Interesting interpretation of a Daft Punk song

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Hangin' with Ryan

On Thursday night, Jenny had a school Christmas program to direct so I got to hang out with Ryan. I'm sure you know how awesome I am, now I get to show you what an awesome dad I am too.

First we did some reading.


Then Ryan got to hear Definately Maybe for the first time. No joke, he was totally groovin' to Live Forever. It was a proud moment.


Then, when I told him I like pop music too, he tried to leave. Can you blame him?


Then it was time for milk cup and chill time.


I love being Ryan's dad.

Heroes: 4 months ago (Spoilers)

So eight, count them eight episodes into this new season and we finally get to know what happen to Peter and Nathan. I really liked this episode but I will never understand why they didn't start the season with this one. Sure they would have had to change a few things, but not that much. I think you could have had a much better foundation to build off of with this one. Say what you want about Lost, but it has always paid off it's season finales.

Deep down, I'm rooting for this show to do well. I will keep watching it because it's way better than Bionic Woman. That show may be the worst written show on television. I'm a glutton for punishment. . .

A great take on the Writer's strike

Phil Alden Robinson (writer and director of Field of Dreams and Sneakers) gives the best take on the writer's strike I've seen so far. Check it out.

Was Radiohead's stunt worth it?

According to the AP -

"Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, "In Rainbows," and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.

Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded "In Rainbows" in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc."

I'm part of that 62%. I didn't want to plunk down another 10 bucks for a record I wasn't going to listen to. I accept that Radiohead is innovative, but I felt like it was at the expense of good music. For me, In Rainbows took a step to bring me back into their fold. To me, they realized their fans were disappointed, made some good music, and gave it to their audience as a peace offering. Well, apology accepted.

As a side note, it was interesting to me when I told my friends I paid nothing for it. Their reaction was surprised/slightly disappointed. I'm not sure why, Radiohead did give me a choice to pay what I wanted for it. How often does one have the opportunity to get a CD for free and not consider it stealing? I would say most of my friends don't have a strong objection to downloading music before they (maybe) pay for it, and yet most of them paid for In Rainbows when they could have got it for free.

Do you know where Sadie Hawkins originated?

This is from a question to yahoo answers.

What is a Sadie Hawkins Dance?
I am always hearing of a "Sadie Hawkins Dance", can someone tell me what this is? Thanks!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
A Sadie Hawkins Dance is a school dance in which the girls ask out the boys...

In the United States, the Sadie Hawkins dance (also known as a snow ball, Morp, snowball, vice-versa, turnabout, TWIRP, or a Tolo)[citation needed] is a school dance, usually occurring in high schools, in which female students invite male students. This is in opposition of normal school dance traditions, such as prom, where male students invite female students. Traditionally, the Sadie Hawkins dance occurs during the autumn in November, or in some places January or February. The Sadie Hawkins dance is one of three dances that many high schools hold, the other two dances being prom and homecoming. Some schools simply hold regular dances in which certain songs are "snowball" or "Sadie Hawkins" songs in which girls choose whom to dance with.

The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins. November 15 was Sadie Hawkins day, when the unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and marry the ones they caught. In America this caught on quickly and evolved into a dance where the women got to invite a man of their choice.

Usually, female and male partners choose to wear the same or extremely similar clothes in order to match. At a Sadie Hawkins dance, couples are easily distinguishable because of their matching clothes.

Source(s):
Wikipedia

You'd think Christians had enough problems

Christians who actually follow Jesus (not those who believe in Bush, War on terror, then maybe Jesus) work so hard to live a life of example. We try to advise people on where to go when they are emotionally hurt, we try to love the sinner and not the sin, and we try to avoid judging other. Then I see something like this:


And I feel like "why do I even get up in the morning?" I don't know how anyone outside of christianity takes us serious. I weep for what Ryan has to put up with. I need a drink . . .

Heroes: Fight or Flight (spoilers)

As many of you know I have been very critical of heroes ever since, for the last 10 episodes or so, Tim Kring let monkeys write his show. However, he must have come back from a long deserved vacation because this episode was the strongest one since "company man".

Finally we got to see a great nemesis in Parkman's dad. They spent a lot of time setting up how creepy he was, then played him up to be sympathetic, then WHAM, manipulation and deceit. How crazy is that ability? I wonder if he can manipulate what the person sees in the nightmare. Then to think Matt has the same ability. Wow. That scene was awesom, the editing was amazing and the CGI of burned up NY was really cool!

