Down the Bog

One of my all time favourite movies to watch is There’s something about Mary. I find that it’s a film that can keep me chuckling throughout and actually leaves me feeling quite cheerful afterwards. Shouldn’t a movie do that? Be able to change our mood or maybe even our outlook? Ah well perhaps I’m forgetting that we’re just talking about a movie and not therapy.

Still, it’s a great movie and if I’m pushed to say I think my favourite part of the film is the early scene of Ben Stiller’s character with his mouth full of steel catching his private parts in the fly of his trousers. Definitely an eye watering scenario.

Actually whats really caused me to write this entry in my blog is to draw attention to the closing credits where the cast lip synch to a song called Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations. It’s a great song by probably a little known group from the sixties.

Whenever I hear that song to me it has the sound of a group like The Temptations. I see in my head typically four or five black singers in garish 70’s matching suits, each behind a microphone. While one sings the lead the others dance and twirl in unison doing the backing vocals. It really sounds like that kind of presentation. But no. Check out the Youtube video of The Foundations singing Build Me Up Buttercup. The video is black and white and poor quality at the start (although it gets better) but it reveals all and The Foundations are not how I imagined them at all.

It’s probably just me but it’s funny how we can picture something in our minds and how it can then be so different when we see the reality.

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