Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Aarons Movie Reviews
Its finals week here at GFU and instead of study I watched a movie...and ill be posting about movies I watch and what I think about them. The first section will not tell details so that one can go watch the movie, but the second part will have spoilers just and fyi for further posts.
I have been really getting into Alfred Hitchcock films, I really liked the Birds when I saw that and still do, so I started to watch some more of his films. Today I watched one called Vertigo, it tells the story of a retired policeman who falls in love with a mysterious woman he has been hired to follow. I think that it was a great movie for sure, lots of twists and things you think are about to happen and things you think will happen don't. CHECK IT OUT
(spoiler area)
I thought at first that it was a little bit drawn out, there were times of him driving around that seemed as if they could have been cut out of the movie, like ok i get what he is doing lets move on. And after the first ending i thought they were going to try and stretch out the rest of his life, but there is a pretty good twist and i really did like it. Not super crazy about the very last scene and how it leaves you but i think that was something that made it interesting, because everyone wants to leave on the upbeat note and not the downbeat. I guess in the original air there is another scene that shows him back with his somewhat earlier girlfriend, and they are happy because the husband was caught in London. But I think someone in London made him take it out of the movie...don't really know why.
Overall I liked the movie and it was really a good thriller of its time, and I don't see why we need such special effects to make great movies when these guys were doing it old school. But I would like to have seen him and that crazy mind today and seen what he would have came up with.
I have been really getting into Alfred Hitchcock films, I really liked the Birds when I saw that and still do, so I started to watch some more of his films. Today I watched one called Vertigo, it tells the story of a retired policeman who falls in love with a mysterious woman he has been hired to follow. I think that it was a great movie for sure, lots of twists and things you think are about to happen and things you think will happen don't. CHECK IT OUT
(spoiler area)
I thought at first that it was a little bit drawn out, there were times of him driving around that seemed as if they could have been cut out of the movie, like ok i get what he is doing lets move on. And after the first ending i thought they were going to try and stretch out the rest of his life, but there is a pretty good twist and i really did like it. Not super crazy about the very last scene and how it leaves you but i think that was something that made it interesting, because everyone wants to leave on the upbeat note and not the downbeat. I guess in the original air there is another scene that shows him back with his somewhat earlier girlfriend, and they are happy because the husband was caught in London. But I think someone in London made him take it out of the movie...don't really know why.
Overall I liked the movie and it was really a good thriller of its time, and I don't see why we need such special effects to make great movies when these guys were doing it old school. But I would like to have seen him and that crazy mind today and seen what he would have came up with.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
WARNING WARNING
WARNING!!!!!
Before you read any farther, or click on the link...make sure you have a minimum of hour of time able to be wasted....
stumbleupon.com is crazy...
you get some awesome cool websites...
all i have to say is check it out!!!!
this was one of the pics i found off of this...check it out glad your never in this situation in Oregon
cold
Before you read any farther, or click on the link...make sure you have a minimum of hour of time able to be wasted....
stumbleupon.com is crazy...
you get some awesome cool websites...
all i have to say is check it out!!!!
this was one of the pics i found off of this...check it out glad your never in this situation in Oregon
cold
Friday, December 05, 2008
Wii remote fun
ok....so most know about the wii remote and how you can make your own smart board with it...but i was watching a video and found this out too..if you know the whole wii smartboard thing skip to min 3 of the video....
i am so happy i have seen game tech grow so far and so fast!!!!!
i am so happy i have seen game tech grow so far and so fast!!!!!
Daniel
Daniel and his buds are awesome....Shadrach Meshach Abednego are people I cant wait to meet in heaven.
Most have heard of the story about the fiery furnace, and how these guys dont bow down to the bunny get tossed into the fire and then there are four...walk out not even smellin like a fire, King Neb starts to rethink his ole idol thing.
When I re-read this, its amazing just to think what was really happening at the time and what they stood up for.
All the big shots got invited and thousands bow, and these three dont...then they go to king and are like ya whats up were not scared of you look at our God, he take us out of here whenever he wants, and if not thats cool too (ALT Aarons Living Translation)
So king brings up fire 7 times hotter (holy number) and toss em in...I see em just kinda like walkin into cause the guards holdin em up are droppin and there not feeling a thing so there like heck lets get in there.
