I received an automated phone message at working asking for a woman who passed away three years ago.
I phoned the company to let them know that they must have not updated their files…
Anyhow…even though technology is great and all, automated phone messages are not really cool.
Granted, I’m sure if there was a human talking to me, it would have been the same deal.
At least it was me they called and not some family member.
I just realized that life is just a bunch of reviews. An event happens and you either like it or do not…hence, a review!
Last night Vero and I went to the Orleans Cultural Complex to catch some high school students duke it out in an improv(isational) match. Vero has been in improv for quite some time, although she is taking a hiatus this semester.
I’ve never been to an improv match, and once again, I must say that I didn’t catch some things they were saying (it was in French…slang French) but I found I understood more than I would have 4 months ago. Vero is rubbing off on me.
Anyhow, Improv Games are great fun…two teams duke it out against each other in make-up situations and the audience votes as to what team they liked better. Whose Line Is It Anyways? is improvisation if that rings a bell.
Great fun…it’s funny to see how everyone has a great time (audience jeering the referree), the musician in the background playing funny songs…supposedly the University level and Adult level are even funnier as they have crafted the art of improv so I will have to check that out someday soon.
I encourage all of you to go check out an improv match! You will not be disappointed! Yeah!
Now that school isn’t throwing a slew of books for me to read (wait until next month. YIKES!), I have time to go and read some of the literature I wish to read – namely The Chronicles of Narnia.
Hey, I jumped on the Narnia bandwagon just like every other person in the world jumped onto the Lord of the Rings bandwagon a few years back. There wouldn’t be one day where I wouldn’t see someone reading LOTR on the bus somewhere.
Actually, speaking about coincidence, last week I saw a guy reading Narnia at the same time I was AND I peeked over and noticed he was only a few chapters ahead of me! Strange!
Even stranger was the fact that this morning I started reading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and sitting across from me was a gentleman reading the same novel! These coincidences are strange but they mean something. Never think coincidence is just coincidence folks!
Anyhow, back to the novel. Chronicles of Narnia assemble the 7 books in the series which all revolve around the mystical world we know as Narnia. Aslan (the lion) comes in and out of the novels helping as he may and there’s villains showing up in each novel…whether it be the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe or the Calormene in The Horse and His Boy. Only The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian revolve around the same human characters, hence most likely the reason that Disney has decided that the next Narnia film will be Prince Caspian.
What can I say about the novel? I enjoyed it. They were simple stories with deeper messages within them (ah…what novel doesn’t have that?) but it was interesting to see how a world with talking animals works. I enjoyed the fantastical element of it all and it was refreshing compared to other fantasy worlds such as Middle Earth since it is a more peaceful and happy place.
I recommend The Chronicles of Narnia to anyone who enjoys a light read and is into fantasy. I suppose I’ll now have to go catch the film version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe! I hope it is just as good as the book!
Here’s a message to my friend Duncan who enjoys these types of films…go read the book! Read a chapter a night. Or 1/2 a chapter a night! The books are always better than the film!