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October 23, 2011~ 12:00 am
Just when I was having a lackluster week, lo and behold... I received a seasonal greeting from my gal pal in Los Angeles.
Boy! That picked my 'spirits' right up! I LOVE HALLOWEEN CARDS! I'm sure she's all decked out for the holiday, as she is every year. Me?...... (yep. That card.) LOL!!! But through the decades folks have sent spookable greetings, and I so enjoy looking through vintage cards online because they cheer me to no end!
Look at that adorable little 'Campbell's soup' sort of toddler, big-eyed scared. Usually it's a variety of pretty Floradora-type girls dressed as leggy old-fashioned witches astride brooms... or cute tikes like that one, scared out of their wits. Plenty of pumpkins and ghosts.... shadows and candle flames.
With one sweeter than the next, you can get lost looking, letting nostalgia sweep right over you. Despite what the Christian Right thinks of Halloween, I find a true innocence about the holiday. Unlike Christmas- which is known as the season for the child in each of us, I find it's Halloween that really brings the little kid out in everyone. We enjoy being creeped out and dressing up. We like sweets. We like a good scary story.
That being said...... you would think the movie we chose for the weekend before the holiday would have been of the scary variety. Wayne and I checked out the local movie rental place and honestly, the scary genre has been taken over by either gory murder movies with plenty of saws and cleavers and such, or they're 'end of the world' type pandemics that change people into flesh-eating zombies. I miss the old creepy hauntings. I miss being afraid of what you DON'T SEE.
So..... strangely enough, Wayne allowed me to choose a corny musical film, "Burlesque". The acting was stilted, the plot a rehash of any number of 1930's films of a country girl trying to get her big break, but I loved the glitz... and the way Christina Aguilera can really belt out a song. I think she's terrific. Visually, the movie is quite appealing
with an intended nod to the 'Caberet' type of Kit Kat Club in pre-war Germany... but one that is strictly rated PG. There's not a whiff of decadence in sight, just a slight tease in that direction.) Cher looked like she's made of 'plastique'... but the lady can still sing. The real treat was watching Aguilera camp it up.
Platinum wigs, eyeliner galore, she batted her lashes and danced like a trooper, all the while producing this HUGE voice from a small body. (And of course, there was Stanley Tucci, an actor who improves EVERY film he's in. He seemed to be enjoying himself... as always. A delightful man.)
Even though the film was weak and hobbling in the story department, the acting so-so (given the hackneyed plot)...... I still enjoyed the show.
That's because Christina Aguilera is dynamite to watch when she's performing. (I think even Liza Minelli would give a nod to that.) She entertains. And for Saturday evening, that's all I really wanted, to be swept up in some powerful musical numbers... and that's exactly what happened. It was enough to sit back and watch the 'spectacle'. (Although, come to think of it, watching Cher doing Morticia from the Addams Family... WAS kind of 'Halloween-y'. LOL!)
October 23, 2011~ 7:45 pm
Had a nice dinner with mum, and was DELIGHTED once again, to find such SPLENDID fall leaves scattered all over the sidewalks from the many, many old trees that line the walkways around her assisted living complex.
I couldn't resist. Just had to pluck up two more of them, and just to show you their SIZE, I snapped this shot.
There's my aging little paw beside the larger of the two. Those leaves are MAGNIFICENT this year!
Even inside the house, I've got them tucked around most of my downstairs pictures. LOL!! I'm an autumn lover for sure. Browns, reds and oranges and yellows..... they make me feel cozy.
October 24, 2011~ 7:30 pm
Wonder of wonders! My boss did the most extraordinary pumpkin carving! I just love it....
and it's of one of my favorite things.....AN OWL! (Besides crows, which I believe to be my 'spirit animal') I love owls to pieces. How's that for a lovely autumn porch ornament? Must have taken the patience of Job. GOOD JOB, JOYCE!
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Just when I was having a lackluster week, lo and behold... I received a seasonal greeting from my gal pal in Los Angeles.
Boy! That picked my 'spirits' right up! I LOVE HALLOWEEN CARDS! I'm sure she's all decked out for the holiday, as she is every year. Me?...... (yep. That card.) LOL!!! But through the decades folks have sent spookable greetings, and I so enjoy looking through vintage cards online because they cheer me to no end!
Look at that adorable little 'Campbell's soup' sort of toddler, big-eyed scared. Usually it's a variety of pretty Floradora-type girls dressed as leggy old-fashioned witches astride brooms... or cute tikes like that one, scared out of their wits. Plenty of pumpkins and ghosts.... shadows and candle flames.
With one sweeter than the next, you can get lost looking, letting nostalgia sweep right over you. Despite what the Christian Right thinks of Halloween, I find a true innocence about the holiday. Unlike Christmas- which is known as the season for the child in each of us, I find it's Halloween that really brings the little kid out in everyone. We enjoy being creeped out and dressing up. We like sweets. We like a good scary story.
That being said...... you would think the movie we chose for the weekend before the holiday would have been of the scary variety. Wayne and I checked out the local movie rental place and honestly, the scary genre has been taken over by either gory murder movies with plenty of saws and cleavers and such, or they're 'end of the world' type pandemics that change people into flesh-eating zombies. I miss the old creepy hauntings. I miss being afraid of what you DON'T SEE.
So..... strangely enough, Wayne allowed me to choose a corny musical film, "Burlesque". The acting was stilted, the plot a rehash of any number of 1930's films of a country girl trying to get her big break, but I loved the glitz... and the way Christina Aguilera can really belt out a song. I think she's terrific. Visually, the movie is quite appealing
with an intended nod to the 'Caberet' type of Kit Kat Club in pre-war Germany... but one that is strictly rated PG. There's not a whiff of decadence in sight, just a slight tease in that direction.) Cher looked like she's made of 'plastique'... but the lady can still sing. The real treat was watching Aguilera camp it up.
Platinum wigs, eyeliner galore, she batted her lashes and danced like a trooper, all the while producing this HUGE voice from a small body. (And of course, there was Stanley Tucci, an actor who improves EVERY film he's in. He seemed to be enjoying himself... as always. A delightful man.)
Even though the film was weak and hobbling in the story department, the acting so-so (given the hackneyed plot)...... I still enjoyed the show.
That's because Christina Aguilera is dynamite to watch when she's performing. (I think even Liza Minelli would give a nod to that.) She entertains. And for Saturday evening, that's all I really wanted, to be swept up in some powerful musical numbers... and that's exactly what happened. It was enough to sit back and watch the 'spectacle'. (Although, come to think of it, watching Cher doing Morticia from the Addams Family... WAS kind of 'Halloween-y'. LOL!)
October 23, 2011~ 7:45 pm
Had a nice dinner with mum, and was DELIGHTED once again, to find such SPLENDID fall leaves scattered all over the sidewalks from the many, many old trees that line the walkways around her assisted living complex.
I couldn't resist. Just had to pluck up two more of them, and just to show you their SIZE, I snapped this shot.
There's my aging little paw beside the larger of the two. Those leaves are MAGNIFICENT this year!
Even inside the house, I've got them tucked around most of my downstairs pictures. LOL!! I'm an autumn lover for sure. Browns, reds and oranges and yellows..... they make me feel cozy.
October 24, 2011~ 7:30 pm
Wonder of wonders! My boss did the most extraordinary pumpkin carving! I just love it....
and it's of one of my favorite things.....AN OWL! (Besides crows, which I believe to be my 'spirit animal') I love owls to pieces. How's that for a lovely autumn porch ornament? Must have taken the patience of Job. GOOD JOB, JOYCE!
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