Becky's Greatest Hits Vol. II

Warning: You will not feel light and happy and more in love with your mate after this film.  You will feel tired and sad and in need of a shower and probably needing to schedule time with your therapist.  P.S. I say this with love in my heart for both Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams!

  Finally read this book.  And it is wonderful and haunting and thrilling and unsettling and so very, very Gen X.  Now I have to hurry up and see the film before it gets ruined for me!

    Meeting Mike Watt after the show.  At least one time when the advice to "never meet your heroes" is dead wrong.  An actual thrill. 

My child finds that he loves horses, and I finally find an extracurricular activity that I can enjoy watching him enjoy.  Joy! 

  This book is so sweet, so girly and so 1970's.  It was the perfect antidote to having spent a good bit of time reading about Vietnam and the racial unrest of the 1960's.  This was my favorite diary entry as the writer describes watching her father play with her newborn sister: I love watching Daddy play with Sara.  I remember exactly how it felt to hold Daddy's hand when I was little.  You could show me the hands of a thousand men and I could pick out my Daddy's, no problem.  In a world full unsettling ugly, sometimes the simple diary scribblings of an innocent young girl can take us all to a good place.   

I have been waiting for this book to be published for 2 years, so I dove right in as soon as it arrived.  Picking up in the early 1960's with extensions of the same families it began with back before WWI, Follett stays the course with the politics and intrigue of the 20th Century.  Being it's the 60's, he focuses mostly on America and all of it's problems: racial discrimination and violence, civil disobedience and a young poon-chasing President who is written as a complete doofus.  I always seem to be interested in one particular family or person in this book series, and this time it was the German contingent.  I was just so intrigued by The Wall, before it went up and after it came down.  I liked the book, and to be sure, the series as a whole.  But I will always be loyal to the very first installment Fall of Giants.  Maybe because it touched on a war that people don't know much about or because it was so far from my time or my own knowledge.  Or maybe, like a

So bad we didn't even finish watching.  Sometimes you need to take heed to the title, folks.

Benefits Downtown Gastonia business as well as local food banks and homeless shelters such as Bread Inc and the Salvation Army Shelter.  Dress up at home or bring cans of food and get your face professionally zombiefied for free!!!!

Kinda funny, kinda sad and very Woody Allen.  If you get that and like those things then this movie is for you.  I liked it okay but would not call it earth-shattering even though Cate Blanchett is wonderful as always.  Really makes you think about who you are and how you would or wouldn't change if the circumstances around you transformed.