Film Festival

The film festival surely lived up to the expectations I had for the show. There were the hilarious films, and the serious ones as well. Altogether it added up to a great time. My favorite two were Still Roommates, and Leaves.
Still Roommates talked about these two guys from lower Barclay who are runners for the track team. One of them wants to go running, but its in the middle of the winter and his roommate thinks its too cold and doesn't want to go. Then they battle back and forth with snippets of songs trying to sway each other into doing what they want to do. They used Don't Touch This, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, and a multitude of other songs which all added up to being the best movie of the festival. In my opinion of course.
The other great film of the night was Leaves. This was a different type of film. It was and animated type of film like Angela Anaconda, claymation, and Paper Mario all mixed in one. Its a long stretch but I understand what I mean. It was not a typical comedy, but there were some aspecs that were funny, like the way he walked, or his facial expressions, or the way that there were no words spoken at all. It was a film that just interested me. There were some other films that were more serious and very welll written like When There are No Words as well. But those two were the ones that stuck out the most to me.

Are You Serious?

Baby, baby, I'm taken with the notion
To love you with the sweetest of devotion
Baby, baby, my tender love will flow from
The bluest sky to the deepest ocean
Stop for a minute
Baby, I'm so glad you're mine, yeah
You're mine

Baby, baby, the stars are shinin' for you
And just like me, I'm sure that they adore you
Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forest
The birds above a-singin' you a chorus
Stop for a minute
Baby, they're so glad you're mine, oh yeah

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize that there's
Just no getting over you

Baby, baby, in any kind of weather
I'm here for you always and forever
Baby, baby, no muscle man could sever
My love for you is true and it will never
Stop for a minute
Baby, I'm so glad you're mine

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize
There's no getting over you

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize that there's
Just no getting over you
Over you

Baby, baby, always and forever
Baby, I'm so glad
Here for you, baby
I'm so glad you're mine
Baby, I'm so glad

When I think about you, it makes me smile
Baby, baby, be mine
Baby, I'm so glad
Don't stop giving love
Don't stop, no
Baby, I'm so glad that you're mine
Baby, I'm so glad

Here we have the lyrics of Amy Grants controversial smash hit "Baby, Baby." Before the song came out Amy Grant was known as a Christian artist. One who wrote worship songs about Christ. And when the song debuted it came as a shock to the Christian radio stations. They were boycotting the song because it was not the typical stuff they were acustomed to. Now look at that time there are some reasons that I agree with it, and other reasons i don't.

Christian music had a certain type of standard in the 90's. And the song didn't really fit those, and that's understandable. But to boycott the song is wrong. It's a song about love. Christians do happen to fall in love and get married. Or maybe its a different type of love song for God. These critics believed she was going mainstream so she could make money. The only thing she was trying to do was make "family friendly" music that did not have any cursing, or references of sex. She wanted good music on the radio. If that is something to be persecuted for..then so be it.

Three Days and Three Nights

so i have to make a list of all the media i have taken in for the past three days......
Thursday
Television-Sportscenter, Cleveland Indians Game, Family Guy, Jeopardy, Cavaliers Game
Books-Challenging Minds
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone
Friday
Television-Sportscenter, Cleveland Indians, Malone College Station, Lingo, Man vs. Wild
Plays-Screwtape Letters
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K, Fergie, Village People, Michael Jackson, *NSYNC, Marcia Griffith, and a whole lot more i can't remember
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone
Saturday
Television-sportscenter, cleveland indians, cleveland cavaliers, american gladiators, shark tales
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone, blogger, google
from what i can tell from the list i have a very scheduled life..i listen to pretty much the same stuff, watch the same shows, and visit the same sites on the web.i thought i was an interesting dude, but my life is just a scheduled list of things to do before i go to sleep, and then i do the same stuff the next day...but maybe i'm not as scheduled as i think. this all may be a result of being a college student, or maybe its a sign that i'm finally growing up..but not too much.

Musical Touches

so last class we had a huge discussion on music and how it effects the way we feel about certain parts of movies and television shows. i listened during the class and realized that i never really thought about music like that, so i put it to the test. early this morning, after the dance was over, i was laying in bed watching either animal planet or discovery channel and there was some show about monkeys on. this guy was in some remote forrest by himself and these apes in trees. now the guy had been walking around for a good ten minutes, with the monkeys jumping from tree to tree the whole time. he heard them, but was not able to see them and he became slightly frightened. i was totally fine because it wasn't me that had to worry about being attacked, but all of a sudden this scary music came on and my heart started to race. then i realized that i was in my room, by myself, in the dark. it really creeped me out, and then they put a picture up of a "demonic monkey" that they had computer generated and all the fear went away because it didn't look real at all. but the fact that i was fearless until the music came on made me realize that music plays a very important part in media. everytime you turn on the tv there is music. there are very few commercials without music. and if you hear that song that you can't get outta your head you by it on itunes or you just walk around with an annoying song in your head and you will always remember it as that geico song with the neanderthal walking through the airport...

Compare the News

so i was watching sportscenter, the news epicenter for all sports fans, to see what was happening in the world of sports when stuart scott says the browns have signed jamal lewis to a contract. now this was going on at the time where many other free agents were being signed also, so it just came in a huge segement with the other big stars going to new teams. to me this is a monumental event. i turned the channel to cbs around the time the local news was on and they were a little bit more excited about the signing, and so where the papers around town. it was tough to see the writers excitement though because it wasn't in my face at the time that it happened it was a day later. but the paper did have more inside information that sportscenter and the news did not have which made it a plus anyway. i sometimes wish sportscenter and the news would wait until they had all of the informaion instead of speculating or guessing what the next move will be. sometimes they may get it right, but most of the time they are way off and that makes me not trust them as much with the information that i get from them....

I'm one two..8-0

Reading Kendra's post on how she is a Beckie..I realize that we all have that one thing that we will do pretty much anything for, and if we miss that something it is either for a death in the family, or wife giving birth and our hearts break. But we can just tape or tivo that thing if its on tv and watch it when we get back to our daily routine. Kendra's obsession is listening to Glen Beck.
Mine is watching 24 and listening to the Indians on the radio. Like the trekkies they watch the new show every week. I do the same with 24 and the tribe and i get this close[ } to crying if I miss any of them and something vital happens.
I two try to get all the inside info on the indians and 24 such as new video games and movies for 24..and any trades or signings for the indians.
when listening to the games on the radio i find myself talking to the announcers or laughing out loud with them, or screaming at them..i do that alot for 24 as well now that i think about it. but this does not make me crazy..it just makes me a lover of the sport of fanaticism