Can't get enough

Things have definitely been busy around school and work so there hasn't been too much time to blog. I finally got a chance to see my Dad, who I haven't seen in a couple of years. We talk on the phone quite a bit, but I haven't gotten a chance to visit him in a while so it was good to catch up, even though it was a short two day visit.

I was sick with a cold through most of last week also, so it was nice to have a few days to relax and watch movies over the weekend while I was visiting with my Dad too. I ended up losing my voice, so my friends joked around that I sounded like Barry White with my deep, sexy larangitus voice. :)

Moore

After the Presidential debate on Friday I went to Blockbuster, and I ended up checking out Fahrenheit 9/11 since I hadn't seen it yet. I liked The Big One and Bowling for Columbine, and I was definitely interested in seeing Fahrenheit also. Overall, I liked the movie more at the end than I did at the beginning. I think that a lot of the points that he makes in the movie are well done, and I think that they are pretty well supported. My problem with the movie did start near the beginning of the movie because I think that the subject matter in the movie was strong enough already, and that shots of President Bush and other politicians getting their hair done before a speach was unnecessary. I think that voice overs of Michael Moore saying "Was Bush thinking..." and shots from Dragnet were also unnecessary. These are definitely part of Michael Moore's style, but when the movie is about the President starting an unjustified war, greed, and the administration using scare tactics it only came across as leading the audience. The movie needed to be able to sway even Bush supporters to see his point of view, and have a solid enough foundation to support the accusations that he was making. I think that most of his points are supported, but doing voice overs I think gave a little bit of a "spoon feeding" approach instead of letting the footage speak for itself. Bush may have been thinking the things that Michael Moore said, but he should have stuck to facts instead of just hypothesizing. That's my main problem because it ends up taking away from the credibility of the movie, which already comes into question because of Michael Moore's "liberal" political beliefs. The end became a little bit stronger because of the interviews with soldiers, and interviews with President Bush that were left to stand more on their own. And that's my review. :)

My first project

I had to turn in my first video project for my class this week. We were supposed to put together a project that was exactly 60 seconds long, and it was supposed deal with perception of time also. Overall, mine went pretty well, but I have to give credit to the video that gave me the inspiration. I thought that it was a funny video so I decided to use (probably more like resurrect) the movie Titanic as the theme for my project.

Feel Great?

sorry. I accidentally deleted this post while I was fixing my last post. Here is the link to the Nutrigrain ad again www.ebaumsworld.com/nutrigrainad.html

It's October?

Thursday night I went with a friend to go see Earth, Wind, and Fire. It was a really fun concert to see, and they played most of their hits. There were quite a few songs that I liked, but that I didn't really know they wrote before I went to the concert. It was an interesting experience I think because my friend and I were definitely the youngest people there, but it was still fun to go and be able to recognize at least most of the songs they played.

The rest of my weekend has been fairly mellow, and now I've got school work to do.