Top 3 Actors I Love Watching

I can think of three actors that are pretty amazing, yet seem to not get a lot of notice.

1. Christian Bale - I remember him from Newsies, sweet lad he was. The lad grew into a mighty good actor. I think I can watch him, watching paint and it will be interesting. He is one of those actors that commits to his role and not only in the physical sense (example The Machinist), but completely diving into the character. I also like the his film choices.

2. Ryan Gosling - Let me put up a disclaimer. I have never seem The Notebook and I don't intend to see it. I did see him in the Believer, where he was a Jewish neo-Nazi, and although I don't agree with the politics of that movie, Mr. Gosling blew me away. I also just saw him in Lars and the Real Girl - as Pretty Numbers said it was a bad joke that lasted an hour and half too long. However, Ryan Gosling was outstanding, even if the movie sucked. I want to see Half-Nelson.

3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt - I loved him in Brick, I liked him in The Lookout. I just plain like him.


I think what most of these actors have in common is there commitment to act, well. Most films I see them in I don't even like, but I like them in it.

A Case Of Anti-Semtism

What harm can one academic paper do? The updated version of the Elders of Zion a.k.a. The Israel Lobby by University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer and Harvard University Professor Stephen Walt, seems to be a great tool for terrorist freedom -loving people-who-hate-the-Jews and want to see them driven into the sea, to use as a defense against the all powerful Jews/Zionist homogeny. Don't let logic, fact, and plain humanity get in your way....it's all about the Jewish mind control.

Wooooohooooo

One of the reason I like rooting for the Red Sox, besides the fact that if I didn't I would be a traitor to everyone around me, is that I still see them as an under dog team. I realize that they are incredibly strong team and that the 86 year drought was a horrible fluke...but still it feels really, really good when they win and it's not only because they are the home team, it's because in the back of my mind I expect some kind of ridiculous fluke to occur again. For the first time in a long time I'm excited about baseball....and that's saying a lot for a person who confuses innings with first downs.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of being a fan because someone is an underdog, but it sure makes the winning sweeter. ;)


P.S. To all the haters, how do you like them apples?

Photoshop circa Stalinist Era

An incredible article about the altering of photos during the Stalinist era where uncountable amount of people "disappeared" and history was rewritten daily. Falsehoods became the truth and wavering from the "truth" was inadvisable.

Two Soviet types of people were removed from the visual record. The first group, people like Kamenev and Trotsky, had their revolutionary pasts destroyed (and were, of course, murdered) but continued in Soviet history in new roles as terrorist agents of Hitler. They were thus ungoodpersons rather than unpersons proper, reemerging in the pictorial record only in political cartoons (one of which King has reprinted in which Nikolai Bukharin, Trotsky, and others figure as mad dogs on Nazi leashes).

The second category, which also figures in King's book, includes those who simply disappeared after 1930 and were not heard of again for decades: Kossior, Rudzutak, Eikhe, Chubar, Postyshev, Yezhov--all members or candidates of Stalin's own Politburo. One of the most extraordinary things about Western admirers of the Soviet system, those who were also supposedly informed students of the Soviet scene, is that they somehow did not notice this phenomenon. It is as if--exactly as if--British Americanists had simply failed to register the disappearance of half the U.S. cabinet and most of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

I'm not sure how I found this but I really want to read the book The Commissar Vanishes.

You know...

those times where you end up coming upon something incredibly bizarre on the web and you don't even know how you got there. You were clicking and opening links and suddenly you see four men in condom suits, dancing in sync, while harmonizing in Hindi(?) about how great condoms are?

It was one of those mornings...

Does this mean I need to vote for Rudy?

How Did I Not Know This?

Um, Nathan Fillion has a blog. I still haven't read it. I'm kind of scared of what I might read. Too many adorations of famous people have been cruelly shattered by me actually finding out they are stupid douches. I hope this is not the case with Mel Nathan Fillion. Fingers crossed.

Charlie Chaplin In the North End

After a long and somewhat chilly walk along the Freedom Trail, it was a nice surprise see a Banksy-like graffiti of Charlie Chaplin right in the middle of a small side street in the famous Italian neighborhood.

This Is Making Me Hungry

Also, kind of sad how little food 200 calories actually are.

