Call Me Old Fashioned

So, don't know if you know this about me, but I'm really old fashioned. Not in the sense that everything I do replicates what people did in the golden days, but in the sense that I love things that are a part of history, and I love stuff that other people don't neccessarily ever give a chance or a second look.

Take, for instance, my favorite actor of all time; Buster Keaton. (comparable to Charlie Chaplin)

He literally never changes his face. His nicknames are "Stone Face Buster" and "Frozen Face"

This man is a genius, a legend, a stud all around. Mom I will never forget when you gave me this movie to watch and I loved every second of it, even if it was filmed in 1928. There are so many underlying humorous aspects of his short and long films that I can never get enough. I spent an hour yesterday watching parts of it again and reliving old memories. I know that lots of you don't have 2 hours to spare, but in case you do and want to see a masterpiece, and get some laughs on the side, please take the time to watch Buster Keaton in "The General", or any of his other pieces that are even shorter.




Even not in the realm of movies, its the music that I love as well. I love music written during time periods in the past, some of my favorites being the happy times sang about by Bob Crosby in "Way Back Home" and some of the songs by the ink spots, namely, "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". Tiana, remember rocking out to these songs? The lead singer of the Ink Spots, Huey Long was born in 1905 and died just one year ago, aged 105. Pretty insane! Listen to this song and it is impossible to not want to live in the 40's and 50's, everyone was so much happier back then!






Even old ragtime piano music is the best. I heard Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin in music 101 the other day and I remembered loving this song ever since I was little. I really want to learn that on the piano, and I really regret never learning the piano when I was younger!!! I would be honestly happy if this was the only thing I could play on the piano.





I encourage everyone to try new things. Even though something isn't the latest hip hop or pop song, the coolest or newest movie, there is gold in the past and in history, and liking things like this is still cool, at least in my book.