a backdrop of some very infamous historical characters of the times. Bicentennial Man A little bit of a futuristic way of dealing with racism and ignorant fear mongering. Footloose Kevin Bacon threatens a sleepy town set in its ways with his fast footwork.  Parents and other "squares" try to curb Bacon's enthusiasm.  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:31:44 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>seely</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/22/2009 2:31:44 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Ragtime Great period peice dealing with racial injustice in the 1930's set against a backdrop of some very infamous historical characters of the times. Bicentennial Man A little bit of a futuristic way of dealing with racism and ignorant fear mongering. Footloose Kevin Bacon threatens a sleepy town set in its ways with his fast footwork.  Parents and other "squares" try to curb Bacon's enthusiasm.  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Is it OK to be a straight male and enjoy 'High School Musical 3?"</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/usesoap/archive/2008/10/29/36782.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/113227/default.aspx'>usesoap</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/usesoap/default.aspx'>usesoap Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/29/2008 8:56:22 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> "High School Musical" represents everything I despise about the corporate juggernaut known as Disney: Flawless teens seemingly air-brushed by nature, ready-to-market characters prepared to franchise into every imaginable direction (stage play, television series, dolls, ice show, dolls, recording contracts, etc.), and a story you can set your watch to. It's also pretty darn fun, gosh darn it. I realize that the majority of the target audience of 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' could not give two shakes of Zac Efron's hips as to what my opinion of the film is. So this review go out to all the parents out there.  If there is a female child dwelling in your home and who is old enough to form a complete sentence, chances are good she knows of the juggernaut knows as "High School Musical" (or 'HSM' if you wanna b, like, hip). Chance are, too, that you have a musical number or two lodged in your cerebral cortex as it played on an endless loop in your DVD player, or as your child practiced some third-rate karaoke version of it in front of any and all reflective surfaces within your home. For this, their third outing, the East High Wildcats are in their freshly scrubbed final year in this homogenize high school, and the doubts and fears of life outside the hallowed halls are now front and center in the minds of leads Troy (Efron), Gabrielle (Vanessa Hudgens), Chad (Corbin Blue), Taylor (Monique Coleman), and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale). As with any plot in a film with "musical" in the title, the teens plans to put on a group show, much to the dismay of the the self-absorbed Sharpay, who wants a one-woman show for her finale. And while it may feel like a cheap money-grabbing ploy to splash the big screen with this third installment, considering the first two films were squished into the confines of the small screen where their ratings shot through the ceiling, but considering the emotional resonance of high school's senior year, it seems rather fitting. It does not hurt that the cast don't seem phased by their universal omnipotence in the rooms of pre-pubescent girls and give each number their all. But the most inspired bits of this outing are compliments of director/choreographer Kenny Ortega. Ortega has lent his moves to movies since 1980s roller disco camp classic "Xanadu," and whose career since has busted some moves ("Dirty Dancing," the under-appreciated "Newsies") and lost its grooves ("Shag" or "Salsa," anyone?) -- and he's next set to direct the remake of the 80s equivalent to "HSM," "Footloose" in 2010) -- but he finds his groove early here and channels his inner Fosse. He never misses an opportunity to toss in a nod to musicals past, from the faux-tough "West Side Story" orneriness of "The Boys are Back," to the Busby Berkely-inspired "A Night to Remember," and even the spinning room of "Roman Holiday" for good measure. It's not a far cry from the "put on a show" mentality of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney so many decades ago. And as a parent of a young daughter who adores "Singin' in the Rain," it's a tad refreshing to witness another musical that can be easily inserted into the DVD player without fear of her emulating the pelvic thrusts of so many other hungry starlets in the current pop stratosphere.  The only time "HSM3" trips on its stage is when it attempts to shoehorn its newest batch of fresh-faced cast members (poised and ready for their "High School Musical 4" debut, coming to a TV near you in 2009). They possess little of the mile-wide charisma of Efron or Tisdale's catty histrionics. It's a fitful send-off to seniors so squeaky clean, they make "ABC's Afterschool Specials" look like Larry Clarke's "Kids" by comparison. It's a cheery, chipper finale so wholesome it may leave calcium deposits in its wake, but so gleefully in love with its own power of positivity, it happily earns its tasseled mortarboard.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:56:22 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>usesoap</spout:postby><spout:postto>usesoap Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/29/2008 8:56:22 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>"High School Musical" represents everything I despise about the corporate juggernaut known as Disney: Flawless teens seemingly air-brushed by nature, ready-to-market characters prepared to franchise into every imaginable direction (stage play, television series, dolls, ice show, dolls, recording contracts, etc.), and a story you can set your watch to. It's also pretty darn fun, gosh darn it. I realize that the majority of the target audience of 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' could not give two shakes of Zac Efron's hips as to what my opinion of the film is. So this review go out to all the parents out there.  If there is a female child dwelling in your home and who is old enough to form a complete sentence, chances are good she knows of the juggernaut knows as "High School Musical" (or 'HSM' if you wanna b, like, hip). Chance are, too, that you have a musical number or two lodged in your cerebral cortex as it played on an endless loop in your DVD player, or as your child practiced some third-rate karaoke version of it in front of any and all reflective surfaces within your home. For this, their third outing, the East High Wildcats are in their freshly scrubbed final year in this homogenize high school, and the doubts and fears of life outside the hallowed halls are now front and center in the minds of leads Troy (Efron), Gabrielle (Vanessa Hudgens), Chad (Corbin Blue), Taylor (Monique Coleman), and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale). As with any plot in a film with "musical" in the title, the teens plans to put on a group show, much to the dismay of the the self-absorbed Sharpay, who wants a one-woman show for her finale. And while it may feel like a cheap money-grabbing ploy to splash the