Today's topic, After Midnight, brought to mind the old song from the sixties-After Midnight, we gonna let it all hang down.....After Midnight, we gonna shake the tambourine....
I always wondered what "it" was and why we need to wait to the stroke of midnight to shake the tambourine.
After midnight, if I'm still up, I feel as if I am being a rebel. If I am reading, I am likely to fall asleep if it's after midnight. I love to turn off all the lights in the living room, maybe light a candle or two, get my lava lamp going strong and settle in with a really good movie. I lie on the sofa with a light blanket, assorted cats tucked in here and there, a glass of red wine on the coffee table and become absorbed in somebody elses' life for two hours.
After midngiht is not the time to watch a musical. For some people, after midnight may be the time to watch a horror flick, but not for me. I don't watch them. Why invite more uglniness into my life? There's enough horror in my work and on the daily news to last me a lifetime. I certainly don't want to deliberately bring that stuff into my psyche.
No, for me the best After Midnight movie is a mystery. Fallen, with Denzel Washington and John Goodman, is kind of like that. It's a scary mystery with a demon and stuff, but it's not the same as a horror movie.
Or maybe a courtoom drama, a romantic comedy or a love story. I don't always like those romantic comedies, but some are not so bad. It depends on the actors. It just seems to me that they all follow the same plot line. Boy meets girl, girl pisses off boy (or the other way around) somehow they sort it all out and fall in love. Is there nothing new under the Midnight Moon?
After midnight.....my favorite time because I am a night owl, not a morning person. But it's not my favorite thing to write about. After midnight, there's mystery. Let's keep it that way!
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