The Smiths was a band, not a movie, just to clear up any confusion. "Still Ill" was a song:
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
"Still Ill"
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Still Ill
Condition deteriorating :(
Thanks for all your kind wishes.
Triple entry in next month's contest to the first person to correctly identify the source of this post's title.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Who Will Win The Amazing Race?
I want to reward people who visit my blog on the weekend. So, here is a chance to earn extra credit for next month's contest. Correctly pick the winner of tonight's Amazing Race finale, and you'll get a quadruple entry in the contest! I've done double entries before and they don't seem to be much help, so I'm going to try a quadruple. Obviously you can only pick one. If you try to be sneaky by picking more than one, I'll go with your first pick. If you don't know their names, just say which color you pick. And of course, guesses must be made before the show airs tonight!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
Here is yet another movie about broken families and parentless children. The Care Bears Movie, supposedly a movie for kids, sends the wrong message. Happiness is not found in families, it is found in the community. It takes a village. This is liberal gobbledygook. The Care Bears mission is to help people share their feelings, a far cry from the McManus brothers of The Boondock Saints, who inform us that their feelings are nobody else's business. Undoubtedly The Care Bears Movie sprang from the minds of late-60s flower children, and its message likely poisoned the minds of impressionable youth who watched it, as evidenced by much of what I see around me today.
Kim and Jason, abandoned by their parents, are befriended by the Care Bears and taught in song that 'home is in your heart.' I wish the Care Bears would have taught that home is in your home with loving parents and siblings. I prefer the message delivered in the masterpiece The Straight Story. In that film, Alvin, an old man long estranged from his brother, seeks to mend the relationship, and on his journey to that end teaches people he meets along the way (a runaway teen girl, bickering brothers, etc...) about the importance of family.
Messages aside, I enjoy the imagination and creativity that went into The Care Bears Movie. It fascinates me to contemplate what kind of mind could think up things like rainbow rescue beams, rainbow rollers, the forest of feelings, a cloud kingdom called Care-a-lot, and characters with names like Tenderheart bear, Goodluck bear, Grumpy bear, and Braveheart lion and an assortment of Care Bear Cousins.
Also, I have always had an affinity for cheap animation. Really. Something about simple, barebones animation is appealing to me, which The Care Bears Movie is. It's a decent picture I guess, and it will probably entertain the young, but I think there are a lot of whole lot better movies out there for kids over three. The Care Bears Movie is strictly for tots. Period.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Warning Bloggers...
Be careful of who's blogs you visit first each day. This morning, Lisa noticed (from comments) that I visited some other blogs before hers, and asked me for an explanation!! Imagine my embarrassment at being caught! lol Those darn time stamps!!
I informed her that it was not intentional, that of course I meant to go to her page first, but that I take my blog list in order, from top down, and that since her blog is not on that list, I sometimes inadvertantly neglect to check her page first.
Of course, Lisa calls me out in a spirit of fun, she doesn't really care. But it's still embarrassing to get caught! So the moral of the story is, go first to family members' blogs, then friends, then everybody else LOL
Presently..(followup)..
For years I have contemplated watching Excalibur, and this morning decided to finally do it. But the library copy dvd pooped out and stopped after a half hour. Scratched, I guess. Bummer too, because it was off to a quite promising start! But I also rented Labyrinth and Willow, so I will give one of those a try next.
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