big screen with this third installment, considering the first two films were squished into the confines of the small screen where their ratings shot through the ceiling, but considering the emotional resonance of high school's senior year, it seems rather fitting. It does not hurt that the cast don't seem phased by their universal omnipotence in the rooms of pre-pubescent girls and give each number their all. But the most inspired bits of this outing are compliments of director/choreographer Kenny Ortega. Ortega has lent his moves to movies since 1980s roller disco camp classic "Xanadu," and whose career since has busted some moves ("Dirty Dancing," the under-appreciated "Newsies") and lost its grooves ("Shag" or "Salsa," anyone?) -- and he's next set to direct the remake of the 80s equivalent to "HSM," "Footloose" in 2010) -- but he finds his groove early here and channels his inner Fosse. He never misses an opportunity to toss in a nod to musicals past, from the faux-tough "West Side Story" orneriness of "The Boys are Back," to the Busby Berkely-inspired "A Night to Remember," and even the spinning room of "Roman Holiday" for good measure. It's not a far cry from the "put on a show" mentality of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney so many decades ago. And as a parent of a young daughter who adores "Singin' in the Rain," it's a tad refreshing to witness another musical that can be easily inserted into the DVD player without fear of her emulating the pelvic thrusts of so many other hungry starlets in the current pop stratosphere.  The only time "HSM3" trips on its stage is when it attempts to shoehorn its newest batch of fresh-faced cast members (poised and ready for their "High School Musical 4" debut, coming to a TV near you in 2009). They possess little of the mile-wide charisma of Efron or Tisdale's catty histrionics. It's a fitful send-off to seniors so squeaky clean, they make "ABC's Afterschool Specials" look like Larry Clarke's "Kids" by comparison. It's a cheery, chipper finale so wholesome it may leave calcium deposits in its wake, but so gleefully in love with its own power of positivity, it happily earns its tasseled mortarboard.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The Return of the Musical. Trade Roughage 10/28/08</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/10/28/36722.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/19702/default.aspx'>Karina</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/default.aspx'>Karina on SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/28/2008 10:01:49 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
In yet another sign that 2008 is the new 1928, Hollywood, impressed by the massive first-weekend success of High School Musical 3, is rushing a number of music-based projects into production. Paramount is bumping their Zac Efron-starring, Kenny Ortega-directed remake of Footloose up the calendar; Nick and Norah director Peter Sollett has been asked to punch up the script before a spring shoot. Meanwhile, Fox is setting up their own big-screen musical around a passel of Disney Channel stars: this time, it’s the Jonas Brothers, and the project is the first film in a hoped-for franchise based on the “Walter the Farting Dog” books. Yes, there are apparently childrens books about farting dogs. Maybe it’s not The Great Depression 2 — maybe it’s Idiocracy 0.5.
Perhaps surprisingly, Dan Glickman says that although “there’s no fundamental difference between Obama or McCain on intellectual property issues,” an Obama administration might be slightly more favorable for the MPAA’s fight against piracy, as Obama be expected to connect to “newer, younger White House staffers and appointees about the value and importance of IP.” But the studios’ lobbying board would clash sharply with a Democrat administration over net neutrality, which Obama strongly supports, and Glickman … doesn’t.
DETAILS Magazine has invited their readers to submit film pitches. In partnership with Larry Meistrich of Shooting Gallery and Film Movement, the mag will seek a winning idea targeted at “intelligent, modern, metropolitan men,” they’ll then actually produce.
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth<br/>
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In yet another sign that 2008 is the new 1928, Hollywood, impressed by the massive first-weekend success of High School Musical 3, is rushing a number of music-based projects into production. Paramount is bumping their Zac Efron-starring, Kenny Ortega-directed remake of Footloose up the calendar; Nick and Norah director Peter Sollett has been asked to punch up the script before a spring shoot. Meanwhile, Fox is setting up their own big-screen musical around a passel of Disney Channel stars: this time, it’s the Jonas Brothers, and the project is the first film in a hoped-for franchise based on the “Walter the Farting Dog” books. Yes, there are apparently childrens books about farting dogs. Maybe it’s not The Great Depression 2 — maybe it’s Idiocracy 0.5.
Perhaps surprisingly, Dan Glickman says that although “there’s no fundamental difference between Obama or McCain on intellectual property issues,” an Obama administration might be slightly more favorable for the MPAA’s fight against piracy, as Obama be expected to connect to “newer, younger White House staffers and appointees about the value and importance of IP.” But the studios’ lobbying board would clash sharply with a Democrat administration over net neutrality, which Obama strongly supports, and Glickman … doesn’t.
DETAILS Magazine has invited their readers to submit film pitches. In partnership with Larry Meistrich of Shooting Gallery and Film Movement, the mag will seek a winning idea targeted at “intelligent, modern, metropolitan men,” they’ll then actually produce.
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      <title>Spout Post: The Return of the Musical. Trade Roughage 10/28/08</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/28/36721.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/28/2008 10:01:39 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
In yet another sign that 2008 is the new 1928, Hollywood, impressed by the massive first-weekend success of High School Musical 3, is rushing a number of music-based projects into production. Paramount is bumping their Zac Efron-starring, Kenny Ortega-directed remake of Footloose up the calendar; Nick and Norah director Peter Sollett has been asked to punch up the script before a spring shoot. Meanwhile, Fox is setting up their own big-screen musical around a passel of Disney Channel stars: this time, it’s the Jonas Brothers, and the project is the first film in a hoped-for franchise based on the “Walter the Farting Dog” books. Yes, there are apparently childrens books about farting dogs. Maybe it’s not The Great Depression 2 — maybe it’s Idiocracy 0.5.
Perhaps surprisingly, Dan Glickman says that although “there’s no fundamental difference between Obama or McCain on intellectual property issues,” an Obama administration might be slightly more favorable for the MPAA’s fight against piracy, as Obama be expected to connect to “newer, younger White House staffers and appointees about the value and importance of IP.” But the studios’ lobbying board would clash sharply with a Democrat administration over net neutrality, which Obama strongly supports, and Glickman … doesn’t.
