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Sunday, 22. November 2009, 05:27:48
November 2009
( Monthly archive )
An Afternoon With Matilda
Saturday, 14. November 2009, 06:38:30
This post is inspired in part by Nerak's cute little post Walking with Lonnie and Karen about an afternoon walk with her sweetie. Ok,Ok. I stole her idea.
So she can sue me!
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Uptown with Aunt Tilly.
It was such a beautiful morning, we decided before we would leave
for town to have coffee outside. This is Aunt Tilly's patio garden.
Her green thumb never ceases to amaze me.........
So she can sue me!
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Uptown with Aunt Tilly.
It was such a beautiful morning, we decided before we would leave
for town to have coffee outside. This is Aunt Tilly's patio garden.
Her green thumb never ceases to amaze me.........
P2s Rules for Rock and Rollers
Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 09:21:36
On September 1, 2008 I originally put up this post of thoughts I had written down while on the road. Since that posting, it consistently shows up on my HitsLink snapshots page at least twice a day as a destination of Google searches . If you Google "Rules for Rock and Rollers" it shows up as one of first search results, and if you search Google images with any combination of "naked", "guitar" or "amplifier' with "redhead" you get the picture embedded in this post as one of the first few image search results there also. And Needless to say, my musician friends who happen by these pages from time to time have sent me some very interesting addition to this list, but only the fear of being banned from Opera prevents me from adding them. 
So for those who didn't know me back then or didn't see the post, here is an oldie for you. Enjoy! ______________________________
Rules for Rock & Rollers
Over the years I have silently learned my lessons as well as observed my fellow musicians as I banged away from my little perch and taken mental notes of what I've seen and heard.
So now I share some of what I've learned from my experiences with all you inspiring future Rock Legends.
(Drummers pay special attention!)
Weekend Movie Review
Sunday, 1. November 2009, 01:16:12
"The Box"
This film starts off with a simple premise. A stranger leaves a box at a young couple’s door early one morning. Later on, that stranger comes to visit the couple and he tells the young wife that if she pushes the red button in the box, she’ll receive a million dollars but someone that she does not know will die. The stranger does not explain how or who or even why this will occur. He just gives her the instructions and a time-frame.
The film, set in the mid-1970s begins with the doorbell ringing and the appearance of the box on the doorstep. The young couple (played by James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) has recently faced some disappointing news about their jobs and the financial benefits of pushing the button are obvious to both of them, even though their situation has not been detailed enough to show a compelling desire for them to lean towards pushing the button at the expense of another person’s life. Mrs. Lewis learns more about the box from Arlington Steward (played by Frank Langella) the mystery man who dropped it off.
Whether or not to push the button is the psychological dilemma that the characters are faced with. Will they choose to benefit themselves at the expense of a stranger’s death? Will the button really cause a person’s death, and if they push it not believing in the consequences are they still accountable for it?
It is, after all, just a button. In a box. Right?
Unfortunately though, the debate about these issue is over rather quickly. The premise was an interesting one that the movie fails to develop and the film is quickly overwhelmed by a bizarre series of events that follows the choice over whether or not to push the button. Instead of focusing on the reasons behind making either choice, a decision is made hastily. From the decision about the button until the end of the movie, the film becomes about the consequences and the repercussions that come from the couple’s choice, rather than the choice itself, which I thought would have been a far more interesting concept to explore.
Once that choice is made, the movie quickly trends into a surreal and strange journey too bizarre to care much about. The premise of the movie comes with enough questions to last for the rest of the film, but instead of slowly answering them and raising the stakes on the choice, the movie instead takes the audience into an even stranger world that involves lightning strikes, identity loss, and zombie-like behavior. These odd events keep occurring without a full or clear explanation.
If you expect a psychological thriller about a strange choice and how a couple makes it, you maybe be disappointed. This movie focuses on the consequences of the choice and the weird and paranormal nature of those consequences.
Overall, I did like the premise of the movie and was one of those strange and quarky movies that come along every once and a while. I hate to sound to critical of the film because it was entertaining, but I walked away saying to myself "I think I'd of went in a little different direction".
But then again, maybe that's why I make records and not films.
Not a Cameron Diaz fan, and I don't know who the hell James Marsden is...... But P2 says "Check it out"
I give it 3 outa 5 stars.
This film starts off with a simple premise. A stranger leaves a box at a young couple’s door early one morning. Later on, that stranger comes to visit the couple and he tells the young wife that if she pushes the red button in the box, she’ll receive a million dollars but someone that she does not know will die. The stranger does not explain how or who or even why this will occur. He just gives her the instructions and a time-frame.
The film, set in the mid-1970s begins with the doorbell ringing and the appearance of the box on the doorstep. The young couple (played by James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) has recently faced some disappointing news about their jobs and the financial benefits of pushing the button are obvious to both of them, even though their situation has not been detailed enough to show a compelling desire for them to lean towards pushing the button at the expense of another person’s life. Mrs. Lewis learns more about the box from Arlington Steward (played by Frank Langella) the mystery man who dropped it off. Whether or not to push the button is the psychological dilemma that the characters are faced with. Will they choose to benefit themselves at the expense of a stranger’s death? Will the button really cause a person’s death, and if they push it not believing in the consequences are they still accountable for it?
It is, after all, just a button. In a box. Right?
Unfortunately though, the debate about these issue is over rather quickly. The premise was an interesting one that the movie fails to develop and the film is quickly overwhelmed by a bizarre series of events that follows the choice over whether or not to push the button. Instead of focusing on the reasons behind making either choice, a decision is made hastily. From the decision about the button until the end of the movie, the film becomes about the consequences and the repercussions that come from the couple’s choice, rather than the choice itself, which I thought would have been a far more interesting concept to explore.
Once that choice is made, the movie quickly trends into a surreal and strange journey too bizarre to care much about. The premise of the movie comes with enough questions to last for the rest of the film, but instead of slowly answering them and raising the stakes on the choice, the movie instead takes the audience into an even stranger world that involves lightning strikes, identity loss, and zombie-like behavior. These odd events keep occurring without a full or clear explanation.
If you expect a psychological thriller about a strange choice and how a couple makes it, you maybe be disappointed. This movie focuses on the consequences of the choice and the weird and paranormal nature of those consequences.
Overall, I did like the premise of the movie and was one of those strange and quarky movies that come along every once and a while. I hate to sound to critical of the film because it was entertaining, but I walked away saying to myself "I think I'd of went in a little different direction".
But then again, maybe that's why I make records and not films.
Not a Cameron Diaz fan, and I don't know who the hell James Marsden is...... But P2 says "Check it out"
I give it 3 outa 5 stars.
Shoutbox
Angeliki
2009-12-18 12:01:142 girls short of a threesome??? ahahahaha you are killing me, I realy laughed my coffee out of my nose just now!
kastelan
2009-12-17 02:56:47if there is a place we really need to be, its paradise...well reminds me on the concert i´ve seen view hours ago with sting singin a Ziggy Marley song in the hall of fame - kind of my stile, nice to meet u..
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- No, it adds to that Distinguished Neanderthal look. (20%)
- Only if It makes you an even Better Kisser (55%)
- Do It! You look like a freak no matter what. (20%)
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