I still have enough complaints to fill a dump truck, but I will stick to the positive in this post. Heroes, you've earned it.

Southland Tales trailer

I can't wait to see this movie. It looks so bazaar (or as Alex would say, stupid). Since Seth hasn't updated his blog in a while and both of us are pumped to see it, check out the trailer.

What would you think?

What would you think if you saw your Senior pastor having a beer in a restaurant. I don't have a problem with it. In fact, I would probably have more respect for him if he did have a beer. (As W. C. Fields once said "I never trust a man who doesn't drink.") So, why don't they drink responsibily in public?

Many people, when I ask this question tell me that Pastors could NEVER drink in public because they hold a higher standard. Okay, fine, I can see that. However, who in church leadership is being the example of a moderate drinker? What, nobody in church drinks? Is the congregation left to decide how much is too much? Is drinking against the church rules? The bible doesn't say never drink ever, never, ever. So, Pastor so-n-so sending the right message? Never drink, just like I never drink?

What do you think?

Even though . . .

. . .I loathe Matchbox Twenty, I have to admit I like their new song "Let's see how far they've come". It's catchy and the lyrics seem to be an anthem for how most soul searchers feel.

Cue making fun of me . . .now.

Built on sand

Jenny and I watched Facing the Giants on a couple months ago. I started posting a blog about this and she felt like it was too negative. Perhaps she was right. I still felt like there was something very wrong about this movie and still felt like I had something to say about it. Then my friend Dayton sent me this article from CCM patrol about how Christians can't see or deal with art(or in the article's case movies) unless it's a Thomas Kinkade's piece of crap painting.

I did some more digging around and found this posting about someone who was offended by the website for bagging on really bad Christian music.

Building Each Other Up
POSTED BY Stewart Lundy Wednesday September 26, 2007

A reader alerted us to this post, written by a forum administrator at CMCentral:


In regard to the CCM Patrol thing, no company is perfect. CCM Patrol isn’t perfect either. I totally disagree with CCM Patrol’s attitude toward everything. What benefit is it to say disparaging remarks about Christian bands/ministries/websites? There is no benefit in that. All it does is create division amongst believers and opens huge gaps for Satan to attack community and weaknesses.

There are problems with Contemporary Music Today. I agree. There are problems with the way it’s covered. I agree. But…by focusing on those problems and magnifying them, it doesn’t really promote God’s Kingdom.

Things you should know about me: I don’t appreciate disrespect. I don’t appreciate disunion or any attitudes/behaviors that contribute to disunion.

I’m not saying this to come down on you, Waltrane. Not at all. I’m not saying you’re disrespecting me, either, just to clarify. I just took something that your post had mentioned and expanded on it because it included a reference to CCM Patrol.

Build each other up.

The sentiment is good, perhaps even divine… but while we’re speaking in terms of construction, we can’t avoid speaking in terms of foundations. Without getting too theologically adventurous, I think it is safe to say the Christ is the cornerstone. And most people would agree that building on sand is a bad idea.

And many things are built on sinking sand. Perhaps they’re political ideologies, musical agendas, or the The CCM Patrol itself. But whatever the case, Christ called us to build people up. He did not call us to build up errant ideas or cultural constructs.

If a brother is constructing a building on a quagmire, it is our duty to call him on his mistake.

Instruction’s goal is to destruct falsehoods and construct truths. You can’t do one without the other, and considering the absurd amount of popular “construction,” the The CCM Patrol is justified in its mission to destruct bad reviews and construct accurate reviews. There cannot be a good foundation without removing the bad foundation first.

A bad foundation deserves to be tested, and criticized. However much we may constitutionally sympathize with pluralism, liberalism, and postmodernism, indiscriminate tolerance is not possible for anyone who believes in an object qualitative hierarchy.

In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. (“In necessary things unity; in uncertain things freedom; in everything compassion.”)