DETAILS Magazine has invited their readers to submit film pitches. In partnership with Larry Meistrich of Shooting Gallery and Film Movement, the mag will seek a winning idea targeted at “intelligent, modern, metropolitan men,” they’ll then actually produce.
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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In yet another sign that 2008 is the new 1928, Hollywood, impressed by the massive first-weekend success of High School Musical 3, is rushing a number of music-based projects into production. Paramount is bumping their Zac Efron-starring, Kenny Ortega-directed remake of Footloose up the calendar; Nick and Norah director Peter Sollett has been asked to punch up the script before a spring shoot. Meanwhile, Fox is setting up their own big-screen musical around a passel of Disney Channel stars: this time, it’s the Jonas Brothers, and the project is the first film in a hoped-for franchise based on the “Walter the Farting Dog” books. Yes, there are apparently childrens books about farting dogs. Maybe it’s not The Great Depression 2 — maybe it’s Idiocracy 0.5.
Perhaps surprisingly, Dan Glickman says that although “there’s no fundamental difference between Obama or McCain on intellectual property issues,” an Obama administration might be slightly more favorable for the MPAA’s fight against piracy, as Obama be expected to connect to “newer, younger White House staffers and appointees about the value and importance of IP.” But the studios’ lobbying board would clash sharply with a Democrat administration over net neutrality, which Obama strongly supports, and Glickman … doesn’t.
DETAILS Magazine has invited their readers to submit film pitches. In partnership with Larry Meistrich of Shooting Gallery and Film Movement, the mag will seek a winning idea targeted at “intelligent, modern, metropolitan men,” they’ll then actually produce.
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Movies that Inspired You in the 80s</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Grew_up_in_the_80_s/Re_Movies_that_Inspired_You_in_the_80s/38/35651/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/138710/default.aspx'>Myste</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Grew_up_in_the_80_s/38/discussions.aspx'>Grew up in the 80's</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/27/2008 11:47:10 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Oh I agree, I really liked the Fame movie and loved the Fame series even more.  How many times did I end up singing along with the tv!  Other inspiring movies from that era... oh probably The Karate Kid soooo made me want to take martial arts lessons!  I guess anything with a montage right?  Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, hmm I'm sensing a dancing trend here. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:47:10 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Myste</spout:postby><spout:postto>Grew up in the 80's</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/27/2008 11:47:10 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Oh I agree, I really liked the Fame movie and loved the Fame series even more.  How many times did I end up singing along with the tv!  Other inspiring movies from that era... oh probably The Karate Kid soooo made me want to take martial arts lessons!  I guess anything with a montage right?  Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, hmm I'm sensing a dancing trend here. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Star Wars Dance-Off. Clip of the Day</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/12/31186.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/12/2008 5:00:39 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
The new trailer for this summer’s animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn’t all that exciting. So instead, I bring you this year’s Star Wars dance-off (aka Dancing with the Star Wars Stars) from a recent Star Wars Weekends event held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I’d definitely prefer a theatrical release of something like this than a movie that looks like a video game. And who can argue with me? Chewbacca dancing to the theme from Footloose? Princess Leia singing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to her mom, Queen Amidala? Darth Vader and troops reliving the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”? There’s no way you can say no to that.
This year’s dance numbers were so much better than last year’s disco-themed event, which reminded me too much of the Star Wars Holiday Special. I’ve never before wanted to become a convention-attending, costume-wearing Star Wars geek, but if they have this kind of fun, I might just change my mind.
[via The Movie Blog] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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The new trailer for this summer’s animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn’t all that exciting. So instead, I bring you this year’s Star Wars dance-off (aka Dancing with the Star Wars Stars) from a recent Star Wars Weekends event held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I’d definitely prefer a theatrical release of something like this than a movie that looks like a video game. And who can argue with me? Chewbacca dancing to the theme from Footloose? Princess Leia singing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to her mom, Queen Amidala? Darth Vader and troops reliving the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”? There’s no way you can say no to that.
This year’s dance numbers were so much better than last year’s disco-themed event, which reminded me too much of the Star Wars Holiday Special. I’ve never before wanted to become a convention-attending, costume-wearing Star Wars geek, but if they have this kind of fun, I might just change my mind.
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      <title>Spout Post: Paramount Encourages The Matrix</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/4/3/26925.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 4/3/2008 5:00:31 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I still don’t get the deal with these “virtual worlds” the kids are all into today, but apparently someone at Paramount Pictures is hip enough to exploit get involved. The studio is opening its film vault and supplying both There.com and vMTV (which like Paramount is owned by Viacom) with thousands of very short “PG-13-or-tamer” video clips of parts of its movies (examples given are Footloose and Clueless). Unlike the full-length versions of The Matrix and Gattaca that are available in the “world” of Gaia Online, these clips are not as much for entertainment purposes as they are a  sort of virtual way to “speak” in movie quotes.
There.com and vMTV members will be able to express themselves with seconds-long video clips of movie one liners — say, Danny Zucko’s “Be cool, huh?” from “Grease” — with the service called VooZoo. The application from Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket was introduced on social-networking site Facebook last month and on mobile devices Tuesday.
 (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:00:31 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>4/3/2008 5:00:31 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I still don’t get the deal with these “virtual worlds” the kids are all into today, but apparently someone at Paramount Pictures is hip enough to exploit get involved. The studio is opening its film vault and supplying both There.com and vMTV (which like Paramount is owned by Viacom) with thousands of very short “PG-13-or-tamer” video clips of parts of its movies (examples given are Footloose and Clueless). Unlike the full-length versions of The Matrix and Gattaca that are available in the “world” of Gaia Online, these clips are not as much for entertainment purposes as they are a  sort of virtual way to “speak” in movie quotes.
There.com and vMTV members will be able to express themselves with seconds-long video clips of movie one liners — say, Danny Zucko’s “Be cool, huh?” from “Grease” — with the service called VooZoo. The application from Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket was introduced on social-networking site Facebook last month and on mobile devices Tuesday.
