You have my attention

Mankind is no island

(thanks to Jim)

An unbelievable proposal

My buddy Brandon put this on his blog. His buddy proposed to his girlfriend. Pretty much how I proposed to Pam 16 years ago. (not quite)

The US and the World

You simply must watch this video of Thomas Barnett. It's required. You will understand what's happening in our world so much better. I'm not kidding. You need to watch this. It's not that he has all the answers, but his ability to condense a tremendous amount of information into a 23 minute talk is pretty incredible. You will see the world differently. We will see ourselves differently. Watch it.

(Thanks again to Bevan)

Pete rollins on Irony

fun

Behave Children! Behave!

awesome.
(thanks to Andrew)

Flight of the Conchords

Love these guys...

Fonts

This is pretty funny.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Bevan on Spiderman 3

Bevan's a new friend who is also part of the eikon community. He loves movies. Today he writes a personal letter to Spiderman 3. Feeling the need to get his feelings off his chest. Freakin hilarious. Read it here.

My personal favorite part:

The problem is that I ended up pretty much liking Black Spiderman about 1000x better than normal Spiderman. Let’s review the major “evil” choices that “evil” Spiderman took:

1. He was mean to his landlord. This seems like fair play to me, that dude was always yelling at him. And while we’re on the topic, why does Spiderman have rent concerns? Doesn’t his inability to make even a small financial arrangement with the New York for his living conditions hinder his ability to fight crime effectively? Isn’t Spiderman just hurting New York due to his love of personal poverty?
2. He jazz danced down Broadway. Don’t even get me started with that damn scene.
3. He ate too many cookies from the landlord’s daughter. Was never quite sure while this was “evil”, she seemed to enjoy the whole thing.
4. He exposed a fraud whose lies endangered their mutual employer. The movie never even touches that it is a just thing to right a wrong, it only deals with emotions. “Oh, you hurt my feelings because you exposed me for the fraud that I am.” Batman wouldn’t deal with that crap.
5. He told whiny Harry the truth about his a-hole dad. Seemed like fair-play to me, the kid needed to know the truth. Especially since enabling his lie made him your mortal enemy and endangered your crime-fighting operation.
6. He was mean to Mary Jane by jazz dancing (again?!?) at her jazz club. This is the Mary Jane who brutally broke his heart by acting like she had an affair with his best friend. Seemed necessarily cathartic to me. She is a selfish girl who can’t sing well. She ain’t the Queen of Sheeba.

The Dark Knight

Saw Batman last night.
Lucked into a ticket. Thanks Blake!
Completely worth seeing more than once in a theater.
Heath Ledger carries the movie to me. Everyone else does an above average job, Heath was mezmerising. A performance in the same league as villians like claudias in Gladiator or Deniro in Heat.

When he's on the screen, you can't wait to see what he's going to do.

It was a well written movie. Well shot.

Good luck getting a seat at a big theater this weekend.
My favorite theater was sold out thru Sunday Friday at 6pm (with only 40 seats left on sunday).

I'm not a movie reviewr, so I won't go on. But it's worth seeing. more than once.

Almost here

Just plain fun

Dan's Movie meme

My friend Dan's a pastor up in Iowa and invited me to a meme he created.

Here are the rules:
" a list of my top ten favorite films (in no particular order). The only rule, if you're tagged, you've got to post and tag 3-5 other people."

Mark's top 10 Movies of all time:
American Beauty
Tombstone
No Country for Old Men
Fight Club
Heat
Crash
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting

Ok. I tag you.

All I Need

Link

(thanks to Jim)

Beauty in Action...

What do you think of this...

What do you think it's trying to say?

Creative Story Telling

Ira Glass (from NPR) who is an amazing storyteller, on the process of telling a great story. I"m not sure why I'm so fascinated by this. I'm going to have to reflect on this.. but i really like what he says here. So make your own application.

We See What We Look For

Watch this Video

We see what we are looking for, don't we. Whether it be in presidential candidates or each other. It's more convenient to see people how we want to, rather than see what's actually there.

i can't wait

The Dark Knight

I want to try this.

I want to try this....

or maybe not... those guys are crazy...
but it is soooo cool.

Watch the video.

Link

Amazing

Uh... yuck

Ok. you don't have to watch the whole video to get the idea. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there are too many people in this wave pool in Tokyo.

Left Behind in song

Over the past few years one of the things that has changed has been my eschatology.
I saw this post and I thought it was funny. We need more of this kind of thing.
It's from my friend Mike King.

He Writes:

This video features a song written by Randy Bonifield at Christ Community Church here in Kansas City. Christ Community is a significant partner with YouthFront. Many of our staff attend there and we have great relationships with their staff. Pastor Tom Nelson is working through a series on Eschatology. Randy, who obviously was scared to death (put me in that category) by the eschatological imagination and tactics used by many post 1970 Left Behind advocates (also put me in this category from 1978 - 1991), wrote a song expressing his experiences. Very funny and appropriate critique.

Buffalo vs. Lions vs. Crocs

Check this video out!

01-18-08

I can't wait for this movie to come out! Watch the trailer... this is going to be great!

01-18-08