Preston
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Nice tribute to Kubrick / "The Shining"
by Preston inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6wvurc0j0.
it's a nice tracking shot, so familair in many of his movies, i dug the long take.. - preston.
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Why.......so.......serious?
by Preston inmy partner and i saw "the dark knight" this afternoon and i think it left a lasting impression on us.
i think, in a way, 9-11 has kind of made comic book hero movies... well, obsolete, because few of them have truly shown the effects of a hero's nemesis, if someone that powerful were to operate in today's world.
this is a "batman" movie, but the comparison to the others is so far far away since i haven't since another hero/villain comic book movie to truly tackle the no rules, pro-anarchy, cult-of-personality, of a real movie villain.
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How's it like... living in the South?
by Preston inhere in lovely phoenix, az there's a part of me that's tired of phoenix's one redemable feature (reasonable housing prices) and dismiss the cacti, hot temps, lackluster football teams, golfing culture and predominance of fake people with orange tans and..... ... live in a nice bungalow on a country road, havin' a truck with a gun rack, a (rainbow) confederate flag, cranking up some nice soothing wanda jackson, grow myself a big booshy moustache, wear a denim vest, get myself a bassett hound and sit on a front porch in my rocking chair while whispering to myself "it's good to own land.".
for those of you that live in the deep south... or just the regular south.... how's it treating you?
i may consider a change in living arrangements.. - preston.
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The Strongest Argument Against British Sketch Comedy.
by Preston ini watched "the meaning of life" not too long ago because i had watched most of the other mp films and came to the scene in the film that... i dunno can't describe.
most people here in united states don't like british sketch comedy because it is a "different" kind of humor but i think this was done with the intent of confusing us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwluu54muos.
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If you live in Kentucky....
by Preston indo you have any recomendations on places to visit?.
- preston.
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Thank you, Ingmar Bergman
by Preston inyesterday, when i was driving to work i heard on the radio that ingmar bergman had died.
i was a big, big fan of his.
he really was a master filmmaker, he truly knew more about us than anyone else; what its like to grieve, to see the world through the eyes of a child, to know the pain of love, and loss.
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A Death in Yellowstone
by Preston inmy mom called me while i was at work today and told me that two people from my old congregation died in september.
i guess it was "national" news but it flew over my head.
drew and brent speedie were jehovah's witnesses that went to my old congregation and although they weren't "popular" or well known, i got to know them pretty well.
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Satellite Radio
by Preston ini'm looking at getting satellite radio this year, between x/m and sirius.
if any of you guys currently have it is it worth it?
i heard sirius carries absolutely no baseball whatsoever .
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Please God.....Let the Yankees Lose
by Preston ineven though i'm no longer in attendance at religious meetings, i do believe that man must have a ritual.
and my ritual is... the alcs.
and in a way it is a religious ceremony for me.
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"....You probably think this song is about you...."
by Preston inwhen i was a faithful dub, the biggest, nagging doubt i had was the belief that a book... writing thousands, upon thousands of years ago....largely written in the middle east....was written with a couple of jehovah's witnesses in mind.
it never ceased to amaze me the number of elders that told me that "the bible was really written for the annointed...remember, everyone else just benefits from its non-heavenly related discussion..but only a god fearing, going to heaven annointed dub could truly understand it...in that special way.
the whole thing reminds me of that carly simon song, "you're so vain", you'd have to be really vain....or insane even... to think that a book that ancient was written with a couple of guys in brooklyn in mind, a city that didn't even exist at the time the last book of the bible was written.