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      <title>Spout Post: The Ten Most Anti-Christian Movies of All Time [NY Mag]</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/lopezdash/archive/2007/12/10/22694.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/89318/default.aspx'>lopezdash</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/lopezdash/default.aspx'>The Movie Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/10/2007 1:02:19 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> From the Entertainment and Culture blog over at New York Magazine comes a list of THE TEN MOST ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME.  What a title, eh?                                                                                                                                                                           10. Carrie (1976)    After the titular protagonist gets her first period at school, her crazy, devoutly Christian mother locks her in a closet and tells her to pray, explaining that only sinners menstruate (Wikipedia says this is false). Luckily, Carrie has telekinetic powers, which she uses to toss her mom across a room, electrocute her principal, and burn down her high school&#39;s gymnasium, killing hundreds of students. Parents, take note.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iVo8y3A   9. Priest (1995)    Antonia Bird&#39;s film &mdash; which caused a flash of protest when Miramax released it &mdash; follows Linus Roache&#39;s gay priest as he struggles against his vow of celibacy, and his inability to help a young girl who confesses that her father is abusing her. Perhaps better described as anti-celibacy than anti-Christian, the film ends with a moment of grace that casts the film&#39;s view of faith in a somewhat gentler light, but it&#39;s hard to overstate how violently some religious viewers responded to the image of a Catholic priest doing it with Trainspotting&#39;s Robert Carlyle.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVNbV1zPDU   8. Footloose (1984)    Despite its canonical status as an eighties classic, we&rsquo;re willing to bet that if an original script like Footloose &mdash; in which fun-loving teen Kevin Bacon arrives in a small town where preacher John Lithgow has banned rock music and dancing &mdash; landed on a Hollywood exec&rsquo;s desk today, they&rsquo;d be too afraid to produce it, lest it offend some key demographic. It&rsquo;s Lithgow&rsquo;s villain who really makes the movie: Soft-spoken and patronizing when he&rsquo;s not spitting out the fire and brimstone (&quot;He&rsquo;s testing us!!&quot;), his performance is a bone-chilling portrait of smug self-righteousness and could easily blend in among any number of Sunday-morning-TV preachers. The only thing missing is a bad hairpiece.  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2t6T7rhCU  7. Dogma (1999)      Sure, not all of the jokes were funny. Also, its plot is almost as incomprehensible as the Bible&#39;s. Even so, you&#39;ve got to admire Kevin Smith for having the nerve to cast George Carlin as a cardinal (who tries to make Catholicism more accessible by replacing the crucifix with a statue of Jesus giving a thumbs-up), Chris Rock as the thirteenth apostle (who was omitted from the Bible for being black), and Alanis Morrisette as God (this really pissed off Christians, since her second album had just come out and it was a total stinker). Plus, he got Disney to pay for it!Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zEraHgfO4 6. Jesus Camp (2006)    Documentary filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing probably never set out to make Evangelical Christians look crazy, but when they showed up at the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a children&#39;s Bible camp in Devils Lake, North Dakota, and set up their cameras, that&#39;s exactly what happened. The home-schooled little rascals roll around on the floor speaking in tongues, take strategic pointers from radical Islam, and bless a cardboard cutout of President Bush (see above). Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard even shows up to decry the horrors of homosexuality, presumably in between visits to his gay, meth-dealing masseur.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgvgjfwyPs     5. The Name of the Rose (1986)    True, the heroes of Umberto Eco&#39;s religio-literary mystery are themselves monks &mdash; played by Sean Connery and Christian Slater in the movie version &mdash; but that doesn&#39;t stop this thriller, set in a medieval abbey where the faithful are dying in pursuit of a long-lost and forbidden copy of Aristotle&#39;s Poetics, from being one of cinema&#39;s most damning looks at religious superstition. Not the least because,besides the two leads, practically every monk in this film (1) is hideous-looking and (2) dies a horrible, excruciating death. It&#39;s as if H.R. Giger and Dario Argento collaborated on the film version of God Is Not Great. Don&#39;t miss the scene where Ron Perlman eats a rat.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc-_hkLBVnc    4. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)    There have been plenty of movies in recent years about priestly abuse &mdash; God only knows why &mdash; but few are more single-minded in their condemnation than Peter Mullan&#39;s harrowing look at three unfortunate young Irish Catholic women who wind up under the custody of a Magdalene convent for wayward girls in the sixties. Between the beatings and rapes they&#39;re subjected to at the hands of sadistic nuns and lewd priests, and the brutality of the ostensibly God-fearing society outside the convent walls, Mullan&#39;s film plays at times like Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS remade in monastic disguise. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJYiJQ-jbkM    3. The Boys of St. Vincent (1993)  This four-hour Canadian telefilm is a difficult, complex portrait of a Catholic orphanage ruled over by a pedophilic priest (Henry Czerny, in a role that launched him into a career of playing creepy bastards). But the film isn&#39;t anti-Christian because it&#39;s yet another movie about a priest who can&#39;t keep his hands off the flock; it&#39;s anti-Christian because its primary theme is the creeping danger of Catholicism&#39;s emphasis on submission of the self to those above you on the pecking order, whether that&#39;s a priest, a Church administrator, or God Himself.   2. Monty Python&#39;s The Meaning of Life (1983)    The blasphemous Life of Brian would have been the obvious choice here, but that one just gently chides the Jesus myth, whereas the Pythons&#39; final film actually eviscerates the pettiness of religion in everyday life, never more effectively than in the hilarious musical number &quot;Every Sperm Is Sacred,&quot; sung by a miserably poor and overpopulated Catholic household while their preening, repressed Protestant neighbors look on in pity. (&quot;When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in 1517, he may not have realized the full significance of what he was doing, but 400 years later, thanks to him, my dear &hellip; I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry&#39;s and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, &#39;Harry, I think I&#39;ll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant!