Movies that keep returning throughout our lives...

     I have never written a blog before so i thought I would give it a try and since this is a blog of the movie theme I thought I would share a movie memory that has just surfaced within the last week.  When I was young I used to watch a lot of movies, specifically the horror movies.  For example, the Friday the 13th series, A Nightmare on Elm St. series, Puppet Masters and many of the Full Moon movies.  Every now and then there is that one movie that is not that special but keeps on returning in your life; that movie for me is a little known cult classic called Phantasm.  Phantasm is by no means a good movie, the acting is bad and the plot is not that clear.  It is about a crypt keeper that steals bodies and turns them into the little hooded  creatures similar to the characters from Star Wars that buy and sell robots to Jaba.  This movie comes up frequently while hanging out with friends. We re-watch it and talk about why on earth anyone would make five sequels following the weak plot.  This week it was just the title that brought up memories.  When I was about 16 or 17 years old I met a guy named Charles. He let me learn and play bass in his band named Phantasm.  We became close friends and eventually roommates while i worked at an old video store in town called Video City my senior year of high school.  I brought movies home from work just about every night.  Now every time I think about the movie Phantasm I think of the band Charlie and I were in.  To this day I believe with no certainty that movie's name was the inspiration for our bands' name.  I know not for sure if he liked the movie but the title seems to have stuck with him.  Unfortunately, I will never know the answer to this question because my life long buddy passed away the fourth of this month.  A lot of my answers left with him, but I do know we had matching collections of A Nightmare on Elm St. and we were in a band named Phantasm.  So how do movies influence our lives and how much?  I would have to say movies influence us a lot. Every time I see the cover of that horrible, low budget movie from my youth I remember my buddy Charles.