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Just finished watching "The Lovely Bones". I find it to be a profoundly moving film filled with great performances; Tucci and Ronan in particular are very good. I'm a die hard fan of all things Peter Jackson and this film just serves to solidify that. He's a brilliant and innovative director with vision to spare. From his very early gorefest films to "Heavenly Creatures" and onward to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy he has proved himself undeniably to be one of the very best directors working today.

He creates a palpable sense of dread in the early scenes involving Susie and Mr. Harvey. When it was all over I realized I was holding my breath! I mentioned Tucci and Ronan earlier as having given wonderful performances, but that's not to say the other principals don't also do a great job. I was very impressed by Mark Wahlberg, he gives his best performance since "The Departed" and the young girl who plays Lindsey, Susie's sister, is also very good :) All in all a great film, check it out!

Genesis...

Hi all! This is the first of what I hope will be many blogs about me and my life. As an introduction, I'd like to tell all of you a little about myself :)

My name is Ashley, I was born in 1985 to two wonderful parents who unfortunately are not together anymore. I live with my mother and younger brother, and my youngest brother lives with our father. I love all things music, except for rap and crazy you're-all-going-to-die death metal stuff. How anyone can call that "music" is beyond me because it certainly doesn't resemble anything I would call music, but hey, to each his own :D Along with that I love to sing, and one of my greatest dreams would be to become a recording artist but (sadly) I don't have the time to pursue that right now. I love films and all things cinema, love to discover new (and old) movies that fly under the radar. I think Stanley Tucci is an amazing actor and the most beautiful man I've ever laid eyes on (on the screen), he's definitely one of my favorite actors and I enjoy all of his work. For music my favorite artist is Rufus Wainwright. His music moves me to no end and I continually turn to it when life tries to get me down.

I LOVE to cook!!! And I'm damned good at it. Tonight was risotto milanese which came out splendidly, tasted like saffronic heaven <3 Tomorrow hopefully will be butternut squash soup followed by roast chicken breasts :) Nothing makes me happier than cooking for my friends and family and seeing how much they love what I've made for them.

I work as a waitress/assistant manager/anything else under the sun at a local casual dining, full-service restaurant. I cannot divulge the name of this place but I can tell you it's a national brand that does very well and is fairly well respected (as much as a corporate restaurant can be anyway). I've been there for nearly four years and most days I love my job. And I know what you're thinking, "My GOD a waitress who loves what she does?! I've never heard such nonsense!" Well I do. The good far outweighs the bad and I'm good, scratch that, GREAT at what I do so I never have any real problems at work.

There's so much more I could write here but I think I've indulged my narcissism enough for today so I'll bid you all good reading, and see you tomorrow :)