September 2009 Archives

"Is she really crazy?"

This is what you will probably ask yourself three-quarters of the way through "Bunny Lake is Missing." Bunny is 4 years old and has just moved to England with her mother and her Uncle Steven. She's goes missing on her first day at her new school; a chaotic and apparently understaffed place. Bunny's mom Ann, played superbly by Carol Lynley, drops her off in the morning and, when she comes back later to pick her up, she's nowhere to be found. And, even more disturbing is the fact that no one at the school ever saw her that day. And so the wheels are set in motion.

Almost every hipster record collector knows that there are certain records that are, or were, the Holy Grail. These records are often prized because they're hard to find. It's not the music so much as it's the idea of finding and owning the record that's so tantalizing. For many record nerds, myself included, once you actually do find one there is always something else more obscure and sought after that you still don't have. It never ends.  And the crazy but very true fact is that the records you finally track down are hardly ever as great as you've heard they are. No matter if you found it for $1.00 at the Goodwill or if you criminally overpaid on eBay, it rarely lives up to the hype. But once in a great while it all pans out.