Do you ever wonder if fate is real? Lately I have heard people say, “this is my destiny” or “this is what I am meant to do”. I wonder sometimes what my fate is? Is it to invent something? Is it to become someone? Is it to love more? The reason I started to think about this lately is because of a pair of sunglasses and sandals.
Object One: My friend Britt had sunglasses that fell into the water and then into the muck. I of course felt bad and jumped into the muck but had no luck finding them. The next morning while looking under the dock Britt saw them and was able to pick them up out of the muck. Was it fate that Britt found those glasses…next week will she be wearing them and have a bug fly into her face but the glasses stop the bug from hitting her eye? Maybe!
Object Two: It all started because I was trying to bring a Jet Ski from one dock to another. I kept my sandals on my feet to run over to the other dock and then I didn’t want to get them wet so I put them on top of the Jet Ski. I had to wiggle the Jet Ski because it was beached on the sand. I finally got it free and took off. I went on a few rides and got off the Jet Ski and soon realized I did not have my sandals. I went back over to the other dock to look for them and found one floating in the water. After 15 min of looking for the other one I gave up. The next morning I was on the dock and I yelled out “shut the front door”. There was my sandal floating in the water 6 docks from where I had lost it. It is fate? Would I have been walking and cut my left big toe due to the lack of sandal. Maybe!
What role does fate play in your life? Do fate and destiny go hand in hand or are they two different things?
James Franco – Mother Ghost - 2002 – Skateboarder Guy
If I ever pick a new person I might start with movies where they appear for more then 10 min in the film. Mother Ghost stars Mark Thompson. The story is about his mother passing away and him being haunted by it and unable to move on with his life. He ends up calling into a radio station and talks to a popular psychiatrics who helps him realize things in his life that have been preventing him from moving forward. James Franco plays a skateboarder who Mark encounters on his way to the radio station. I think he asks for a smoke and gives him some cheap advice. It was a okay movie, had some funny parts and a overall good message. It was not a must see.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Harry Potter Facts
Here are some random Harry Potter Facts. If you have not gone to the last movie yet you must go before it is out on DVD.
• The film’s budget is estimated to have been £150 million. John Hurt (Mr Ollivander in the films) ranted recently about the ‘quite absurd’ amount of money spent on ‘Harry Potter’ films. He said: ‘I look around and there are three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they’re all replicas of each other. It’s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.’
• It was all drama at Leavesden as in March 2009, soon after Holmes’ injury, a fire started on set. The fire started during the filming of ‘a big special effects scene’ and took 40 minutes to extinguish but caused no injuries. Apparently there was no damage to the studios and the actual set was ‘due to be rebuilt anyway’ for a new battle scene in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2.
• In the first film, Griphook the goblin was played by Verne Troyer, one of the few Americans in the cast, but voiced by Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). In ‘Deathly Hallows’ Davis is both Griphook’s body and his voice, whilst continuing to play Flitwick,
• ‘Deathly Hallows’ is the first time Brendan Gleeson and David O’Hara have acted in the same film since ‘Braveheart’ in 1995. Gleeson plays ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody and O’Hara plays Albert Runcorn – the Ministry of Magic official who Harry impersonates with Polyjuice Potion in order to enter the Ministry.
• Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) considered not returning for this film as he feared he would have little or no time on screen, after his character was imprisoned at the end of the fifth book, but on meeting J.K. Rowling and begging to be released from prison, she told him ‘You’re out. Chapter One.’ and he signed on for ‘Deathly Hallows’.
• In the epilogue in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2 the cast play their characters in the future, using a combination of prosthetics, computer generated imagery and convincing acting, as in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. In this epilogue the wife of Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Astoria Greengrass, is played by his real life girlfriend Jade Olivia.
These facts were provided to you by Livy Watson a writer for the Telegraph
Movie: Deuces Wild (2002)
I was pretty excited because I thought I had never watched this movie before. I had. The movie takes places in the 1950’s in New York City; it is about two different street gangs who battle it out for “turf and pride” ha-ha. The Deuces are the “good” gang. They are there to protect the streets and the people, while the “bad” gang or the Vipers are determined to keep dealing drugs. James Franco plays Tino who is on the Deuces. He once again only has a few lines but is one of the close confidants to the main character Leon played by Stephen Dorff. His acting consists of “lets get them Leon” “someone needs to pay Leon” etc. It is a very bloody movie with a lot of swearing. Not sure if I would watch it again. The 50's would have been fun though.
Next up is: Mother Ghost (not sure what it is about). IMDB says his name is “skateboarder guy” sounds promising…ha-ha
• The film’s budget is estimated to have been £150 million. John Hurt (Mr Ollivander in the films) ranted recently about the ‘quite absurd’ amount of money spent on ‘Harry Potter’ films. He said: ‘I look around and there are three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they’re all replicas of each other. It’s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.’
