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shadowkat1. Saw Midnight in Paris last night - watched it instead of the Oscars. Really didn't care that much about the Oscar's this year. I've never been a fan of Billy Crystal's brand of comedy (the comedian grates on my nerves to be honest) and I hadn't seen most of the films. Also I tend to agree with Woody Allen who states comparing disparate art works to each other and choosing which is the best much like one might pick a race horse or someone running track seems a bit silly. It's not a race. It's subjective. There's no way to make an objective choice.
Midnight impressed me for it's jokes, which I'm not sure everyone who watched quite got. The Momster missed a few.
I rather loved the general theme - which is about a man enamored with the past, nostalgia. So much so - he goes back to the Golden Age - the 1920s and falls in love. Only to eventually realize he can't live in the past and he is in a sense romanticizing it, it is but an allusion. As he states in typical Woody Allen fashion - there are no antibiotics or drugs, what would happen if you got sick? It's a direct comment on the current cultural war going on in the US - where the conservatives keep stating - we need to go back to the country America used to be, to the glorious past.
Another joke that I loved was regarding Luis Buneul - the French filmmaker and surrealist. Gil, the main character in typical Woody Allen fashion, tells Buneul - you should write a film about a group of party goers at a party who can't leave.
They don't know why they can't leave.
Bunuel: I don't understand, why don't they just open the door and leave?
Gil: Because they can't. If they do, civilization unravels and they discover they are just animals.
Bunuel: That doesn't sound like a great idea.
Gil: Just think it over when you're shaving...
LOL! I apparently saw the same Bunuel films that Allen did. Specifically the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousi :
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
They also can never leave. Gil's description is that film. If you've seen Belle du Jour and That Obscure Object of Desire and Bourgeousi, you know whereof I speak.
Allen has seen a lot of films.
The romances did not work for me. But I will give Woody credit for writing a variety of interesting female roles. His amongst the few male directors who have consistently done this. I rather adore Woody. And prefer him to Neil Simon. (If you disagree, do us both a favor and keep it to yourself. Been fighting a lot at work lately and I don't want to do it on lj. No tolerance for it.)
2. This is a warning to people: I'm irritable. REALLY IRRITABLE. I admit it. Spend a lot of time, too much, keeping my temper in check. The Momster states this is normal with the onset of menupause which comes around the ripe old age of 45. Also the ceiliac disease probably kick started it. The Momster didn't start until her 50s. Wonderful. I have all the symptoms. Let me put it to you this way? If you thought the monthly pain was bad... And it's most likely not helped by current work and personal situations, which are driving me crazy with frustration. So I escape here...and into books, and tv, and church (which gives me peace).
At any rate, this is not the time to fight with me in my livejournal. I have 0 tolerance. Folks. I like interaction. But fighting and debate, not so much. Do enough of that in my work-place. So if you disagree with something I post in this space (hey, it's bound to happen particularly if I'm dumb enough to give into the temptation to post about Whedon), keep in mind this is just a personal journal - not a national professional blog or discussion board. I seriously doubt anyone cares that much what I write about. I don't need to be pitch perfect here. I'm not Mark Watches or Neil Gaiman or Jane Espenson for crying out loud. I don't get paid for this. I've already stated in my profile that inaccuracies will exist. Be mindful of your host's blood-pressure. I'm not nice when I get angry online. I do dumb things. I throw things. Probably because my right hand shakes so badly when I get upset, I can't type and this annoys me to no end.
3. Loving the latest Kim Harrison novel. It's interesting. She is discussing so many themes near and dear to my heart. Her main character is struggling with change, with her identity, with the fact that all her friends appear to be moving on without her, while she is stuck. And she's just been told to find "casual friends" to hang with, no strings attached. Easier said than done. Plus, there's the issues of racism, sexual orientation and sexism being discussed in a fascinating and complicated way.
Harrison is bloody brilliant. I just wish she was technically speaking a better writer, but I know how hard that is. I'm struggling with that myself. I need to stop blogging, I think, and start writing creatively again.
Midnight impressed me for it's jokes, which I'm not sure everyone who watched quite got. The Momster missed a few.
