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[blue_lotus13]

This has been a very nice and peaceful weekend. On Saturday, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] drove up from Seattle and we had a Chicklit meetup. Unfortunately, none of the other Vancouverites attended, but it was nice to meet [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and we had a nice time talking and perusing the racks at Main Street's "Pulp Fiction." I hope to attend a chicklit meet-up in Seattle next time they decide to have one.

After this, I went home and watched The Station Agent on my new DVD player. Watching it was a real treat for several reasons. I have the spatial ability of a stone and setting up appliances is not one of my strengths. I had to struggle for a good half hour before I figured out how to get the audio on my DVD player.

I was rewarded by "The Station Agent." This is a great movie about a midget who moves to a small town after he inherits the train depot in the town. It's about his friendships and interactions with other people in the town. It's a touching and thoughtful movie, which you should really see if you enjoy acting that is natural and understated, good dialogue, and "slice of life" plot. There is also a lot of wonderful background information about trains, which made me nostalgic for the train society guys that I met in Wainwright, Alberta.

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[trec-lit.livejournal.com]

I LOVED The Station Agent! It was such a great movie and all of the actors did a fabulous job. And the little black girl that's also in Lovely and Amazing is great.
I too went to Pulp Fiction yesterday. Did you end up buying anything?

[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

No, I was good. I have far too many books on the shelf right now.

[charlotterusse.livejournal.com]

he's a dwarf, not a midget! it's limb proportion that tells you. this is just one of the many tidbits of information i learned from my mother's profession.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

The Station Agent was one of our very pleasant surprises last year in movies. We were utterly charmed and enthralled by it.

I wish I could have gone to the meet-up as well, but I had to get the Cat Owners from the airport and return their car to them right during the same time period. I still haven't been to Vancouver!

Last night, we watched A Gentlemen's Agreement, which if I recall correctly is still on your list of Oscar films to watch. It was interesting watching it again and replacing "anti-semitism" with "gay" or "black." It's a film that works on several levels. Near the end of it, I said to Johnny Trash: "All this debate and argument on anti-semitism, how many of these people never even noticed the other elephant in the room called racism?"