• It was all drama at Leavesden as in March 2009, soon after Holmes’ injury, a fire started on set. The fire started during the filming of ‘a big special effects scene’ and took 40 minutes to extinguish but caused no injuries. Apparently there was no damage to the studios and the actual set was ‘due to be rebuilt anyway’ for a new battle scene in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2.
• In the first film, Griphook the goblin was played by Verne Troyer, one of the few Americans in the cast, but voiced by Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). In ‘Deathly Hallows’ Davis is both Griphook’s body and his voice, whilst continuing to play Flitwick,
• ‘Deathly Hallows’ is the first time Brendan Gleeson and David O’Hara have acted in the same film since ‘Braveheart’ in 1995. Gleeson plays ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody and O’Hara plays Albert Runcorn – the Ministry of Magic official who Harry impersonates with Polyjuice Potion in order to enter the Ministry.
• Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) considered not returning for this film as he feared he would have little or no time on screen, after his character was imprisoned at the end of the fifth book, but on meeting J.K. Rowling and begging to be released from prison, she told him ‘You’re out. Chapter One.’ and he signed on for ‘Deathly Hallows’.
• In the epilogue in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2 the cast play their characters in the future, using a combination of prosthetics, computer generated imagery and convincing acting, as in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. In this epilogue the wife of Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Astoria Greengrass, is played by his real life girlfriend Jade Olivia.
These facts were provided to you by Livy Watson a writer for the Telegraph
Movie: Deuces Wild (2002)
I was pretty excited because I thought I had never watched this movie before. I had. The movie takes places in the 1950’s in New York City; it is about two different street gangs who battle it out for “turf and pride” ha-ha. The Deuces are the “good” gang. They are there to protect the streets and the people, while the “bad” gang or the Vipers are determined to keep dealing drugs. James Franco plays Tino who is on the Deuces. He once again only has a few lines but is one of the close confidants to the main character Leon played by Stephen Dorff. His acting consists of “lets get them Leon” “someone needs to pay Leon” etc. It is a very bloody movie with a lot of swearing. Not sure if I would watch it again. The 50's would have been fun though.
Next up is: Mother Ghost (not sure what it is about). IMDB says his name is “skateboarder guy” sounds promising…ha-ha
Friday, July 1, 2011
NPR - PART 2
Tomatoes: I love tomatoes so when this pod cast came on I was very interested. Did you know that 1/3 of all tomatoes come from Florida? That Florida uses 8 times the amount of pesticides than most other states do including California. I found out that most of the tomatoes you buy from your local grocery store have very minimal nutrition. We have actually lost 30-40% of the nutrition in tomatoes since the 1960’s but that we have added 14 times the amount of sodium. Do you ever wonder why tomatoes that you buy from the store don’t crack ever but you can’t carry more than a few tomatoes from your back yard to your house without a few breaking? The podcast talked about the fact that tomato farmers no longer get paid for taste they get paid by the pound. Is this the consumers fault for wanting perfect tomatos in November? Is this the price we pay for not buying local?
This information was provided to me by Barry Estabrook, for more information about him please check out his blog - http://politicsoftheplate.com/.
Job Creating vs. Education: Politicians today all talk about needing “job creation” yet the first thing that is cut today is education. I watched the GOP debate earlier this month and the whole time not one candidate brought up education. They talked about job creation a lot but not education. How can you talk about one without the other as if they were not connected? America is ranked 29th in the world in math in science, will that ever change if our focus isn’t on the future? I understand the need for short run fixes but at some point shouldn’t we focus on the long run?
James Franco - Spider Man 2002 This movie is a classic Marvel Comics movie about Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) getting bit by a spider and turning into Spider Man. This is one of this first movies where James Franco who plays Harry Osborn actually shows us he has some potential. Although Franco wanted the part of Spider Man he played the next best role as the best friend/son to the evil Green Goblin. If you have not seen this movie I would say it is a must see Marvel flick. His famous line in the movie is "What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? after finding out about his fathers Death. More to come for Mr. Harry Osborn.
This information was provided to me by Barry Estabrook, for more information about him please check out his blog - http://politicsoftheplate.com/.
Job Creating vs. Education: Politicians today all talk about needing “job creation” yet the first thing that is cut today is education. I watched the GOP debate earlier this month and the whole time not one candidate brought up education. They talked about job creation a lot but not education. How can you talk about one without the other as if they were not connected? America is ranked 29th in the world in math in science, will that ever change if our focus isn’t on the future? I understand the need for short run fixes but at some point shouldn’t we focus on the long run?
James Franco - Spider Man 2002 This movie is a classic Marvel Comics movie about Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) getting bit by a spider and turning into Spider Man. This is one of this first movies where James Franco who plays Harry Osborn actually shows us he has some potential. Although Franco wanted the part of Spider Man he played the next best role as the best friend/son to the evil Green Goblin. If you have not seen this movie I would say it is a must see Marvel flick. His famous line in the movie is "What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? after finding out about his fathers Death. More to come for Mr. Harry Osborn.
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