Another movie

Saw another good movie on dvd this weekend, although a world apart from the Judi Dentch one, literally...lol. Finally saw "Bride and Prejudice", the bollywood take off on Jane Austen. It's great... kind of corny lines, improbably situations, and some wooden acting here and there... but it's just so cheerful and colorful that its endearing. And probably the only movie where you'll see an musical number including mariachi singers, a gospel choir and baywatch lifeguards all mixed together on the beach...lol.

New hobby

Thought I'd post a few pics of my new hobby. I tend to lose interests in crafts once I figure out how to do them, so no telling how long this will last...lol. Cyndy, and our friend, Linda, are also playing around with this stuff, so we'll probably get a table at a local craft fair to see if we can sell some. I've sold about $70 worth to friends who saw stuff they liked, but I hate selling to friends because I'd rather just give it to them, but can't afford to...lol. I like the wire wrapping the best, I think that's the most fun. I have more pics at this album .

Ladies in Lavender

Saw a wonderful movie last night. It's only showing around here for a few more days and in just one theater and I almost didn't notice it. Washington is horrible for foreign and arthouse films. You'd think they would be easy to find in such a world capitol but most of the theaters that show stuff like that have shut down over the last few years, they just want to show the big hollywood blockbusters. Anyway...... saw "Ladies in Lavender" starring Judith Dench and Maggie Smith. And the male lead was the young actor from another favorite of mine, "Goodbye Lenin". This is a great film, a little bit sad and wistful, a little bit funny, and shot in drop dead gorgeous countryside in Cornwall. It's the story of two older sisters living on the coast who find a young foreign musician washed up on the beach one morning. The actress who plays their housekeeper almost steals the show, it's worth it almost just to watch her scenes. Any of you reading this locally, it's showing at the theater in old town Greenbelt thru Thursday.

Teapot Purse

Ok, on someone else's blog I mentioned my teapot purse the other day and someone wanted to see it, so here it is in all it's glory (the black/white fuzzy thing to the left is my cat Grover who insisted on helping with the photo shoot).

The clasp is the "tag" from an imaginary teabag and there is a mirror and the lid is a changepurse, there is also a little mirror on the underside of the lid. They had it in brighter colors like red and green and orange, but I decided tan was more subtle and versatile, or at least as subtle as a teapot purse can be...lol. I got it at Bluewater Mall just outside London, the biggest shopping mall in Europe, at one of my favorite shops, Octopus. Don't ask me why it's named that, but it carries all sorts of offbeat colorful stuff. Most of my friends are horrified by this purse and cringe when I use it in public..lol...but that just makes me use it even more.

Laundry origami

I don't know why I'm posting this since I've already shown it to EVERYBODY, but in case I missed you, this is so cool, I wonder what she does with her jeans...
http://www.chicagoist.com/archives/2004/11/17/japanese_t-shirt_magic.php

Go to this site and then click on the wording that is underlined that says, "this rockin' laundry folding method," and watch how easy it is to fold a t-shirt. I tried it and it REALLY works!!

Cough..cough..sneeze...

Lot of cobwebs around here! Guess this poor old blog is evidence of my often too short attention span...lol. But will try to do better! If you want to see how a blog should be done, check out my good friend (and fantastic author!), www.matthewpaulturner.com and his blog.

Finally saw "War of the Worlds" yesterday and seeing it the day after the horrible attacks in London put a different spin on it, at least to me. It was a good reminder that nothing Mr. Spielberg and his pals can whip up will stand up against the real thing. True horror in all it's unique, breathtaking and banal examples will trump multi-million dollar special effects each time. The only parts of the movie that really shook me were "people moments" between Tom's character and his kids, scenes that would have been at home in any genre of film....western, horror, adventure, etc., the sci-fi stuff was secondary.

And speaking of Tom Cruise, how scary is it that he is beginning to look more normal on-screen than off!?

One last random thought on the London events..... how weird and telling of our era is it that a good friend just outside of London didn't hear about the bombings until I called to check on him? He'd been outside all day painting and hadn't been near any newscasts. On 9/11 he'd heard about it before I did. Kind of amazing that our world has grown so small in some ways that news from down the street can be learned from people a continent away as easily as from the nextdoor neighbor.