An Audience Makes a Difference

Foolishly, I started both these blogs thinking that it was just me and the anonymous internet. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic.)  I really didn't think anyone would find me out there among all the well-written, focused blogs out there. It is a blessing and a curse that folks I know have found my big blog.  It is only a curse because I feel the weight of my responsibilities and roles and feel like I have to "be" a certain way.

When I read what I write now, compared to what I used to write about, I feel like I dropped the ball or that something is missing. I don't want to have that change there, but I'm not sure how to stop it.  It is important to me to avoid certain topics because the internet isn't the place for them.  At the same time, I find that sometimes, with the limited range of my life right now (lots of work, very little else), I don't always have that much to talk about except for my own meandering thoughts. Sometimes, I don't want to go there. ;)

Anyway, I just felt like I needed to say something about that.  I haven't worked it out, but I will.

Neglected but not forgotten

Well, obviously, I have been neglecting this blog.  I wish, in some ways, that I could combine my other blog with this one.  They started out very different in tone and interest, but right now, I don't really have enough energy to keep them both up.  

I am participating in Nablopomo on the other blog, so that is sucking up all my energy.

I did want to drop in and visit this one, though.  I haven't forgotten this blog.

To that end, a movie conversation (not exactly a review):

I saw "Twilight" last night with a group of women who work for the same company but in a different office.  I don't think a group of us would really do anything organized and social in my office, but we just have a different kind of group.  Anyway, all the women I went with had read the books and were shocked that I hadn't even started them.  I had bought the book, but I loaned it to someone because I knew I wouldn't finish.  I decided I was intrigued enough to read them - given my love of "Buffy", this seems like it will work.  

I really liked the female star, Kristen Stewart, as Bella.  I couldn't remember where I had seen her before and one of my companions told me she was the daugheter in "Panic Room" with Jodie Foster.  That rang a bell, but I knew I had seen her more recently.  When I finally got home and looked her up, I realized where I had seen her before - she was the daughter in "In the Land of Women" and I had REALLY been intrigued by her in that film.  She has a level of reticence that she brings to her characters that makes them seem very real to me.

 Pictured: Gil Birmingham, Billy Burke, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner (from the movie, "Twilight")

I also really liked Taylor Lautner, who played a minor character in this movie, but who I have heard will have a major part in the next movie (big character in book 2, I assume).  I'm eager to read the books to get more of a handle on his character (I can't remember his character's name...).

I thought the movie had some very nice cinematography and certainly conveyed a specific mood.  I liked the actors and the story was interesting enough.  I did note, however, that it was a little slow moving in the exposition.  I think part of it is just setting the scene, but part of it was a lot of brooding stares and longing glances between Edward and Bella which probably played well to the plethora of teenage girls in the audience but wore a bit thin for anyone over the age of 20.