WEDNESDAYS

Slaying the Jabberbabywocky?

I swear to you that I was JUST standing there and my life got all over me.  Let's insert some maniacal laughter here for effect.   It is just this:  I am standing before the knight at the bridge of eternal peril and I am being asked that most feared of all quiz questions, "What's your favorite color?"  Now add in the Groundhog Day effect = same sh*t, different day/week/month/decade.

I know for a fact that many things about me personally HAVE changed over the years and I know that I don't react the way that I used to in many circumstances. But is that the good thing I believed in?   That my being a different person is what is necessary to get across that bridge? 

   Perhaps I got it all backwards and what I really need/needed was to become more me, get closer to who I am instead of trying to be different.

   This is the part where the Vorpal sword drops out of the bushes and cracks my foot.  Of course I picked up the thing without thinking and NOW I have to face the jabberbabywocky.

 Didn't see that coming.

Alice in Wonderland FIVE STARS

  I loved this movie.  I loved the story, THE COSTUMES, the visual spectacle.   JOHNNY DEPP, inspired as usual and totally bat shit crazy as the Mad Hatter.  Even the soundtrack was beautiful.  I shed a few tears before it ended.  A friend of mine mentioned today that someone told him that Tim Burton had lost his magic touch.  I completely disagree.  His work has gotten more refined, more beautiful over time.  

  The story of Alice is one of those that many people either love or hate or simply refuse to even read because it is a complicated story layered again and again with symbolism and metaphor.  It is based in this fantastic other world but the characters are going through all these human dramas.  Once you get past all the curiousness and impossibility of it all, you get to this great message of believing in yourself and your dreams.  And of course I appreciate the fact that the main character is a young woman.

  Go see this movie.  Do yourself a favor and read the original books:  Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,  read the book from the new movie which catches up with Alice on the edge of adulthood.  If you find yourself a bit disappointed then take Alice's advice and find six impossible things to believe in before breakfast the very next day.  Then go buy yourself a hat.