All this hoopla about a wedding in England. Like, who really cares? These two people mean nothing to me. Am I ever going to meet them? Are they are going to do anything at all to help me or my family? I could care less about their wedding and I’m sick of hearing about her dress, who is invited and who is not, and all the rest. This is not news and I’m sick of hearing about it.
A good friend of mine is celebrating her 30th birthday today. The Big Three Oh. Couldn’t pass up this opportunity to the let whole world know that she is now officially “over the hill.” Unless they moved the hill.
Happy Birthday, Haley!
Back in the dark ages, people bought a camera and a roll of Kodak film and took 12 pictures. Then they took the roll of film to the drug store and it was sent away to be processed. About a week later your pictures cam back, developed and printed.
If the pictures didn’t turn out well, that was your tough luck for being a shitty photographer. And the moment was long gone. That really sucked for special occasions like someone’s birthday or anniversary or even a special moment like all of your kids in the bathtub playing.
Now we have a digital camera, we offload the photos to a printer and in less than a minute we have a photo in our hands. If the photo didn’t turn out, at least we still have everyone close by to retake the shot. Most of the time
How many composers can you name? Do you immediately think of the guys who have been dead for 200 or 300 years? Like Mozart or Beethoven? Or do you think of the guys who are creating the fabulous soundtracks for today’s movies? Guys like John Williams and John Barry? You know, the themes for Star Trek and Band of Brothers and Indiana Jones were all written by today’s composers. Don’t dismiss the work of the modern day composers – they are creating some really awesome stuff.
There are very few movie that have a shocking scene that catches me unawares and startles me into jumping and gasping the first time I see it. One of the movies that did that – twice! – is, “Meet Joe Black.”
The movie is a remake of one from the 1950’s called, “Death Takes a Holiday.” I actually found the original movie and didn’t see much resemblance at all. In fact, I thought the original was awful. I don’t see how anyone watched the original and decided, hey! Let’s remake this!
The remake is excellent – some fantastic actors and actresses and the director did a fabulous job. I watch that movie at least once a year and always notice new things that I hadn’t noticed before.