Back to TO - really great to visit with pals again, and nice to be in a city that feels like a second home. Stayed with R & MM - always such gracious & relaxed hosts that I have suggested they adopt me as a permanent fixture - and managed to visit with many of my favorite people. Every time I go back Toronto feels that little bit bigger, and that little big uglier. I love all the stuff you can do, but realize how much more me small, weather-plagued, slightly boring Vancouver is.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Don't really have all that much to say obviously, and should just stop while I'm ahead. OH - I did see a couple of very very good films in TO - Children of Men, with my soon-to-be spouse Clive O
wen, and the stunning and disturbing Pan's Labyrinth. Here's my favorite character ... he gives a whole new meaning to "jazz hands". Great story, stunning art direction - highly recommended.
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glad you made it home safely. i like the sound of little old vancouver.. xo
Glad you're back! Sorry about the pissy weather!
Haven't seen Pan yet, but it sounds good. Can't say I'm much of a fantasy/sci-fi person, though, so I'm not likely to see it. LOL @ 'jazz hands'.
J2, Pan is actually much less a fantasy film than you'd think - focus is really on the young protagonist and her 'family' & the situation in post war fascist Spain...unfortunately not as much of mr. jazz hands as I'd have liked ;-)
After C'est What, on the King West streetcar, I was doing mental jazz hands over Christopher Cross's "Ride Like the Wind" in my iPod. Now that you are there, here is very cold. Really.
Saw Pan's Labyrinth myself a coupla weeks ago . Damn that was great film.
With regards to mr 'Jazz hands' when you first see those gruesome frescoes on the walls and his bloodstained hands stuck to the tabletop , you knew something good was coming ;)
Hope the weather's better there these days.
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