SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER

When I moved away from my childhood home, I soon realized that I would spend a lot of Christmases without my family.  So I started some traditions on my own, all of which I try and keep still. Athough it usually happens that I spread them over the advent, and even up until the epiphany, I now share them with my new family. Over the last couple of years, the hardest tradition to keep is the watching of this movie, So I Married An Axe Murder, because I nearly always fall asleep at some point! So here I am, watching the last half of the movie I started on Christmas. I find it amazing that I still enjoy it, although it is the only one I can think of that I have watched over a dozen times! Just in case you are wondering, it all started in a hot little apartment with a miniature Christmas tree and a too short phone call with a long night ahead alone. Videoconferencing has made that no longer possible, but I still drink eggnog, eat chocolate, mandarin oranges, a pomegranate and watch this movie, in honour of that, the loneliest Christmas tradition. And why this movie? Can you believe that I have no idea anymore why this movie is the one?! It's not the best movie ever, and it dates itself a lot, but I have to say that I still love it! When I visited San Francisco a couple of years ago, I was able to retrace the movie's highlights, and every year, I revisit the city again in my mind while I watch. When I was San Francisco, I even found the scene of the movie's ballet dance at dusk, and adored the rich history of the residual buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. It is an enjoyable travelogue of the city! Check it out, if you've never watched it.