Deja vu/For Big D

I am sort of morbidly interested, year over year, to see who contacts me on New Years eve. Not sure where this comes from.
Today I heard from Po. I went for lunch with Big D. Michael called me and I had emails from C and L (always so on the ball over the holidays and I love her for it) and Typewriter. I had a lengthy conversation with my mom.
Over lunch with Big D today he tells me that he was reading my blog about the review I did about "Harold and Maude". I say, "What are you talking about?". He is insistent that I had a post about this movie and I tell him that I have never even heard of this movie. He is sure he read about it on my blog because he had downloaded the movie a month ago and I had reviewed it recently and he was worried that I would think that he had only watched the movie at my suggestion when, in fact, he had watched it years ago.
I told him he was insane and ordered another beer.
Long story short he resolved that he must have dreamed that he was reading a posting that I had done about "Harold and Maude" and then proceeded to tell me about the movie.
Well. Fuck. I don't know where to start.
We have lunch. We go to Rogers and I can't find the movie because Big D is insistent that I watch it and I want to watch it. He gets a clerk to find it and then I'm chatting with Michael and he says, "It's up there with My Dinner with Andre".
Wow.
Half an hour into the movie I am all but running around in circles, desperate to share it with someone (sorry to Big D and Michael for the numerous emails). All the while I am drinking this fabulous wine that Big D gave me in a beautiful gift bag that his sister in law made.
I don't know. I hate New Years. I can be morose. It takes a lot to get me excited about a movie. This movie? It's like Lost in Translation mixed with The Graduate (I'm guessing, cause I haven't seen it yet) and directed by Wes Anderson.
From the soundtrack (Cat Stevens) to the cinematography to the references to organic wine and the Jaguar E Type converted into a hearse and the subtle and sardonic acting. This movie is the movie that you watch to reaffirm life. It's brilliant and funny and sad and beautiful and superb. I laughed out loud several times and I cried and I was just thankful that Colin Higgins decided to write it.
Top five movies of all time, easily.
I am so, so thankful and weirded out by this random recommendation. It was such an emotional way to bring 2009 to a close and it has been one of the best discoveries of 2009, easily.
And the fact that I apparently already wrote about it is just goddamned hilarious.
Long story short? Watch "Harold and Maude".
Have a Happy New Year.
Thanks to all my friends and family that have checked in on me over the last year to make sure that I haven't driven my Jaguar off a cliff.
Cause I have a Civic.
Love love love.
That's what it's all about.