My stroll to bootcamp on Friday night

I thought I was going to get measured on Friday night but it'll be Wednesday's class. I'm excited to keep going with bootcamp. Of course, I didn't want to go to class on Friday night so I took the camera and wandered down to class at Second Beach.

One of the parks in the west end.

One of the parks in the west end.

Woohoo! Autumn means sweaters and boots!

I like the entrance to this apartment building, it's very 60's Hollywood (at least to me it is!)

This has got to be one of my favorite apartment buildings in the west end.






I love sunsets! This is what we got to see each time we went to bootcamp!

Second Beach

The view from the beach

Vancouver Film Festival, movie number 7

So, Tuesday night I went to see Close to Home. It was about two girls who had to join the Isreal army as soon as they turned 18 (appartently this is madatory as soon as you turn 18, male or female, you join the army for a year). It's like a day in the life of the girls, how they are feeling, one wants to be with her family, the other wants nothing more than to be far away from her's. They patrol sectors of the city, registering Arab men and women as they come and go from the city (which no one really wanted to do). Although it wasn't a deep movie, it was a glimpse into the life of the women as they go about their lives. It was interesting and entertaining.

This weekend, I have seven more and then one more on Tuesday and then I'm all finished! I did give up one tonight, one of my hamstrings is in spasms from bootcamp last night, and maybe badminton today. . .oh well! It's a Canadian movie that did well at the Atlantic Film Festival so I'm sure it'll be on DVD one day.

I'm a kitty-kat

This stupid video!!!

lol, I love it, the song gets stuck in my head all the time, it's evil but I can't stop watching. . .why can't I stop watching it?

These are the Dave's I know I know, these are the Dave's I know

These Are The Daves I Know

Classic! Some of us are David's, most of us are Dave's, we all have our own hands but we come from different moms.

Movies from Sunday, October 1, 2006

So Sunday, I saw three movies, The Last King of Scotland, Requiem and Fido. I have to say, all three were great movies, however, the first two were pretty heavy.

The Last King of Scotland was brilliant. I really enjoyed the way Forest Whitaker played General Idi Amin. I know that sounds like a bizarre statement, but I didn't know a lot of the background of Idi Amin until I saw the movie. Forest Whitaker plays the general very likable and charming, it's later in the movie that you see the real side of him (the last half hour of the movie my body was completely tense and I couldn't move for a full five minutes after the movie finished. I would fully recommend the movie to anyone. All the actors were great to watch and it was nice to see Gillian Anderson again acting in a movie (or at least, if she was in a movie in the last little while, I didn't see it).

My next movie was Requiem from Germany. It's based on true facts about a girl who suffers from epilesy, wants to go to school (university), and starts a relationship. Her attacks get worse and worse, and she feels that demons are attacking her. It was pretty heavy to watch, and of course, I had just seen The Last King of Scotland so I was already mushy in the brain. Again, even though this movie was very hard to watch at parts, I would still recommend this to people to see. However, prepare yourself first!

My last movie I saw was Fido. Oh my god! This was funny! So, the movie is about zombies who are used as servants (I won't explain how there are zombies or how they get them to be servants, the movie does a very good job of explaining it). Billy Connolly plays an amazing zombie and you won't believe it's him (the director was at the movie and explained in the Q&A that everytime he yelled CUT, Billy Connelly would talk non-stop as his lines were urg, grrr, urk, etc). If ever you wanted to see a funny zombie, it would be Billy Connelly. Carrie-Anne Moss is the mother. I actually liked her better here than in the Matrix. I know it's two entirely different movies, but, if you can watch Fido, you will completely understand what I mean. The father was played by Dylan Baker (who's actually afraid of zombies). Everyone in the movie was great and I can't recommend it enough! GO SEE IT!