It's a full life, if a trifle banal

...check out "The Triplets of Belleville." Probably at an "art film" place or other quirky venue, despite winning at Cannes. It's a really amazing animated film. Not animé, but animation done like it was when I was a kid, with a sort of loose-jointedness and physics-violating doings that somehow all are perfectly reasonable in the film world. I won't tell the story because part of what really impressed me is how the entire tale unfolds without narration or comprehensible dialog. It gets funnier and funnier as the mystery-drama-action unfolds. And a little old lady and her dog and three other old ladies are the hero(ine)s. Go see it - I went unprepared to enjoy much and had a ball. And have a happy birthday, too!