Random musings from a scattered brain
Movies
Allow me to cook you a story…
Aug 7th
Today, I watched Julie & Julia. I added it to my NetFlix queue because it had Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in it. I had a vague idea of the story, but never any of the specifics.
The “Julie” half of the movie is about Julie Powell (real-life writer) who has started several writing projects but has never seen them through to the end. She likes cooking – a lot, actually – and uses her time in a kitchen as a way to come back to herself after a day amongst a Government run cubicle farm.
She decides to give herself a challenge – and a deadline. The challenge because she needed more from her life and the deadline because she’s afraid that without it, she’ll never get it done.
The challenge: To cook her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking – all 524 recipes – in a year.
Her husband gives her the idea to blog about it. He thinks it would help her get back in touch with her writing. She eventually relents, and off we go.
So, yeah….she’s a writer at heart who loves cooking, uses it as therapy and blogs because it gives her attainable, short-term goals where her writing is concerned.
Basically, she’s me in a skirt. More >
The Tallahassee Writers Group brave the classics of Hollywood!
Jul 28th
As I wrote in my last post over on REELFocus.org, I closed that blog and opened this one because I couldn’t commit the kind of time necessary to continue with a more “professional” blog. I also didn’t want to limit myself to just talking about movies when there are so many other things I am interested in.
So of course, here in my first post on Mental Graffiti, I am going to talk about movies.
More specifically, about the movie marathon that I attended this past weekend. Once a month or so, the members of the Tallahassee Writers Group (of which I am a member) organize a movie marathon as an excuse to get together at an apartment, eat good food, hang out and watch movies for 12 hours or so.
This started after we decided to stage a marathon viewing of the entire run of the short-lived (but always awesome) TV space western Firefly. Our excuse in doing this was to introduce it to the couple of members who’d never seen it, but in reality we just wanted to get together and watch it again.
Since then, we’ve done a hodge-hodge “play whatever we’ve got on the shelf” marathon, an animated movie marathon, a “so bad its good” marathon and this past weekend we reached into the past and did a classic movie marathon.
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