I’m sorry, but there is a necessary disunion between quality and refuse. Read our positive reviews. I love good godly music a lot more than I hate bad pseudo-spiritual music. Compassion? Take what we say with a grain of salt. We may be music snobs, but we are music snobs with a noble goal. First and foremost, we at the The CCM Patrol want GOOD music! I would love to give nothing but positive reviews, but…

There is good music and there is bad music. Music created by Christians tends to be baptized by the church and the Christian press for simply being Christian. If the Christian music were capable of self-reflection, the The CCM Patrol would not need to be nearly as critical. In fact, I hope that this can happen someday—when the music Christians produce is introspective and thoughtful it won’t need to be patrolled by an outside force. The music industry needs checks and balances. If they refuse to make them internally, we’ll supply them externally.

This article prompted me to pull out my review of FACING THE GIANTS. I finally feel justified for thinking it's a GIANT piece of crap . . .ERRRR built on a quagmire.

My review of Facing the Giants

If you haven't seen this movie, here's the short of it.
Christian football Coach, down on his luck, prays in the middle of trees and converts everyone in the town to believe in Jesus. Oh yeah, they wins the final game against the bad guys. I would not suggest watching this movie. Rent the Remember the Titans instead.

For anyone whose has seen this movie and really loved it, I have a question for you: Who was this movie marketed to? This was a "Christian" movie that made it into secular theaters and, in my not-so-humble-opinion, isolated non-believers and essentially gave them the finger. The movie used church language, had an unrealistic view of how quickly God decides to answer prayer (What? God's answer can't be NO?), and allows the viewers who don't put their kids in public school to imagine what the "real world" is like. Tell me, is the real world truly some kid telling another about Jesus, then that kid in turn gets everyone in class to come out to the football field and have bible studies?

Now, you could argue, "Hey Phil, are you trying to say that this could never happen?" No. In fact, it would be awesome if something like this did happen. But, I have never heard of something like this happening and if you could tell me a story about a similar situation you've had that even remotely relates to this idea, I will shut the *$#k up.

If you want your movie to be encouraging, write something everyone can relate to. And if you are going to make a movie that speaks a language that the secular world does not understand, don't put it out in theaters. Put it up in your church and invited believers to share in this most unrealistic occurrence of events. Just wait, soon there will be a movie that says no Christians have sex before marriage and, as they tell others this, every college student abstains from sex until they get married. Oh, and they have bible studies on the football field.

Is there even such a thing as "Christian" films? If it doesn't deal in real life the concept seems absurd.

Darwin was wrong, God made us.

Ricky Gervais on the bible. It's 10 minutes but I thought it was worth posting. (Thanks Ryan Murphy!)

I walk the line

For weeks now we have been trying to get Ryan to walk on his own. He will take a few steps here and there but then he would get scared and fall down.

However . . .

I started helping him put one foot in front of the other and all of the sudden, everything started to click. And as a result:

The Sorting Hat says . . .

GRYFFINDOR!!!

Merry go Ryan

I love this picture. Ryan is in South Carolina with Jenny and one of her best friends Malisa (who's holding Ryan on the ride). So. Much. Fun!

Fred Thompson's big secret

I think he's going to run for president. No really, I think he is. Perhaps you don't have a TV or a radio or the newspaper so you haven't noticed he's been everywhere talking about hot button political issues and flat out lying . . .errrrrr . . ."proclaiming" that he hasn't decided to jump in the race.

Well this is going to come as a HUGE surprise but. . . he's going to make a run for it. The next person who's shocked Fred Thompson's jumps in the race will be the first. It's like finding out Lifetime is a network for women who crave the comfort of other women. No way, really?

Well, he's different. No really, he is. Look at how Thompson's different from the other candidates? He's:

-For the war on terror
-For the border fence
-For smaller government
-For supporting our troops
-For relating everything to Reagan

How is he not the clear choice? None of the other Republican candidates stand for these things. Oh wait, now that I think about it, THEY ALL STAND FOR THAT. Perhaps the GOP want the public to pick the candidate with the best tie, or someone who doesn't look like they are at death's doorstep (John McCain).

Fred's going to run. Better to spoil that surprise than the ending of Deathly Hollows. The question is, will he win?

Well, Bush was voted in right? Thompson probably has a real good chance.

The Rumors are true

On Octorber 28 Criterion will release a brand spanking new transfer of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. For those who have never heard of this movie, here's a brief synopsis:

One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting movies of the twentieth century, and his glorious period tragedy Days of Heaven, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros, stands out among them. In 1910, a Chicago steel worker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and little sister (Linda Manz) to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard). A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating at once a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

One of the other big draws not mentioned is this film was supposedly shot during magic hour (which is the period of the day when there is light but no sun) which gives it a really unique look.

