Late Arrival
Well, the release date for Punch-drunk Love on DVD has finally been set...June 24th! And the movie came out last October! What are these people thinking? I was incredibly disappointed in how poorly the movie did at the box office. It is Adam Sandler's best film (now, that's not saying a lot, but it is superb) and no one goes to see it! I even heard stories of people walking out. This is just one more sign that the American public in general wouldn't know a good movie if it came up and bit their ear off. And it had prompted me to start with some top ten lists. Stay tuned...
Deep Thought For The Day
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
Return Of The Deep Thought For The Day
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
Summer Movies
The summer movie season is almost upon us. Already, big studios are starting to throw advertising weight behind their big-budget flicks. It will "officially" start with the release of X-Men 2 on May 2nd. Now, I used to get really psyched for the summer movies. So many great action flicks, so much fun stuff...it was heaven for a burgeoning movie buff. But now I've found that I don't really get very excited any more. Sure, last summer there was Episode 2, for which I waited in line, got tickets early, snuck into a preview for it with Bray, things like that. And I am pumped like crazy this year for the Matrix Reloaded (see Duane's blog). But it's not the same. Is it me, or has the summer movie season gotten derivative? I don't see as much coming out that looks like it'll reach out, grab me, spin me around, and knock my socks off. Are movies getting worse? Less entertaining? Less exciting? Or am I just growing up? Who has a thought?
Deep Thought For The Day
If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.
Deep Thought For The Day
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Listening Post
Since I can't figure out how to do a list on the side of my blog of what I've been listening to (I'm html illiterate I guess) I have decided to post it here.
Evanescence --- Fallen
Pearl Jam --- Yield
Dave Matthews Band --- Live at Red Rocks
Norah Jones --- Come Away With Me
The Smashing Pumpkins --- Rotten Apples (greatest hits)
Deep Thought For The Day
I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
My Fighting Irish
Well, spring practices have begun for the greatest sport left in the world today...college football. The competition level in college football is continually high, and those boys give it their all. It's not about the money, the fame, the popularity...it's about good, old-fashioned football. Yeah, there are some bad apples who do it for the NFL, the future money, the glitz, etc...but they're mostly just teams from Florida and are gangsters and thugs anyway. Not true with the greatest bastion of sports on the planet, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. I have been a Notre Dame fan as long as I can remember. My best friend and I still reminisce about things like Tim Brown winning the Heisman, the 1992 drubbing of Florida State, the knocked down Steve Walsh pass, I could bore you forever. The bottom line is, you can't find a more storied past, or a more classy present and future. Sure, ND has its problems...they all do. But with the hiring of Tyrone Willingham, things are back on the right track. Nowhere else will my heart skip a beat, my hands shake with anticipation, and tears form in my eyes than a Notre Dame football game. Touchdown Jesus, the Golden Dome, the Four Horsemen, the Gipper, First-down Moses...the list goes on and on. It has been a lifelong dream to make the trip to South Bend for a Notre Dame game, and one day I'll do it. For now, I'll be content to watch in my living room, yelling and screaming with the best of them:) So if you have the TV tuned to NBC one fall Saturday, and you see those golden helmets shining, say a quick prayer for the Irish...I know I will be.
Deep Thought For The Day
Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.
Dallas
I realize that some of us will be in Dallas about a week before this, but there is another concert there in July, that is DEFINITELY worth going to. Counting Crows and John Mayer are performing in Dallas on July 26th (a Saturday!). Tickets (after Ticket-monopoly-master gets a hold of us) will be around 40 dollars. If you are interested in going, either respond to this blog or email me. There is not really a time crunch for this concert, but I would advise getting them in the next month or so, if anyone else wants to go. And if you don't, then get some good taste in music for crying out loud!
Deep Thought For The Day
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.
Deep Thought For The Day
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!
Deep Thought For The Day
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Teaching Style
So I had to take a class of seniors to a convocation last week. It was a convo about rape, designed to get to them before they go off on spring break. There were 800 loud high school seniors in one room, rowdy and ready for their trips to Cancun. The first thing they did was get a "theater troupe" to enact a "situation" where a group of friends are drinking way too much, a guy gets too "friendly" with a girl who doesn't feel like that about him, and they freeze the situation. They ask the crowd if there is any danger in the room? What do you think the crowd is going to say? Of course they will not admit that date rape could occur! The whole convocation was done poorly and it made me realize, yet again, why I don't want to teach in the public schools. The message was that the kids were going to drink and have sex, but "no means no" and don't take advantage...but where do you draw the line, as pagans, if the girl does not say no, but doesn't want to sleep with the guy? As Christians, the answer is easy...no drunkenness and no premarital sex. And I wanted to scream that at them! But I couldn't. They just weren't able to get through to the kids, and they really couldn't...their hands were tied. I want to be a mentor for my students, to be able to help them with their problems, and guide them. Not to substitute for their parents, but to act as a support. And that is just not possible in the public school system. My ultimate authority is the Bible...theirs is relativity. And I think they are being hypocrites when they try and impose what they feel is right, on people who should not "have" to listen. Anyway, I knew I would teach in a Christian school, this is just one more thing that has shown me that I made the right decision. That way I can teach with a Christian mindset, with God as the author of all creation, the author of everything. Educating a child in the fear and admonition of the Lord is the only way to go.
Deep Thought For The Day
This one's a classic:
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
Anger Management
I had the pleasure of escorting two VERY lovely ladies to the movies on Friday night, and we saw Anger Management. Like most Adam Sandler movies, it was not a great film. However, I think I laughed more in two hours than I have laughed in an extremely long time. All I can say is that if you see it, I dare you to NOT walk out of the movie theater singing "I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I feel pretty, and witty and gay!" and thinking of Jack Nicholson's crazy eyebrows. Funny stuff. Plus we got to see the extended preview of the Matrix Reloaded...DAMN...it looks fantastic.
Deep Thought For The Day
The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.
Deep Thought For The Day
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.
Deep Thought For The Day
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Deep Thought For The Day
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.
That's Chicago
Once again, a very mediocre movie has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. I went and saw Chicago last night, and I have to say, I enjoyed it. There was a lot of fun stuff in it...the music and dancing were great. But does this make a great movie? Absolutely not. There was no message to the film. The acting was ok (I still hate Richard Gere). The cinematography was passable. The script was a joke. For there to be fabulous films out there like Lord of the Rings and Gangs of New York and this movie to beat them out is pathetic. That's what makes me mad. If Chicago had not won Best Picture, I would have liked it much, much more. But to be perfectly blunt, I'll take Moulin Rouge every day of the week and eleventy billion times on Sundays.
Driving
So I made the 12 hour trip from Indiana to Monroe. And I have decided that the best CD to drive to of all time is Vs. By Pearl Jam.
Deep Thought For The Day
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
Blogger Made Me Do It
Well folks, I've moved. I couldn't get Crash Into Me to work any longer. Here is my new blogspot. Hope you enjoy it.