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And I didn’t even need a talking mouse or canary to figure out how lucky I was to be just that.Everyone is different. Because for somebody like me could have been killed by his craziness, “I’m Alive” was beyond ironic. But what was lost on me then was that the song at that moment should have become my theme song. (Insert evil French Canadian laugh here). I heard that song during my first year of sobriety at a Walgreens, because apparently Santa made some sort of deal that Celine’s music must be played at every drug store chain, every hour on the hour for the rest of time. It started to get out of control but I was knee-deep in a fabulous scene so I couldn’t see that I needed to fly away too.

I’d leave with people and not tell my boyfriend or the others I came with. Often times I would pay bands, tear down elaborate decorations, settle up with the bar and coordinate plans for the following week all in a blackout. I was promoting a night and spinning records at a club in West Hollywood. It reminds me that the summer I saw Stuart Little 2 was also the summer before I turned 30 and my drinking and drug use had wreaked some serious havoc. it reminds of a time where I didn’t know what real hope looked like. Yet as corny as these lyrics are the song still sort of affects me. (You’re welcome) But let’s just say you can count on the lyrics rhyming “I’m alive” with “wings to fly,” “all my worries die”, “I can touch the sky”and “I’ve got pink eye.” Okay, maybe not the last one. I’m not going to get into a line by line analysis of the song here. The song no longer made me cry but I always noticed it and sung along with it. Like I’ve said before, that apartment was an easy place to be a drunk. I continued to hear it on several booze shopping trips at Rite-Aid, which was also across the street from my house.

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That’s all I know.īut my history with “I’m Alive” doesn’t end in the dark movie theater. It was 77 minutes long and the last time anyone saw Geena Davis. As far as the film goes, don’t ask me what the plot was. The point (and I use that term lightly) is that Celine’s song moved me to tears. Embarrassing for the alternative kid who grew up to be an insufferable music snob. As we’ve discussed, I am a crier, a personality trait my mom attributes to being Swedish and one a shrink I saw for a brief time tried to treat with antidepressants. The lyrics of the song and the tender moment coupled with the hangover caused tears to drip down my face. In the dark theater, I watched as the little friends flew off and silently sobbed. La Dion sings as the mouse and bird fly away in a tiny plane which from what I’ve read is the appropriate soundtrack when this occurs. Burbank, in case you’ve never been, is one giant mall located directly beneath the hottest surface of the sun, Jay Leno works there and they have a Bob’s Big Boy!Īt the end of the film, the Celine Dion song plays. Anyway we took the kids to Burbank in the dead heat of the summer to enjoy a family film.

Who knew I’d have so much in common with a mouse, a bird and a cat. Suffice it to say that’s a cast I can identify with. Fox(alcoholic!) as the title character, Melanie Griffith (pill popper!) as a canary named Margalo and a naughty cat named Snowbell voiced by Nathan Lane (gay!).

What’s that you say, you had no idea they even made a second one? Well I did and I even saw it in the movie theater with my niece, nephew and my parents. Like a viable excuse to go to all of the current kids movies. When you have young nieces and nephews and you’re a person who doesn’t want to live in reality, things can sometimes work out in your favor. That being said, I’ll be the one you make fun of after you hear my connection to that musical masterpiece quoted in the title. And I enjoy doing so (damn you, program of honesty!). She seems nice enough even if her music makes me wanna hurl most of the time. I really don’t have anything against Celine Dion.

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Yes, the Canadian songstress not only knows how to find older husbands who look like Santa Claus but she can sniff out a song with syrupy lyrics better than any singer in zee world. The incomparable Celine Dion sang those words in the title of this post.