question the second:

why does everyone think that question the first is about colors?

got Roper.

drove all over L.A. looking for it.

good.

-end.

“He’s burning the butane
He’s got a wallest chain
He will show off his tattoos
He’s almost six foot six
He’s scoping all the chicks
While he’s hanging on to you
And you’re unaware that his eyes are never on you
He’s working on his game
Just pretend that you’re in love with what’s his name.

You’re the one who’s breaking every heart in here
You’re with stupid.
He’s the one who should be crying in his beer,
You’re with stupid.

Her face is all aglow
So pale like whitest snow
It’s more than I can bear
I’m swallowing so hard
I’m keeping up my guard
I am trying not to swear
Cuz he’s right there with his perfect arms around you
Stabbing my heart through.
If he wouldn’t punch my face in
I’d say to you….

You’re the one who’s breaking every heart in here

You’re with stupid.

He’s the one who should be crying in his beer,

You’re with stupid.

See the sunlight shining through
He just isn’t good for you.

You’re the one who’s breaking every heart in here

You’re with stupid.

He’s the one who should be crying in his beer,

You’re with stupid.
You’re the one who’s causing every eye to tear
You’re with stupid.
I’m the one who wishes he could disappear
I feel stupid.”

-“You’re With Stupid,” by Roper

what do you think?

Showbread’s “No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical” is a REALLY good
cd.  I highly recommend it.  It’s a solid cd… and I like it
a lot.  It comes out on Tuesday, as does the new Roper cd, “Brace
Yourself for the Mediocre”.   Speaking of Roper, he does
guest vox on Matthias Replaces Judas, which is one of my favorites on
the cd…  not that there’s any particular song I dislike…
😉  Anyway, so there are 2 cds you should buy on Tuesday. 
What if you can only afford one?  hmmm.. I don’t know.  I
know that Roper is trying to get recognized by some record label, and
high sales in the first week would help them out, so maybe if you want
to help them out you could buy that one.

Anyway, later.

Well, if no one has any opinions on the movie… I suppose I will not post more indepth on it 😉

Things I hate:

When the stupid wireless internet here doesn’t work for no apparent reason.
ESPECIALLY when it works on my roommate’s laptop, but not mine.

This annoying thing that pops up every 15 minutes or so asking if I want to stay connected to dialup.

When I order food from McDonalds, and then on the way home I have to
stop at a light and the bag falls over and half the french fries fall
on the floor.

When someone says “I will call you back tomorrow” and doesn’t call me back tomorrow.

When I really want to talk to someone, but they don’t ever answer their phone.

When someone I have not talked to in quite awhile does not return e-mails.

When people say weird things or make weird assumptions without explanation.

Other annoying stuff.

So I have this system that usually works out pretty well for me, where
I will put effort into a relationship (any kind) for awhile, but if the
recipient of said effort does not respond in kind, then I will cease
putting any effort into it, and merely move on to other people who
return the effort.  I dunno, I just get annoyed at people when I
try to talk to or hang out with them and they never “have time” or
whatever.  It’s a good method.  I highly reccomend it. 

I just thought you might like to know these things.

So as long as we’re talking about movies relating to Christianity which
many Christians have issues with, I may as well bring up The Last
Temptation of Christ, which I saw for the first time a couple days ago
and actually thought was quite good.

So I guess I am curious as to who has seen it, and what your feelings
are on it.  If you have not seen it, perhaps share your impression
of it, based on whatever you have heard, etc.

I will post about it more in-depth maybe tomorrow.

Warning: This is a long post.  But you should read it anyway.

So as of Sunday night Superman is dead, for real this time.  And
unlike in the comics, he won’t be coming back.  I am not one who
is normally effected much by the deaths of celebrities, but, since
finding out about Christopher Reeve’s death (I found out kinda late)
last night, it is something that really bothers me for some
reason.  Maybe it’s because he is a representation of Superman,
this great hero, who is not longer with us.  Perhaps it is because
he was such an inspiration to so many people.  Perhaps I simply
wanted to see this man who portrayed such hopefullness and
perserverance walk again.  In any case, I was saddened by the news.

On another note, since a few people have asked, and I needed to make  a new post
anyway, I thought I would explain the reasons why I think Saved is such
a good movie.

I will start with the main reason why I liked it.  The overall
theme of the movie is something that Christians need to hear.  The
message really is that Christians need to show more acceptance and love
of people.  It tells us the very thing that the Bible tells
us.  No one can live up to the law.  That was the point of
the law.  To show us our need for a savior. 

Hebrews 8:7 – “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.”

If we could be saved by living up to the standards of the law, then
there would have been no need for Christ to come at all.  Yet
Christians CONSTANTLY get down on EVERYBODY that is not living up to
their particular standard of the week.  Homosexuality, which is
discussed in the movie, is something the Bible RARELY mentions, but
Christians tend to treat homosexuals like the plague.  Who watched
the movie and DIDN’T see a serious problem with his parents shipping
him off to Mercy House, not even trying to help him themselves? 
The sad thing is, it is not difficult at all to believe that people
would do that.

The movie itself shows respect for Christian ideals.  It really is
attacking hypocrisy within Christianity, which if someone denies that
it is there, they are simply fooling themselves.  There is much
hypocrisy among those who call themselves Christians.  If there
was not, I think there would be little doubt as to the existance and
love of God.  One of my favorite scenes in the movie is after they
try to perform the exorcism on Mary… and as she is getting away from
his this dialogue plays (doing it from memory, may not be 100% right)

Mary: You don’t even know what love is.
Hillary Faye: I am FILLED with Christ’s love.
She throws her Bible at Mary.
Mary (holding up the Bible): This is not a weapon….. you idiot.

