Wednesday, January 30, 2008
scratchy
(scratchy hydrangea - collage with scratched film print and translucent paper)
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It hasn’t rained for weeks now and things are getting scratchy.
The grass is brown and scratchy, the plants are getting scratchy, yesterday- the children got a little scratchy.
Although we haven’t had an official water ban - I’m starting to feel guilty about the way I lavish water on the vegetables…
If there is a rain god up there - could Palmerston North have a little bit, please?
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Do you cry at movies?
I’ve seen three movies in recent weeks - all fabulous.
‘The Darjeeling Ltd‘ - quirky, colourful, funny, moving - I cried.
Then, ‘Once’ - which if you have a romantic bone in your body and like heartfelt acoustic music and people who seem ‘real’ you MUST go and see. It was awkward, passionate, painful, beautiful - I cried. (That link will take you to a youtube clip of the opening sequence from the film...)
OK - so the first movie contains the harrowing death of a child and the second is full of unfufilled longing, so a few tears might be justified..but yesterday - to get away from the heat and the scratchiness - I took the children to ’Waterhorse‘ - a delightful film (made in NZ and starring many NZ actors, by the way) about the Loch Ness Monster. It was sweet, poignant, a little scary, full of magic - I cried.
I can’t believe I cried at ‘Waterhorse’. What a softie.
But there is something about ‘justified’ crying in the dark that’s kind of nice, right?
