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Expression is a lost art. All art requires an element of discipline to move beyond talent into the realm of skill. I have always wanted to be a skilled writer and this archive pulls from various moments where I decided to express my thoughts in written form as a serial form of expression. Contained therein are musings about my everyday philosophical ponderings, to thoughts from my daily Bible readings. My hope is that you find something thought-provoking as you poke through the annals of my brain.
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SYNOPSIS Joker is, at its heart, a movie about awakening. Proverbial loser, Arthur Fleck, finds himself gradually coming into a new type of sanity as the delusions of his world unravel before him and he becomes the infamous Joker. SPOILER ALERT THEMES Freedom is destruction From the beginning of Joker, we see Arthur as a…
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As a person in the 21st Century, we have more methods of consuming art than ever before. Everywhere we turn is a screen ready to deliver all sorts of useful knowledge to us instantly. The low cost of entry to information allows inputs of every type into our brains, but ironically, we are not a…
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DISCLAIMER Bohemian Rhapsody is based on a true story, but there are many details which are not accurate. To that end, I have chosen to write on the movie as if its presentations are true. The points below are written as if the movie is accurate. I am a Queen fan. I’m not sure that…
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SYNOPSIS The Hate U Give is a movie about a young girl named Starr who lives between two worlds. The first world is in the afro-centric Garden Heights where she lives with her family. Here she participates in a stereotypical, media portrayed “black experience.” In this life, she has witnessed many things at a young…
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Have you ever seen the downfall of civilization as you know it? I’m pretty sure I just did. Or perhaps at least a benchmark/watershed moment as another one of society’s young stars makes a movie about crap. When I say about crap, that would first have to imply that the movie was about something in…
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Isabelle Furhman is truly inspiring in the way she coyly captures the hopes and the fears of a struggling family in Orphan. The dark mood of the film, is reminiscent of the style of Verbinski, who’s lesser known works centered around the tale of dark haired little girl named Samara, rather than Jack Sparrow. The…
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2010 I’d like to think that everything lasts forever, and in truth a part of me believes that everything does. But the practicality of the space time continuum procludes the possibility of this truth in any meaningful sense of the word while i exist inside this mortal shell. The fact of the…
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010 Somethings can’t be killed. People try. Groups try. Forces try. Nature tries. But somethings cannot be killed. The tenacity of that which resides in all humanity is a much bigger force than the quenching power of any form of cosmic Gatorade that can be thrown at it. Something infinite and exponential…
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Have you ever been working really hard at something you new needed improvement, only to be told that despite your investment and effort, the tasks you completed were to short, the focus you pushed was to narrow and the ideas you proferred were never good enough to matter? This is the chorus of my life,…
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 Life is a curious thing. No matter how you plan it, it seems to have plans on its own. Those of you who know me know that I believe in a supreme and higher conscious pulling the strings of life… but when I talk about life being a curious thing, I…
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 We often times lift a certain standard above any other when it comes to relationship by relegating that standard to the position of a series of automated responses to normative circumstances. Therefore, when a person calls me a friend, it is because of the way in which i have fit his…
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 Never count out God. I don’t like to be Christian centric in my writing and I’m not going to be here, but those who know me, know that I am a big fan of God. I’m not somebody who parades around my faith as a thing for the masses to gock…
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 What do we do when the answers we were given as children are no longer good enough? Simple tales of good and evil line the fabric of our childrens minds played out in propagandized fables of heroes and witches and beautiful heroines strewn in the castle tower high atop an array…
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 Not all moments are important, but without the strand of moments brought together by an individuals perception from one point to another… we would not understand the moment we find ourselves in now. Time stands alone as a road which lets traffic’s flow beat upon its cold stone path in a…
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 My band nearly broke up yesterday. Not the way that one might see a band breaking up, over an ironic cacophony and yelling and depedancy driving bottles of booze, but over a simple truth. Life goes on. In the world that we started “Rather than Dream” within, it was the 1990’s,…
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 There were some students this year who found out that their newspaper program had been cut. This was supposedly do to a lack of interest in the program, although last years controversial issues and articles had, last we heard, generated a large interest in joining the staff if only to challenge…
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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009 Why is that people get creeped by other people being geniunely authentically invested. I’m sure that there is a combination of multiple things at play here… and not to get all Mayberry on our proverbial asses, but I have to wonder why it is that when a neighbor extends a hand…
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009 Remember back in the day when you used to be excited to watch a terrible movie from the local fantastically droll video store? The kind where Jason, Freddy, Leatherface or some other slasher keeps catching people at their worst. The type where women get naked only to fullfill some sort of…
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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009 Every now and then, a movie comes into a legacy of film which redefines the way that series is looked at for a generation to come. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is sadly one of those movies. I use the expression sadly because of what the movie evoked from…
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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2009 The Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not Michael Crichton) meets Land of the Lost (Will Ferrel not Spencer Mulligan) meets Captain Jack Sparrow in weasel form played with expertise by the new Enterprise’s Scotty, Simon Pegg. This movie was funny, funny once you switch off the part of your brain…
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2009 Robots in disguise? Where is this familiar auto tuned statement within the soundtrack for Transformers? I mean seriously… you would think Lil’ Wayne, or even Cher would’ve taken time from their auto tuned ways to brave the familiar slogan of the iconic cartoon… How about at least, “More than meets the…
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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009 In every generation there are defining methods of storytelling which encompass the whole human experience. Some are episodic and show the event based nature of life, with each moment having their own designs, follies, and triumphs… generally accompanied by a laugh track. Others however dare to push the envelope of the…
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