&#39;&quot;)Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8    1. The Canterbury Tales (1972) Although he made what many still consider to be the quintessential Jesus movie (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964), Italian Marxist homosexual poet Pier Paolo Pasolini was no fan of religious dogma, and his sex-drenched, free-form adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer&#39;s poem constantly thumbs its nose at the falsely pious. But Pasolini saves the big one for the end: The film ends with a shocking and hilarious vision of Hell in which Satan cracks open his butt cheeks and shits out streams of screaming friars. In close-up. Repeatedly. Sadly, we were unable to find this clip on YouTube, but then we realized we could put it up ourselves. Enjoy, because it won&#39;t last long.                                                                  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:02:19 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>lopezdash</spout:postby><spout:postto>The Movie Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/10/2007 1:02:19 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>From the Entertainment and Culture blog over at New York Magazine comes a list of THE TEN MOST ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME.  What a title, eh?                                                                                                                                                                           10. Carrie (1976)    After the titular protagonist gets her first period at school, her crazy, devoutly Christian mother locks her in a closet and tells her to pray, explaining that only sinners menstruate (Wikipedia says this is false). Luckily, Carrie has telekinetic powers, which she uses to toss her mom across a room, electrocute her principal, and burn down her high school&amp;#39;s gymnasium, killing hundreds of students. Parents, take note.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iVo8y3A   9. Priest (1995)    Antonia Bird&amp;#39;s film &amp;mdash; which caused a flash of protest when Miramax released it &amp;mdash; follows Linus Roache&amp;#39;s gay priest as he struggles against his vow of celibacy, and his inability to help a young girl who confesses that her father is abusing her. Perhaps better described as anti-celibacy than anti-Christian, the film ends with a moment of grace that casts the film&amp;#39;s view of faith in a somewhat gentler light, but it&amp;#39;s hard to overstate how violently some religious viewers responded to the image of a Catholic priest doing it with Trainspotting&amp;#39;s Robert Carlyle.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVNbV1zPDU   8. Footloose (1984)    Despite its canonical status as an eighties classic, we&amp;rsquo;re willing to bet that if an original script like Footloose &amp;mdash; in which fun-loving teen Kevin Bacon arrives in a small town where preacher John Lithgow has banned rock music and dancing &amp;mdash; landed on a Hollywood exec&amp;rsquo;s desk today, they&amp;rsquo;d be too afraid to produce it, lest it offend some key demographic. It&amp;rsquo;s Lithgow&amp;rsquo;s villain who really makes the movie: Soft-spoken and patronizing when he&amp;rsquo;s not spitting out the fire and brimstone (&amp;quot;He&amp;rsquo;s testing us!!&amp;quot;), his performance is a bone-chilling portrait of smug self-righteousness and could easily blend in among any number of Sunday-morning-TV preachers. The only thing missing is a bad hairpiece.  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2t6T7rhCU  7. Dogma (1999)      Sure, not all of the jokes were funny. Also, its plot is almost as incomprehensible as the Bible&amp;#39;s. Even so, you&amp;#39;ve got to admire Kevin Smith for having the nerve to cast George Carlin as a cardinal (who tries to make Catholicism more accessible by replacing the crucifix with a statue of Jesus giving a thumbs-up), Chris Rock as the thirteenth apostle (who was omitted from the Bible for being black), and Alanis Morrisette as God (this really pissed off Christians, since her second album had just come out and it was a total stinker). Plus, he got Disney to pay for it!Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zEraHgfO4 6. Jesus Camp (2006)    Documentary filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing probably never set out to make Evangelical Christians look crazy, but when they showed up at the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a children&amp;#39;s Bible camp in Devils Lake, North Dakota, and set up their cameras, that&amp;#39;s exactly what happened. The home-schooled little rascals roll around on the floor speaking in tongues, take strategic pointers from radical Islam, and bless a cardboard cutout of President Bush (see above). Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard even shows up to decry the horrors of homosexuality, presumably in between visits to his gay, meth-dealing masseur.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgvgjfwyPs     5. The Name of the Rose (1986)    True, the heroes of Umberto Eco&amp;#39;s religio-literary mystery are themselves monks &amp;mdash; played by Sean Connery and Christian Slater in the movie version &amp;mdash; but that doesn&amp;#39;t stop this thriller, set in a medieval abbey where the faithful are dying in pursuit of a long-lost and forbidden copy of Aristotle&amp;#39;s Poetics, from being one of cinema&amp;#39;s most damning looks at religious superstition. Not the least because,besides the two leads, practically every monk in this film (1) is hideous-looking and (2) dies a horrible, excruciating death. It&amp;#39;s as if H.R. Giger and Dario Argento collaborated on the film version of God Is Not Great. Don&amp;#39;t miss the scene where Ron Perlman eats a rat.Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc-_hkLBVnc    4. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)    There have been plenty of movies in recent years about priestly abuse &amp;mdash; God only knows why &amp;mdash; but few are more single-minded in their condemnation than Peter Mullan&amp;#39;s harrowing look at three unfortunate young Irish Catholic women who wind up under the custody of a Magdalene convent for wayward girls in the sixties. Between the beatings and rapes they&amp;#39;re subjected to at the hands of sadistic nuns and lewd priests, and the brutality of the ostensibly God-fearing society outside the convent walls, Mullan&amp;#39;s film plays at times like Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS remade in monastic disguise. