"Persepolis", Britney and sticking to New Year's resolutions

Well you all would be very proud of me, I started on at least two New Years resolutions! I began to wear PJ's to bed! And last night I joined Crunch gym!! I'm really looking forward to working out, this Crunch that I joined has lots of way cool classes such as pole dancing and karaoke movie and music spin classes. And they have things like video snowboarding and bike races, what that is is you hop on a bike and there is a video screen and you control your guy through peddling on the bike, the snowboard video game is the same thing but with a snowboard. I seriously look forward to kicking some ass in the snowboarding video game and the bike races!

The other big thing I did this weekend was I went to see the film "Persepolis". "Persepolis" is based on the autobiographical graphic novels of Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi, grew up in a upper middle class family in Tehran. And "Persepolis" or Satrapi's story details what it was like to witness the Iranian revolution, the Iran/Iraq war, and what it was like to try and be a normal teenager who loves Iron Maiden and eventually a modern woman living in a fundamentalist culture were women aren't seen as equals to men.

The story is told in a really interesting, eye opening, humorous, bitter sweet and sad way. The film is beautifully animated by Satrapi herself. And not to sound typical, watching films such as this and seeing the oppressive environment that Marjane Satrapi grew up in and what she dealt with on a day to day basis really make me very happy that I'm an American female as much as that can suck sometimes it could be worse! It's really a great coming of age story dealing with a culture that Americans aren't told that much about. The film is in French with subtitles. It is worth the eleven dollars don't wait for it to come on the IFC!

Onto the next item: It's all over the news that poor Britney Spears had a serious mental breakdown on thursday and held her kids hostage at her house. With the way the news media reported on this story you would have thought someone broke into the White House and held Bush hostage! I honestly feel really bad for poor Britney Spears, it seems like she is suffering from some type of mental illness and has surrounded herself with people who really don't seem to care. If I were Brit's handlers or parents or someone who really cares about her that she'll listen too, I would tell her to move from California to Louisiana or move to some small town in Northern California for a year or two away from all the madness of L.A. and do some soul searching and just get it together!

The E! Channel did a documentary about a year ago about the paparazzi and they followed a bunch paparazzi who followed Britney and what this girl goes through on a daily basis with the paparazzi is just insane! I realize that when you are famous the paparazzi is one aspect that you have to deal with but what this girl goes through is crazy, this doc showed a caravan of about fifteen paparazzi cars following her from her house to the store trying to get a picture. Maybe the paparazzi should just back off Brit and her kids, if this girl purposely courts attention maybe the paparazzi and the media should just ignore her and back off it's clear she's becoming unglued. And what really bugged me was why didn't the cops stop the paps and camera people from filming Brit being haled off in the ambulance!?

I hope she's able to get her shit together for her sake and most importantly that of her kids before it's too late!

Not to harp on the Britney story but I just read that Dr. Phil wanted to interview Britney for his show from her hospital room and he also wanted to interview her parents and he even went as far as going to the hospital. And I guess Brit's lawyers intervened or Brit just refused to see him. But just the fact that he went to the hospital and tried to interview her and then had a press conference outside the hospital about his efforts and how he thinks she's mentally ill, makes me loathe Dr. Phil even more then I do. He's such a snake oil sales man! And why would her parents be so public in contacting Dr. Phil for his help! Isn't that a breach of patent/doctor confidentiality rules??