This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this before.
Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
iMac
I'm not here to start a PC vs. Mac war, I'm just saying that for me and my fiancée, it's everything we want and need.
I became a Mac user a year ago when I purchased the now discontinued black MacBook. A year later, I am still asking myself why it took me so long to switch over to the Mac computers.
The transferring of my documents and other information from my MacBook to the iMac was painless and very quick using the Migration Assistant. I have never had the kind of performance I have with these Macs from a PC.
Anyways, I'm done for today.
This blog was typed and posted from my MacBook. The fiancée is hogging the iMac!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson Dies
Michael Jackson Dies
TMZ posted the news first from what I can tell. The link above will take you to the TMZ site.
TMZ posted the news first from what I can tell. The link above will take you to the TMZ site.
Though I am not a fan of Michael Jackson the person, I am a fan of Michael Jackson the musician. Mostly, his contribution to the music world.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Monday, August 04, 2008
Another viewing of "Get Your Own"
See previous post with this video for more information. This is their upload from Break.com
Get Your Own Fritos - Watch more free videos
Get Your Own Fritos - Watch more free videos
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Get Your Own... Fritos
Here is the genius that is my girlfriend's brothers and their friend... College kids with way too much time on their hands over summer break...
Actors:
Javier Avellán
Daniel Bernal
Camera Crew:
Juanpi Avellán
"Poop" and Penny dropper:
Adam Hymel
Editing and Production
BernAvellán Studios
Actors:
Javier Avellán
Daniel Bernal
Camera Crew:
Juanpi Avellán
"Poop" and Penny dropper:
Adam Hymel
Editing and Production
BernAvellán Studios
Friday, August 01, 2008
Summer Movie Review 2008
Hey readers! How's it going. It's August 1st, 2008 and I think it's time to review the movies I saw this summer.
I by no means consider myself to be a valid movie critic and I do not intend for my reviews to mean much of anything except to show people that I have indeed seen these movies.
Opinion:
Awesome movie! Iron Man is born of a rich man named Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) who designs and distributes weapons to the US military. His transformation from civilian to hero is really awesome.
I see the underline message of this movie as this: It's not enough to have a lot of money; You have to have intelligence. If Tony Stark had simply stopped at being rich and never embraced his academic abilities, his character would have been killed early in the movie. If this had happened, the movie would've only been about 20 minutes long and boring.
Movie #2: Get Smart
Director: Peter Segal
Opinion:
Two Tumbs Up! I never watched the 1965 TV show on which this movie is based, but from what I hear from others who have seen it, they place a bunch of classic items and themes into the movie that will keep the old school folk interested.
Steve Carell gives a perfect performance in this film as agent "Maxwell Smart" for a branch of the government that the general public is lead to believe no longer exists.
Again, I don't want to give the story line away. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Anne Hathaway, and Dalip Singh also appear in this movie and play fitting characters.
Moral of the story... Sometimes those who are the best at what they do are the ones you need to trust the least. At least, that sounds like a good moral for this story... Oh, and bombs can be stored in the most musical of places! Yay!
Movie #3: The Dark Knight
Director: Christopher Nolan
Opinion:
All I can say about this movie is WOW! Heath Ledger as The Joker sums up why this movie is so amazing. It is really a shame that he died so young. If this performance was a glimps of the kind of actor he was developing into, the world lost a great.
In this 2nd installment of the new Batman series, The Joker takes over as Gotham City's main villain. This is a take on the Joker nobody has done before. Jack Nicholson's Joker was still slightly goofy and not really "evil." Heath Ledger's Joker is a demented, twisted and very dark. The kind of evil the Joker brings to Gotham is far beyond the normal Mafia criminals Batman helped Gotham deal with before.
If you are a expecting the "na na na na na Batman!" type of Batman, this movie is not for you. It is definitely a darker take on Batman.
One of my favorite things about these new Batman movies is that Gotham is a more realistic city. It's not all fantasy-like as it was in the previous Batman movie series.
I saw this movie in IMAX. Much of the movie was shot using IMAX cameras, thus, much of the movie took up the whole IMAX screen. If you have not seen this movie yet, go see it in IMAX. If it is no longer showing in IMAX... well... you missed out...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Dark Knight (Before)
Tomorrow night, 07/24/2008, I am going to see The Dark Knight in IMAX. I will post a review afterwards.
Monday, March 26, 2007
MONSTER!
I think what makes me laugh the most (besides the things that make us all laugh) is the fact that when I was her age, saying "Kick his butt" was not allowed either. Oh, how times have changed!
Monday, December 11, 2006
ATM Instructions
A sign in the Bank Lobby reads:
"Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through teller machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles.
Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.
After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE procedures have been developed.
Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender."
MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine.
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.
FEMALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card!
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up
6. Attempt to insert card into machine.
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card.
