So after forcing myself to get through "Pieces of April" I finally watched the end of it on Tuesday night. Literally it took me about 15 different times to get through it. I rented it from the library about 3 weeks ago and had rented some other movies and got 30 minutes into it and lost interest. I'm of the type that usually has to sit the whole way through something no matter how bad it is because there may be some redeeming quality and I just gotta see how it ends. So I put the movie on hold again and got it a week ago and just didn't get around to watching it until the day it was due and knew I had to finish it up.
If you want to see the trailer of it CHOOSE A) OR B)
I'm a big fan of Katie Holmes (Yes I loved "Dawson's Creek" but hated the way the series ended). When this movie came out I had heard a lot about it being so good. Well I was bored to tears the whole way through. They spend too much time on the journey to her house and then we get about 2 minutes at the end of what we wanted all along. One scene that caught my eye was when her little sister in the movie sings "Caro Mio Ben" which I actually had to sing for a voice class I took in university (video footage below).
So that has special meaning for me. There were some deep life changing lessons there for sure but it just dragged on an on into oblivion. When I was done I watched the extra scenes and that was the best part because it eplained the director's point of view and it all made more sense. I disagree with him though in that they should have used music in a lot more scenes to liven the script up and keep me awake. Then I watched a bit of the audio commentary which is way more interesting than the movie itself. I always wish I had more time to listen to the full audio commentary when I get videos. You learn so much about the background of how a movie was made.
FOCUS GROUP
Homicide Suspect Holds Off Police in Fair Oaks by Scoba (found at Creative Commons)
News Media Covering Transit Strike by Ryan Conley (found at Creative Commons)
President Bush js_019_bush by Jaiso (found at Creative Commons)
Last night I went to a Focus Group that a friend told me about and you sit in a room with about 9 other people and yourself. We all sat around a big table at a media company and this man lead the workshop and asked us tonnes of questions about the media. In this case it was about newspapers, television news and internet news. We all talked constantly for an hour and a half. The man who led the group directed us and kept coming up with different questions about where we go for local news, international news, what makes us choose one format over another etc. It was fascinating to hear all these points of view. Of course it was very relevant to our location and city as well and at the end of it we all got paid which was nice.
The one thing that bothered me though was someone brought up the fact they like anything about Bush bashing. Now let me do the honour and say this was about Preside nt Bush and that is how he should be addressed when any reference is made to him. I don't care what your political preference is the man deserves respect for leading the country and he was elected by the people. So everyone who hates this man should suck it up and deal with it. If you think he is doing a bad job then run the country yourself or say a prayer for him. He certainly has had a lot of persecution thrown his way and I for one am so sick of hearing about it. No other president has been attacked this much. My mom awhile ago saw a T-shirt with a rude saying about President Bush and it really was offensive. There are people in this world I don't like but I wouldn't dream of bashing them. Everyone deserves our respect. Okay I feel a bit better now and excuse the rant.
Peace out (my version of Ryan Seacrest's send out when he had his own show),
S.
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