All the tributes and conversations I was hearing about his acting talent and his off-screen, general good guy-ness got me thinking (yup, I do that sometimes). I knew I had watched quite a few of the Sopranos shows over the years but never the whole series from beginning to end. It was such a great show and I started to wonder what I might have missed in the episodes I hadn't seen. The other night I started watching the show again but this time from the very beginning. I plan to watch them each night until I get through them all.
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| Red wine in a little wine glass... always on the table of a traditional Italian home |
So I lie in bed each night with my earplugs in and my kindle fire on my chest, cracking up at all the crazy characters (who, by the way remind me of half the people I grew up around when with my Italian grandparents and their friends). The actors are awesome and the story lines are totally captivating. I love every minute of them.
My poor wife though, lying next to me in bed, can't be too thrilled about this new nightly routine of mine. I regularly wake her up when cackling away at whatever lunacy is happening on my little screen. And when I laugh, I howl like a bear and shake the whole freakin' bed in my fit of hysterics. She is definitely not enjoying this walk-down-memory-lane as much as me but sorry hon, Tony must live on!
On a side note, I found an article recently examining how the business people of the world could learn a thing or two about management skills from the ultimate Boss himself (Of course Tony's managing skills included using death threats to get things done but the article has some funny points). Check out the link below -http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/27/tony-soprano-james-gandolfini/
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| Tony's weekly "Board Meeting" |
Here's to you James. RIP
From this Wacky Italian Dad to you!
ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE DOING A SOPRANO MARATHON IN HONOR OF TONY TOO?
From this Wacky Italian Dad to you!
ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE DOING A SOPRANO MARATHON IN HONOR OF TONY TOO?
No, although that was how we watched it originally before the final season. We borrowed the DVD sets from a friend (this was before Netflix) and watched 6 seasons over the course of a week. We could never watch only one episode a night though, one would end and we'd look at each other..."okay, just *one* more and then we'll stop".
ReplyDeleteI'm doing a marathon catch-up of Breaking Bad right now. I got through all of season one in a 24 hour period.
Hayley I have the same problem. It is so tough to stop watching, but you pay for it the next day when you stay up to late with Tony and the Boys!
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