Then something cool happens Neb sees another guy "looks like a son of gods" how would you even know what this really looks like? his glow? he have a name tag? but instantly Neb knows who it really is.
Then Neb calls em out of the fire, and they dont even smell like fire, and we all know if you talk to someone who has been around a fire you then smell like one....
but when they were in the fire it never even says if they noticed that Jesus was there with them at all, it wasnt like they saw Him and were talkin to Him.
Sometimes God is in our situations and we dont even know it until later, so dont think He is not with you.
But this made me start to think, what would i have done in this situation at all? would i stand up for God, do i do things today that i should stop because its bowing and i need to stand up? How often do i take a back seat and not stand up or speak out when i need to.
We all need to stand up for whats right!!
Most have heard of the story about the fiery furnace, and how these guys dont bow down to the bunny get tossed into the fire and then there are four...walk out not even smellin like a fire, King Neb starts to rethink his ole idol thing.
When I re-read this, its amazing just to think what was really happening at the time and what they stood up for.
All the big shots got invited and thousands bow, and these three dont...then they go to king and are like ya whats up were not scared of you look at our God, he take us out of here whenever he wants, and if not thats cool too (ALT Aarons Living Translation)
So king brings up fire 7 times hotter (holy number) and toss em in...I see em just kinda like walkin into cause the guards holdin em up are droppin and there not feeling a thing so there like heck lets get in there.
Then something cool happens Neb sees another guy "looks like a son of gods" how would you even know what this really looks like? his glow? he have a name tag? but instantly Neb knows who it really is.
Then Neb calls em out of the fire, and they dont even smell like fire, and we all know if you talk to someone who has been around a fire you then smell like one....
but when they were in the fire it never even says if they noticed that Jesus was there with them at all, it wasnt like they saw Him and were talkin to Him.
Sometimes God is in our situations and we dont even know it until later, so dont think He is not with you.
But this made me start to think, what would i have done in this situation at all? would i stand up for God, do i do things today that i should stop because its bowing and i need to stand up? How often do i take a back seat and not stand up or speak out when i need to.
We all need to stand up for whats right!!
Monday, December 01, 2008
Micro Loans?
Kiva is an organization that helps out others in countries all over the world who are in need of a little bit of help. Instead of America throwing are money at problems and others governments being corrupt and taking the money for their own needs, this organization goes right to the source. Kiva goes out and talk to people who only need small amounts of money (compared to what we have) to help them out with their business to get off the ground and help them and the economy of where they are at.
It is a really amazing thing to think of, I first saw this on the Colbert Report a while back and heard about it the other day in class...I think its really awesome for a few reasons I can think of.
First would have to be- being able to help out others and trying to help them get a start, and improve their business to help themselves.
Second is that those who get these micro loans, 90% pay back the loans they get, so then you are able to put the money back to someone else who needs it again.
Third is that the loans are small, so in actuality you could find someone who is in need and fulfill their whole loan, or you can donate something like 25 to add into part of the loan...
So I think this would be awesome for families, friends, churches, small groups, high schoolers, middle schoolers, anyone with some spare cash to throw it all together and help others out.
I still havent donated or anything like that yet, but i know that i really want to get some peeps together and do this for sure....
It is a really amazing thing to think of, I first saw this on the Colbert Report a while back and heard about it the other day in class...I think its really awesome for a few reasons I can think of.
First would have to be- being able to help out others and trying to help them get a start, and improve their business to help themselves.
Second is that those who get these micro loans, 90% pay back the loans they get, so then you are able to put the money back to someone else who needs it again.
Third is that the loans are small, so in actuality you could find someone who is in need and fulfill their whole loan, or you can donate something like 25 to add into part of the loan...
So I think this would be awesome for families, friends, churches, small groups, high schoolers, middle schoolers, anyone with some spare cash to throw it all together and help others out.
I still havent donated or anything like that yet, but i know that i really want to get some peeps together and do this for sure....