200 Calories in photos.

I can go for some of this right now.

(click on the photos to see a comparison on a plate)

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A Clip Close to My Heart

Music No More

Captain Von Tramp has died. The news would make me sad, except that I kind of assumed he was dead. Also, the real counterparts to Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are not what I would call "good looking" people - and in such grand epic tales I want some glamor and I'm allowed to be a bit shallow. Plus after re-watching the Sound of Music two years ago, I realize how horrible the actual film is.

Mixed Feelings

I got this photo from a friends facebook account. I love Cheburashka, but I hate Che Gueverra. Still I think the pun is quite cute. (Makes sense if you speak Russian.)

Ann Coulter Is Not An Anti-Semite

First of all let me just say I haven't seen the segment, I just read the transcript. Also, I don't much like Ann Coulter, she says things for controversy sake and I think some of might be valid points get either ignored or undermined by her outlandish statements. In this case I feel like she was set up, the host asked her about her "ideal" world. Now if you are a Christian, like Ann, you would want in the ideal world for everyone to be a Christian, since you see that as the "right path" to salvation. Also as religion that comes out of Judaism, I can see how a Christian can see their religion as a "perfected" one. I don't agree with that sentiment and I like the Jewish perspective of not proselytizing, but that's not the Christian perspective.
Anyway, my two cents on the "controversy." I still don't like Coulter much and it doesn't help that the clip comes courtesy of Media Matters, a dubious source at best.

Cliche

So the other day, I'm sitting in my car, in a mildly depressive mood, the traffic is bumper to bumper, and the sky is begining to cloud over - REM's "Everybody Hurts" comes on the radio. Suddenly I feel like I'm in the middle of REM's video shoot and Michael Stipe is about to get up on the roof of the next car and belt out the chorus. This image does not comfort me, in fact it adds to how trite the whole situation/song is.

It's so easy to feel bad for yourself - I can remember a time when this song actually helped, but this time it just left me feeling like the biggest cliche.

Losing It

I have this theory, that all people need to be interesting or to start forming their own opinions is to be asked. I kind of came about that theory while watching Hard Day's Night when I was a teenager. It seemed the Beatles starting getting their opinions about the world when someone kept shoving a microphone in their face and asking their opinions on various topics.
Anyway, it seems like lately I haven't been thinking about a whole lot. And the truth I haven't been pondering any questions I'm willing to share my opinion on. I really hoped that I would write more and that my writing would improve over time. But that hasn't been the case it seems my writing has gone down the toilet.
So until some interesting questions pops into my head, I won't be able to write here too much. I will try, but it seems at moment all my thoughts point to self-pitying kind and sharing them doesn't seem like the right thing to do.

Another Day Another Song

"Wish List"

Mom and dad can't remember if I told you
how glad I am I finally got to know you.
Years from when we met, after I left home.
Let me sing you sweet and distant fictions.
On lonely nights you will lay and listen.
If you don't like it, wait until I fix it.
Then morning comes and cops invade my conscience.
I run around the house. A heated atom.
Can't foresee the outcome but you can learn to one side.
If ever I should seem to take for granted
this lovely life that I have been handed,
darling don't just stand there, come knock me around.
'Cause I know, I can write my way out of this black hole.
Back to all the things that I miss.
Sometimes, I wonder if I even exist.
Add another line to my wish list.
The overview is not the same as going through the present joy
and all it took to come to this,
to know the ending would be pretending.
They took my words and wrote them off as passing.
It pissed me off enough to keep m writing.
Go make your living boy.
I'll go on fighting.
'Cause I know, I can write my way out of this black hole.
Back to all the things that I miss.
You stay digging at your own little ditch.
That's just another thing on my wish list.
If I should slide over and under,
you know I just might stay 'till I get it right.
Some people say I'm corny or I'm morbid.
I always thought I was touching, I was tragic.
One man's magic is another's plastic.
Well, which one is it?
Am I sweetness? Am I sickness?
If I say both, you will say I lack commitment.
Of course you're right. Of course I'm right.
But I know I can write my way out of this black hole.
Back to all the things that I miss.
Sometimes I don't even know you exist.
That's just another thing on my wish list.