Well if you don’t know by now a well known actor Patrick Swayze, who I pretty much grew up watching all of his movies, died Sept 14th. He was best known for his parts in the most awesome ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Ghost’ … two wonderfully soppy lovey movies, the one thing that he always seemed to bring with him in his movies was this man with a dark side, a guarded emotional whirlwind of amazing acting with passion. One of those sexy bad boys back when I was a teenager that I was totally obsessed with. I remember quite a few of his movies with the likes of Rob Lowe and yummy Keanu Reeves in Youngblood (based on a group of ice hockey players) …

I think one of the first movies I discovered this most nom actor in was The Outsiders based on the novel by SE Hinton. It was a movie I very much wanted to see after being read the book in school by a very memorable teacher. That one story was one that stuck with me for a very long time and his part in the movie as the older brother along with the likes of Matt Damon … memorable too… If you haven’t watched it do so, it’s one of those movies that will stick with you. It was about the same time I read a book called ‘Go ask Alice’.

And one of my favourite movies evaaaah back in the days where my life revolved around living on a surf beach and hanging out with a bunch of degenerate surfies… Point Break with Keanu Reeves … He played the bad boy Bodhi, I love bad boys, lol I even had this name picked as a name for my son but the partner wouldn’t have it haha…. now man this guy was a bad man but he was also freekin hawt! I have a weakness for guys like this…

There are some movies one watches in a lifetime that remain etched in one’s memory. Rest in peace dude and thank you for being a part of my life in an obscure way. No one else could have done Dirty Dancing the way you did…