9. Re-insert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.
18. Re-check makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet.
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake.
SEND THIS TO A MAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE LADIES YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT!
"Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through teller machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles.
Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.
After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE procedures have been developed.
Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender."
MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine.
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.
FEMALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card!
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up
6. Attempt to insert card into machine.
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card.
9. Re-insert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.
18. Re-check makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet.
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake.
SEND THIS TO A MAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE LADIES YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
An Interview with Matt Maher
Matt Maher is in my opinion, one of the best worship leaders in the world today. He's still pretty new to the scene, but his work with programs like Life Teen has produced results that continually increase the number of young people who passionately live for Christ. Not just young people, but people of all ages! Here is an interview with Matt Maher that I came across through http://christianmusic.about.com/
Matt Maher
From Kim Jones,
Unity comes through dialog through relationships
Matt Maher is a contemporary worship leader in the Catholic faith. Since most people outside of the Catholic faith find “contemporary worship” and “Catholic” to be two things they would never associate as going together, I asked Matt to describe himself and what he does for me. Here is what he had to say …
“I’m a worship leader out of Mesa Arizona. Primarily I work full time at a church. I’ve done some touring and traveling over the years, but I work 20 hours a week as a worship leader and 20 hours a week as young adult minister. I lead a college Bible study. It’s a Catholic Church, which kind of surprises a lot of people. The joy that I really feel, as part of my ministry, is that I’ve been kind of going out more and traveling and working with different people breaking down those stereotypes because people have a lot of Catholic stereotypes.
I’m just letting them know that there is a generation, now rising, of Catholics who recognize the gift of Salvation that’s been given to them and that see the need for a daily relationship with Jesus and pursue it. And pursue Him actively in His Word, and also pursue it in the Sacrament. Primarily, I think the way that God has been using me to reach out to people is through worship. I think there’s kind of a format that’s developed. I lead worship every week. I do a mass every Sunday night at 6 PM at my church, Saint Tims, and on Tuesday nights we do a thing called XLT. Basically what it is is a gathering for high school and college students. It’s consistent with about 40 minutes of worship, 20 to 25 minutes of teaching and about 25 to 30 minutes of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. It’s been really powerful to see that happen and to see these different elements kind of from post-modern culture and Christianity, not clashing, but colliding with something as ancient and ritualistic as the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. And it’s been phenomenal to see the fruit come from that. I just got off the phone this morning and found out that I was asked this fall to Atlanta to the NCYC, which is the National Catholic Youth Conference. It’s the largest single Catholic youth conference in the world, or maybe it’s just North America. I mean, there’s World Youth Day, but a straight-up conference for high school students, I think this is the largest one in the world. We’re going to do a XLT worship night in an auditorium that seats 15000 people. It will be sometime in November or December. So I’m already excited. I’ve done a lot of work throughout the country with a ministry called Life Teen, which is a parish based youth ministry program that’s designed to help provide and develop resources for youth ministers to reach their teens and lead them to Christ. I’ve mostly just done music with them. I’ve also worked with the Franciscan University of Steubenville at the summer youth conferences. I’ve led worship at a couple of those. So that’s kind of what I do. It’s kind of a big myriad or a smattering of things.
What I’ve realized too is that the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few. The reality is that because of the denominational barriers that exist, there are so few laborers in the Catholic Church. You know, I think it’s a move that God is doing. It’s not about me, it’s about unity and not just playing at unity by basically saying, “Well, we’ll let Catholics come here and hang out with us.” There’s a guy that I’ve been developing a friendship with whose name is J. D. Walt. He’s the Dean of Chapel at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky. He’s just a phenomenal preacher, a great man, a great husband and loving father. He and I have just been dialoging and he said something really profound. He said that unity comes through dialog through relationships. I was like that is really true.
Finding a new ways to dialog
For me, growing up, I always had a cross section of friends from different ethnic or religious backgrounds. So the thing I’ve witnessed is that there has been a lot of misrepresentation out there. A lot of people have been poorly educated about Catholicism. They’re just taking what their pastor said when they were 10 or 11 or a teenager in high school and they give a quick track on 10 things to refute your Catholic students. I was never taught that, through all of my Christian upbringing. There’s this whole buzz-talk now about the “emerging church”. What is that look like? A friend of mine asked me that once and I said, “Well, it starts with candles and creative music!” (laughs) No, seriously, I’m only 30, so what do I know, but I think it starts with solid community, regardless of the denomination, and depth of teaching.
