warlord & itunes...
from the title you may be thinking 'what a strange combination!' well, all i really did was change up the words in the title of the movie we saw tonight and include one of the small projects i was working on in the evening in preparation for the ('impromptu') party tomorrow.
first off, it's pretty late, so this will be shorter than usual.
so hal and i went to see 'Lord of War' starring nicholas cage, bridget moynahan, and jared leto tonight. it was not what i expected, but i still thought it was very well done and worth seeing. i did think (shortly after leaving the theater) that it was somewhat inappropriately placed in the mainstream cinemas when it could have played out quite well at the michigan or state theaters...but if the movie was going to reach a wider audience, it would have to go mainstream.
this is a fictional movie based on some facts. it is about gun-running operations and generally how they work and affect everyone from the first world to the developing world (major focus was given to politics in africa in this movie). it was an interesting movie and although there is no clean-cut ending or outrageous special fx...or even exceptionally deep character development, i still enjoyed it and it really makes one think about how governments work in the wars they wage in the open and covertly. interesting to say the least, but don't go to it expecting it to have the action of a michael bay film or style of die hard. it's a tough call between *** and **** out of five...and since i don't do halves, i will round up to **** in this case. in related news i think we decided we're going to get a group together to see 'cry wolf' at some point in the future...and that of course will be one of those really bad horror movies, but should at least be entertaining.
a lot of the rest of the evening was spent preparing the apartment for guests tomorrow for the party (which was planned somewhat on the fly, but that is a relative term especially since i did most of the planning and am pretty AR about such things). we downloaded all of james' itunes to my computer and i think we've now got a good mix of music. i think there is just enough to make some people happy and some people annoyed over the course of the evening...should be entertaining to say the least. a lot of other cleaning was done, so its been a long evening.
we have the UM vs EMU game tomorrow at noon and some more prep-work to do so it's definitely time to turn in. good night <:><
random photo:
first off, it's pretty late, so this will be shorter than usual.
so hal and i went to see 'Lord of War' starring nicholas cage, bridget moynahan, and jared leto tonight. it was not what i expected, but i still thought it was very well done and worth seeing. i did think (shortly after leaving the theater) that it was somewhat inappropriately placed in the mainstream cinemas when it could have played out quite well at the michigan or state theaters...but if the movie was going to reach a wider audience, it would have to go mainstream.
this is a fictional movie based on some facts. it is about gun-running operations and generally how they work and affect everyone from the first world to the developing world (major focus was given to politics in africa in this movie). it was an interesting movie and although there is no clean-cut ending or outrageous special fx...or even exceptionally deep character development, i still enjoyed it and it really makes one think about how governments work in the wars they wage in the open and covertly. interesting to say the least, but don't go to it expecting it to have the action of a michael bay film or style of die hard. it's a tough call between *** and **** out of five...and since i don't do halves, i will round up to **** in this case. in related news i think we decided we're going to get a group together to see 'cry wolf' at some point in the future...and that of course will be one of those really bad horror movies, but should at least be entertaining.
a lot of the rest of the evening was spent preparing the apartment for guests tomorrow for the party (which was planned somewhat on the fly, but that is a relative term especially since i did most of the planning and am pretty AR about such things). we downloaded all of james' itunes to my computer and i think we've now got a good mix of music. i think there is just enough to make some people happy and some people annoyed over the course of the evening...should be entertaining to say the least. a lot of other cleaning was done, so its been a long evening.
we have the UM vs EMU game tomorrow at noon and some more prep-work to do so it's definitely time to turn in. good night <:><
random photo:
one section of my biology of fishes students, 2003
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