Nineteen years ago, Bill Murray started in Groundhog Day. I is one of the most profound and life changing movies I have ever seen. It is the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington of Marmot movies. In 2006, the film was added to the United States National Registers for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Look it up. I'm not kidding.
After multiple viewing I finally realized the nexus of Director Harold Ramis and the great philosophers of western civilization.
Here is a sampling of the great lessons I've learned.
Here is a sampling of the great lessons I've learned.
- Trains don't swerve
- Drunk is more fun
- If your gonna shoot, aim high. You don't wanna hit the groundhog.
- Don't drive angry
- Go to the Virgin Islands. Meet someone. Eat lobster and drink pina colodas. At sunset, make love like sea otters. That'll be a pretty good day.
- It's never too early for flapjacks.
- Call me Ringo
- Nancy owns a dress shop and makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets "real" excited.
- Television failes to captures the true excitement of a squirrel predicting the weathers.
- $339.88
- I'm a god. Not THE God.
- When Checkhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that it is just another step in the cycle of life. But being with friends and basking the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
- Say a prayer and drink to world peace.
Namaste my friends.
