Music Monday: Man in Motion (St. Elmo's Fire) by John Parr

As Music Monday approached, I knew that I wanted to share John Parr's "Man in Motion" from the 1980's Brat Pack movie St. Elmo's Fire, with all of you. What I didn't know was how hard it would be to find a YouTube video to go along with the lyrics. I found some music videos dubbed with bad amateurs singing along, too creepy to share. Instead, here's a short video of a live John Parr performance, which unfortunately doesn't include the entire song, but it's the best I could find. I find the lyrics and the music incredibly energizing, which is something I need lately. I'm reminded of a quote from a former employer: "Let's not confuse motion with progress." For the past two weeks with our new business partners, Rex and I have been very busy and involved in meetings... we'll have to determine whether the time has been productive as well. In the meantime, let the video take you back with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore...


Growin' up
You don't see the writin' on the wall
Passin' by
Movin' straight ahead you knew it all
But maybe sometime if you feel the pain
You'll find you're all alone
Everything has changed

Play the game
You know you can't quit until it's won
Soldier on
Only you can do what must be done
You know in some way
You're a lot like me
You're just a prisoner
And you're tryin' to break free

CHORUS:

I can see a new horizon
Underneath the blazin' sky
I'll be where the eagle's
Flyin' higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

Oooh...

Burnin' up
Don't know just how far that I can go
(Just how far I go)
Soon be home
Only just a few miles down the road
I can make it
I know I can
You broke the boy in me
But you won't break the man

(CHORUS)

I can climb the highest mountain
Cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me
Burnin' in me

Just once in his life
A man has his time
And my time is now
And I'm comin' alive

I can hear the music playin'
I can see the banners fly
Feel like you're back again
And hope ridin' high
Gonna be your man in motion
All I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin'
St. Elmo's Fire

(CHORUS)

I can climb the highest mountain
Cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me

Burnin'
Burnin' in me
I can feel it burnin'
Oooh, burnin' inside of me

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War Games Celebrates 25th Anniversary....Could Roxy Really Be That Old?

Do you remember young Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WarGames? Well, if you do, I guess you're as old as Roxy here, as War Games is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an event playing in select theaters nationwide for one night only on Thursday, July 24th.

I was more of a Rob Lowe/Demi Moore "About Last Night" or "St. Elmo's Fire" fan -- the darker side of the Brat Pack -- but my high school years made the 1980s my prime movie-watching period. Sure, I cried with Molly Ringwald in "Sixteen Candles" and laughed about Michael J. Fox's Calvin Klein underwear in "Back To The Future." And we all wished we had the cool, laid back style of Ferris Bueller on his Day Off. While movies from the 80s are a thing of the past, they will forever be remembered and re-watched on DVD...."see how funny people looked and dressed when mommy was your age?"

In the triumphant 25th anniversary return of WarGames, a young Matthew Broderick stars in an 80s sci-fi thriller about a computer hacker who unwittingly gets the chance to play a game with the US Military's war computer. This movie came out before Al Gore invented the Internet, around the time when Tipper Gore was censoring music instead.

The 25th anniversary showing is one night only on Thursday night, July 24th, 2008, and will include never-before-seen interviews with film’s creators and the cast (including Broderick and Ally Sheedy) and crew on how the movie was ahead of its time and its relevance today. Additionally, only at this one night event, viewers will get a sneak peek at the making of the sequel – WarGames: The Dead Code.