Sunday, November 23, 2008
BLOCKLES REPORT
ok so i havent been keeping track of perfectly how many days it has been, but i have been off of iminlikewithyou for some time now. I really feel proud of my self because i was totally addicted to that website for some time, like it was my homepage so that i wouldnt have to type it in the address bar or whatever and it would come up automatically.
i think i have detoxed off of it long enough to try and start back up again from time and again for just a little bit a day...so if you have been wondering where i am on it becasue your trying to beat me..ill be back..just not as often
but if you havent found it out what im talking about look it up its awesome
i think i have detoxed off of it long enough to try and start back up again from time and again for just a little bit a day...so if you have been wondering where i am on it becasue your trying to beat me..ill be back..just not as often
but if you havent found it out what im talking about look it up its awesome
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Something we looked at in class
In my Christian Discipling class on Wednesdays we usually talk about prayer, either some different forms of prayer or something along the lines with prayer, and it has been very interesting actually.
So last class we looked at how Jesus prayed for others, because we thought it would be good to see how The Master actually prays. So we looked in John 16.33-17.25. The first section Jesus prays for Himself, then for His disciples and then all believers.
Which is something really awesome to think about in the first place because Jesus is actually praying for you and me. This somewhat really was astonishing to think that Jesus would pray for us, I know He loves and cares for us, but this is just seems such more personal, because it is a human act to pray...and Jesus was fully human.
But the other part that was really interesting was in 17.33 "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." This was crazy to think about because if you were to ask someone what is eternal life, I think most would say like living in heaven with God, or being in heaven. But this is really showing that eternal life is here on earth as well, that we know GOD the only god, and Jesus Christ...
(This is what David Guzik has to say about it)
"Life is active involvement in an environment; death is the absence of that active involvement. Eternal life means that we are alive and active to God's environment. If our lives are not dominated by God and the spiritual environment, we have the same life as animals, and are dead to God and His environment."
All I really have to say is that it was something really interesting to me and something that I guess I never really thought about at all...
I love God and the Logos because every time I open it I learn something new....sweet
So last class we looked at how Jesus prayed for others, because we thought it would be good to see how The Master actually prays. So we looked in John 16.33-17.25. The first section Jesus prays for Himself, then for His disciples and then all believers.
Which is something really awesome to think about in the first place because Jesus is actually praying for you and me. This somewhat really was astonishing to think that Jesus would pray for us, I know He loves and cares for us, but this is just seems such more personal, because it is a human act to pray...and Jesus was fully human.
But the other part that was really interesting was in 17.33 "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." This was crazy to think about because if you were to ask someone what is eternal life, I think most would say like living in heaven with God, or being in heaven. But this is really showing that eternal life is here on earth as well, that we know GOD the only god, and Jesus Christ...
(This is what David Guzik has to say about it)
"Life is active involvement in an environment; death is the absence of that active involvement. Eternal life means that we are alive and active to God's environment. If our lives are not dominated by God and the spiritual environment, we have the same life as animals, and are dead to God and His environment."
All I really have to say is that it was something really interesting to me and something that I guess I never really thought about at all...
I love God and the Logos because every time I open it I learn something new....sweet
Monday, November 10, 2008
P.O.D.
SO the other day we were at Target...and I saw that POD came out with a new cd...the crazy thing is that i had no clue that they were even still a band anymore...but it came out like 6months ago too...i have gotten all their cds since like sunff the punk or brown something like that...i really like their music for sure...and even though this is named really weird and all, there still are some really good songs on it for sure...im glad thier still around and all becasue they were around before i think i was even in high school, so im not old and like ppl in the band is dying away yet...
well check it out on you tube or something if your a real fan
well check it out on you tube or something if your a real fan
Sunday, November 09, 2008
THE OFFICE
ok so i have to watch the office online cause fox doesnt have cable...well they do i just have to pay for it extra and all...like im not paying enough already...so i just watched the newest episode...and i feel that the office is not being funny enough...i feel like they are trying to move into more of a serious tone and its really not working for them...why does every week have to end on a downer...i remember when we would be laughing and making jokes about the whole episode before...but not there is like one funny thing that happens that we have to stretch out for the whole week...im somewhat depressed...could it because of the downer show tone, or that i feel the office is slowly coming to a close...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
TIME WASTER!!!
ok so if you use to love tetris but it was to old and boring for you...
