Behind the Name

My family and I are big music people. We play music while we cook, while we clean our house, while we eat our food. My mother used to play the electric organ that we had in our living room every Christmas or on the weekends when she felt like letting off some steam. I took up the flute in grade school, but was born singing and dancing right out of the womb.

We are also big movie people. When I was growing up, our Friday nights were our standard "Family Movie Nights"- pizza from Ledo's (in La Grange) or Rocky's (in Westchester) and a movie that was rented, when that was a thing, or dug out from our own movie vault.

From an early age, I was watching movies my friends had never heard of before. Movies their parents saw when they were my age. Movies that were considered classics that little kids usually wouldn't sit through. But I loved every second of it.

It's natural that I sought out the combinations of my two loves. One of these was a program on WXRT radio called "The Regular Guy." He comes on the radio in this ridiculous, stereotypical Chicago accent and talks about the movies- what he liked, what he didn't like. And as the years went by and I started trying to figure out my place in this world, I kept coming back to The Regular Guy.

He had the coolest job in the world. He got paid to watch movies and talk about them. How totally cool is that?!

So this blog was inspired by him- The Regular Guy. Sure, I don't have a funny Chicago accent (though my Missouri friends think I do), but I love what he loves. The movies.

WXRT's The Regular Guy Website