What: John Adams Parts 1 & 2
When: July 5, 2009
Where: my couch
Why: I had these on my queue for a good many months, and have had the first two discs in my possession for nearly two weeks now. With nothing better to do late on Sunday, still a little lacking in energy after a 17-hour work day, I sat down and watched parts 1 & 2. I didn’t think much of what it meant coming on the heels of yesterday’s celebration, but now I can’t imagine a more perfect way to better appreciate the reasons why we held a big party and sent exploding rockets into the sky yesterday. Adams is stirring, personal look at history we all learned as kids, but never really could grasp as anything other than legend.