Bush's lame-o speech kicked 24 back to sunday, dude. Fuck.

I think Lola is pregnant.

I find this forum to be most amusing.

Such as this endearing post:
Ok, I sent my hamster Ken to a friends house while my parents were away and I went to my aunties, I got back 2day, and phoned a differant friend, she said that the friend who was looking after Ken had been holding him about 4 times a day! Also she said when Ken was asleep she'd walk around with his cage until he woke up! Im going to collect him tommorow, but I'm so worried, Ive been crying, so can any1 tell me, do hamster become traumatised?
Thanks.

Actually.. scratch that. I just read this thread and am now totally depressed. Jesus.

Wait no.. now there's this line.. "For the love of the hamster god, if you're gonna put a hamster in a computer case, take the computer components out!!"

This forum is such an emotional roller coaster!
- posted by Brendan @ 10:00 PM 0 comments

 
It's the battle of the battle where there can be no winners! Who will win?!
Music: Bone - Guess Who's Back?
Mood: Free

Well, it happened. I've got a new girl. Her name is Lola.

She's already living with me.

I love her.

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I had a pretty good weekend. Friday night I was able to hang out with Pat & Co. for the first time in like a month. We mostly just sat around Kevin's basement before I was sent out in search of beer. Holy shit - did that make me feel old. Pat and Stu were arguing over how it didn't matter how much money either of them had there was no one around to buy it. Kevin looked at me and said, "Isn't that guy 21?", which Pat dismissed before I gave him a dirty look - and then he screamed, "Oh my god! You're 21!"

*sigh*

Saturday night I went out with Sarah, Stefin, Talitha, Colin and Other Pat. We went to this place Rock Bottom, that was pretty cool, for dinner. The food was a little pricey but they had some unique menu items (I had a grilled salmon sandwich with caper cream cheese, twas indeed good). Afterwards we headed over to AMC to see Taking Lives. It was an okay film, but My Man, Kiefer Sutherland, was woefully underused in it. Angelina Jolie was cool, as was Ethan Hawke (who's cool in his own right - but he's no Kiefer). The ending was simply ludicrous and required a suspension of disbelief that even this hardcore 24 fan could not fathom. Still, it was stylish and had some interesting twists - that didn't require tricking the audience - so it was worth a viewing. But wait for video.

I also saw The Passion again, with my family this time, on Friday. It truly is a fantastic film, regardless of what faith you have or lack. I saw on the news, a few weeks after the film was released, an older man come out of the theater disgusted and saying "I don't believe that's the way it happened."

Well sir - you are naive. That is the way it happened, and is the factual account of a scourging and crucifixion you're likely to see anywhere. There were only 2 glaring technical errors I noticed.
1.) When Jesus, and indeed anyone be crucified, was stripped before going on the cross - they were *stripped*. No loin cloth. It was supposed to further humiliate those being executed, and they would not have had any clothing on (Scocese's The Last Temptation of Christ features this detail). However, I can understand why Gibson did not want to do this.
2.) The nails didn't go through the palms, they went through the bones in the wrist (which, of course, would be 10x as painful as well). I suppose Gibson compensated for the fact that the nails would have torn through the palms by having Jesus also tied to the cross - but still, with such emphasis on historical and technical accuracy, I'm surprised they didn't go all the way.

In a way, I'm kind of irritated that The Passion of Christ exists. Not because it's not a great film, but because.. well.. I wanted to make that film. I wanted to make a film in Aramaic that would be the most historically accurate Christ film. I wanted to make a film that didn't have a blonde haired, blue-eyed, Jesus. But a film that would be "as it would have been". I remember being like 10 years old and seeing The Last Temptation of Christ (still my top Jesus film, but it's apples and oranges compared to The Passion) and thinking that someone needed to make a truly accurate, detailed, film about the passion of Jesus.

Of course, my version would *not* feature the ressurection. It would end either with a solemn, Pieta-inspired, image or with the rolling of the stone in front of the tomb. On that end, I was disappointed that Gibson chose to end the PASSION of Christ with the Ressurection - which is not part of the PASSION. At least not in Catholic theology (the stations of the cross deliberately do not feature the ressurection).

The best, most poignant and beautiful, imagery of Gibson's Passion is the cross editing of Mary watching Jesus the man falling, with his cross, with a flashback of Mary watching Jesus the boy, her son, stumbling as a child. It's utterly devestating and heart breaking. Honestly, I'm getting a little teary eyed just thinking about it.

Whoa.. I certainly didn't mean to go off into this topic as I have. But then again, I never intend to go off on a lot of the tangents I do when I post here...


So...

Although I said I'd never revise the EvaOtaku page again... guess what I'm working on? A new version of the site. I can't really escape it, can I?

My inner child is sixteen years old!

Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while
adults might just accept that, I know
something's gotta change. And it's gonna
change, just as soon as I become an adult and
get some power of my own.


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- posted by Brendan @ 12:57 PM 0 comments