How Depressing
JM and I are so pitiful that yesterday afternoon we watched the REPEAT of the Golden Globe Awards! How sad is that?
There were several things about it that were even sadder to me than the fact that we actually watched it. One was realizing that we used to actually GO to Hollywood Foreign Press functions, and although we weren’t members of the organization we WERE members of the Hollywood Foreign Press. And yet we never went to the Golden Globes banquet.
Second, watching Drew Barrymore go up to collect her award and realizing that I interviewed her when she was 7 years old! I don’t know which thing was sadder: the fact that I realized how long ago that was or the fact that she didn’t seem much more articulate now than she did then.
Third, no longer being able to look at Robert Downey, Jr. as a joke, because he really cleaned up his life and no longer wanders around Malibu stoned waking up in strange peoples’ homes.
Fourth, and this is probably the most pitiful part; when we went downstairs to feed and walk the dogs, we TiVo’d the rest of the ceremony so we could see the end! How embarrassing to admit that!
Anyway, the other thing that is depressing is sitting here blogging. That’s because after watching the Golden Globes we decided to rent JULIE & JULIA from iTunes. The movie is based on a blog by Julie Powell and a biography of Julia Child. The Julie Powell blog was about her cooking every recipe from Child’s MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING over a year. She did it, he blog became famous, she wound up with a New York Times bestselling book and a movie.
So why, you may ask, is that depressing? I suppose because in all the years of blogging here, and publishing a book based on the first year’s blogging, I haven’t even come CLOSE to the New York Times bestseller list! And I’ve even written my very own cookbook as well!
Ah well, who wants to be rich and famous anyway…
Ciao for now,
Randy
Don’t worry, you and JM are LOTS more interesting than Julie,
Although I found the movie-Julie lots less annoying than lots of other people did, apparently. But Streep was MAGNIFICENT as Julia, eh?
As for the rest of the doldrums… well, it’s the middle of winter, isn’t it? GRAY, GRAY, GRAY, when it isn’t also soggy! (Eugene OR here)
1Streep was AMAZING! I had to stop the film when there was the fake clip of her show on screen, because for a second I thought it WAS Julia! She’s a truly amazing and superb actress. It’s rare to be able to watch someone of her stature and not be aware that you’re watching someone “acting;” she just “becomes.” And, I can’t say enough about the small, but perfect role of the brilliant Jane Lynch. I will watch anything that she is in, just to see her!
Yes, Julie was truly irritating. I don’t know how the real Julie Powell is, but the screen Julie Powell often had me wanting to strangle her.
And thank you for saying we are interesting. We often don’t feel very interesting!
Oregon? My dear friend (and talented artist — check out the link to her website) Raven lives in Scio. Her descriptions of life there in winter do not make it sound cheerful! We, at least, have days of magnificent sun and mornings (like today) where when we walk the dogs we see every star in the sky! That alone makes it all worthwhile. In fact, in the summer, I miss that starry blanket above us. Mars was so red this morning that it made us just stop walking so we could stare and take it all in.
2Don’t worry about the weather; our son and daughter-in-law came home (UK) from Penang for Christmas and said it was wonderful to be away from the unremitting sameness of tropical weather. However I’d like it to stop raining!
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