TOUCHES THE HEART

German films can be depressing, although not so much as Finnish films...still be prepared.
Schultze Gets the Blues/ German film...thought provoking. Touches the soul. Everyone works most of their life and then retires and wonders if they can find something to give their life spark. Schultze realizes he has to do what he wants for once. The metaphors are inspired. An easy understated film about music and life.  First time director uses his limited funds to make this very real film set in Germany in the potash mine area of Saxony-Anhalt and in Texas/ Louisiana.  

After being laid off from his job at the salt mines, Schultze and old guy with a boring life deals with the crisis of trading polka music for zydeco. 

I enjoyed this slow-moving different type of film. No Hollywood hoopla here. Recommended!

SO YOU LIKE TARINTINO?

DJANGO A Tarantino movie...written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. That says it all. Torture, superfluous killing and quirkiness in a western. If you hated KILL BILL don’t see this one. I can see a parallel plot with Uma Thurman’s “Bride” and Jamie Foxx’s “Freeman” where the downtrodden-victim trains with the master to overcome evil but not without plenty of gratuitous violence and gore before he triumphs. Watch out for projectile bleeding, blood-splattered walls, and attack dogs tearing a man apart. For Tarantino fans there are bizarre occurrences, events and dialogue inconsistent with history. There is humour and black comedy. You will see snowman shooting practice, bad guys painting a birdhouse, Ku Klux clan with ill-fitting hoods, sunglasses in the wrong century and a bad-ass hero choosing to wear aqua-satin britches. And how odd is a German-speaking slave or an evil plantation master whose property is named Candyland? Tarantino creates a good guy-German dentist (Christoph Waltz), a cold-blooded killer who helps Foxx (Freeman) rescue his wife. This movie is long. I’m surprised he didn’t split it into parts as he did with KILL BILL. Since the Hobbit and Skyfall are equally long, perhaps Tarantino decided he would stick with the agenda. Django is not Tarnatino’s best but hey, if you like his style go for it!

HAUNTED NEW ORLEANS

The French Quarter is haunted. Yes, go to New Orleans and you will see what I mean. While the bars on Bourbon Street are packed with patrons wasted on potent Hurricanes, partying into the wee hours, fifty feet away on Orleans Street the ghosts are everywhere. The street will send shivers up your spine. Orbs surround the haunted Bourbon Orleans hotel. If you go up to the seventh floor don't be surprised to see a gaunt man clothed in a Confederate uniform pointing at you. He'll speak softly in a southern accent asking you for a kiss. When he follows you to your room, close that door...lickety-split! His kisses are deadly! Just as you fall asleep a little blonde-haired girl will join you, curling up close and pulling the cover away. She's very cool to the touch. Even if you tell her to leave she won't--typical eleven year old. Oh, and if you feel like dancing go to the ballroom and see your partner waiting for you under the chandelier. Can't wait to finish my book BOURBON STREET BURNING



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N'ORLEANS HAUNTED

Fear of muggings--a realistic worry.Yet I knew research doesn't happen in the safety of a hotel room. My French Quarter residences were far from safe. N'Orleans is the most haunted city in North America. The Vieux Carre is a spirit party place. Ghosts--easily found in my hotel. Doors opening and shutting, the room card demagnetizing twice, jiggling in my bed on two separate occasions and a gift left by the ghost in my suitcase. Fun? Material for my new novel...BURNING ON BOURBON STREET...wait for it!

New Orleans Voodoo

Watch out for Papa Le-Bas. You want to be on his good side as he is the keeper of the Crossroads. In the 50's Antoine Domino gave him a shout with his "Hey! Le Bas Boogie". It was interactive with the audience shouting back. This was the start of FATS DOMINO'S fame and his new name. "Blueberry Hill" became Fat's big hit. Giving a shout out, or recognition to the African messenger god gives you good energy...maybe he'll help you get what you want. So try it! Light a white candle on Mondays, leave candy by your door and some change and see if your luck changes.

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