Nonsense, Drivel, and Balderdash

Well the snow has melted, and all around me spring is waiting expectantly for its chance to burst fully into bloom. All around me the silence of winter has turned into an excited rustle of frogs and crickets, like that of an audience waiting for a show to start. The wind whooshes around my ears and I feel the hint of warm riding on its apparent chill. All around me nature whispers as if to say "join us Ryan. Join us in our journey to renewal." I am engulfed my its plea as my feet sink in to the muddy earth, the earth's juices seeping up between the fresh blades of grass. The trees are emotive, for their leaves are once more coming in to being. Their dry remains of winter are being jostled by the breeze and pushed away by the buds who come to claim their inheritance. The branches stretch toward the sky after being held hostage by the snow for so many months. Their bare frames that were once rachitic and gray against the white winter landscape, now look like thin brushstrok...

Every now and then I get one of those personal surveys and whatsnot, I like to do them from time to time, I dont know why. Maybe you will enjoy it, feel free to fill it out and at it to your blogg if you wish. three things i don't understand 01. God 02. Love 03. Art three things that scare me 01. being trapped in a situation I cannot get out of 02. Not being able to help a friend in need 03. Bugs that crunch three things i'm wearing right now 01. blue jeans 02. a green t-shirt 03. A bandana three things on my desk 01. My computer 02. a stack of CDs 03. my watch three things i want to do before i die 01. Live in a undeveloped (and untarnished) country 02. Do a long journey by foot. 03. Have a son three good things about my personality 01. I can listen 02. I have good ideas 03. I am funny three bad things about my personality 01. I usually don't care. 02. I don't get my ideas into action 03. I am not funny three parts of my genetic heritage 01. homo sapiens 02. homo sapie...

Sorry for not updating for a couple of days.... It is that time of year. This is the time of year when I get ansy. You are too far away from the end to have excited expectation, but too close to ignore it. You also feel like it is too late to make a clean fresh effort, but not yet late enough to go into the last sprint of effort. So you go through the motions, putting just enough effort to get by, without aspiring for excellence. However, I have not been in low spirits. In fact I have been quite content lately. Now, I don't know if contentment is a good thing, but it is a nice change. Also been feeling a bit hopeful, I don't know about what or why, but I am definitely not been feeling as down. I think it is because I am going to Spain this summer. I really need to get away for a bit. I really feel the need to have some leisure time. I have seen people get burnt out for not heeding their insticts telling them to pull out for a bit. As I have mentioned before, I will be taking at...

Today, I was fortunate enough to be able to go see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I had been wanting to go since it came out in February, but had not had a chance. It is hard to keep with the new movies without a car, and especially hard without friends that like to see the kind of movies I enjoy. Fortunately, this movie has appeal to those who are not Art film/Independent film lovers like myself; so today I was able to get to the cinema and watch this intensely original movie. If you want the short version of my review it is this: Go see this movie. It is one of the best movies I have a seen in a long time (and I see many many many movies). In fact, at this point in my life it has easily moved up into my top 20 favorite movies of all time. The movie stars two actors which I have never really considered to be all that great doing an extraodinary job. Kate Winslet did a good job being a sort of crazy, impulsive free spirit; but in my mind, it was Jim Carrey who really shined in ...

Slapnose pointed this out to me: If you go to George W Bush's website you will see what a great man he is. Go to this "compassion" photo album. There you will see it, George hanging out with a whole bunch of black people, what a great guy... oh wait. That is just messed up. For George, Compassion="hanging out with black people". This may or may not be what he really thinks, but somebody needs to fire his webmaster... click here

I have a couple of intersting links for you all to check out: On the more serious side of things, my friend Kenny has posted an article written by a friend of his living in Palestine. It was written right after the assasination of one of the leaders of the Arab resistance. It is very interesting and should give you a more balanced view. Check it out despite the crappy web design (sorry kenny, the etch-a-sketch is cool but that is it). Next is the websites of Canon Dale Owen, the most incoherent "priest" you will ever listen to. First chech out his latest sermon , on his "church" website. Yes, what you are reading IS a sermon... about how great stalin was... whatever. It is entertaining. Then check out his blog (the april 3rd post is especially funny... though its not supposed to be). The man is off his rocker. The crazy thing is that some people actually revere him as a wise man... whatever. Check out this sample of his hippy mind: Today I heard a young man say...

Over the past week, this conversation has come up several times, so I decided to put my thoughts down here. Because I know that many of you have thought of this as well. I have decided to equalize the way I look at Art. We can all recognize that there is Low and High art. Sometimes we shun low art, because it is: "commercial," "not original," "not intellectual," etc. I have decided that it is OK to shun that art, but ONLY if you are going to do it consistently across the board. For a while, I hated Pop music. I found it too low brow, and commercial. However, this year I have had to rethink my music values. If I never watched action movies, or dumb comedies; or if I only read thick intellectual tomes; or if I shunned most musicals; then perhaps I would be in my proper right to hate all Pop. However, I realized that many times I enjoy "low art" in many other mediums. It is hypocritical to say that all Pop is bad just because it is unsophisticated, ...

It has rained all day. There are flood warnings. I have been listening to a lot of Paul Simon. Man, the guy is good. I never bothered to listen to any of his stuff, because I was bitter about Simon and Garfunkel breaking up. I think seeing them in concert helped me forget about all that. I realized that Paul really was the life behind the duo. Even though I fell completely in love with Art's smooth voice, it was the quality of Paul's songwriting that lived on. In the concert, Arts voice was older and not as melodious, where as Paul's songs were just as good. Anyway, I picked up some of his stuff, and love it. I have finally started editing my Media Production project. I spent 4 hours in the media lab working on it... I only finished the introduction scene... it is going to take a lot of work. I do enjoy it though, just me, alone in front of the computer, fooling around with film. Fun stuff... tedious.. but fun.