Well, hello there!
How have you been? Wonderful! Me? Why, thank you for asking! I've been great too! Just not here great. I'm having technological challenges, which isn't really an excuse of course. I mean, my whole life is a technological challenge but sites have been updated and browsers have not which leaves me in the precarious position of blogging without italics, underlines and I think (although have not tried) inserts of any sort. Talk about boring. I hope you stress my words where I mean to and can only imagine the wondrous videos and images I wanted to share!
Enough of that (see! I wanted that in italics!). On to this (arg! I wanted that in italics too!):
I know, it's been almost three weeks since TIFF Glorious TIFF wrapped up but you know what they say about memories: they last forever until you forget them. Here's my highlight reel for Condensed Mayhem 2012.
* Rust & Bone was a most dramatic, emotional and heartwrenching film starring my love, Marion Cotillard. In one harrowing scene, Marion is confronted with her personal tragedy in a most dramatic way. She screams and pleas "Mes Jambes! Mes Jambes!", shocked at what she sees. We feel this. We feel this hard. Everyone loves to act out high drama scenes in movies, especially when drunk. So, here goes Jason. "Mes Jambons! Mes Jambons!". Ah, language, so tricky.
* Bomboniere at weddings are so over. Who needs another 'fill in the blank useless thing you will never use and only dust' right? Well, leave it to my awesome friends from English Vinglish who handed out bombonierre of their own after a most celebratory Indian Wedding. Ladoos! Yummy!
* I love Thanksgiving. The traditional Thanksgiving meal is one of my favourites. I'm unsure how I will react to our bird this year after seeing a human haired turkey belly in Yellow. We shall see. We shall see. (My strategy is more stuffing.)
* Sing a longs are fun, no? Yes! Singing Sit On My Face - a most crude and awesome song if ever there was one - with a crowd full of Monty Python fans was magic. "Life can be fine if we all 69!" I mean, come on.
* Christopher Walken. I watched a movie with Christopher Walken!
* My favourite TIFF movie won the People's Choice. That's right, Silver Linings Playbook. Yes, I DO know how to pick 'em.
* Been embarrassed by your cell phone going off at a movie? Oops, right? Well, what if the phone isn't yours? And you try to turn it off but you can't? And it doesn't belong to anyone. And it keeps ringing. And ringing. AH! What do you do? Well, obviously, you pass it to the guy on the aisle and get him to deal with it. Congratulations Olga & Scott, winners of Cell Phone Hot Potato!
* Imogene is not your lover. But if you see this movie, you'll want her to be.
* "Why are you lining up so early?". My Mom. She'll learn. What a trip. The woman's a trooper, and lucky: Silver Linings Playbook AND The Impossible? Yes, I DO know how to pick 'em.
* Crab cakes, eaten heels, good samaritans and glorious sunshine - Violet's birthday is always a memorable occasion!
* Make Up Peek A Boo during Cloud Atlas. What?! That was him?!
* New friends Scott & Andrea, the bun lady and never seeing movie where Nicole Kidman pees on anyone because we chose not to. "Remember the part in ... ". Man, we are rude.
* Bradley Cooper. Ewan McGregor.
All in all, another great year. Of course! From an insane spreadsheet (thank you, Julie!) to our Thursday Night Jam Session to our three phase execution strategy (thank you, Cres!) I feel we have a future in TIFF consulting. Or a free pass to the loony bin. I'm all in either way, because there is no other way.
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