Whom?
Okay… so if you read my posts back a few, you see that I saw “Amelie” a couple weeks ago. I liked the movie so much that I think I fell in love with the main character. She was beautiful in all senses of the word - and I developed a crush on her. Initially I thought it was Audrey Tautou I was in love with - the actress who played Amelie Poulin. But alas, I finally realized that it was the character with whom I was enamored, and not the actress who played her. But the damage was already done. Shortly after seeing the movie, we rejoined NetFlix, and I've ordered a couple more films with Audrey Tautou.
Regardless of my feeling and belief that Audrey Tautou is a superb actress, experiencing her acting has broadened my film horizons a great deal. As a start, I am now willing to watch French film, where before I was not. This started with looking at Jean-Pierre Jeunet's repertoire. I expect to be watching more of his films in the not-so-distant future (though I think I will skip Delicatessen for reasons I won't go into here).
Also, I've corresponded by e-mail a couple times with someone who I have read is Audrey Tautou's boyfriend: Lance Mazmanian. Honestly, while I found him by researching her, I don't care if he is or isn't her boyfriend. What he is, definitely, is interesting. He's a good photographer, and a decent writer, who is working on a short feature film called The Endgame Study. I'm trying to see if he'll let me see this feature; right now it looks as though viewings are limited to those who are in the industry. Ah well… it doesn't hurt to ask - something I've done already and am awaiting an answer.
I was talking to today, and told her that I'm surprised by many of the links my life seems to have spawned recently… From an interest in Audrey Tautou's acting, to the impressive photography and political musings of Lance Mazmanian, to a propaganda film recommended by my father-in-law, The Zeitgeist Movie, things are moving at a good clip right now…
And I like it.
Again.
I don't usually mind this, because it gives me a chance to connect with my customers, to join with the forces of the students running amok studying in the library, to become one with myself through hard work. Yeah, right… more like to sit here and answer mundane questions like: “Can I use any of the computers here?”, or “How late are you open?”, or “Do you have any headphones?”, or, my current favorite, “Do you have a stapler I can use?” (as the student is standing right in front of a sign that says “Staplers are on the table behind you.”) I'm also awestruck at the people who come in while I am trying to help a student, and just barge to the front of the line and demand to be helped. In the span of 3 minutes of helping someone here, I've ignored two of them already.
Anyhow, It's boring work, but one of my student employees called out sick, while she was here, and asked for a replacement. It's probably not that she's sick… I think she's just overwhelmed with the semester - being that its one of her last - and she's feeling that. I've seen it in students before. Hell, I've lived it. It's Not Very Good Fun. This is why I come in to replace my employees, even while I have a son at home who isn't doing so hot himself.
But I do need to get some research done, myself, so I will do that, and make the most of my time here.
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