It’s about re-presenting, which I think Catholics need to do a better job of, dogmas or doctrines, not as these set rules or laws, but as deeper expressions of God’s love, for God and God’s love of humankind. Not so much as alternate ways to God like a 12-step program. It’s not about that. It’s interesting that people could look at creation and see how God used that to worship Him, and yet look at a 14 year old girl who said “yes” and could have gotten killed for being pregnant outside of marriage 2000 years ago, and not honor her. So I think it’s trying to find new ways to dialog with other Christians to re-present these ancient ideas that I see people stumble on or find out on their own. We have a history or a fascination with the ancient church and I think it’s our job as Catholics to … not to protect it … but for us to know about it and be in dialog with it. I always say that I feel like we’re like the spoiled, adopted kids of God. We have all of these toys and we don’t even know it.”
Matt Maher
From Kim Jones,
Unity comes through dialog through relationships
Matt Maher is a contemporary worship leader in the Catholic faith. Since most people outside of the Catholic faith find “contemporary worship” and “Catholic” to be two things they would never associate as going together, I asked Matt to describe himself and what he does for me. Here is what he had to say …
“I’m a worship leader out of Mesa Arizona. Primarily I work full time at a church. I’ve done some touring and traveling over the years, but I work 20 hours a week as a worship leader and 20 hours a week as young adult minister. I lead a college Bible study. It’s a Catholic Church, which kind of surprises a lot of people. The joy that I really feel, as part of my ministry, is that I’ve been kind of going out more and traveling and working with different people breaking down those stereotypes because people have a lot of Catholic stereotypes.
I’m just letting them know that there is a generation, now rising, of Catholics who recognize the gift of Salvation that’s been given to them and that see the need for a daily relationship with Jesus and pursue it. And pursue Him actively in His Word, and also pursue it in the Sacrament. Primarily, I think the way that God has been using me to reach out to people is through worship. I think there’s kind of a format that’s developed. I lead worship every week. I do a mass every Sunday night at 6 PM at my church, Saint Tims, and on Tuesday nights we do a thing called XLT. Basically what it is is a gathering for high school and college students. It’s consistent with about 40 minutes of worship, 20 to 25 minutes of teaching and about 25 to 30 minutes of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. It’s been really powerful to see that happen and to see these different elements kind of from post-modern culture and Christianity, not clashing, but colliding with something as ancient and ritualistic as the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. And it’s been phenomenal to see the fruit come from that. I just got off the phone this morning and found out that I was asked this fall to Atlanta to the NCYC, which is the National Catholic Youth Conference. It’s the largest single Catholic youth conference in the world, or maybe it’s just North America. I mean, there’s World Youth Day, but a straight-up conference for high school students, I think this is the largest one in the world. We’re going to do a XLT worship night in an auditorium that seats 15000 people. It will be sometime in November or December. So I’m already excited. I’ve done a lot of work throughout the country with a ministry called Life Teen, which is a parish based youth ministry program that’s designed to help provide and develop resources for youth ministers to reach their teens and lead them to Christ. I’ve mostly just done music with them. I’ve also worked with the Franciscan University of Steubenville at the summer youth conferences. I’ve led worship at a couple of those. So that’s kind of what I do. It’s kind of a big myriad or a smattering of things.
What I’ve realized too is that the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few. The reality is that because of the denominational barriers that exist, there are so few laborers in the Catholic Church. You know, I think it’s a move that God is doing. It’s not about me, it’s about unity and not just playing at unity by basically saying, “Well, we’ll let Catholics come here and hang out with us.” There’s a guy that I’ve been developing a friendship with whose name is J. D. Walt. He’s the Dean of Chapel at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky. He’s just a phenomenal preacher, a great man, a great husband and loving father. He and I have just been dialoging and he said something really profound. He said that unity comes through dialog through relationships. I was like that is really true.
Finding a new ways to dialog
For me, growing up, I always had a cross section of friends from different ethnic or religious backgrounds. So the thing I’ve witnessed is that there has been a lot of misrepresentation out there. A lot of people have been poorly educated about Catholicism. They’re just taking what their pastor said when they were 10 or 11 or a teenager in high school and they give a quick track on 10 things to refute your Catholic students. I was never taught that, through all of my Christian upbringing. There’s this whole buzz-talk now about the “emerging church”. What is that look like? A friend of mine asked me that once and I said, “Well, it starts with candles and creative music!” (laughs) No, seriously, I’m only 30, so what do I know, but I think it starts with solid community, regardless of the denomination, and depth of teaching.
It’s about re-presenting, which I think Catholics need to do a better job of, dogmas or doctrines, not as these set rules or laws, but as deeper expressions of God’s love, for God and God’s love of humankind. Not so much as alternate ways to God like a 12-step program. It’s not about that. It’s interesting that people could look at creation and see how God used that to worship Him, and yet look at a 14 year old girl who said “yes” and could have gotten killed for being pregnant outside of marriage 2000 years ago, and not honor her. So I think it’s trying to find new ways to dialog with other Christians to re-present these ancient ideas that I see people stumble on or find out on their own. We have a history or a fascination with the ancient church and I think it’s our job as Catholics to … not to protect it … but for us to know about it and be in dialog with it. I always say that I feel like we’re like the spoiled, adopted kids of God. We have all of these toys and we don’t even know it.”