I rather loved the general theme - which is about a man enamored with the past, nostalgia. So much so - he goes back to the Golden Age - the 1920s and falls in love. Only to eventually realize he can't live in the past and he is in a sense romanticizing it, it is but an allusion. As he states in typical Woody Allen fashion - there are no antibiotics or drugs, what would happen if you got sick? It's a direct comment on the current cultural war going on in the US - where the conservatives keep stating - we need to go back to the country America used to be, to the glorious past.
Another joke that I loved was regarding Luis Buneul - the French filmmaker and surrealist. Gil, the main character in typical Woody Allen fashion, tells Buneul - you should write a film about a group of party goers at a party who can't leave.
They don't know why they can't leave.
Bunuel: I don't understand, why don't they just open the door and leave?
Gil: Because they can't. If they do, civilization unravels and they discover they are just animals.
Bunuel: That doesn't sound like a great idea.
Gil: Just think it over when you're shaving...
LOL! I apparently saw the same Bunuel films that Allen did. Specifically the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousi :
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
They also can never leave. Gil's description is that film. If you've seen Belle du Jour and That Obscure Object of Desire and Bourgeousi, you know whereof I speak.
Allen has seen a lot of films.
The romances did not work for me. But I will give Woody credit for writing a variety of interesting female roles. His amongst the few male directors who have consistently done this. I rather adore Woody. And prefer him to Neil Simon. (If you disagree, do us both a favor and keep it to yourself. Been fighting a lot at work lately and I don't want to do it on lj. No tolerance for it.)
2. This is a warning to people: I'm irritable. REALLY IRRITABLE. I admit it. Spend a lot of time, too much, keeping my temper in check. The Momster states this is normal with the onset of menupause which comes around the ripe old age of 45. Also the ceiliac disease probably kick started it. The Momster didn't start until her 50s. Wonderful. I have all the symptoms. Let me put it to you this way? If you thought the monthly pain was bad... And it's most likely not helped by current work and personal situations, which are driving me crazy with frustration. So I escape here...and into books, and tv, and church (which gives me peace).
At any rate, this is not the time to fight with me in my livejournal. I have 0 tolerance. Folks. I like interaction. But fighting and debate, not so much. Do enough of that in my work-place. So if you disagree with something I post in this space (hey, it's bound to happen particularly if I'm dumb enough to give into the temptation to post about Whedon), keep in mind this is just a personal journal - not a national professional blog or discussion board. I seriously doubt anyone cares that much what I write about. I don't need to be pitch perfect here. I'm not Mark Watches or Neil Gaiman or Jane Espenson for crying out loud. I don't get paid for this. I've already stated in my profile that inaccuracies will exist. Be mindful of your host's blood-pressure. I'm not nice when I get angry online. I do dumb things. I throw things. Probably because my right hand shakes so badly when I get upset, I can't type and this annoys me to no end.
3. Loving the latest Kim Harrison novel. It's interesting. She is discussing so many themes near and dear to my heart. Her main character is struggling with change, with her identity, with the fact that all her friends appear to be moving on without her, while she is stuck. And she's just been told to find "casual friends" to hang with, no strings attached. Easier said than done. Plus, there's the issues of racism, sexual orientation and sexism being discussed in a fascinating and complicated way.
Harrison is bloody brilliant. I just wish she was technically speaking a better writer, but I know how hard that is. I'm struggling with that myself. I need to stop blogging, I think, and start writing creatively again.
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Date: 2012-02-28 09:52 pm (UTC)I really want to go to Paris!
You didn't miss much at the Oscars, Billy wasn't that funny and pretty much it was a typical show w/out any huge surprises.
{{hugs}} I hope you are feeling better soon.
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Date: 2012-02-29 12:10 am (UTC)And thank you. But since it's perimenupause...sounds like I just have to find ways to counter or handle the symptoms.
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Date: 2012-02-29 12:44 am (UTC)I seriously love London, I could live there forever: it is such a beautiful and interesting city full of fun things to see and do! And of course Bath & Oxford are close enough for day trips....
And I can't imagine ever getting bored w/NYC, it is always full of new things to see and do.
I do think that I need to find a way to get to Paris before I'm too old to be able to walk all over the place.
Every woman has a somewhat different experience of perimnupause and menupause, so I'm just hoping that you either find a way to handle it or maybe find that the transition stops torturing you sooner rather than later. But as they say, if wishes were horses then we would all be eating steak.