I highly recommend you check this film out. Malick's only made four films in his career (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The thin red line, and The new world) All are worth seeing.



http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=409

Sweet looking player

Could this be Denon's forthcoming Blu-ray Disc player, or is it just a marketing/design mock-up? Almost certainly, it's the latter. But the Coroflot industrial design website has posted photos of a BD player (the DVD-HD8910) and a new 7.1 media center/receiver as well (the AVR-HD8910). The text indicates that the receiver comes equipped with a 2TB built-in hard drive (!) and a direct connection to the iTunes music store. And both are... well, darned funky looking. Here's a gander...

Meet Reverend D. Raymond Montgomery

Aaron Neville sings on Sesame Street

Where do I get a blue suit like that?

Ryan's new uncle?

As many of you know, my brother Doug lives in Oregon and has a tough time visiting his nephew. While I wish Doug lived closer, he is creating quite a life for himself in Eugene. He has a job, a social life, and a pretty amazing girlfriend.

However, since Doug cannot physically play the role of uncle due to distance, he has graciously decided to pass on his birthright to his close friend Alex. Doug issued a statement saying, "Ryan needs an uncle and since I can't be in two places at once, I've asked Alex to head up the responsibility of Uncle. If at any point Vanessa and I decide to move to California, the birthright will be passed back to me."

Alex has stepped up and excitedly accepted his new responsibility as uncle.

Prime Directive

AUTOBOTS!!!


TRANSFORM . . .


AND ROLL OUT!!

DAYS OF HEAVEN Criterion bound?

It would seem so according to Criterion's newsletter. Days of Heaven is Terrence Malick's second film and is famous for being shot during magic hour. Here's the clue:


What is Criterion? Check it out.

www.criterion.com

Lost: Through the Looking Glass

As Locke would say, "I was wrong".

Going to take some time to form theories of what is to come (which more than likely will be wrong). Two things I'll mention now.

1) Is Jack's dad alive? Jenny thinks no, and I'm not so sure. I'm feeling an alternative timeline going on.

2) Tom (or Mr. Friendly) and the other guy have a conversation before they reveal Jin, Bernard, and Sayid are alive. It sounded like they were taking orders but not from Ben.

Have to wait 8 more months to unfold this story. Grr. . .

That Guy

I'm posting this to let you all know that my husband has officially become "That Guy." (See picture) He's even reading some Tiger Beat magazine for Lost fans?!? Maybe he needs to get out more. sigh. -Jenny

Lost: Threshold of the Looking Glass

If Monday and Tuesday were people I would assassinate them so I could watch the last episode of the season "Through the Looking Glass".

For those that have not watched Lost or have not caught up yet, it's probably time to tune out (assuming your still reading this post)

I wanted to make some predictions before the episode airs and see if I may be close to being right.

Here I go.

1) Locke will rise.

No way, really? The real question is who will find him? My guess is Ben's daughter. Since she gave him the gun and Ben returned with it I think she will redeem herself. Plus, she sent off her boyfriend to warn the 815ers, what else does she have to do?

2) The return of Michael and Walt

I don't believe Ben would let them go outright. He is way too controlling. Which makes me think that Walt and Michael are prisoners on the Looking Glass station. Ben said it was flooded (according to Juliet) so my guess is Michael and Walt were recaptured and held there. This would give relevance to Charlie again.

3) Sayid will die.

I know they've been saying Charlie's going to die, but really, you think the season finale will play out what they've been teasing for 8 episodes? Doesn't seem like Lost to me. Charlie will live, make no mistake. Perhaps the 815ers will think he's dead, but the person I think will die is Sayid.

This whole season has lead up to a war with the others. Sayid, being in the republican guard, has purpose and position in a situation. I think his story will end, dying for the 815ers. He's the only character on the show whose story is pretty close to being redeemed. It's far fetched, but I'm going to stick with it.

4) We will meet Alvar Hanso.

My guess is that the fourth season will focus on the Hanso Foundation, the launching of the Dharma Initiative, and what they were experimenting on.

Come Wednesday, we'll see.

