Random thoughts.

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War of the Worlds was better than I thought it would be. Of course, that required me to shut off parts of my brain, but I was aware of that going in. Watching Cruise try to play an "average joe" was stretching it for me. Him as a "deadbeat dad"? For some reason, that wasn't too much of a stretch for me.

King Kong? MUCH better than I'd have thought. Not just effects? Atmosphere, acting, even. And enough little touches and surprises...I'm on the second disc, and have been pleasantly surprised by it. Though, I'm not done with it yet, and the damned "Centiped" things are, um..freaking the hell out of me. Yeah, that's as good a word for it.

Picked up school books today. And, two lectures are already posted, for one of my classes, which both start on Monday.

I've somehow managed to accumulate several "other" books to read. One I want to finish quickly, another (The Zombie Survival Guide) for pure fun...little bit on that..it was written by Max Brooks, son of Mel, and he wrote a "sequel" of sorts, called World War Z. It's already been optioned for film, by Brad Pitt's company.

There is a person in the world I pity. And that bothers me. That bothers me a lot. I wish that they would quietly withdraw their weapons, and stop trying to harm others. Especially intentionally. We (Humanity in general) should know better.

Oh, and I received the paperwork to start helping Smirk and Dagger. Now to organize the papers by states, start entering them into a spreadsheet (I get to play with excel..there's a real first), and come up with a good plan. Hell, I don't think I need a good plan, I'd be fine with a mediocre plan that I can upgrade. :-P

And that's my day so far.

Crap. :-) I need to find my cheapie place online to order inks for my printer.

Comments

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

I thought War of the Worlds was pretty damn good. I was really affected by the collapse of society and the mass panic. I don't hate Cruise's acting, but I don't think he needed to be a stellar actor to pull it off; the scope was bigger than he was.

Saw King Kong in the dollar theater and loved it. It was a good dollar theater movie; the shrieks of the audience were perfect. My only gripe was the protracted three-T-Rex scene. That scene just smacked of one-upmanship and challenged even my well developed suspension of disbelief. Otherwise it rocked.

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*nod* I can see both thoughts. :-) The mass panic..the ferry scene, I thought, was greatly done. Tim Robbins was sort of a mixed bag for me, in that I liked some of the philosophy they gave the character.

I was surprised on Kong. I liked the feel, I think, most of all. Kyle Chandler and Adrien Brody...Naomi Watts..the whole thing just gelled. Yes, the middle felt just a tad too long, but not too horribly out of place.

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

really, you liked king kong....ooookkkkaaayyy.


speaking of books, any progress on the one i loaned you a bit ago or should i just give up?

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*heh* More progress, but it's longer drawing out of me. I'm going to keep trying before I decide the author was right in the first pages, in that it doesn't gel with my internal wisdom.

And yes, I really liked it. It was a wonderful throwback, they succeeded in some really good things..yeah, the middle was just a tad long, but there were some neat things in there. As Echo said above, the one-upmanship bothered me, a little, but the idea that skull island was a completely different world, I liked. :-)

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

ehhh..freakin slug monsters that's all i got to say on that one.


well see you getting anything out of it. it's one of the books that i base my faith on so...it's helped me figured i'd see if it'd help you too.

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*nod* It may, I'm just running into the agnostic's dilemma on such books. Will try a little longer. :-)

[ladyofglass.livejournal.com]

What book?

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Communion with God. :-)

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

communion with god is the latest in a series of books called conversations with god. good series.

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

agnostic or atheist. as far as i know agnostics believe in a higher being just not set one what. ok...

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Agnostics believe in the possibility or probability of a higher being, but not one that most people refer to as "God". At least, that's always been how I was led to it. This, at least in what I've taken from the first part, is very specifically aimed at God...or, I should say, aimed at the idea that God brought this book to me. Again, that may just be my life experiences coloring how the book is speaking to me, hence why I'm gonna try a little longer. :-)

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

it is god but it's a different definition of god. normally one thinks of god as higher being above everyone and separate and this is more god is everyone and everything all at once, all one. maybe i should've gotten you the first books first.

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*chuckles* Maybe. :-) Should I put this on hold and read the others first?

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

i dunno. didn't think it was totally necessary since this one seemed to go over the earlier books but if you're not getting some stuff....

[per_solo]

*heh* I'll keep going. If I need the earlier, I'll...um, I'll wikipedia them, then see if I need to read the earliers.

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

okay....

Who? Who? Who? Who?

[ladyofglass.livejournal.com]

"There is a person in the world I pity. And that bothers me. That bothers me a lot. I wish that they would quietly withdraw their weapons, and stop trying to harm others. Especially intentionally. We (Humanity in general) should know better."

Do I know 'em?

It's me, isn't it?

;)

<~~~~~narcissist.

Re: Who? Who? Who? Who?

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:-P Not sure, and nope. ;)