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
'The Simpsons' & Catholicism
Last night I was watching The Simpsons and the story line caught my interest in a way it normally doesn't. Homer and Bart find interest and begin to convert to Catholicism!
Bart was blamed for a mishap at school and was thus sent to Catholic school for a "tougher" schooling experience. What happens instead is Bart finding a new faith.
Homer, in an attempt to "save" his son from the conservative Catholic church goes to the school to argue with the Priest and upon arrival, discovers their pancake night. After rounds of pancakes and a lot of jibber-jabber, Homer too begins a new path of faith in the Catholic church.
Ok, did I like this episode because people were becoming Catholic? No!
A lot of false things were of course spoken about Catholicism and true things were made to sound bad. However, Protestants were equally "bashed" thus making this episode entirely stereotypical of all Christianity.
The show ended pretty much with Bart stopping fighting between the Catholics and Protestants by making all of them aware of the things they all shared. That being the message that Christ is Lord!
I'm not sure what season this show aired or anything, but I was thoroughly entertained and deep thoughts were provoked as well.
Oh, and for anyone who may have an interest in becoming a Catholic, I think Homer put it best when he said, "Once you go Vatican, you can't go back again."
Bart was blamed for a mishap at school and was thus sent to Catholic school for a "tougher" schooling experience. What happens instead is Bart finding a new faith.
Homer, in an attempt to "save" his son from the conservative Catholic church goes to the school to argue with the Priest and upon arrival, discovers their pancake night. After rounds of pancakes and a lot of jibber-jabber, Homer too begins a new path of faith in the Catholic church.
Ok, did I like this episode because people were becoming Catholic? No!
A lot of false things were of course spoken about Catholicism and true things were made to sound bad. However, Protestants were equally "bashed" thus making this episode entirely stereotypical of all Christianity.
The show ended pretty much with Bart stopping fighting between the Catholics and Protestants by making all of them aware of the things they all shared. That being the message that Christ is Lord!
I'm not sure what season this show aired or anything, but I was thoroughly entertained and deep thoughts were provoked as well.
Oh, and for anyone who may have an interest in becoming a Catholic, I think Homer put it best when he said, "Once you go Vatican, you can't go back again."
Friday, August 11, 2006
Wrong!!!
This is one of those funny emails I received and felt the need to share with all who may stumble upon this blog. It's decently funny, kind corny... It's cheap entertainment...
Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart.
One of the students said to his friend: "I'm sure he has Petry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that."
The other student says: "No, I don't think so.. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks just as we learned in class."
Since they couldn't agree they decided to ask the old man. They approached him and one of the students said to him: "We're medical students and couldn't help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn't agree on the syndrome you might have. Could you tell us what it is?"
The old man said: "I'll tell you, but first you must tell me what you think."
One of the students said: "I think it's Petry Syndrome." The old man said: "You thought.......... But you are wrong."
Then the other student said: "I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome." The old man said: "You thought.......... but you are wrong.
So they asked him: "Well, what do you have?"
The old man said: "I thought it was GAS......... but I was wrong."
Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart.
One of the students said to his friend: "I'm sure he has Petry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that."
The other student says: "No, I don't think so.. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks just as we learned in class."
Since they couldn't agree they decided to ask the old man. They approached him and one of the students said to him: "We're medical students and couldn't help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn't agree on the syndrome you might have. Could you tell us what it is?"
The old man said: "I'll tell you, but first you must tell me what you think."
One of the students said: "I think it's Petry Syndrome." The old man said: "You thought.......... But you are wrong."
Then the other student said: "I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome." The old man said: "You thought.......... but you are wrong.
So they asked him: "Well, what do you have?"
The old man said: "I thought it was GAS......... but I was wrong."
Friday, July 07, 2006
Newsboys Concert!?
Well, I may or may not be going to see the Newsboys in concert next Saturday in the Woodlands for KSBJ's 24th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT.
Why it is still a maybe is a long story that only involves me very very slightly. But hopefully, all truths will be revealed, understood and believed and I will be able to go.
However, there is a chance that the truth will never be listened to and thus I will not be there...
Anywho, I'm off... Got to do something besides type all night!
God bless you all!
Why it is still a maybe is a long story that only involves me very very slightly. But hopefully, all truths will be revealed, understood and believed and I will be able to go.
However, there is a chance that the truth will never be listened to and thus I will not be there...
Anywho, I'm off... Got to do something besides type all night!
God bless you all!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Joe Cartoons
Pointless...
Senseless...
Brain Frying...
Yet, somehow an internet classic that I had forgotten about until now...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...
Joe Cartoon
Senseless...
Brain Frying...
Yet, somehow an internet classic that I had forgotten about until now...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...
Joe Cartoon
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