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There are some words you just can't help but fall in love with--the meaning and the images they evoke, the way it rolls off your tongue, the way it dances on the corner of your mouth. There are some words that are pure magic. There are words that make people smile when they are tossed into conversation. And then when you take them and string them together, they take on a whole new meaning and begin a brand new dance. They are delicious to savor and your mouth waters with expectation.
Sunday Night I headed into TO to see INXS at the ACC with my husband, my galpal Heather and her neice Rita. I have always been a fan of INXS and the last time they did a big tour it was the fall of 1997 which I missed. Sadly, Hutchence was dead 3 weeks later and INXS was no more. But in the summer of 2005 we got "Rockstar:INXS" on TV and my guilty pleasure became the star-making machine for JD Fortune and INXS was back. I must admit, initially I was never JD's biggest fan on the show but the boy can sell it on stage. He had so much energy bouncing around from one side of the stage to the other. JD loves being a rockstar. He has gotten to the point where his confidence has become seductive and he works it. He is a genuine frontman he does the upbeat tracks really well. I couldn't have asked for more,they sounded fantastic. Their new material fit in really well with the classic hits. The original members of INXS had huge smiles on their faces all night, and lots of energy on stage. Great concert all round.Stabilo (Formerly Stabilo Boss) was great as an opener, by the way. A Vancouver band worth checking out. I found them endearing as they thanked us for our appluase many times, knowing that we were tolerating them on stage, and the real reason we were there was behind the big black curtain. As it got closer to show time, there was a projection of a switch up on the 2 side screens, which eventually changed to a countdown to when the show would start. When it got down to one minute left, the place went nuts. We counted down when there was ten seconds left, and everyone was up on their feet cheering. I loved the feel of the energy in those couple of seconds. The lights went down, came back on, and the band was up on stage, JD front and center. They launched into "Suicide Blonde" right away, the whole place going nuts. When they went into "Devil's Party" next, JD yelled; "Welcome to the party,Toronto!"Set list:Suicide BlondeDevil's PartyMystifyHot GirlsBy My SideAfterglowTaste ItOriginal SinHungryNever Let You GoKickNeed You TonightWhat You NeedDevil InsidePretty VegasEncore:New SensationAmazing GraceNever Tear Us ApartDon't Change
I will always try....-To recognize that as children, you are people too.-To laugh with you, instead of at you.-To admit my mistakes.-To validate your feelings.-To be patient.-To respect your choices.-To cherish you -To hug you and kiss you at every opportunity. -To love you unconditionally. Forever.
Having four Children meant her days were filled with silly songs, diapers, birthday parties, soccer games, music recitals, homework, and school dances. Mom would spend sleepless nights when the curfew had come and gone. She would pace hospital corridors after my heart surgery. She would fill stockings and Easter baskets at midnight. She would run here and there between extracurricular activities, spend countless hours repeating spelling words and helping with homework assignments. Dinner was always on the table, followed by snacks and televison time during the evening. Small tiny things were done, barely noticed, but all with great care. The ''thank you's'' were usually few and far between.Then the day came when her young grew wings and left the nest. The cycle continues now as her children have children of their own and learn what Mom had so selflessly done over those many years. A mom puts down her life to raise her children to help them reach dreams, achieve goals, be joyful, and have good character. Alot of my childhood was spent living in various places throughout Canada and other places of the world. Throughout it all she was my constant. Whether we were living in Ontario, Alberta or Venezuela, dinner was on the table and we were still bathed and read to and loved. The heart of a mother is a place to call home. Mom means security, trust, care, and unconditional love.As I've grown older our relationship has matured, and I've grown to appreciate her in different ways and even though our attitudes and opinions don't always match up, I respect the way she approaches everything with kindness. Thanks for everything, Mom...you're the best!Love, JillYour favorite daughter in the whole wide world.
The films highlighted in Orange are the ones I have seen.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick"The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut"8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog"Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott"All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz"Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen"Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*"Bambi" (1942) Disney"The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller"The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks"Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott"Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn"Breathless" (1959 Jean-Luc Godard"Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma"Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz"Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali"Children of Paradise" / "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne"Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski"Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick"The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise"Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel"Do the Right Thing" (1989) Spike Lee"La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini"Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder"Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick"Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey"E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg"Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner"The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin"Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen"Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher"Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale"The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman"The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola"Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming"GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese"The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols"Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester"Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith"It's a Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg"The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean"M" (1931) Fritz Lang"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer"Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang"Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam"Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock"Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau"On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone"Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier"Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters"Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock"Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino"Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray"Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks"Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski"The Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir"Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks"The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg"Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg"The Searchers" (1956) John Ford"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa"Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder"A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder"Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese"The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed"Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu"Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston"Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch"Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock"West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise"The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming
I am not a fan of Woody Allen films and interestingly, this did not seem like a typical Woody Allen film. Instead what you get is a straight forward thrill-ride of a tragedy. Jonathan Rhys Meyers assumes the role of leading man with considerable comfort and style. The character interactions and dynamics are intriguing. Scarlett Johansson is sexy as the ultimate object of desire.The movie's ending twist is a classic that Hitchcock would love. It can take your breath away, if you weren't already holding your breath
Toady, my husband and I went with our daughters grade three class to Black Creek Pioneer Village. We went on a guided tour of old buildings with interpreters of the pioneer days inside acting their parts as demonstrators and
instructors. Afterwards we took a group of kids on a non-guided tour and visited some other buildings, one being the kitchen. We learned that to test the temperature of the oven, a woman would roll up her sleeve and stand next to the stove and place her forearm into the oven. If she could not hold her arm in past nine seconds then the oven was hot enough to bake food with. Despite the heat and humidty a good time was had by all. 
