| | We watched Talladega Nights tonight,well half of it anyways. I had high hopes for this movie as the trailers looked hilarious. I was almost immediately turned off by the fact there is no real storyline during the first 20-30 minutes of the movie. The attempts at comedy rarely were funny and there were a few scenes bordering on sacrilegious. I tried to ignore these scenes hoping for some kind of plot to unfold. Eventually there is a storyline about Ricky Bobby's rival with a gay Formula One driver who comes to Nascar. Of course they had to throw in the gratuitous gay kiss and poke fun at Nascar-watching southern people. Now I know its all meant in fun but I readily admit this kind of comedy simply isn't my cup of tea. Perhaps I get offended to easily and some will say I didn't give the movie a fair chance but my DH was the one to suggest not finishing it. I was surprised as he usually likes these kinds of "stupid" comedies but he said this one wasn't worth finishing.
There is a movie coming out in a few months that I am anxiously awaiting called "One Night With The King". It is based on a novel about Esther. I read the book this weekend and my what a page turner!! I finished the book in two days as I simply could not put it down. Esther is one of my favorite books of the Bible and it makes sense to make a novel about it as it reads like a novel in the Bible. There is a second book in this series,"Hadassah Covenant", which I hope to order this weekend.
I remembered one of the things I forgot to post about earlier so I have to include it here. I bought a Cleveland paper Sunday after reading the headline about a murder in Polk County. We live in a very rural area and this isn't something you see everyday. A car was discovered burning with a person inside by visitors to a local national forest. It was a gang related murder involving the MS13(a El Salvadorian gang). Its very scary as I honestly thought we had moved far away from hispanic gang central of Dalton,Ga. It seems there is a growing population of hispanic immigrants in Cleveland. I cannot say I'm thrilled and my knee-jerk reaction to Jason was to say its time to move somewhere up in the mountains,Tellico or Reliance. I know that seems racist but I've seen how a good community can be destroyed by a influx of hispanic immigrants. I'd like to think our city is safe from this as it isn't a very diverse area to put it nicely. However, Cleveland is really close to us and the body was found not far from our house. Ugh...why can our congress not take their heads out of their rear ends and see that there is little good to come of allowing these open borders to continue unabated. I know to them they see these illegals as little more than cheap labor for their deep pockets but here in the real world we reap the effects of increased violence,drug problems,a burden on welfare services, and communication problems in our schools and business'. I am so disappointed with the so-called Reps in government and I cannot see any viable alternative in the Dams. Sometimes, I have these daydreams of buying many acres of land in the mountains and going off the grid. The whole "compound" living is in my blood,LOL,but Id like to take it one step further of being as self-sufficient as possible. I suppose that would tie in to my fears that the world is approaching the dark days of the end times when all the "luxeries" of modern life may no longer be available. I'd have a lot of stuff to learn to be able to live "off-grid" and a lot of luxuries that I would have a hard time living without. For right now all this can amount to is a daydream as we aren't in a position to attain this dream but who knows what could happen in the future.
Well I've got to get Jason some clothes in the dryer and try to get some sleep. Goodnight.
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| | Posted 8/22/2006 11:51 PM - 23 Views - 4 eProps - 4 comments
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