What a beautiful Sunday

It is one of those days when the sky is a superb blue, the sun is out and it is cold and I just think 'I want to get out there and just taste that day'. And yet I am still here writing this, instead of getting out and making the most of things - what a nerd I am becoming.

Yesterday afternoon you could feel the temperature falling, a little like in the film 'The Day after'; well not quite like that except in my tiny mind. Then in the afternoon there were some small specks of snow, not many and they melted immediately. Then in the evening it must have snowed a little because at 1am this morning, when I went to get the car to take a friend home, the roof of the car was covered in snow. And today feels like one of those days when all you want to do is to get up to the mountains and make the most of Mother Nature. It just gives me such a great feeling, it's just great. it is at times like these that I really know that life is worth living and that the dark moments, no matter how desperate they seem, are only moments in my existance.

Amour et ???

Dans le film les 8 femmes il y en a une qui pose cette question: "c'est quoi l'amour?". Y a-t-il une réponse? Cherche-je une réponse? Does it matter? Mais la vie sans amour, c'est triste. Lors qu'il n'y a personne qui pense à toi, qui ne s'inquiète pas car tu n'es pas arrivé à l'heure, lors qu!'il n'y a plus personne qui est là pour toi, tout ça, ça sert à quoi? En écrivant j'espère trouver une réponse à cette question ephémère mais veux je vraiment une réponse. Non, j'ai envie de pleurer sur mon sort et au moins toi, blog, mon blog, au moins tu m'écoutes. Merci.

W - the film

Living in France films come out at different times. While I was in Lorraine I saw the posters advertising the imminent release (I had to look the word up!) if Oliver Stone's film 'W'. At once I knew that I had to see it. I am not American, neither am I French, and I really don't know that much about George W. I had heard that the film was critical and wanted to see for myself. I think the film is reasonably true, I know that there were things said in the film, blunders etc, which I have seen George W say, so in that way it was true to life.

The beginning of the film appalled me. As a student in the UK I had to undergo some sort of initiation when I went to university and I am adverse to this 'chumy, all boy bravado thing'. So at the outset I was not enthralled by the man however I really think that the film does not denigrate George W, but shows the audience how he has been manipulated by a band of coniving people. At the end of the film, and I am certainly not at all politically Republican in any way, I felt some sympathy for the character. OK, he is President and must take responsibility for the actions of the US government, however, with perhaps the exception of Colin Powell, the rest of them are like vultures, vampires, rats the lowest of the low. And Condoleezza Rice, she is the worst of them all, the silk hand in a boxing glove! I enjoyed the film and was surprised.