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Bloody Good Time Had by Local Film Group
Disclaimer: Please note that the pictures and description of Harriet and Paul are meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek. They came to film night directly from a matinee performance of a benefit lip sync show where they depicted Ian and Sylvia. Remember them? The red hair is a cheap wig I brought home from the states for Harriet, but she looks so good in it, we all think she should wear it for real.
Bloody Good Time Had by Local Film Group
Local socialite Harriet Hart prepares her famous ham ball as her husband Paul opens the wine for the refreshment hour that preceded the Lake Chapala premiere of “What We Do in the Shadows.” Attendees were appreciative of the fact that potluck refreshments of sushi, ham ball, frittata and carrot cake were served and partially digested prior to the film, which is not for the squeamish.
A showing of the mocumentary “What We Do in the Shadows” was a resounding success at a film night hosted by Judy Dykstra-Brown in the Raquet Club, San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico. This hilarious send-up of vampire movies records the misadventures of four vampire roommates whose ages bridge the years from 3,000 years to a modern day youth’s rendition of vampirism. Clement and Waititi, creators of the HBO series “Flight of the Conchords” wrote, directed and starred in this spoof of vampire movies from Nosferatu to Twilight. The Critics Consensus on Rotten Tomatoes stated that, “What We Do in the Shadows is bloody good fun,” and went on to say that it is “smarter, fresher, and funnier than a modern vampire movie has any right to be.”
The film, which scored a whopping 96% approval rating on the tomatometer, and won top honors in its category in film festivals around the world, depicts the lives and tribulations of the four New Zealand flatmates trying to fit into the modern world––from their 6 pm rising through their squabbling over household chores, their harassment and rumbles with a local werewolf gang hiding out in the park, the pining of one still-youthful vampire protagonist as he stands under the second floor window of his lost non-vampire love, now in her eighties and living in a retirement home, to their arguments concerning bloodstains on the rug and sofa:
“Just put down newspapers!”
“Vampires don’t put down newspapers.”
“Well, what do you think people think when I bring them home and the house is so disorderly? It’s embarrassing!”
“You bring them home to kill them!!!”
At the end of another fine film evening, guests were entertained with a version of the Rolling Stones’ hit song “Let it Bleed” by Harriet and Paul Hart. Ms. Hart, a long-time resident of Ajijic, is a former groupie and present chairman of the Mexican Rolling Stones fan club. In retirement, Mr. Hart, a former deputy minister in charge of human resources for the province of Manitoba, is now a cowboy wannabe.
For scenes and out takes that you’l have to watch more than once, go HERE.
(For further commentary and a trailer of this not-to-be-missed film, go HERE.)
The Prompt: Ripped into the Headline–Write about something that happened over the weekend as though it’s the top story on your local paper.
Blue Green: Prompt Stomp Week 14/
Teenie Weenie
Teenie Weenie: Prompt Stomp Week 14, 2016
This is a tiny portion of a compound flower that is not that impressive in it’s totality, but this one little bloom blown up in size is so elegant, I think. All of these blooms and details of plants are easy to overlook when they are life-sized. Their beauty mainly shows in closeup.
For more closeups, go here:
https://themomhood.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/prompt-stomp-week-14/
Blink!
Blink!
Against my will, I’ve been granted the ability to appear and disappear at will. I don’t really think I’d use my newfound talent much with one exception. Doesn’t everyone have that one person or more that they dread meeting? Chances are, they are prone to talking–a lot–about people you have never met and will never meet, totally overlooking voicing any questions about your life or even giving you an opening to switch the topic of conversation. You see them as you enter a restaurant, and there they are. In a split second, they will see you and If they see you, they are apt to wave you over and ask you to share their table and all you want is to sit, pull out your device of choice and have a nice meal while reading blogs or emails or listening to an audio book.
Blink! You disappear, then reappear around the corner on your way to a different restaurant, because it’s hard to place an order when you are invisible.
The Prompt: You have a secret superpower: the ability to appear and disappear at will. When and where will you use this new superpower? Tell us a story.
Only one day until I leave for the beach. If I don’t get posted for the next two days, I hope you use it as a chance to catch up on one of my other 1,559 blogs that I’ve published over the past two years. I don’t even remember most of them. That’s not much of an incentive for you to read them, is it? Ha. I should be back to the old grind on the 16th!!!
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/now-you-see-me/
Yellow!!!Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge Jan 13, 2016
Yellow!!!
