Tag: New Year

Well, Here We Go Again

Happy New Year! We wish everyone a happy new year, and especially for those who had a long year, we wish the new year brings good changes. One of my favorite songs about struggling through a year is Todd Snider‘s “Long Year,” the lead track from his excellent 2000 CD, Happy to Be Here.

“Long Year” captures someone struggling with alcohol addiction. The singer tells about attending a meeting and not knowing what to say. In the chorus, he notes “It has been a long, a long, long year” and wonders “How did I get here?” By the end of the song, though, he ends up back in a bar, thinking to himself, “Well, here we go again,” as he faces another long year.

The above video by Kathy Hatch was shot at Duggan’s Pub in Homer, Alaska on April 27, 2007. Yelp reports that the bar apparently had its own long bad year and is no longer open.

So be careful in your celebration, and have a good year.

What is your favorite song with “year” in the title? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Best New Year’s Eve Scene in a Film

    New Year's Eve Movies

    Is there a better New Year’s Eve movie scene than this one in When Harry Met Sally? The movie makes perfect use of the holiday, including Harry Burns’s (Billy Crystal’s) questions about “Auld Lang Syne.”

    Below is the climactic scene from the movie. {Spoiler alert: This clip is the film’s ending.}

    After When Harry Met Sally shows Harry’s loneliness magnified by the special night, Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) wonders about the role the holiday played in Harry’s surprise appearance. She wonders if he is just lonely because he is by himself on New Year’s Eve. Harry directly confronts that possible explanation for why he ran to Sally: “And it’s not because it is New Year’s Eve. . . When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Where are my tissues?

    When Harry Met SallyFor romance, one might compare Meg Ryan’s New Year’s Eve meeting with Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle. That movie does a good job of not overplaying when the two finally meet.

    But the movie New Year’s Eve kiss that one might compare to When Harry Met Sally for dramatic impact is when Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) kisses Fredo (John Cazale) with the kiss of death at a New Year’s Eve party in The Godfather: Part II. Michael tells Fredo, “You broke my heart. You broke my heart.”

    More tissues, please.

    Happy New Year. In the new year, may your kisses be of the When Harry Met Sally type instead of of the Godfather: Part II type.

    What is your favorite portrayal of New Year’s Eve? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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