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grammardog posted this and it made me feel good. It's a light pop song by Mika called Big Girls (You are Beautiful) and we don't get songs like this too often. It shall be added to my favourite list along with Fat Bottom Girls by Queen :)

In other news, the sun is out but it doesn't look like it's going to stay around. Still. First glimpse this whole weekend and today's a holiday Monday here. The city is celebrating its birthday and the fireworks have been put off two nights already. Not that I'll probably go. Fireworks here only last about 10 minutes. Hardly seems worth it. What is kind of cool, though, is they set up a fireworks "waterfall" off the bridge over the harbour.

Mamma Mia!

I liked it a lot more than i thought i would. I took my mom and auntie and my auntie promised a meal of hodgepodge (like a fresh vegetable chowder yumm) and blueberry grunt and ribs! How can you say no to that! Yes, it's daft, Yes it's cheesy but it's also fun. The actress playing the daughter had an excellent voice and i quite liked her. The three men were definitely not singers. Pierce Brosnan got most of the singing parts and only passable really. Colin Firth can carry a tune but that's about it. The other fellow got about 3 lines of solo singing and there was a good reason for that. Still, all three played really good parts. I think my favourite number was the one where all the village women come out and join the main female characters and they end up dancing on the wharf and jumping in at the end. Dancing Queen i think it was. It just made me feel good. All the women joining in and feeling 17 again and having a great time. Also liked the Voulez Vous number as that was also one of my favourite Abba songs back in the day. If you go, stay through the credits as the three women do Dancing Queen again in full Abba-like costume and then the whole case does Waterloo in costume as well and it's a laugh. They really must have had a fun time making that movie. It shows. Julie Walters was great as always. Christine Baranski was the other of the trio and she was quite good too. The one song she got to do on her own, Does Your Mamma Know, seemed to be a bit out of the blue and a bit off topic sort of but i suppose they just wanted to fit the song it. Didn't seem to have much to do with the story. That's ok. I liked Streep, she did ok, though i'm not sure i would have cast her. I'm trying to figure out what time period the movie would be. The clothing and hair are current but the 20 year old photos of "Donna" and the men really looked like early to mid 70s not mid 80s. Doesn't matter i suppose.

Saw a couple of trailers i think i'd like, too. One was an Alan Rickman movie called Bottle Shock and is about the rising California wine industry in the 70s when they won a blind taste test competition against the wine kings of France. The other was a movie about the man that invented the intermittent wiper motor for cars and then spent years suing Ford because they nicked his idea. Looked interesting anyway. I think there was another trailer that looked good but i forget what it was now. The other two movies are apparently out in October.

I hear rumblings of thunder in the distance every so often. I wonder if it will hold off long enough for the fireworks to be held tonight. They've been cancelled and rescheduled twice already this weekend for the fog and rain.