While at Walmart today, I saw in the parking lot a young couple (late teens, maybe early twenties) who were so completely out of it I don't know how they were functioning enough to walk. Coming from the life I grew up in, I just don't understand what is so appealing about drugs that would draw someone to them. Are they cool? No. Do they make you look cool or sophisticated? No.
What they do is make you look like you are not intelligent enough to make your own decisions or stand on your own two feet.
The whole thing that makes me angry about drugs, and those that use them is that I was an unwilling drug user at one point. Many years ago I went to a friend's for a spaghetti dinner. One of the people at this friends home thought it would be funny to put what was at that time called Shrooms into the spaghetti and not tell anyone about it. Fortunate for me I am not altogether fond of Spaghetti (unless I make it) and I did not have much. Everyone who did eat it became quite ill. The person who did this ended up in prison because of this little act as some of the dinner guests that night decided to press charges.
Oh yea, drugs look like something I would like to get into.....NOT.
I suppose the whole thing about this that scares me is that all three of my children are on meds for ADHD. These meds are quite addictive and a part of me is concerned that inadvertantly I am teaching my children to submit to an addiction. Our family does the This is a MEDICATION talk all the time with the kids, and almost daily we do role playing games to help them say no to drugs, alcohol, smoking, strangers and all the other hazards there are out there for our wonderful children. I sincerely hope some of it sticks.
Hugh Jackman. From the moment I saw Wolverine snarling in the cage in the X-Men movie I was hooked. Having read the X-men comics since I was a little kid (yes, as a 37 year old mother I still read them and Lord help you if you come between me and the comic I haven't read yet!) I have been a long time Wolverine fan (and when I was about 9 or so thought I would grow up to marry him...).
This amazingly handsome and talented actor nailed the Wolverine persona to the T. I immediately went surfing on the net to find out more about him. There I discovered that he sings too! He has been on stage as Gaston in Beauty & the Beast, Joe in Sunset Blvd., and Curly in Oklahoma!. Wonder of wonders I found a site, http://www.onlineclassics.net and last year they had Oklahoma! running for several months. I had the ultimate pleasure of watching this on my tiny computer monitor and boy can that man sing! Listening to him in Oh What a Beautiful Morning almost literally made me melt.
I discovered he has done TV shows and movies down in Australia. He was in a handful of episodes of Return to Snowy River (US Title), and the show where he met his beautiful wife Deborra-Lee Furness "Corelli". Two Australian movies, Paperback Hero and Erskineville Kings, were lucky to have him in the cast. This man has done just about every kind of character he can (although he has not played a woman that I have seen yet,but would love to see him do a remake of Some Like It Hot).
After X-Men came Someone Like You (previously titled Animal Husbandry and I believe billed as Animal Attraction in the UK). Wonderful performance and absolutely believable as the character Eddie. Of course I had to buy the DVD where I discovered when in the theater they really should have used the alternate ending.
Now comes Swordfish with John Travolta. Hugh shirtless wrapped only in a towel from the waist down. Need I say more? The classic scene in the Disco where he has to "prove himself" while being "distracted" was classic.
Onto Kate and Leopold. Does this man have no end to the type of character he can play? He is so versatile in what parts he has taken and mastered. He next plays Robert DiNero's son in Pride & Glory, a movie about cops & corruption in (I believe) NYC. Then after that X-Men 2.
Obsessed? No, not me! Whatever gave you that idea?