I just realized that I didn’t post about Casino Royale which I saw a couple of weeks ago! Ok, this is def. a movie not a film, I didn‘t go to this expecting to be challenged in some way to be more committed to changing the world or have better morals or make spiritual connections. I went to this because I have been watching Bond movies all my life. I can remember getting a 007 briefcase with all kinds of gadgets from… hmmm… was it ‘From Russia with Love?’ I would have been about 9, that sounds right…(with great train scenes through the then Yugoslavia… I need to go rent that)…
ANYWAY… I found this to be as tastefully done as any of the Bond flicks… I think that Dame Judi is a smashing ‘M’ and the new guy now has my vote for the second best… Connery will always be Bond. I do miss ‘Q’ though… it was great seeing the ’64 A-M again… I’m told the original is in the Spy Museum in DC. The story was great… but, if you’ve seen the movie.. Montenegro does not have trains like that. I was reminded of the aforementioned ‘From Russia with Love’ a couple of times: the train, the scenery, the Adriatic… I went for fun, and was given such!
007
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exam season
well, exam season is almost over and the break will begin soon…
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another episode below
I just posted another episode, a short one, from One Sandwich… scroll down to see it…
missed the earlier episodes? click here to go to the beginning
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"Crash" and "Capote"
At a meeting last week a colleague was talking about a conference he went to on prejudice… he said the presenter said at the beginning that we are all prejudice… AMEN – finally, someone said it… OK, this post isn’t about prejudice, it’s about movies… ANYWAY! He said the presenter told them to watch “Crash“… I did… I was enthralled. ‘nuf said.
Whilst (I love the word whilst) looking for “Crash”, I saw “Capote” on the shelf… I had seen it on the shelf before and wondered about it… see, I’m old enough to remember the hu-bub about In Cold Blood, the book about which this film depicts the writing (what kind of grammar was that ?)… (OH, both of these are films, not movies… I should post about what I mean by that sometime) SO, ANYWAY… my wife and I watched “Capote” — disturbing, very disturbing… at so many levels… the philosophy, the deceit, the violence. the emotional baggage EVERYONE in the film is carrying around – – in body as well as mind and emotion — I DO NOT recommend it… the darkness of the thing… I expected Frank Peretti–esqe demons to jump out at any moment with their talons deep into the shoulders of EVERYONE! Can you read Romans 1?
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electrical outlet
an electrical outlet always has ready electricity
(except for storm, or failure to pay the bill, etc… so here the analogy fails but…)
we only need to plug the lamp into the wall socket
if a lamp does not light up the room cuz it doesnt turn on
then we can check the bulb,
the switch,
the bulb socket,
even the wire… we can DO all these things
but if it isn’t plugged into the wall
there will be no light
“Abide in me” He never fails to give us life, IF we are plugged into Him.
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where ya been?
Writin exams, updatin Class blog, England blog, being lazy, OKAY?!?!?!?
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