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJYiJQ-jbkM    3. The Boys of St. Vincent (1993)  This four-hour Canadian telefilm is a difficult, complex portrait of a Catholic orphanage ruled over by a pedophilic priest (Henry Czerny, in a role that launched him into a career of playing creepy bastards). But the film isn&amp;#39;t anti-Christian because it&amp;#39;s yet another movie about a priest who can&amp;#39;t keep his hands off the flock; it&amp;#39;s anti-Christian because its primary theme is the creeping danger of Catholicism&amp;#39;s emphasis on submission of the self to those above you on the pecking order, whether that&amp;#39;s a priest, a Church administrator, or God Himself.   2. Monty Python&amp;#39;s The Meaning of Life (1983)    The blasphemous Life of Brian would have been the obvious choice here, but that one just gently chides the Jesus myth, whereas the Pythons&amp;#39; final film actually eviscerates the pettiness of religion in everyday life, never more effectively than in the hilarious musical number &amp;quot;Every Sperm Is Sacred,&amp;quot; sung by a miserably poor and overpopulated Catholic household while their preening, repressed Protestant neighbors look on in pity. (&amp;quot;When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in 1517, he may not have realized the full significance of what he was doing, but 400 years later, thanks to him, my dear &amp;hellip; I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry&amp;#39;s and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, &amp;#39;Harry, I think I&amp;#39;ll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant!&amp;#39;&amp;quot;)Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8    1. The Canterbury Tales (1972) Although he made what many still consider to be the quintessential Jesus movie (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964), Italian Marxist homosexual poet Pier Paolo Pasolini was no fan of religious dogma, and his sex-drenched, free-form adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer&amp;#39;s poem constantly thumbs its nose at the falsely pious. But Pasolini saves the big one for the end: The film ends with a shocking and hilarious vision of Hell in which Satan cracks open his butt cheeks and shits out streams of screaming friars. In close-up. Repeatedly. Sadly, we were unable to find this clip on YouTube, but then we realized we could put it up ourselves. Enjoy, because it won&amp;#39;t last long.                                                                  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 5 Sickeningly Sappy Movie Songs *And Why You Love Them!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/marymcilwain/archive/2007/11/10/21590.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/49916/default.aspx'>marymcilwain</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/marymcilwain/default.aspx'>Dollar Video Curator</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/10/2007 5:57:35 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> &quot;If You Leave&quot; by OMD - From: &quot;Pretty in Pink&quot;&quot;If you leave, don&#39;t leave now. Please don&#39;t take my heart away. Promise me, just one more night. Then we&#39;ll go our separate ways.&quot;    What teenager can&#39;t imagine the heartbreaking, beautiful sadness of only being allowed one more night, for whatever cruel, cruel reason.           Never mind the blatant contradiction of OMD, singing in one line that they won&#39;t let go of us at any price, and then quicker that you can exhale a deep, soft shuddery sigh of resignation to stay, they&#39;re stating they&#39;ll be running in the other direction the second our feet hit the pavement. Those New Wave British Synth-Pop groups are all the same.   &quot;Against All Odds&quot; by Phil Collins - From &quot;Against All Odds&quot;    There is something just absolutely irresistible about Phil Collins&#39; sad-sack honesty in this song. &quot;I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry. There&#39;s so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why. You&#39;re the only one who really knew me at all.&quot;        It&#39;s so weepily pathetic you just want to wrap him up in a blanket, share a cup of hot cocoa and have well deserved, long-needed cry with him. Misery loves company after all. But when Phil belts these last lines out, &quot;Take a good look at me now, cos I&#39;ll still be standing here, and you coming back to me is against all odds, it&#39;s the chance I&#39;ve gotta take,&quot; it&#39;s time to sit him down and explain the cold hard reality of the situation to him. Poor guy.     &quot;Glory of Love&quot; by Peter Cetera - From: &quot;The Karate Kid Part II&quot;     &quot;Just like a knight in shining armor from a long time ago, just in time I will save the day, take you to my castle far away.&quot;       Despite the terrifying image that this line creates, one of Peter Cetera racing toward us, feathered hair a-flying, on a grand white steed, whilst sheathed in heavy armor, this song really cuts right into your heart.  And he so earnestly and intensely stares right into the camera here, nay, into your soul.        And regardless of his being so creepily intense, you know that Peter just really and truly believes in the power of lyrics such as these: &quot;You&#39;ll keep me standing tall. You&#39;ll help me through it all. I&#39;m always strong when you&#39;re beside me. I have always needed you. I could never make it alone.?&quot;    And maybe the only reason he is sometimes off putting is just because you love him so much that you can genuinely imagine him whispering, &quot;I am a man who will fight for your honor. I&#39;ll be the hero you&#39;re dreaming of. We&#39;ll live forever, knowing together that we did it all for the glory of love,&quot; in you ears while he makes to you sweet, sweet, creepy, love.     &quot;She&#39;s Like the Wind&quot; by Patrick Swayze - From: &quot;Dirty Dancing&quot;    Yet another candid, solemn set of deep feelings set to the power of the written and sung word. But these are so especially special, because they are both written and sung by our very favorite Video Curator hero, Mr. Patrick Swayze.      Powerful and simple, yet cheesily artful, and of course set to the video of Dirty Dancing. The reason this song is so deeply loved, is in part, because of such bold statements, &quot;I look in the mirror and all I see, is a young old man with only a dream. Am I just fooling myself that she&#39;ll stop the pain? Living without her, I&#39;d go insane!&quot;    YES - you know you&#39;ve been there. Patrick is a simple man, speaking simple words of truth, directed at your ear drum with the power and authority of cupid&#39;s brutal arrow. If you even attempt to claim you&#39;ve never thought you&#39;d go insane without a certain other&#39;s love and affection you will hence be banned from the soothing, healing light of all things touched by Patrick Swayze.     &quot;Almost Paradise&quot; by Mike Reno &amp; Anne Wilson - From: &quot;Footloose&quot;    &quot;And in your arms salvation&#39;s not so far away, it&#39;s getting closer, closer every day! Almost paradise, we&#39;re knocking on heavens door. Almost paradise, how could we ask for more&quot;?    How indeed. Well, what&#39;s missing? Why have they not reached paradise yet, we listeners may wonder?        