Hungry like a wolf

I saw this first of Seth's blog and I laughed myself stupid. I take no credit for this find but enjoy.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

So, who wants to take us to the Christmas Formal?

Pirates 3 running time

Seth sent me an email that said "Pirates of the Carribean: at world's end" will be 30 minutes longer than "Dead Man's Chest".

Well, it may be longer in time, but nothing will feel longer than Dead Man's Chest. So, in honor of this most glorious news, here is my review of P2. Enjoy.

*This email may contain adult language, reader's
discretion advised*

Please bare with me as what I'm about to write is just
my opinion. I still love everyone even if they don't
share the same overall sentiment.

That being said . . .

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was by far
the stupidest movie I've seen this year. REALLY
Stupid. Where do I even begin? Well for starters it
was like 10 hours too long in desperate need of an
editor (I think at one point Kevin Costner leaned over
to me and said it was too long). It had a ridiculous
amount of anticlimactic fight scenes, back to back to
back to back, so choreographed that the dancers from
Chicago could have done it. Also, the story was
weaker than a watered down diet caffeine free Pepsi.
And those are the good things about it. . .

There is no reason that movie needed to be split in
two. Everything, I mean everything they set up in the
beginning could have been resolved. I know it seems
crazy, but instead of having, oh I don't know, 100
minutes of your film tied up in fighting, maybe you
could move forward in . . .what's the word. . .oh yeah
STORY. But oh no. No NO NO! Instead, they injected
fighting. And the fighting made the film drag. In
fact, the film dragged so much that at one point Jenny
said to me, "You know the movie's bad when I don't
care if anyone lives or dies."

To be fair, there were a few funny moments in the
beginning that gave the film some real promise. That
didn't last long however.

So, what do I really think? I think you should
totally go see it. It made me furiously angry, but,
who knows, you may think it's great.

After all, what people like in their movie experience
is totally subjective
. . .unless, of course, the movie's shit.

Phil

On a positive note

Someone who shall remain nameless (rhymes with SchmEllie) has brought to my attention most of my posts can tend to read negative. I have no idea where she would get that but it did encourage me to post something positive.

Here is a video that Jenny cut and put music to. Check it out.

Who sets the bar for music these days?

I have been driving tractor this week and been listening to a lot of radio. We have a station in town that plays a lot of top 40 pop rock (95.3) and decided I would listen to it for a while to see if there was anything new that's any good.

Where do I begin?

The Killers - When you were young.
I admit that I loved the killers first CD hot fuss. I was really curious to see if there next CD was going to be as good. I seriously almost laughed out loud when I heard this new song. What key is he singing in anyway? I can't believe nobody in production picked up on this and tried to fix it. Or maybe they did. Either way, Brandon Flowers can't sing his way out of a paper bag. Someone actually told me that his singing is the new style. So singing in 12 different keys is the new style? Rob Thomas must be pumped.

The Fray - How to save a life
Dishwalla called, they want there songs back. Seriously, Matchbox 20 thinks you guys suck. You save a life by giving up music. There is already a band out there that has piano and guitar and good music, they're called Coldplay. We don't need cheap imitations. Also, what's with that guys voice? Or voices, really, since he tries to do so many vocal styles in all his melodies that he's trying to be a male Whitney Houston.

Fall Out Boy - This ain't a scene (it's an arms race)
I will pay anyone $20 bucks if they could understand every lyric in the chorus the first time they heard it. There's no way. I've heard this song 6 times now and I seriously have no idea what they say. Same with Sugar (we're going down) and Dance, Dance. There tunes are catchy no doubt, but can you really sing along with grunts and mumbles?

Snow Patrol - Any song
Snow patrol sucks. No seriously, they are boring and they suck. I'm trying to figure out why so many people like them. A friend of mine who shall remain . . .Dayton Dodge, convinced me to buy Final Straw because he said it was so good. However, it sounded like they stole songs from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack and made them boring. They seem to me like top 40 filler. Do any of your friends have a snow patrol sticker on their car? Exactly.

I think I will just stick to XM.

(FYI, you can now post comments if you wish. You can disagree with any of the things I've said. If you do though, your wrong.)

My review of Lady in the Water

I have heard good and I have heard bad about this movie. More bad than good to be honest. From the really bad reviews I've gotten (Alex and Eddie) I already had my bar set really really low. So, I watched it.

It's always good to start with the compliments first so here I go.

This film, in my opinion is lit really well. I was really impressed by the mood Chris Doyle set. I really enjoyed watching that aspect. His use of reds were particularly a favorite. (As a side note, I found it interesting that he's member of the Hong Kong society of cinematographers. Perhaps Tak Fujimoto was unavailable . . . or uninterested)

I also really enjoyed the music. James Newton Howard is a great composer in my opinion and did a good job with the "lullaby" themes.

All good things must come to an end though. (Spoiler alert)

When I started this movie, I decided to suspend all my disbelief. I know to some degree we all suspend some sort of disbelief when watching movies but for Lady I purposely suspended it all. I thought to myself, "I don't care how unrealistic it is, how bad the writing, how bad the acting is, I'm just going to buy into it". I figured if I did that I would be able to really enjoy it.

And I was. I was really enjoying it.

Then something happened to the likes of which I never experienced before.

There was a scene in the movie where a little boy interprets the fate of every character from . . .cereal boxes. The final key to solving everything came from cereal boxes. Tony the tiger, magically delicious, and dig'em saved our heroes. I felt like I had been hit by something to wake me out of a semi-interesting dream. It went all downhill from there.

Like falling dominoes, thus went the movie. There were plot holes bigger than Texas, Bela Legosi things M. Night is a terrible actor, the story was so contrived it made Armageddon look like a Terrence Malick film.

I know M. Night did this for his kids. It's pretty amazing to think he gave up a deal at Disney to make the film. I think this would better serve as a bedtime story book, and not a feature film. M. Night, stop making ridiculously pompous movies. You've already cashed in all your credibility the Sixth Sense brought you. Time to make another good movie. If you forget what that is, just give up.

Our pastor is a living Michael Scott

Our church service today focused on a ministry called Reflections. Reflections is a supportive bible study for women who have had an abortion. The service started out with this amazing video interviewing women in the ministry, telling there stories of how the abortion impacted their life and how healing through the love of Jesus has changed their life. Trust me, the video was really, really good.

Of course not to be outdone, our Pastor then gets up to undo all the impact this video had on our congregation.

He leads off with "the official position of the church is abortion is a sin. The official position of God is abortion is a sin". I seriously couldn't believe he started with that. He sort of made up for it by saying "the good news is that Jesus forgives and still loves you". Which I totally believe but by then the train was slowly coming off the track. Our pastor could have gone up and dismissed everyone because the video was so clear in it's message. However, our pastor Michael Scott would not leave well enough alone. He decided it was best to tag a song at the end of his sermon just to bring it all home. The song was so terrible. It was a contemporary christian top 40 song that happened to have words in it that reflected the pastor's semi-good message. It felt like watching the goodness of Shawshank Redemption and then as the credits roll you play Michael Bolton's "Said I loved you but I lied".

I told my friend that our pastor is like Michael Scott, and our congregation is like Jan Levinson Gould. They've know it's wrong, but feel, at some point, they need to give into their urges.

Directed by. . .

Alex Monroe. One of my closest friends is on the verge of becoming a commercial director. He as just launched his website with some of the commercials he's shot for his show reel. Check it out an give me some feedback on the reel and the website itself. Thanks.

www.alexandermonroe.com

The good shepherd

Well, I can't really decide if it was "good" or not. I saw this film on new years day and it clocked in at around 10 hours or so. Man did this film feel long. The pace was so calculated, which I understand. However, it took sooooo long to pay off the thing they set up right in the beginning that by hour 9, I just didn't care. Ultimately, I really wanted to like this film. It was lit by Bob Richardson, Damon was awesome, Birth of CIA intriguing concept. It just need to be cut tighter, or it needed an hour cut off. If that were the case, it would have been fantastic for me. I would also like to note that Michael Gambon was the best thing about this movie.

What is cross processing?

Think Tony Scott's MAN ON FIRE or DOMINO. The film is shot, then it's developed in the wrong processor to create these wild colors and tones. It's a very risky process because there is a chance the film could be ruined. All this to say, I felt like it was a good name for this weblog. For those who know me, I look at the world through different lenses. Most of the time I put my foot in my mouth in attempt to think or observe outside the box. I like putting myself out there to see if the "same ol, same ol" can be seen in a different way. So, hopefully you will enjoy my observations, rants, and things that make me laugh.