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Saturday, May 11, 2002
More Audrey Now I find myself wanting to see the renamed for US distribution, just out on video (& DVD) "Happenstance." Yes, I want more Audrey Tautou! I started concocting an elaborate fantasy of meeting her, and getting to know her. He he.. More Bad Acting Ha, "The Empire of the Ants", more bad acting! Lots of big mean ants too..Oddly entertaining. Friday, May 10, 2002
Movies  I think I could actually like movies a lot more than I thought. After skewering "The Swimmer" a couple weeks back, I became curious about the parts of the movie I hadn't seen. So I sought out the video, found it at a local library, and watched again. It's a weird movie, and it was fun to catch the things I'd missed the first time around. Then last weekend, I watched a weird sci-fi/mystery movie, "The Return" I think it was called, with Cybill Shepard. That movie was filled with bad acting, especially hers. Horrid, and I couldn't stop watching it. Of course there was my finally going to see "Amelie," a movie I had wanted to see for months before it ever reached here. That one movie has me reconsidering my usual avoidance of movies with subtitles. Then last night, my snippet of the classic, with the lovable character of a dad, and precious girl, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn," unexpectedly on the WE network. I had tuned in and thought I was watching the TCM network. Nice pick, WE. So now, I am wondering what else might be out there... How do people ever decide what movies to watch together though? Perhaps sometimes, they agree on a choice, and other times, one compromises and watches something the other loves. I had a feeling this might happen!! I switch to a digital stream for my TV, for the baseball, or more specifically, for the Dodgers. So now I find myself watching movies, a lot more than before! A movie fan, me? (As I wait for Tautou in "The Venus Beauty Solon" to come in...) Thursday, May 09, 2002
"Am I Good Looking?" I love how girls think! I just caught the last half of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." one movie I don't mind seeing again. At the end, the lead character asks her little brother, "Am I good looking?" His answer, typical brother, "You'll pass." Yes That's It "The Fabulous Destiny Of Am�lie Poulain" was the movie I went to see last Friday... I wrote and sent a card to go with it. If I can recall, I'll write some more about it here. Of course, Audrey Tautou is the central character and by far the hightlight of the movie. If you haven't seen it, go see it! Tuesday, May 07, 2002
A Virtual Affection "But not, you are simply in love with a certain image of the woman incarn�e by an actress of talent. But it is a VIRTUAL affection. You can love a woman only if you know it closely." Notice the "it." I have grown really fond of the Google translator. Audrey Tautou an It! She sure looks to have a lot of love in her, for an it. Yeah, she's "It" alright. I know this thing, "virtual affection", very well. The net's a perfect place for it. Ha, there's more, on a personal sighting of "it" in a pub, "With looking at it, one sees well that it does not need make-up to be beautiful, it has this natural beauty, these large black eyes...:" Such a lovely little It girl. She Is Small  Reading some impressions by French fans, it sounds like Miss Tautou seems even smaller in person, and more beautiful. Her hair smells like a flower. She looks a lot like a girl I used to work with, who was about the same age Audrey is now, when I knew her. .... Oh poor Audrey! She seems a little disappointed at not having achieved an Oscar or Cesar for "The Fabulous Destiny Of Am�lie Poulain". She deserved one so richly! Now, "The Madness of It All", (a UK TV movie?) is her next, completely unromantic film, and it's not getting good reviews at all. Well, she'll pull out of it!! She is small, talented and lovely. If only I were a producer, or better, director, I'd cast her....Of course, Audrey has replied, "I am not so small! .... Now, I am less small girl but I continue to dream enormously." She mused, "I wondered, like very often: "am I well? Am I pretty or I am ugly?"" Ha hahah! Is she ugly? I love that. [Edit: Those translations of French sites are pretty funny... They constantly refer to the oh so feminine Tautou as an "it" or alternatively as "he". Never she!! She is a she, that I can see!!!!] Audrey must be one of the best arguments against that tired line, that "all the good ones are already married." She's single!! Relationship With Potential "You have a beautiful friendship. You like each other and love being together. You are good friends because you like each other as well as love and support each other. You see each other as loving and beautiful. You will be able to very strongly sense each other's presence and you are able to tune into what the other person is thinking, even if you are not together." Those seem to be true. :-) {Of course I'm picking and choosing the good parts. ;-)} We do sense each other's presence, very strongly and uniquely. "People around you will not see yours as a realistic relationship. They will view it as very impractical." Too bad! ;-) I like it. Monday, May 06, 2002
Stolen From A Personal "Mayonaise is really whale sperm. i mean, what do you think they do with all that excess sperm?" Ha hahaha!! Hard To Resist I found a really nice used turntable at a garage sale Friday.. It was tempting, except that I already have an excellent one, and a back up, at home. So I bought a corkscrew instead. Freedom To Fall In Love One of the coolest things about being "single" is the freedom to fall in love. When you're in a committed relationship, perhaps married, you are *not* really free to fall in love. Your love is already given. So if someone incredible comes along, you are not supposed to "fall in love" with them. Sometimes, I think people think of themselves as immune, like they're not really falling in love with someone new, as a married person. However, sometimes already committed people do, even if they don't want to think about it that way. When you're single, however, you're totally free to fall in love. Life! Now, adjusting oneself to this reality is a little different story... Horrors! This article is pretty funny. I had the actual magazine sitting on the floor waiting for the moment when I felt like taking a look. Finally I did, this morning, and found this article near the front. Horrors! ;-) "When you're hitched, it feels like missed opportunities are piling up. Everywhere, there are fountains spewing adorable men: men with sultry accents, men who seductively massage your neck at the salon, men who tell you how smart and sexy you are while your boyfriend bitches about how you never clean the kitty litter. And then you're single, and suddenly? Everyone is hideous, married, a hippie, or illiterate." There's a lot of truth in this. I think part of it is, if you're in a long-term relationship, like I was, you can recall all the missed opportunities, the ones you might have pursued, if you had been "single" at the time. The years run together, and it seems like a million women were there, if not for your previous commitment. Now, when you're single, you may not like the luxury of just experiencing the years and the girls, as they come. It's different when you actually have the freedom! And it's hard to realize you *do* have the freedom at last. Anything's possible, if you can change your mindset. Fortune Cookie In Reverse  I just love these inspirational horoscopes. Why do I read these things? It's like a fortune cookie in reverse. "While today is a strange, awkward and troubling day, May 7 and 8 may be even more severe." At least that sounds pretty interesting. If so, I'll survive it. I always do. |