Finally!!!! I’ve been saving this one for this challenge for weeks now and keep bringing it up from my desktop. I’ve never seen a yellow poinsettia before and think it probably changed from green to yellow to white or some other color, but I loved it at this stage!! So glad to finally be able to use it. I promise no more poinsettias for awhile. Well, unless there’s a really neat one!!! Backsliding already.
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night
What hath they wrought? I returned tonight from an incredible performance of Glengarry Glen Ross (the cast was all women except for one!) to find this desecration of Leonardo’s art installation. First, see the original:
Then, what Diego and Morrie (or possible just Morrie) made of it in a few hours:
Poor Leonardo. Poor me. The canines just don’t have the same fine sensibilities about what constitutes art. They are more performance art types!!
Two Circles
Two Circles
Two big problems were solved for me today with the construction of two circles. First of all, the lovely installation created by Leonardo in my garage was removed today and reconstructed in a better spot so the garage is free again to park my car and load it up with supplies for my two month stay at the beach. Eduardo, an artist friend who is also Leonardo’s father, is here for the next 6 weeks to build flower boxes around my flower plots in the garden, to build a brick sidewalk leading down to the pump for my irrigation system and to repair salitre damage and paint my house. We have negotiated the terms and most of this work will go on while I am gone. Here, then, is my first new circle. It is just to hold the sand for construction, but I’m fond of it already. perhaps a little pond here later? No, probably not.
I love how he incorporated the flower pot into the design! Actually, a semicircle now, but we will imagine the other half of it, for purposes of maintaining my theme!
So, with one problem solved, I set about trying to figure out how to keep Frida from licking her “hot spot” wound. The neck cone definitely didn’t work. She was a crazy woman for the one night after I put it on her and that made me a crazy woman. Also, although she’s taking a course of antibiotics, they will do no good if she keeps licking the wound and reinfecting it and also it does no good to put Neosporin or other medicine on it because she licks it off. So, what to do?
A friend suggested colloidal silver for the wound. She had tried this before and it had worked, so yes, I went to town and bought a big bottle of colloidal silver and put it in a spray bottle. Another blogging friend suggested I tie a rolled up towel around Frida’s neck to keep her from bothering the wound on her hip. I couldn’t think of how to keep this on her until I had a flash of inspiration. When my nephew Craig and Jessica visited, they purchased an upscale neck pillow to aid with sleep on the plane. When they left, they asked if they could leave it as they hadn’t used it and it was cumbersome to carry around. Voilà! I was even able to locate it–wonder of wonders. I took off Frida’s collar, sewed the pillow to it with a huge needle and six strands of waxed linen and fastened it around Frida’s neck. She didn’t even flinch. Here she models my new invention which I should patent if it works! Brilliant!!! (If it works.)
We will see how Frida’s new “necklace” looks after being outside for a day.
So that, my friends is how I resolved my two biggest problems and how circles came to save the day!!
Oh Baby, Baby
Oh Baby, Baby
I just located these prints from a time long ago before I had a digital camera. They were taken in a hacienda long-abandoned by the family whose descendants still owned it, but was still being maintained by the descendants of a family that had been caring for it for hundreds of years. They were very grateful for the 200 pesos we pressed into their hand to see the remains of past glory and we were very grateful to see a house left pretty much as it was with furniture, paintings and kitchen intact. The part of the experience I liked best, however, was capturing this charming little character on film!
To see more baby images, go here: http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/01/12/one-word-photo-challenge-baby/
Passing Time
Detra de las Puertas Cerradas (Behind Closed Doors) One’s own living room can become entirely too comfortable. Shutting the drawers to the past may open the doors to the future. (retablo by Judy Dykstra-Brown)
Passing Time
The means of our escape from life are numerous and various,
and there is nothing wrong with getting thrills that are vicarious.
Movies, sports and novels are fine for entertainment;
but if you’re only viewing, there is no sense of attainment.
Looking back on your own life, like opening a book,
isn’t really living life, but just having a look
at the life of someone who you no longer are.
You aren’t really living life by viewing from afar.
Escape is necessary and our choices for it vast,
but there’s no satisfaction in living in the past.
Life is to be spent, not to be hoarded and rethought.
Better just to live the rest of the time that you’ve got!
Fond memories are something that I’m sure none of us lack,
but there’s no time of life to which I’m yearning to go back.
The only thing to do with time’s to live it and to love it.
I have no wish to turn back time, I only want more of it!
The Prompt: If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life, either to experience the wonderful bits again, or to do something over, which part of you life would you return to? Why?
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/if-i-could-turn-back-time/
