A couple weekends ago my family took a break from playing Settlers of Catan and found ourselves watching Urban Cowboy on the Country Music Television channel. It was an event that lasted all afternoon due to increasingly frequent commercial breaks. And over the course of 3 hours I became completely obsessed with this movie. I've been telling anyone who will listen about my vision to transform into an urban cowgirl this summer - this fantasy of mine is usually met with a hearty and/or nervous laugh but just you watch.
Now I want to (in this order):
• Ride a mechanical bull (all legit-like but also in slow-motion like Sissy in that one scene)
• Stock up on spaghetti strap tank tops and leotards
• Rock a cowboy hat
• Attend a prison rodeo (does this still happen in McAlester, Oklahoma?)
• Brush my curls out for that awesome frizz
• Buy some land and stick a trailer on it
• Learn how to line dance
• Get an old Ford truck and stick Jeremy & Kathleen name plates in the back windows
Summer 2012 is going to be awesome.
Ha! I do believe the prison rodeos DO still occur. I almost got my ass beat many years ago at a country bar for carrying my beer bottle around in my back pocket. :) Ah, memories...
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!!! I love it! Your so good about details (like the awesome frizz hair.) I think you may be doing it mostly for that land with the trailer. :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, sounds fantastic. Don't forget to take pictures of all your cowgirl adventures and show them here, will you? :)
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely spring day!
I'll bet you can combine the cowgirl style with post-apocolyptic and just make it EPIC.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone can pull it off, aside from Sissy, is you but just more awesomer. Yea, awesomer.
ReplyDeleteHa! I love it! It's great to see that other people are like me and dress up like after watching movies... It's an ongoing never ending roleplay in my head!
ReplyDeleteLOL I love this movie since I was a teenager, every time it is on I secretly watch it. Defiantly a guilty pleasure.
ReplyDeleteUrban Cowboy = best. movie. EVER.
ReplyDelete(other than JAWS)(and the Goonies)
(and True Romance)
oh - you know what I mean..... I've been quoting lines from it since I was 16 and wanted to be Sissy and find my Bud......
Luckily,
ReplyDeleteeverything but the truck and trailer are easily attainable. And you'll rock it, I'm sure! ;)
Last I heard, the McAlester rodeo got cancelled for last year because an animal rights group got a hold of an old video and threw a fit. The only prison rodeo I know that's left is the Angola rodeo in Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteCowgirl up!
Kate
Briana - Wait!? What? Was it because you were you sneaking it in?
ReplyDeleteThe F Girl - You betcha!
Francine - Yes. I think there is a way to combine urban cowgirl + the post-apocalypse.
Margie - Ha! I've been Googling Debra Winger ever since. Nobody could out-Sissy her.
JoL - It looks like we have the exact same taste in movies. True Romance changed my life.
Hailey - The truck & trailer are easy. I feel like the land is going to be a bit more complicated to secure.
Wanderluck - I think I know what I'm doing this April!
ReplyDeleteThere are prison rodeos?!? If you find one, I want to come too.
ReplyDeleteI was under the impression that the Oklahoma prison rodeo was ended because of budget constraints. Nothing else. Please watch Brad Beasley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo! A lot about what the rodeo meant to inmates, and a lot about what's wrong with our prison system.
ReplyDeleteOther states still have rodeos, but not "inside the walls" like Oklahoma's.
I was under the impression that the Oklahoma prison rodeo was ended because of budget constraints. Nothing else. Please watch Brad Beasley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo! A lot about what the rodeo meant to inmates, and a lot about what's wrong with our prison system.
ReplyDeleteOther states still have rodeos, but not "inside the walls" like Oklahoma's.
Gawwwwd I love this movie. Everyone in it is so hot. I could totally see you being an urban cowgirl!
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