For these two we can only assume this song is referring to early-stage relationship, sexual encounters. You too, can relate. The elation and excitement of the first couple times, but maybe you are not quite comfortable enough to, how do you say, &quot;Cross the threshold&quot;?      &quot;I thought that dreams belonged to other men, cuz each time I got close they&#39;d fall apart again,&quot; says Mike. And in response says Anne, &quot;I faced the nights alone. Oh how could I have known, that all my life I only needed you&quot;? To which they both reply in swelling synchronicity, &quot;Oooh almost paradise we&#39;re knocking on heavens door. Almost paradise, how could we ask for more&quot;?    In short, a song of hope; of sexual honesty. We&#39;re rooting for you two kids. Take heart, and keep on trying. That orgasm will come. So to speak. Originally posted on:Dollar Video Curator<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:57:35 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>marymcilwain</spout:postby><spout:postto>Dollar Video Curator</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/10/2007 5:57:35 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>&amp;quot;If You Leave&amp;quot; by OMD - From: &amp;quot;Pretty in Pink&amp;quot;&amp;quot;If you leave, don&amp;#39;t leave now. Please don&amp;#39;t take my heart away. Promise me, just one more night. Then we&amp;#39;ll go our separate ways.&amp;quot;    What teenager can&amp;#39;t imagine the heartbreaking, beautiful sadness of only being allowed one more night, for whatever cruel, cruel reason.           Never mind the blatant contradiction of OMD, singing in one line that they won&amp;#39;t let go of us at any price, and then quicker that you can exhale a deep, soft shuddery sigh of resignation to stay, they&amp;#39;re stating they&amp;#39;ll be running in the other direction the second our feet hit the pavement. Those New Wave British Synth-Pop groups are all the same.   &amp;quot;Against All Odds&amp;quot; by Phil Collins - From &amp;quot;Against All Odds&amp;quot;    There is something just absolutely irresistible about Phil Collins&amp;#39; sad-sack honesty in this song. &amp;quot;I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry. There&amp;#39;s so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why. You&amp;#39;re the only one who really knew me at all.&amp;quot;        It&amp;#39;s so weepily pathetic you just want to wrap him up in a blanket, share a cup of hot cocoa and have well deserved, long-needed cry with him. Misery loves company after all. But when Phil belts these last lines out, &amp;quot;Take a good look at me now, cos I&amp;#39;ll still be standing here, and you coming back to me is against all odds, it&amp;#39;s the chance I&amp;#39;ve gotta take,&amp;quot; it&amp;#39;s time to sit him down and explain the cold hard reality of the situation to him. Poor guy.     &amp;quot;Glory of Love&amp;quot; by Peter Cetera - From: &amp;quot;The Karate Kid Part II&amp;quot;     &amp;quot;Just like a knight in shining armor from a long time ago, just in time I will save the day, take you to my castle far away.&amp;quot;       Despite the terrifying image that this line creates, one of Peter Cetera racing toward us, feathered hair a-flying, on a grand white steed, whilst sheathed in heavy armor, this song really cuts right into your heart.  And he so earnestly and intensely stares right into the camera here, nay, into your soul.        And regardless of his being so creepily intense, you know that Peter just really and truly believes in the power of lyrics such as these: &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;ll keep me standing tall. You&amp;#39;ll help me through it all. I&amp;#39;m always strong when you&amp;#39;re beside me. I have always needed you. I could never make it alone.?&amp;quot;    And maybe the only reason he is sometimes off putting is just because you love him so much that you can genuinely imagine him whispering, &amp;quot;I am a man who will fight for your honor. I&amp;#39;ll be the hero you&amp;#39;re dreaming of. We&amp;#39;ll live forever, knowing together that we did it all for the glory of love,&amp;quot; in you ears while he makes to you sweet, sweet, creepy, love.     &amp;quot;She&amp;#39;s Like the Wind&amp;quot; by Patrick Swayze - From: &amp;quot;Dirty Dancing&amp;quot;    Yet another candid, solemn set of deep feelings set to the power of the written and sung word. But these are so especially special, because they are both written and sung by our very favorite Video Curator hero, Mr. Patrick Swayze.      Powerful and simple, yet cheesily artful, and of course set to the video of Dirty Dancing. The reason this song is so deeply loved, is in part, because of such bold statements, &amp;quot;I look in the mirror and all I see, is a young old man with only a dream. Am I just fooling myself that she&amp;#39;ll stop the pain? Living without her, I&amp;#39;d go insane!&amp;quot;    YES - you know you&amp;#39;ve been there. Patrick is a simple man, speaking simple words of truth, directed at your ear drum with the power and authority of cupid&amp;#39;s brutal arrow. If you even attempt to claim you&amp;#39;ve never thought you&amp;#39;d go insane without a certain other&amp;#39;s love and affection you will hence be banned from the soothing, healing light of all things touched by Patrick Swayze.     &amp;quot;Almost Paradise&amp;quot; by Mike Reno &amp;amp; Anne Wilson - From: &amp;quot;Footloose&amp;quot;    &amp;quot;And in your arms salvation&amp;#39;s not so far away, it&amp;#39;s getting closer, closer every day! Almost paradise, we&amp;#39;re knocking on heavens door. Almost paradise, how could we ask for more&amp;quot;?    How indeed. Well, what&amp;#39;s missing? Why have they not reached paradise yet, we listeners may wonder?        For these two we can only assume this song is referring to early-stage relationship, sexual encounters. You too, can relate. The elation and excitement of the first couple times, but maybe you are not quite comfortable enough to, how do you say, &amp;quot;Cross the threshold&amp;quot;?      &amp;quot;I thought that dreams belonged to other men, cuz each time I got close they&amp;#39;d fall apart again,&amp;quot; says Mike. And in response says Anne, &amp;quot;I faced the nights alone. Oh how could I have known, that all my life I only needed you&amp;quot;? To which they both reply in swelling synchronicity, &amp;quot;Oooh almost paradise we&amp;#39;re knocking on heavens door. Almost paradise, how could we ask for more&amp;quot;?    In short, a song of hope; of sexual honesty. We&amp;#39;re rooting for you two kids. Take heart, and keep on trying. That orgasm will come. So to speak. Originally posted on:Dollar Video Curator</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Footloose – How to Turn Your Town Around in Four Easy Steps</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/marymcilwain/archive/2007/8/2/17067.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s40887.