So over the weekend I saw two movies, A Prairie Home Companion and An Inconvenient Truth. Both were exceptional films, with great points to be made.
A Prairie Home Companion was a superb movie. It was a great portrait of the NPR program, and had a whole slew of great actors and actresses to just give it the quality that such a portrait of that fantastic old radio show deserved. Keillor played himself, and the running gag of his constant stories that tend to go on forever was just hillarious. The man has a voice I'd never tire of hearing. The music was overall quite wonderful and well done, up there with the likes of O Brother Where Art Thou. I was happy I got to see it.
As for An Inconvenient Truth, it was a well done documentary on Global Warming. Fact based analysis of the issue of global warming. I felt that it had a bit too much politically charged sections, particularly on the subject of the 2000 Bush/Gore election. Although I felt it shouldn't have been in there, over the course of many conversations with friends and such, my opinion is changed. Mainly due to the fact that anyone who might have a real problem with that controversy being brought up in the film most likely has already made up their mind about global warming, so it wouldn't really push people in a direction they weren't already headed.
For a moment this weekend I became infatuated (or just totally lustful) with this woman who came into my bar. She was at a wedding in the Hotel that my bar is in. Just a full figured woman who most likely had about 3 inches on me and was just the most beautiful creature to behold. That was until she started sucking face in the bar with some drunk guy. I just don't find it attractive when people shove their tounges down each other's necks in public places. Save that stuff for the hotel room you have upstairs please. But nonetheless, she was a stunning woman.
My buddy Jim came into the bar on Saturday night as well. It was rather funny, he was hitting on this girl and this lady sitting next to him at the bar chimes in and tells this girl that she's his mother. The girl lost interest really quickly and left. I'd never heard of anything like it before, a block coming from a 50-something Irish woman claiming to be my buddy's mom. How funny is that? How do you respond to that? I just sat amused.
I've been singing God Bless the Child for the last two weeks. I can't get the song out of my head. I love it, but I'm tiring of it. Perhaps I'll start singing some Ben Folds and let those songs get stuck in my head for eternity. Ahhh.
-aaron
A Prairie Home Companion was a superb movie. It was a great portrait of the NPR program, and had a whole slew of great actors and actresses to just give it the quality that such a portrait of that fantastic old radio show deserved. Keillor played himself, and the running gag of his constant stories that tend to go on forever was just hillarious. The man has a voice I'd never tire of hearing. The music was overall quite wonderful and well done, up there with the likes of O Brother Where Art Thou. I was happy I got to see it.
As for An Inconvenient Truth, it was a well done documentary on Global Warming. Fact based analysis of the issue of global warming. I felt that it had a bit too much politically charged sections, particularly on the subject of the 2000 Bush/Gore election. Although I felt it shouldn't have been in there, over the course of many conversations with friends and such, my opinion is changed. Mainly due to the fact that anyone who might have a real problem with that controversy being brought up in the film most likely has already made up their mind about global warming, so it wouldn't really push people in a direction they weren't already headed.
For a moment this weekend I became infatuated (or just totally lustful) with this woman who came into my bar. She was at a wedding in the Hotel that my bar is in. Just a full figured woman who most likely had about 3 inches on me and was just the most beautiful creature to behold. That was until she started sucking face in the bar with some drunk guy. I just don't find it attractive when people shove their tounges down each other's necks in public places. Save that stuff for the hotel room you have upstairs please. But nonetheless, she was a stunning woman.
My buddy Jim came into the bar on Saturday night as well. It was rather funny, he was hitting on this girl and this lady sitting next to him at the bar chimes in and tells this girl that she's his mother. The girl lost interest really quickly and left. I'd never heard of anything like it before, a block coming from a 50-something Irish woman claiming to be my buddy's mom. How funny is that? How do you respond to that? I just sat amused.
I've been singing God Bless the Child for the last two weeks. I can't get the song out of my head. I love it, but I'm tiring of it. Perhaps I'll start singing some Ben Folds and let those songs get stuck in my head for eternity. Ahhh.
-aaron