STEP IT UP WITH BLOCKLES
you play online against others and you get almost wepons to use on others or saves to use on your own...
just google it or find in on addictinggames.com and play...
its agood one for now
STEP IT UP WITH BLOCKLES
you play online against others and you get almost wepons to use on others or saves to use on your own...
just google it or find in on addictinggames.com and play...
its agood one for now
Sunday, October 19, 2008
time
I have been thinking about this for some TIME but, i don't have enough to really think about it, so I'm writing it out maybe some others, or like the two people who look at this say something or what they have noticed...
Time has become something that is so important to us, that we have schedules for years in advance of things already planned out and ready to go. Everything in America is so timed base that if you are late to some things it almost means your dysfunctional...like what were you really doing something else more important to be late at my thing...
is time valuable?
i think that yes it is, but maybe not in the way i normally think about it...i think we have all heard the saying time is money, but that is because if were not working were not making money...so waisting time is actually costing us money, which is another topic about how were addicted to money...but time is something were addicted to as well.
i know that there are some places that don't really keep track as much as Americans do, and that things are more like when i get there i get there sort of mindset, but then there are others who its more, if something comes up i need to take care of it.
why are we so addicted to time?
just the other day i was heading early in the morning from the church to my girlfriends house, i saw a kid that i just said hi to about 2 hours ago and asked how he was doing walking on the street towards his house. it was pretty cold out, and he was in shorts and a t-shirt. i looked at him walking, he was a little ways away, and i thought to myself should i go up there and pick him up or see if he wants a ride to his house? i sat there for almost a min. thinking to myself. but after that min i decided to somewhat con myself out of going, saying he is probably close to home, or he will say no thanks to my ride, not see that it was someone who he knew...so i drove off not giving him a ride at all...i honestly could have taken 1 min picked him up dropped him off and been on my way, but i didn't.
i am reading this new book and its really getting go me and it was talking about how everyone is our neighbor and how we should treat everyone, and looking at my past Ive been a freaking bad neighbor for sure....
so maybe the next time your hurrying off to go get food, or towards something that you cant miss or be late for, to just take a sec 1 SEC and see what really needs to be addressed at that time....maybe God just needs America and the world to slow down to really see him....or maybe at least me.
Time has become something that is so important to us, that we have schedules for years in advance of things already planned out and ready to go. Everything in America is so timed base that if you are late to some things it almost means your dysfunctional...like what were you really doing something else more important to be late at my thing...
is time valuable?
i think that yes it is, but maybe not in the way i normally think about it...i think we have all heard the saying time is money, but that is because if were not working were not making money...so waisting time is actually costing us money, which is another topic about how were addicted to money...but time is something were addicted to as well.
i know that there are some places that don't really keep track as much as Americans do, and that things are more like when i get there i get there sort of mindset, but then there are others who its more, if something comes up i need to take care of it.
why are we so addicted to time?
just the other day i was heading early in the morning from the church to my girlfriends house, i saw a kid that i just said hi to about 2 hours ago and asked how he was doing walking on the street towards his house. it was pretty cold out, and he was in shorts and a t-shirt. i looked at him walking, he was a little ways away, and i thought to myself should i go up there and pick him up or see if he wants a ride to his house? i sat there for almost a min. thinking to myself. but after that min i decided to somewhat con myself out of going, saying he is probably close to home, or he will say no thanks to my ride, not see that it was someone who he knew...so i drove off not giving him a ride at all...i honestly could have taken 1 min picked him up dropped him off and been on my way, but i didn't.
i am reading this new book and its really getting go me and it was talking about how everyone is our neighbor and how we should treat everyone, and looking at my past Ive been a freaking bad neighbor for sure....
so maybe the next time your hurrying off to go get food, or towards something that you cant miss or be late for, to just take a sec 1 SEC and see what really needs to be addressed at that time....maybe God just needs America and the world to slow down to really see him....or maybe at least me.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Friday, October 03, 2008
wow...
i just bought a razor scooter...if you didnt know its red..so it goes faster
but this kid is my new scooter hero...some day i hope to grow up just to be like him
but this kid is my new scooter hero...some day i hope to grow up just to be like him
Thursday, October 02, 2008
i needed a place to vent...thanks mr. blog
i just watched a movie about America and i had to vent to someone so who better than mr blog...
