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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
Im so glad to hear that everyone liked my last post. It’s always so nice to hear from you guys and reading your comments always makes me smile. I have just discovered that I can get free internet for an hour at the local public library, whooo hooo, so here are the updates from the past week...
Adelaide- We have been hanging out in the sea town of Glenelg on the coast of Adelaide for about 4 days now. I love it here. We have been beaching it, reading Time magazine and Haruki Murakami (me) and Harry Potter 7 (Liz), people watching, crunching it (working out) everyday, and I have been taking pictures of the pier and the sunsets.
It rained yesterday so we decided to take a day off from sunning it and went to see Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It’s a love story set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman) in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces. It was SO GOOD! The critics around Sydney have been very critical by calling Kidman the botox master and accusing Jackman of being gay even though he is married. I don’t care about any of that after seeing the film. I think everyone should go out and see it this weekend. I laughed my head off, got a little teary eyed at the end, and fell deeply in love with beefcake Hugh during a shower scene where he pours a bucket of water over his chiseled and soapy muscles in front of a camp fire. I don’t care if it is corny, I am still all hot and bothered over it a day later. I looked over at Liz during this scene and her mouth was hanging wide open, then I realized mine was too. It was fantastic! Oh, good story and cinematography as well. It was a really interesting depiction of Aborigional people and the ackowledgement of the stolen generations of "creamies" aborigional children with white fathers and black mothers who were taken into slavery was really tasefully done.
You can watch the trailer below:
Love you guys! XOXOX
Adelaide- We have been hanging out in the sea town of Glenelg on the coast of Adelaide for about 4 days now. I love it here. We have been beaching it, reading Time magazine and Haruki Murakami (me) and Harry Potter 7 (Liz), people watching, crunching it (working out) everyday, and I have been taking pictures of the pier and the sunsets.
It rained yesterday so we decided to take a day off from sunning it and went to see Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It’s a love story set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman) in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces. It was SO GOOD! The critics around Sydney have been very critical by calling Kidman the botox master and accusing Jackman of being gay even though he is married. I don’t care about any of that after seeing the film. I think everyone should go out and see it this weekend. I laughed my head off, got a little teary eyed at the end, and fell deeply in love with beefcake Hugh during a shower scene where he pours a bucket of water over his chiseled and soapy muscles in front of a camp fire. I don’t care if it is corny, I am still all hot and bothered over it a day later. I looked over at Liz during this scene and her mouth was hanging wide open, then I realized mine was too. It was fantastic! Oh, good story and cinematography as well. It was a really interesting depiction of Aborigional people and the ackowledgement of the stolen generations of "creamies" aborigional children with white fathers and black mothers who were taken into slavery was really tasefully done.
You can watch the trailer below:
Love you guys! XOXOX
posted by Juli at 4:37 PM
4 Comments:
Good, i am glad you liked the movie. I really want to go and see it. Whenever i find the time to do something other than work. Sorry i missed your call yesterday i wasn't by my phone at all. Working today until 7ish, working tomorrow 8-12pm and maybe Sunday from 1-6 but i am trying to get sunday off. Texting Kyle to work for me so we will see. There is no seahawks game, so he needs to get off his ass and do something!...Call again soon.Miss you, hope you are doing well. Loves
E
Happy Thanksgiving, back at cha. Annis and I drove over to the coast for TG & had a lovely time. It was very nice letting Marie Callender do the cooking. I'm not sure how excited the Aussies get about our TG...did you get some turkey?
Love you, Aunt Judy
Hi Juli,
The movie is on our list! Thanks for your candid review. We had some beach time ourselves over Thanksgiving. It was beautiful.
Love to you,
Annis xo
Great Movie!! both Dad and I liked it. Thanks for the incentive, maybe you should be a movie critic. Remember when I thought you should try for that job as Chocolate taster for $60,000 a yr?
So nice to talk to you can't wait to see you in about 10 days. I think I found every thing on your list to bring! Just talked to Charlie , he is comming over Wed. to plot his Thailand adventure.
See you soon Be Safe. XOXO
Love,
Mom
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