Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream ... let's try and live it before we forget it.
I was driving to work the other day and I saw a business that had a sign "Tool Repair" and I thought ... what if the tool that fixes the tool breaks, is there a tool to fix that tool that fixes tools? And what happens if that tool breaks? When does it end?? How do you make a tool that fixes other tools? So if my hammer breaks, I can take it to get it repaired and will be just as good? This concepts seems really wierd to me ... really wierd.
Weekly Update:
So I finally saw "Avatar" and I thought it was ... ok. Visually without question the movie was stunning, however, the story is just a simple mix of 98% "Disney's Pocahontas" and 2% "Dances with Wolves." Everything about the film aside from the visuals was unoriginal from the music (Titanic-esque) to the story to the characters (which their names and language seemed almost identical to Native American Indians). The movie is long and it felt very long to me as well, probably because my butt and back were getting really sore. The 3-D was pretty good, my eyes only teared up twice which is a lot less than anticipated since I always had issues with 3-D in the past and the tremendous amount of eye strain just after the first 20 minutes. But this wasn't bad ... I lasted! The cool part about seeing the movie is that this was a special screening with a Q&A right after. After the Q&A, I did manage to get some photos with the folks there for it:
*Jon Landau- Producer of this film along with "Titanic" to just name a couple. Ok guy.
*James Cameron- Director of this film plus many others like "Titanic" and "True Lies" which is an amazing movie for sound. Very nice and cool guy!
*Zoe Saldana- Main female lead in the film as well as Uhura in the latest "Star Trek" movie. She was very sweet.
At the movies:
No change at the box office as "Avatar" continues to lead the pack for the 5th week in a row. Unlike "Titanic" which ran at #1 for nearly 19 weeks, I am sure this film won't break that record but should be in the top 10 for at least that possibly as it makes another 41.3 million and now just shy of the 500 mil cume mark. New at #2 is the action film Book of Eli with 31.6 mil. At #3 is the wide release of "The Lovely Bones" which earns a nice 17.1 mil for the holiday weekend. I do have a feeling this film won't last long on the charts though. Hanging on to #4 is "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" with an extra 11.5 mil and just short of the 200 mil mark. Rounding off the top 5 is "Sherlock Holmes" with 9.8 mil as it struggles its way to break the 200 mil cume mark.
New movies that did not make the top 5: Just one this week as the new family comedy-action film The Spy Next Door chops in at #6 with an 9.7 million to open.
Quote of the week:
"Falling feels like flying, for a little while." - Jeff Bridges
Other News:Obviously the big news is the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti last Tuesday. Initial reports had the death toll at 100,000 plus with three times that injured. When aide and other relief efforts came to the island nation the next day and the next, the death toll dropped to 50,000. Now that is till a lot but at least it is half to the initial expected and even now, that count be a bit lower as they are finding people in the rubble alive. With today's technology, it is so easy to make a contribution through texting, e-mails, of course over the phone and sending in checks. Of course when disaster hits, scammers also surface and try to take advantage of such a tremendous situation like this. So who do you trust? Honestly you can NOT trust the American Red Cross because the last major disaster that they handled with Hurricane Katrina and they refused to release lost and found records for children and parents to the agencies like the FBI and police to help reunite people. Plus they decline sharing their financial information so the government could make sure the funds were being allocated properly. Did everyone forget that the Red Cross is a government agency?? So who do you trust? Tough one but hopefully you can find an organization out there that you personally know about.
Facts & Tips:
Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
"Aw, what the hell. Guys like me shouldn't dream anyway." - Michael Beck as Sonny Malone in "Xanadu."
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