One of the best lines in the movie, right there.  The Bible is not
a weapon.  Some of the worst things in history have come about
because of someone asserting that it was.  Anyone remember the
Crusades?  Lets see… here’s a verse that may apply:

2 Corinthians 3:6 – “who
also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the
letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life.”

Something that a lot of people have a problem with is Mary having a
vision of Jesus telling her to sleep with Dean to save him from his
homosexuality.  However, all Jesus tells her in her vision is
“Dean needs you now.  Do all that you can to help him.”  Mary
simply misinterprets the message.  The director even states this
in the commentary on the DVD.

In the end, I really see the movie as a story of a girl falling away
from her idea of who God is and what Christianity is, and coming away
from it with a new understanding of what God’s love really is.

Another of my favorite scenes in the movie, demonstrating her complete
falling away from what she had believed in, is the scene right outside
the church, looking up at the cross on the side of the building, after
having gone to the planned parenthood, etc….  and she looks up
at it and says, “Shit.  Fuck.  Goddamn.”  In my opinion,
it is a brilliant scene.

The end of the movie, when Dean arrives at the prom, the conversation
that is had between all the characters is fantastic.  When Dean
says “We’ve all been kicked out of our homes and our schools and now
Mercy House, there’s no place left for us to go,” just as Pastor Skip
is trying to make them leave.  If people cannot find love and
acceptance in Christians, who are supposed to represent Christ to this
world, then where can they find it?

“It’s just all too much to live up to.  No one fits in 100% of the time, not even you.” – Mary to Pastor Skip

“I know in my heart that Jesus still loves me” – Dean

These are the reasons why I love this movie.

I do not see it as being anti-Christian, nor was it’s intent to be anti-Christian, according to the director.

I think that this movie suffers from what most movies dealing with
Christianity suffer from.  Christians, for whatever reason, expect
Christian characters to be perfect, and in this movie, no one is
perfect.  No one is even close to perfect.  Some people would
claim that the non-Christians in the movie are presented as being
better then the Christians, but, not really, they have their own
problems…  Cassandra is a very different character at the end of
the movie then she is at the beginning.  So is Roland.

As to the comment in my previous post in regards to this…  there
are some bits to this movie that aren’t exactly Christian ideas, such
as Mary says “There has to be a God… or… something… out
there.”  In my mind, she still acts very much like she believes in
God specifically, especially since she goes on to say “What would Jesus
do?  I don’t know… but we’re trying our best to find out” (or
something to that effect.)  I think they probably just wanted to
be all-inclusive so non-Christians watching the movie could relate,
after-all, the writers and director are not Christians.

I assume you mean when Roland dresses up as a Rollerskate for Halloween?  Yeah, it’s in there. 😉

Well, I edited my short film and i now have it on dvd. so…. i think maybe it should be pretty easy to get the video onto here and encode it in divx? and hopefully the wireless internet will start cooperating so i can get it uploaded. I had to get it done tonight because apparently the computers are being weird so they are wiping the drives tomorrow. Otherwise I’d have been lazy and let it wait till next weekend 😉

When it is uploaded, I will post something here.

While I was at Best Buy to buy some DVD-R’s, I also went ahead and picked up Saved!. I still think it is quite the good movie.

So now Fall Break has officially started. Tomorrow however I am waking up even earlier then I normally would on a Friday to go get a ticket to The Tonight Show for tomorrow night. It should be fun. There could be a better guest…. is Tom Green…. but… you know… what are you gonna do? It should still be good.

Other then that I don’t have a lot of plans. But just taking some time to relax will be good.

Later.

After tomorrow it is fall break. 4 days of nothingness. how i have longed for thee.

the other day i noticed that “Saved!” is out on dvd. I need to go get it.

i was reading through www.familyguyquotes.com…. and have decided to paste this one here:

“Peter: As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep.
Bob: Outrageous, How dare he say such blasphemy. I’ve got to do something.
Man #1: Bob, there’s nothing you can do.
Bob: Well, I guess I’ll just have to develop a sense of humor. “

the end.

“Scissors To Suburbia”

“If the dawn means the day is upon us, I say forever I will hide in the shadows. And if maturity means I am condemned to the cold, I will forever burn bright in childishness. If they tell me to settle for one who is less than ideal, I will always, always be alone. And if the tide brings in a trend of apathy, I will drown in my passion before it is taken away. And finally, if being warm, happy, content, and well-adjusted means selling myself to become what they say I should be, I will scream in the pain and agony of my abnormality for all eternity.”
-by “Andrew Schwab”

Those are some words to live by.

also, for any powerbook owners out there…..

in the latest issue of MacAddict, which I just got, they tell about this handy little piece of shareware that adds some functionality to the trackpad. namely, you can set up page scrolling on the trackpad (so, for example, the right edge of the pad could be used to scroll through a website). also, it has corner tapping functions that you can use either for additional mouse button clicks (you could make one of the corners your right click, for example). if you enable tap clicking as your left click, you can make the built in click your right click (for some reason you can’t do the opposite). anyway, i set up the corners to function as my expose controls… and i like the ability to scroll. It is called Sidetrack.

It is a beta release and apparently there is a chance of it causing a kernel panic, but i experienced no problems in installing it on mine. make sure you read the FAQ first so you know what to do to fix it in the event that it does not go so smoothly on your system.