Nothing You Would Be Interested In

June 13th, 2008 by monkee13

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/5-reunions-we-dont-want-to-se/

This is great.  I really love the Gibson Lifestyle Blog.

June 13th, 2008 by monkee13

http://imvotingrepublican.com/

May 26th, 2008 by monkee13

I don’t care what anyone says Weezer is still one of my favorite bands.

May 25th, 2008 by monkee13

If you didn’t know the lyrics you wouldn’t even recognize it.

Holiday in the Sun

May 25th, 2008 by monkee13

May 25th, 2008 by monkee13

May 14th, 2008 by monkee13

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

May 12th, 2008 by monkee13

I don’t know why I waited so long to see this film.  No one was ever told me about it.  It was really revitalized my belief that there are still Film Makers out there and not just cash cow, corporate, crap generators that call them selves Producers and Directors.  I tagged it as punk because in my mind this was pure punk at the core, it was outside the norm, it took chances with what it wanted to say and just said it.  There where a few scenes that really hit me.  The first was when they were brought into the refugee camp and outside the bus window you see the image of a prisoner posed in the famous Abu Ghraib torture iamge.  That one really hit me and effected me the most.  I think because it makes me angry about our world right now.  My son was been asking me questions about war and why people do it.  He’s eight, he shouldn’t have to think about this.  I don’t know how to answer him and not be negative or too biased.  A movie like this make me rethink life right now.  I always tell myself that I’m one person and I can’t make a difference.  I know that’s bullshit and it is just an excuse.  One person can make a difference by making other think and become aware of what is happening.  Let’s see if I actually do something or just make excuses like I have been since the start of the war.  man I ramble……  back to the film and the second thing that got to me.  The whole time I was thinking typical held held shaking cam to add drama, at least until a scene in a hallway during the uprising where during a shootout there was a single shot follow the leader type camera work “very real war documentary style” and a very subtle thing happened that I wonder if many people even caught.  There was a blood spatter, only a few drops on the camera lens that was there few only a few minutes if even that long.  That was simply striking.  The final shot was a given, you knew it was coming.  When all the solders just stopped and some of them dropped to their knees and they let them pass to safety.  The finally thing that got to me was during the black screen and the credits.  It was the simple sound of children.  I don’t know if it got to me so much just because I’m a parent or if it was just the pure emotion of this film.  It was obvious to me it was to symbolize hope.

If you haven’t seen this I am sorry if I gave anything away but whay they hell haven’t you seen it yet!

There is only one thing left to say before I go to sleep.

shantih

May 12th, 2008 by monkee13

I just watched Childrem Of Men.

May 11th, 2008 by monkee13

Following a nearly unprecedented outpouring of concern from the Chicago music community and a meeting with activists and some of the top concert promoters and venue owners in Chicago, Ald. Eugene Schulter, chairman of the City Council License Committee, decided on Tuesday that he will not present the so-called “event promoter’s ordinance” to the full council for a vote on Wednesday — and that the committee will go back to work on fine-tuning the law.

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