i dont need to say who directed it or the movie title at all. if you dont guess anyway.
it was about America's healthcare system and how much is SUCKS....i am so worked up right now about all the things that were talked about in other countries that have government paid healthcare, and hospitals, perscriptions, anything you can think of the government was taking care of everyone...it just looks so amazing what the gov. is doing for their people. adn then i look at us here, and what they said on the movie and literally, the healthcare systems are deny ppl money to pay for bills so that they can save a buck...even if it costs a life...WHAT IN THE WORLD....
i dont know what im saying im just mad...it says towards the end of the movie how cuba has better healthcare system and they go there and actually have ppl from America go and get help, and probably better help than they recieved in america...
also they talked of hospitals that would put ppl into a cab that couldnt pay their bills and ship them to some sort of shelter...because they couldnt pay...
i can see why so many other places hate americans so much...and i dont know i know its our falut for doing and making it this way...but its because i know its all i have seen and heard..you would think america is heaven....but after this we are the only place in the western hemisphere without government healthcare...
i almost wish i could move to anywhere else for some of the things, but that would be a cop out and we need to do something here, and try to make a change...
gosh it was so sad...i dont even know what to say
i dont need to say who directed it or the movie title at all. if you dont guess anyway.
it was about America's healthcare system and how much is SUCKS....i am so worked up right now about all the things that were talked about in other countries that have government paid healthcare, and hospitals, perscriptions, anything you can think of the government was taking care of everyone...it just looks so amazing what the gov. is doing for their people. adn then i look at us here, and what they said on the movie and literally, the healthcare systems are deny ppl money to pay for bills so that they can save a buck...even if it costs a life...WHAT IN THE WORLD....
i dont know what im saying im just mad...it says towards the end of the movie how cuba has better healthcare system and they go there and actually have ppl from America go and get help, and probably better help than they recieved in america...
also they talked of hospitals that would put ppl into a cab that couldnt pay their bills and ship them to some sort of shelter...because they couldnt pay...
i can see why so many other places hate americans so much...and i dont know i know its our falut for doing and making it this way...but its because i know its all i have seen and heard..you would think america is heaven....but after this we are the only place in the western hemisphere without government healthcare...
i almost wish i could move to anywhere else for some of the things, but that would be a cop out and we need to do something here, and try to make a change...
gosh it was so sad...i dont even know what to say
Thursday, September 18, 2008
SCHOOL
ok so i have been in school for like three weeks now and things are crazy...its pretty nice actually...for some reason i have a ton of reading, like they are trying to make me learn or something like that its a lil crazy.
finished like my first longer book today it was called in his steps...it was just a story about a pastor who asks the question what would Jesus do? and then miraculous things happen for his church and then for other peoples church as well...
but now i get to start into a new book called hurt by chap clark, and i guess its suppose to be really good book and all so i hope that it is. its about teenagers and kinda how their lives are going and why some of them just suck..i think thats what its about...i havent started it yet...
but otherwise school has been going good, trying to meet some new peeps and all for sure so thats always interesting for sure....
but ya so enough of this for now...i prolly got something i should be doing...like playin cs with the bros..
ok peaceout
finished like my first longer book today it was called in his steps...it was just a story about a pastor who asks the question what would Jesus do? and then miraculous things happen for his church and then for other peoples church as well...
but now i get to start into a new book called hurt by chap clark, and i guess its suppose to be really good book and all so i hope that it is. its about teenagers and kinda how their lives are going and why some of them just suck..i think thats what its about...i havent started it yet...
but otherwise school has been going good, trying to meet some new peeps and all for sure so thats always interesting for sure....
but ya so enough of this for now...i prolly got something i should be doing...like playin cs with the bros..
ok peaceout
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
guess what
I am now back at school and that means i have some spare time to start blogging again woot woot...ok so i just started a new school things are going ok....need to find some peeps to hang out with for sure...but things are going good, i took a nap today and almost over slept one of my classes that was cool...but otherwise the school seems really great so far and im really likin it a ton....
more to come soon...
have a new book ive been reading and its pretty freakin awsome...
o and if you super bored and want something really dumb to look at...check out...
reverendfun.com
thats the funny pic stuff up top
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