July 08, 2007
Be there or be square
We have our tickets to see the new HP movie at 12:01 Tuesday night/Wednesday morning! I don't know how I will ever stay awake for this. I am going to have to do some serious napping that afternoon. Brad is currently re-reading the 5th one and is close to turning the last pages as I type. According to the stats on the soon to be released one, the 5th is the longest. But this newest one will be the second longest, eclipsing the 4th by a mere 32 pages. With so many questions left to answer we are encouraged by the length of the upcoming one. (pre-ordered long long ago) But aaaargh!!! we are going to be out of town the weekend it is supposed to arrive. Whatever shall we do? I am attemting to manipulate amazon.com (who so wonderfully offered us the book at 49% off but will eventually close down all small time bookstores which we don't want either. But our had to have it now and cheap sides wouldn't be put off and so pre-order it with everybody else in the world we did) into letting me view my pre-order from last November and change our shipping address. We will see...
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March 17, 2007
Stranger Than Fiction
...is like the next Emerging Church worship service....or something.
So of course the postmodern/Emergent Gethsemane is fully furnished in Ikea.
And...{yum}...the spikenard is gourmet cookies.
whoa
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November 21, 2006
H.P.5
Whoo-hooo! Have you seen the teaser trailer yet? July 13, 2007. I'll be there.
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July 09, 2006
A Review
We saw this twice while we were in Houma this past weekend. We really enjoyed it. We saw it with Becca, Brad's sister, and then later we kidnapped his grandmother, Miggy, and took her to see it. Meryl Streep does an incredible job. And it was interesting to see Anne Hathaway all grown up and not the girl from Disney's Princess Diaries. That world (of high fashion) is so far removed from my life that it was hard to watch and believe that it is real. One of Becca's friends said of the movie, "It will make you want to go shopping and never eat again." In a way that sums up the movie. But there are also good lessons like not judging people because they ignore fashion or because they are really interested in fashion and in the end being true to yourself (ideals, morals, friends, etc.) over the illusions of glitz and glamour. Obviously because this movie was made in Hollywood there are things we didn't agree with, but overall it was pretty funny and we really enjoyed it. I didn't know it was made from a book, but now I've won the book off eBay and will be reading it as soon as it gets here. Favorite quote~ "Oh, you look so skinny" "Do I? Oh thank you. I haven't eaten anything in 3 weeks and when I feel like I'm going to faint I eat a cube of cheese. I'm one stomach flu away from my goal weight."
I went to see this one last night with my sister, Stephanie. We had been warned that it wasn't as good. I don't know if I would say that. I think I will continue to watch the first one over and over again when I get a craving for pirates, but this second one had much more gruesome stuff to go with all the funny stuff you were looking forward to. I don't know that I will want to watch it over and over again. It is very long. And they do manage to reintroduce quite a few of the characters from the first one in surprising places. On the whole I am glad I saw it and will go see the third one whenever it comes out. If you go see this movie stay through the credits and catch the surprise at the end. (though I guess it isn't a surprise now, is it?)
This picture is from the movie/documentary Paperclips. Brad got this movie from Netflix because it had an unreleased Alison Kraus song on it. We watched it a couple of nights ago and it was very moving. I recommend it to homeschooling families when you are covering the Holocaust or WW2. Here is the synopsis:Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community.
I have read many biographies of Holocaust survivors and seen a few movies. In this film you see a few survivors tell some of their memories. It is very difficult to watch. Now that I have small children the thought of living in that time brings intense pain. I have no clue what it was really like. I am humbled by the fact that I live in ease and comfort and peace. I do not know, nor can I even begin to understand the trauma, pain and agony that so many went through. It is hard to believe that something so atrocious really happened, but there is no limit to the depravity of man's heart without God. The message of the film was that we don't need to forget those who died. And that that is what happens when hatred and intolerance reign. I agree that we shouldn't forget all those who died. And that we should be very grateful that we were born in America. But the answer is not tolerance and love toward all, but every knee and every heart bowed in surrender to our Lord Jesus Christ. As that happens and we love our neighbors as ourselves then the fear of something similar happening again will be gone.
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June 23, 2006
Can't wait for the real thing
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April 22, 2006
testing...It worked!
Ok, here is a video of the kids. Mostly I grabbed this one to be able to show everybody Lexie crawling. She makes pretty good time for army crawling. Sometimes she tries to get up on her knees and she is even trying to pull up on stuff a little bit. Check Stephen out in the background too. He is so fast we are calling him Dash from The Incredibles!
If all you get is sound and not picture then you need to go download the newest Flash player here. I'm excited we can do this. More videos will definitely coming!
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