it occur to me while the final scene of the movie froze to reveal the scant detail of buddy holly death that there be still people alive today who be at that venue in clearlake and iowa who remember it vividly . that have to be a haunting memory and lend even more poignancy by the lyric of american pie and a it pay tribute to the day the music die . the world lose some tremendous talent that day and live cut short way before their prime and and one can only wonder what might have be if the trio of musician who perish that day have survive to create an even great musical legacy . i watch the film today some thirty year after it original theatrical release . thirty year and i have some trouble wrap my mind around that . i have forget a lot of it and while remember some of the little thing and like the cricket in the wall who become immortalized with the band name . but most of all and i remember the music . it hard just to sit there and not begin tap to the beat of oh boy or that will be the day and and one have to wonder just where the threat to our moral might have actually come from with those tune . i be with buddy on that score at least and how could they be jungle rhythm if he come up with them . funny how each successive decade bring it own threat to the fabric of society the beatles and motown and disco and a whole host of other musical form . be still listen and dance to the beat and so i guess they couldn not have be all that bad . there be another takeaway from the film i have forget about . this be where i learn to bang a phone on the table when the person on the other end wasn not see thing my way . i have do that a number of time over the year and but by now have forget the source . well and i should be good for another thirty year or so now . you certainly have to give gary busey credit for his portrayal of buddy holly . see him today and one could never imagine him a the slimmed down rocker with the horn rim glass and but it be a tour de force characterization and performance that earn busey an oscar nod . don stroud and charles martin smith be competent a buddy band member and though their character take a back seat to much of the story . i enjoy the subtle way that other musical legend be segue into the picture and name like sam cooke and king curtis and without ever dwell on their presence . i will always be a fan and follower of music from the fifty and sixty oldies they call them now . i guess that make me a bit of an oldie too and but you can not replace the experience of grow up with the music history that now make it to the big screen . which only go to reinforce the idea that i will keep on enjoy the music until and well and the day i die .