15 posts tagged “movie”
I miss blogging consistently here on the VOX. Where does my time go?
I figured a good way to blog without considerable effort would be to share some things I'm currently enjoying/being inspired by/appreciating/etc. at the moment.
Literally, right now, I am listening to this CD, and I'm loving it.
Finally, while taking stuff that can be heavy like the film and book listed above, it is nice to have an outlet that is simply pure fun. That's where this comes in:
All this, in addition to the lovely weather all of us are enjoying in Seattle makes for good times. =)
This week's clip, after I missed last week completely, is a brand new trailer for Pixar's Wall-E, coming in June.
I don't know what your philosophy is on movies. Perhaps you are as pretentious as they come, or perhaps you enjoy the lowest possible forms of entertainment. What I do know is, this trailer makes me happy.
So, I'm still catching up with life after having some sort of flu that swept through MHGS like wildfire. Though since I missed Clip of the Week yesterday I'll just go with that. Not to mention, there's an obvious choice today. Enjoy:
This coming week marks the start of the full schedule at school. Which means adding some more busyness in the way of school work that until now I have enjoyed doing without. Tomorrow we're going to enjoy a busy day with me doing absolutely no school work at all just in case that won't be possible for some time to come.
I look forward to my various activities tomorrow which include:
Going to see There Will Be Blood with my friend Eric
I need two posts in the next hour. This could be a problem being that I'm feeling fairly motion sick at the moment. The reason for this motion sickness is that I just went to see Cloverfield. I'll save most of my thoughts for, perhaps, another time. At the moment I'll just say that if you are the least bit prone to nausea in cars, planes, boats, etc., you may just want to bring along the Dramamine should you decide to take in a showing of said film. I indirectly received this same warning and ignored it, to my peril. Well, maybe not peril, but to my discomfort. I really need to see the film again after taking the proper precautions, since what it lacked in courtesy to my equilibrium it made up for in originality. Not the story mind you, but the method of storytelling. I know there can be some Blair Witch debate there, but I'll have to save that for a day when the dizziness has ceased.
A brief light note: After the film, which as anyone who's seen the trailer knows includes massive destruction to the New York City borough of Manhattan, a guy next to us was shouting to his buddies about how exciting it is that this means the destruction of Yankee Stadium. Had I been a bit less green, or had Emily been a bit more vocal, we could have informed him that he in fact had the wrong borough, thus the reason the Yankees are referred to as the 'Bronx Bombers' as opposed to, perhaps, the 'Manhattan Mashers.' Thus the action of the film took place about 100 blocks from Yankee Stadium, plus the Harlem River as a bonus. So, while I am sure his buddies thought he was terribly clever and witty, Emily and I rolled our eyes at his lack of understanding of just about anything he was talking about.
I'm going to go have a seat and enjoy a nice cold can of Coke until the world stops spinning.
School has officially begun. It's actually really nice to be back. The added bonus is the reality that the start to this trimester is staggered. I have two classes for the first two weeks before the other classes begin. Even better is that the two classes I am most looking forward to happen to be the ones that start earlier.
Tomorrow I get started on the Kingdom of God and the New Sciences class I've already mentioned in an earlier post. Yesterday I started a class called Reading Practices: Engaging the Biblical Text. As a small sample of what this class has in store for me, one of my assignments is to watch the film Magnolia, and then write a paper about a particular character who is 'poor in spirit.' You know a class looks promising when they assign you to watch one of your favorite movies.
I suppose that's enough of a boring life update for now. I hope everyone's 2008 is going well so far!
So anyway, I figured I would take a moment to recommend a movie for anyone out there who cares. I normally don't do this, and if you watch it and decide you don't like it I apologize in advance. I only do it now because it's a somewhat lesser known film that didn't get anywhere near as much commercial attention as it deserved (as is so often the case these days).
It's called The Station Agent.
It's great. It's about friendship and community, it's about anger, loneliness, and love and how we respond to the hand we're dealt. Well, it's about a lot of things and I don't want to go into too much detail and ruin your chance to experience it yourself. So instead, if you've seen it you should let me know because I'd love to talk about it, or perhaps if you take my recommendation to heart and feel so inclined then let me know once you've seen it. I hope you give it a chance, and if you do, that you aren't disappointed.
It appears Don Miller's Blue Like Jazz is going to be a movie. Rather than relaying the news to you, I'll just copy and paste Don's own words:
"Steve Taylor and Ben Pearson have been in Portland for the past week and we’ve pretty much completed the screenplay for Blue Like Jazz the movie. We’ve been working on the script for about a year, either with me flying to Nashville for a week at a time to sit around a table and hash out the story, or with Steve and Ben coming to Portland to stay at my house. When studios became more excited about the screenplay, we felt the need to wrap it up, and in the last few days we’ve pretty much done so. And I dont know if I’ve had more fun, or been more challenged, with any other writing project. I’m excited to see how the guys end up shooting the story.
To say we’ve given the book a Hollywod treatment is an understatement. The book itself would be, of course, difficult to turn into a movie, and so we took creative liberties. But in my opinion, the movie will be infinitely better than the book. Essentially we’ve taken the major, real life characters from the book, and gave them a story all their own. The end result is provactive and humorous and in my opinion quite moving. I cant wait for people to see the film.
We think production will be able to start next year, and the film will be shot on location in Portland. And I am as excited about showing off my town as I am about telling the story. I will keep you posted."
For more from Don Miller check out the website I saw this in the first place: donmillerwords
We're in the final stretch. Now that we are out of our apartment it is just filling in the time between now and the big trip. It feels strange to know that May has finally come. All the waiting and now it can no longer be said that the trip is coming 'next month.' The trip is just a few short weeks away. It's exciting. Now all we do is try to get things as organized as possible here before we leave so that the actual move to Seattle will be as painless as possible.
Only two more episodes of 'Heroes' left. Fortunately we won't miss a single episode on the road because we leave right after the last episode. Good stuff. I can only imagine the angst I will feel when the inevitable cliff hanger is revealed for the final episode, it will be a long wait this summer for the show to return.
Also, I came across this picture from the upcoming Iron Man movie. It's the Mark III armor. The cast is pretty impressive so hopefully they won't screw this one up the way they screwed up The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and Ghost Rider (although that one is a presumption on my part, I never actually saw it). Anyway, here it is:
