Bag of Randomness

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  • I watched the original Manchurian Candidate over the weekend and was highly impressed.  There were several “holy cow I didn’t see that coming” moments.  That was my first time ever watching it, and I’m not sure if I want to see the remake.
  • Angela Lansbury was in the movie, and I think she doesn’t nothing but look old.  She was only 39 when she made the movie, but she played the part of a mother to an actor who was 36.
  • There were lost of Abraham Lincoln stuff in the movie, but one that stood out was a lamp made out of his bust with his top hat as the lamp shade.
  • I also watched Ben-Hur.  I saw bits and pieces of it when I was a non-Christian as a freshman in high school; and will say after watching it as an Christian adult with half-way decent biblical knowledge it was quite enjoyable.  From my understanding, it’s Christian-fiction, so I was left a bit confused at times trying to figure out what was historical true and wasn’t.  However, out of all the movies I’ve scene, the ending brought the Bible to life more so than any other movie I’ve seen – even The Passion of the Christ.
  • All I could remember the movie from the first time I saw it was the ship wreck scene and the chariot race.  It was the same for WifeGeeding.
  • I loved the beginning and end of the movie.  The movie starts out with the Creation of Adam painting, pointing out that God created man.  Then the movie ends with the same painting, but with the focus on the two fingers almost touching.  To me, that looked like, and I interpreted as God reaching out to man.
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    Maybe I took it a bit far with the symbolizm, but I thought it was beautiful.
  • I think that’s the second Charlton Heston I’ve seen this year, and I still think he’s a bit too dramatic and an over-actor.  Since I’ve really only seen two of his movies, the other being Planet of the Apes, I feel like he’s Matthew McConaughey in a way – the man loves being filmed with his shirt off.
  • As a youth growing up in small town Mineral Wells, America – there wasn’t a lot to do so we became creative and made our own fun.  The kids in Russia have a different idea of what’s fun that deals with cheating death and the train tracks.
  • Speaking of being a kid, wouldn’t it freak you out if you were playing baseball and the ground swallowed you up?
  • Man it was hard concentrating in Sunday School, even if a cowboy was teaching.  I didn’t notice it until WifeGeeding pointed it out, but we could faintly hear voices from the intercom speaker above us, probably nothing more than just the radio on low volume.  But WifeGeeding told me that made her think of the whispers on Lost, and that got me to thinking if the Island was calling us and if anyone else noticed the whispers.
  • I have to admit I knew very little about United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, actually I know little about most public officials to be honest, but I decided to research his history and found him to be very well qualified for the position.  At first I really didn’t have a lot of confidence in the guy, especially when he’s in front of congress because he doesn’t seem to be very good at public speaking, but his one-on-one interview with George Stephanopoulos was much different.
  • I was surprised as I Googled Geithner that the link to his bio on the U.S. Deparemnt of Treasury page didn’t appear on the first page of results, it was on the second page.  Now I wonder how many of you will see if you get the same results.
  • Some time ago I heard a stat that stuck in my head – that after a spouse dies, the other spouse on average will die within two years – probably due to both being of advanced age and more so, losing the will to live.  I saw something about Nancy Reagan yesterday and it made me think of that stat because she was so emotionally distraught after losing her Ronnie I thought for she she wouldn’t live past two years after his death.  But she appears to be healthy for  an 87-year-old, and come this summer it will have been fives years since her husband’s passing.
  • In the sixth grade I performed in a skit in which I played Ronald Reagan, and I even got his voice and mannerisms down somewhat pat.  Too bad that’s on on video anywhere.  You know, I actually think I’m pretty decent at impersonations and think if given the opportunity, I could be a good cast member on SNL.
  • I just can’t win trying to buy my mouse for a discount.  As you may remember, I found the Logitech MX Revolution mouse for sale on Overstock.com for a pretty good price, but they sent me the cheaper and less cool  Logitech VX Revolution instead.  Well, over the weekend I decided to give eBay a try in buying the mouse, and I was lucky enough to win the bid for more than half of the retail price.  But the seller sent me an email to inform me that he accidentally labeled the product as a VX instead of an MX and was willing to offer me a full refund.  Blerg.
  • On the way home from church I found the most offensive license plate I’ve ever seen – “Kieth1.”  I’ve gone all my life agitated by people misspelling my name Kieth instead of Keith.  Now, some dingledork with my name has it misspelled on a license plate.  Double blerg.
  • Interesting . . . now it appears that Zach Thomas’ wife also got into numerous altercations with that Dallas Police office that wouldn’t let that other NLF player be with his mother-in-law in her dying moments.
  • I find it interesting that I have radio DJ’s not from DFW read this blog.
  • I notice that a lot of mega-churches in these here parts don’t have a library, yet they have their own book store.  I’m not sure if that’s putting God first.
  • The new Austrailia tourism commerical is a bit creepy.
  • I read that Americans spend 8 hours a day looking a screens such a televisions or computer monitors, with 61 minutes spend on advertising.  Considering I get paid to look at a monitor all day and then come home and workout in front of a television, and then blog and watch television with WifeGeeding, I would say the number of hours I spend watching a screen is much higher than eight hours.  I guess I could stop blogging and decrease that number.
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  • Happy Monday, folks.
  • Grace
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A Blue Like Jazz Movie?

I had no idea a movie was being made about the book, but Donald Miller provides an update on it on his blog.

I guess when LifeWay decides to sell the DVD, they’ll have to put disclaimer on it telling customers to “watch with discernment.”  However, when I search their website for “Donald Miller” and “Blue Like Jazz” and “Velvet Elvis” I got zero results, so I guess they no longer sell his book, and the link I provided on an earlier post to their Read With Discernment page is no longer up – so I guess they have changed some policies.

Interesting.

Perhaps this is a step in the right direction, as it seemed odd to me for a business built on strong ethical and moral standards to be selling a product and reaping the profits in which they felt wasn’t align with scripture or their core values.

Update:  I found they have a new Read With Discernment page that appears different from their original and has a slightly modified URL and it mentions that certain titles are available through a third-party.  I searched through their FAQ’s and there wasn’t a mention of Donald Miller, but I did notice they still sell The Shack that has it’s own Read With Discernment page.

It’s interesting to read the reader reveiws of the book – lots of one star ratings.

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