movie reviews

defiance; what can i say? the kind of stuff that american schools not only really gloss over, but pretty much exclude from the chapter on that little ole war some fur'en folks helped us win.
in other words, less confusing ones, "Dang!"
belle being a history buff doesnt hurt but thanks to my dad i always had an interest in wwii stories. this one does not fail to disappoint and the reasonably long movie is another one that zips by and has you fearfully checking your watch because its too good, you know its gotta end. the background cast is especially of note. mostly unknowns which is a relief. the very environment of the soviet front itself is enough of a character, villan and ally both. but the way you see both the good and the inhumane in people, damned or otherwise is refreshing in a tough love kind of way. you empathize while horrified. i bit the full complement of nails down before the half way point of this sucker, so high marks all around. well done!

my neighbor is an ass

thats all. i just want him to leave me the fuck alone and i'll leave him the fuck alone.
god almighty the way people on this planet act sometimes it makes you want to hurt someone, whether its yourself or another. the things people find to give other people shit about just amazes me. if i could afford to move someplace else i would.
its been a day is all.
fuck.
i really had hoped 2009 would be better

song lyric mash up

so frequently, i find just particular verses of songs unbelievably pertinent and occasionally jaw droppingly meaningful. i'm experiementing with what i am going to call a lyric mash up. i take no credit whatsoever for what is blatant plagarism or perhaps re-arrangarism? anyway, not going to post it until i have something with a semblance of completion to it but you get the idear.

in exciting whiner news, my tummy hurts. lol and i'm cold.
i don't want my mommy, but i'd sure love a nap. i stayed up waaaay too late last night when i should have grabbed an opportunity to hit it early. on the up side i am off work saturday so i can stay up as late friday night as i want to! drink! smoke! chase loose women!
:9

birds

i keep meaning to post about the little birds i've been feeding at work.
i'm not a crazy birdwatcher per se but i really enjoy just watching them sometimes. i've been thinking alot lately about consciousness and perception and meaning. these little feathered life forms flit around, sharing our planet, enhancing our world and fade in and out constantly, dying, reborn, the usual circle of life crap.

We're told animals have no human emotions which is a stupid statement in the first place. ummm, duhhh? but we don't have bird or cat/horse/dog lizard, crustacean or trilobite pov, so obviously we don't get *them* either. does our perception that our consciousness is higher or more evolved grant us any advantage or entitlement to declare the value of their lives/existence lower than our own? the right to claim our perceptions of value as more than just assertions, but fact? i submit it is not.

i take it a step further to compare cultures.
here in the us a horrible horrible act of terrorism cost thousands of lives. yet in the news there is little evidence of even a tenth of the outrage when its thousands of people killed or dying someplace far far away. does physical distance justify emotional detachment?

if people are truly equal in value then we should be exponentially outraged at the living conditions so many millions more are forced to endure, not merely to say tsk tsk and then remain guiltily oblivious. i found myself recently talking to my good friend vicente in colombia about various personal complaints. he then gave me a wake up call by offering me a taste of what similar complaints might be where he lives. it wasn't his intent but that shut me up pretty quick. the phrase "you got served" comes to mind.

i just wonder sometimes, is it even possible for mankind to ever truly get it? because it seems to me until somebody starts to figure things out and then share the knowldge with people willing AND empowered to affect change we are really facing a collective downward spiral of a planetary clusterfuck that no amount of "greening" is going to fix.

collective sigh time.

on the plus side bush is gone. im not sure if i have hope exactly, but im definitely less jaded and pessimistic about the new guy. i think they should change the number of terms a president can serve down to one. just freaking make change every 4 years. perhaps if they were assured of a set time limitation our commanders in chief might try a little harder to make their page in the history books a bit more concentrated, lol or perhaps enriched. Power packed. Chock full of presidential goodness instead of reading children's books and spending 2/3 of the year on vacation. mind you, i'm not dissing children's books. i adore them and even kindof collect them. however, i assure you, i am not in the government.

more later

weird ideas ver 1

yes its true. i want to make a comic called le hulk which features a primarily unchanging strip where the captions are random insights and adlibs and le hulk is french, living in paris and its not easy being green but its esp not easy being green and existentialist and french.

and i have a friend now which is really cool. his name is vicente caputo zamorano and he lives in colombia. hes made me want to write some things down so i dedicate much to and also thank him.

i hope little muddy kitty is ok-it looks like she was hit or something-her leg looks dislocated, and my sweetst little peter is acting sickly. i hope he's ok. it's hard enough not going to the doctor for me, but i can't bear the thought of them suffering.

so im managing to tread a little water for now, but i worry its getting dark in here fast.