All you technology-social-twitterbugs should love this:
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah
Enjoy.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Haggadah: Facebook style
All you technology-social-twitterbugs should love this:
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah
Enjoy.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Top 10
Top 10 Cary Grant Movies
I have gone on a Cary Grant kick lately. Thank you internet for putting almost all his classic films right at my fingertips. There are still a lot of his movies I have yet to see. But here is my top 10 list to date... I've seen about 30 of his films, but the guy did 72, so clearly I still have some watching to do.
10. An Affair to Remember
9. Arsenic and Old Lace
8. His Girl Friday
7. Only Angels Have Wings
6. Notorious
5. Bringing Up Baby
4. To Catch a Thief
3. Holiday
2. The Awful Truth
1. Charade
Still need to watch: Gunga Din, My Favorite Wife, Topper, I Was A Male Order Bride, Houseboat, Operation Petticoat, Slyvia Scarlett and a few more. If anyone finds those online, please let me know.
And I know I know... how could I leave North by Northwest and The Philadelphia Story off. Well I did. That doesn't mean I dislike the movies or any other movie I did not mention. So calm down. I love all things Cary Grant
I have gone on a Cary Grant kick lately. Thank you internet for putting almost all his classic films right at my fingertips. There are still a lot of his movies I have yet to see. But here is my top 10 list to date... I've seen about 30 of his films, but the guy did 72, so clearly I still have some watching to do.
10. An Affair to Remember
9. Arsenic and Old Lace
8. His Girl Friday
7. Only Angels Have Wings
6. Notorious
5. Bringing Up Baby
4. To Catch a Thief
3. Holiday
2. The Awful Truth
1. Charade
Still need to watch: Gunga Din, My Favorite Wife, Topper, I Was A Male Order Bride, Houseboat, Operation Petticoat, Slyvia Scarlett and a few more. If anyone finds those online, please let me know.
And I know I know... how could I leave North by Northwest and The Philadelphia Story off. Well I did. That doesn't mean I dislike the movies or any other movie I did not mention. So calm down. I love all things Cary Grant
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Reel Thing
Youtube officially sucks. I had tried multiple times to upload my reviews and it kept coming up 'unknown error.' I finally tried google and what do ya know... things worked out. On the down side, I read google is deleting their video portion soon. Lame again. But here it is about 3 weeks late.
My review of Watchmen for Gavilan's News and Views 3/10/09. (Also a quick pick of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas)
My review of Watchmen for Gavilan's News and Views 3/10/09. (Also a quick pick of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
In the year 2000... (Okay its 2009, but if you watch Conan you get it)
I officially got into San Jose State! Looks like I have a plan for the next two years.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Really? REALLY?
The only thing I can remember always having an interest in is movies. I'll admit it, I'm a movie snob. If you mention a film I usually want to throw in my two cents. I like to know behind the scenes secrets. I'm always interested in trivia and budgets and who starred in what- and if they were in a movie with so and so and did they get along etc etc... The point is, I don't know everything about film, but I know more than your average Joe, especially for someone my age. Which brings me to why I'm a movie snob. I cannot wrap my brain around why people nowadays pay 10 dollars to see the same comic book paradigm or mindless garbage with mall cops. Why does someone whose career is based on the words 'git-r-done' get a movie to himself? (That question is rhetorical.)
Today we just finished watching Fatal Attraction in my Contemporary Film class. First of all, I wasn't a big fan of the movie, although I do think it does a wonderful job making Glenn Close into the craziest psycho bitch on earth. The acting was great, the story was interesting. I found it hard to get over the 80's hair, clothes- pretty much everything- but basically I wouldn't want to watch the movie again. Yet if someone were to ask me what I thought of the film, I would most likely be able to explain clearly why I thought the film was such a hit, and why Glenn Close couldn't get a date for a decade.
However, the kids in my class, their idea of reviews were, 'I'm glad that bitch got shot.' 'Why does the daughter look like a boy?' 'Yo that shits crazy.' Really? REALLY? That's what you would like to add to the discussion?
Yes this is Morgan Hill, and I don't think I'm going out on a line when I say that the leaders of tomorrow most likely aren't coming from Gavilan Community College. But these kids supposedly graduated from high school?!? Perhaps they are not infatuated with movies like I am, but is it too much to ask that they use full sentences? Is it really impossible to have a conversation about the movie and not just remarks about how you would have stabbed/shot her extra times insuring she was dead? I realize that this is what they have learned watching horror films from today, and I guess in a way they are comparing and contrasting. Be that as it may, listening to what they are passing off as a discussion almost was enough to walk out on or choke myself with my scarf of the day. Am I being a bit dramatic? Probably. I just can't help but think our generation is in serious need of maturity and brain cells, even if the conversation is just about movies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Einstein. I guess I just get a bit more sensitive when it comes to movies than others. Thus ends my ranting and raging.
Today we just finished watching Fatal Attraction in my Contemporary Film class. First of all, I wasn't a big fan of the movie, although I do think it does a wonderful job making Glenn Close into the craziest psycho bitch on earth. The acting was great, the story was interesting. I found it hard to get over the 80's hair, clothes- pretty much everything- but basically I wouldn't want to watch the movie again. Yet if someone were to ask me what I thought of the film, I would most likely be able to explain clearly why I thought the film was such a hit, and why Glenn Close couldn't get a date for a decade.
However, the kids in my class, their idea of reviews were, 'I'm glad that bitch got shot.' 'Why does the daughter look like a boy?' 'Yo that shits crazy.' Really? REALLY? That's what you would like to add to the discussion?
Yes this is Morgan Hill, and I don't think I'm going out on a line when I say that the leaders of tomorrow most likely aren't coming from Gavilan Community College. But these kids supposedly graduated from high school?!? Perhaps they are not infatuated with movies like I am, but is it too much to ask that they use full sentences? Is it really impossible to have a conversation about the movie and not just remarks about how you would have stabbed/shot her extra times insuring she was dead? I realize that this is what they have learned watching horror films from today, and I guess in a way they are comparing and contrasting. Be that as it may, listening to what they are passing off as a discussion almost was enough to walk out on or choke myself with my scarf of the day. Am I being a bit dramatic? Probably. I just can't help but think our generation is in serious need of maturity and brain cells, even if the conversation is just about movies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Einstein. I guess I just get a bit more sensitive when it comes to movies than others. Thus ends my ranting and raging.
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