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/49916/default.aspx'>marymcilwain</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/2/2007 1:50:20 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>  The Curator has been working so hard. We keep punching our card. Eight hours - for what? Oh, tell us what we got. We get this feeling…that time's just holding us down. We’ll hit the ceiling, or else we'll tear up this town.           But what to do about it? What we need is an action plan.FIRST - We Got to Turn You Around  We’ll do that by showing you, in not uncertain terms, why our back-water small town and it’s “laws” are jacked. Dry town? Sure, we can see that. Hicks hate everything but church and guns anyway, and teenagers have absolutely no desire to experiment with the spirits, so they’ll never miss it.     But pass a law against dancing? Jump back. That’s just asking for trouble. Why? Because when a big town hero like Ren moves in, a guy who likes his music loud and hopin’ and his VW bug a-rockin’, he’s gonna start some trouble. He’s got an attitude that needs watching, to be sure, and he is just the kind of hero that we need.       He’ll begin his discourse with an initial vocalization his discontent, and by the breaking of a few “rules”. But it will be enough to rattle the establishment, to encourage a bit of intro-level disobedience. Some folk’ll start to doubt the seemingly perfect air of righteousness permeating this town.  SECOND - You put your feet on the groundKick off your Sunday shoes and stand firm. You're playing so cool, obeying every rule. But if you dig way down in your heart, you’ll find that you're yearning, burning, for someone to tell you that life ain’t passing you by.      So what are you waiting for? First of all don’t let a little thing like an all-powerful Reverend or intimidating town hall meeting get in your way. Speak from your heart, and believe in your dreams. And if the best argument that you can come up with is, “It’s Our Time Dance,” then “Our Time to Dance” it is.      THIRD - Now take a hold of your soul   You can fly if you'd only…This is what empty warehouses, school gymnasiums and the vague unused spaces of stretching farmland are for. And thanks to the corporate-ization of America, your town should have plenty of those.      Here is where you take your frustration out at being held back in the first place (solo-gymnastic-inspired dancing sequences) and the betterment of the lives of others (teaching hopelessly uncoordinated shit kickers how to get jiggy.) Soon you will realize that not only are these spaces perfect for self-discovery and some heart-felt, intense soul searching, but are also useable for the greater good, for the showcase of your teen-spirit, your life-affirming dance of the small-town gods!      FOUR - Whooooooooa, I'm turning it…loose…FOOTLOOSE!     Initially, everyone may appear a bit intimidated by this new life-order, but give them a break, they’ve never even danced before. Lives have been changed, stereotypes have been exploded. All that you’ll need for the final push is an ass-shaking Kenny Loggins tune to get this party started.      Here at last, is where you may reap your reward. Not only is Prom a complete success, but you have succeeded in effectively opening the eyes of all those stodgy, fun-killing, religious wackos in your town’s high political positions. Now dance you fool! And enjoy the self-satisfied sparkle that you emit, touching everyone in your wake.  Originally posted on:Dollar Video Curator<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:50:20 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>marymcilwain</spout:postby><spout:postto>Dollar Video Curator</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/2/2007 1:50:20 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body> The Curator has been working so hard. We keep punching our card. Eight hours - for what? Oh, tell us what we got. We get this feeling…that time's just holding us down. We’ll hit the ceiling, or else we'll tear up this town.           But what to do about it? What we need is an action plan.FIRST - We Got to Turn You Around  We’ll do that by showing you, in not uncertain terms, why our back-water small town and it’s “laws” are jacked. Dry town? Sure, we can see that. Hicks hate everything but church and guns anyway, and teenagers have absolutely no desire to experiment with the spirits, so they’ll never miss it.     But pass a law against dancing? Jump back. That’s just asking for trouble. Why? Because when a big town hero like Ren moves in, a guy who likes his music loud and hopin’ and his VW bug a-rockin’, he’s gonna start some trouble. He’s got an attitude that needs watching, to be sure, and he is just the kind of hero that we need.       He’ll begin his discourse with an initial vocalization his discontent, and by the breaking of a few “rules”. But it will be enough to rattle the establishment, to encourage a bit of intro-level disobedience. Some folk’ll start to doubt the seemingly perfect air of righteousness permeating this town.  SECOND - You put your feet on the groundKick off your Sunday shoes and stand firm. You're playing so cool, obeying every rule. But if you dig way down in your heart, you’ll find that you're yearning, burning, for someone to tell you that life ain’t passing you by.      So what are you waiting for? First of all don’t let a little thing like an all-powerful Reverend or intimidating town hall meeting get in your way. Speak from your heart, and believe in your dreams. And if the best argument that you can come up with is, “It’s Our Time Dance,” then “Our Time to Dance” it is.      THIRD - Now take a hold of your soul   You can fly if you'd only…This is what empty warehouses, school gymnasiums and the vague unused spaces of stretching farmland are for. And thanks to the corporate-ization of America, your town should have plenty of those.      Here is where you take your frustration out at being held back in the first place (solo-gymnastic-inspired dancing sequences) and the betterment of the lives of others (teaching hopelessly uncoordinated shit kickers how to get jiggy.) Soon you will realize that not only are these spaces perfect for self-discovery and some heart-felt, intense soul searching, but are also useable for the greater good, for the showcase of your teen-spirit, your life-affirming dance of the small-town gods!      FOUR - Whooooooooa, I'm turning it…loose…FOOTLOOSE!     Initially, everyone may appear a bit intimidated by this new life-order, but give them a break, they’ve never even danced before. Lives have been changed, stereotypes have been exploded. All that you’ll need for the final push is an ass-shaking Kenny Loggins tune to get this party started.      Here at last, is where you may reap your reward. Not only is Prom a complete success, but you have succeeded in effectively opening the eyes of all those stodgy, fun-killing, religious wackos in your town’s high political positions. Now dance you fool! And enjoy the self-satisfied sparkle that you emit, touching everyone in your wake.  Originally posted on:Dollar Video Curator</spout:body></item>
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