On Tuesday I had an Arts Club meeting. It was snowing pretty good when I left . Traffic was jammed up and it took me longer than normal. Our Prez. Angie never made it as she was stuck in a big traffic clusterf*ck !

BTW~~> I am coordinating a benefit night @ Noodles & Company ! We will get 25 % of each sale that night ! My idea was a huge hit with the board members...:-) and I 'm proceeding w/ all the minor details etc. We will have tons of flyers to pass out and they will get turned in with their reciept!  Kewl , eh?

 When I got out of the meeting an hour and a half later it had snowed four more inches ! ! It took me 45 minutes @ least to get home from a normally 10 minute drive ! ! NUTZ ! It was sit & go... sit & go ( a few feet ) !  Plus I was stuck behind an ambulance emmitting one of least favorite scents Diesel fuel ,  ewwwwwww, nasty ! I like driving in the snow but not when traffic is moving like a turtle! So I feel for all of you that have to commute more than a mile & a half  in bad weather !  ( that's how far I have to commute....I finally got a taste of what's it's like !  IT BLOWS !

We received twice as much snow as last year !  It's about time !  Yippeeeee !

 I'm happy we have had so much, it'll help out the northern part of the state as they have been very dry the  last year or two.... and it's PRETTY ! We are supposed to get more soon.... don't get me wrong thou' cuz' I am sick of winter and long for Spring.....

First & foremost....

 THE PIANIST

 Wowzer ! What a flick ! Roman Polanski did an amazing job . Adrien Brody was excellent.... A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a German concentration camps, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943) and the Warsaw Uprising (1 August to 2 October 1944) RATING: A+

 KATE & LEOPOLD

I needed something lightweight after THE PIANIST....Hugh Jackman was just dreamy in this role..... Meg Ryan was good too....cute plot.. Liev Schreiber portrays Stuart Besser who discovers a gap in the space/time continuum, leading him back to 1876 New York City. It is there that Stuart's grandfather, Leopold (portrayed by Hugh Jackman) becomes befuddled by Stuart's odd behavior and tiny camera. Leopold's curiosity overcomes him; thus he pursues Stuart and accidentally travels through the gap with his grandson to 2001. Leopold inevitably falls in love with Kate McKay, portrayed by Meg Ryan, Stuart's neighbor and ex-girlfriend.  RATING :B+     ( <~~ HOT ! )

 THE SARAH SILVERMAN SHOW I had to check it out... I like her stand -up better....got a few chuckles.....me-agomous... RATING: B-

PERFUME Perfume is set in the colourful backdrop of 18th century France centering on the life of an unfortunate boy, Jean Baptiste, born in the slums of a Paris fish market. Left for dead amongst rotting fish guts, he inhales the plethora of scents around him. He is rescued by some passers by and is subsequently placed in an orphanage. He is an odd child and a social outcast. Possibly as a result of his traumatic birth, he is blessed with outstanding olfactory senses: from early childhood he displays an uncanny ability for discerning the individual smells of everything around him. The twists and turns of his early life are one continuous tragic story. His quest is to learn the art of perfume making and, once taught, Jean Baptise desires to make the ultimate perfume. His skilfully crafted perfumes have the ability to provoke unexpected reactions in both the wearer and the recipient. During his apprenticeship, he discovers he has no personal smell and is initially devastated. On his journey to create olfactory perfection, he seeks alternative ingredients to his perfumes and, in doing so, leaves a grisly trail ......strange flick..interesting but.....Al Pacino was in it.... RATING: C