Yesterday, for my birthday friday, my lovely family and I watched Julie & Julia.  I find this to be such an amazing and inspirational movie.  Not only is the music lovely and the Parisian setting to die for, but the story itself has stirred the same old things inside of me, the desire to be everywhere.  But it also served as a heartwarming and comical rebuke.  Both main characters seem to write constantly.  Julie, the woman from present-day New York, develops a blog that transforms into, not only a commentary on cooking, but an outlet for her thoughts and her real talent, which was writing.  Julia and her husband write all the time, because they write letters.  Why don’t we write letters anymore?  I always think of something infinitley cleverer than what I did say after I put down the phone, so why not take the opportunity for thought and write a letter…. or talk slower?  So there Amy Adams and Meryl Streep sat, Oscar participants speaking directly at me, saying “just start writing.”  If I write everyday, something will come out.  It could be entirely worthless to the rest of the world, but it won’t be worthless to me.    

           So today I am off to the movies to watch Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.  I am very excited- even though I heard the reviews were bad.  I don’t always like what Tim puts out there, but I’ve got to give him points for originality.  I don’t really think I could be a movie critic, because I don’t think I could ever call a movie bad.  My stragedy is to pick out what I like and what I don’t like, but I don’t think I could disqualify a director’s piece of work. 

           One more thought: I am going to be diligently watching the Oscars this weekend for my birthday.  I love to see actors take their art seriously, instead of seeing the tabloids tear down their characters- they really don’t deserve that.  I would love for Meryl to get another Oscar- she was just so charming in Julie & Julia.