Honey, I'm still Free

Went and saw Mamma Mia tonight and was thankful for a bit of fun and brightness. ABBA, so glad your songs are sing-a-long and Josef Frank, props for designing such amazing fabrics for the set. (photos via yahoo)

Foreign Film

Subtitles and movies are a good combo ever since my days at BYU attending the International Cinema. I have recently watched three productions - all very different.
1- Water: about an eight year old widow in India, tragic and beautiful at the same time
2- Umbrellas of Cherbourg: a sort of French opera with luscious colors and clothing
3- L'Enfant: French again, a story about redemption, my least favorite of the three and so painful to watch

Juno

So today I voted. I walked in to the Wellsville 01 precinct location and signed my name and before giving me my credit card to unlock the mysterious electronic voting machine the elderly election judge loudly blurts out, "You're a democrat?" as if I had an extra limb and was part of the circus side show. The three fiftyish gentlemen casting their vote looked disapprovingly at me, but I was already feeling confrontational, I had just finished having my yearly mammogram and let's be honest, it's just not right to do that to a breast, anyway these so-called men had their two-ton diesels idling in the parking lot on a red air day in Cache Valley. The nerve! The little old ladies whose circulation could probably benefit from keeping the car warm had turned off their engines and navigated the icy parking lot, and the manly exhaust, for the 10 minutes it took to vote. Argh! The things that get me steamed. I was really annoyed... so when I was passing the movie theater at 1:00 and saw that Juno was starting I bought a giant bag of popcorn and watched the show with two other people in the theater. I thought the movie was quite clever and like Juno felt that "normalcy isn't my style".
*note: Chase is 18 and voted for the first time - I am so proud.