JANUARY IS ALMOST OVER! DEAR GOD!

Too much partying/staying up late this weekend, all to bid one final farewell to my closing bar mentioned in my previous post. It's Monday, I'm at work, and barely functioning...

My aunt had been staying with us the past two months, and had to fly back home to Tamaleland Saturday night, so off to LAX we went. I'm sad to see my aunt go, because she is such a good cook and always makes sure I'm well fed. I will miss her. Because my aunt has a very dark complexion however, security and crap at the airport are very racist towards her. I notice that every time we're at an airport, they take a long time to look through her passport and give her really suspicious looks. And yet, when very fair-skinned white people go through the same security personnel, they tend to let them through at a much faster rate. I'm not making this up, I observe these things very clearly! For all this new airport security and crap, our planes are not that much safer since 9/11, as study after study has shown. It's all quite ridiculous, and if a terrorist really wants to kill a lot of people, they will find a way. Just because they make ya take your shoes off and allow no liquids on board does not mean one is safer. Unless we install Israeli airport security methods, all this phony baloney pseudo-security only makes flying a real annoying nuisance for the average passenger.

Flicks I actually sat through this weekend include: William Wyler also directed Bette Davis in Jezebel and The Little Foxes, movies I found much superior to the bit overly melodramatic The Letter. I mean, it had its moments and all, but blah! The musical score was intrusive and I just wasn't that wowed by the film as a whole. On the other hand, the Oscar-nominated impressive and fascinating The Duchess starring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes has to be seen! What a gorgeous sumptuous visual feast and most interesting compelling story this is! Even the rich nobles weren't always happy, despite their lives of privilege, and I believe this movie is based on a true story. How any normal person can sit through the French film The Last Metro is beyond comprehension, but I'm anything but normal of course. I'm patient and love to take in movies that don't have explosions/car chases, and this movie starring French cinema legends Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu is one of those films that requires patient viewing; taking place at a small theater during the Nazi occupation of France. Very interesting.

More to come later...