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[i am iron man]
da. da. da da-DAA.
Seriously though, this looks awesome.
Hopefully, Favreau picks up the pace and makes it a tight movie. I know next to nothing about Iron Man. So I don’t know how neat this is going to be. Perhaps that’ll make it less sucky-disappointing when I do watch it.
I’m saddened by this six year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Have we learned anything from them?
I have a feeling that we decided, in anger, to do something. Anything. And it was being led by president fucktard that we haven’t gotten anything done.
Bin laden is still out there. He’s taunted us again and again.
But all our government can do is say, “Dick Cavett!”
Can’t we do anything right?
School has started. Taking two classes. It’s going to be an interesting year.
Both are reading and discussing classes. The first one is a business school class, ethics and social responsibility. I’m glad to know that they like to teach it to the MBA majors, but the corporation is an entirely different beast. The second is software engineering maintenance and software evolution. Sounds boring, but that is also my job. It’s boring, too.
Meh. I’m not complaining. Yet.
Goya
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Goya’s Ghost.
It’s another one of those movies that received sucky rotten tomato ratings, but is actually not bad. I was expecting something less, but got a bit more. The movie deals with the Inquisition, French Revolution, Napolean and those dark days of Spain. Francisco Goya was swept up in history.
Natalie Portman plays a senorita and a Goya model caught in the inquisition for a silly trumped up charge. Tortured to confessing she spends her life in jail. Goya as the court painter is brought in to help get her releas by her father. He’s painitng a priest’s portrait (Javier Bardem) so he has connections with the church. Bardem falls for her, but can not get her release. He ends up fathering her child, and gets in trouble with the church. You see he was also tortured to confess that he’s a monkey by the father. He becomes a fugitive and flees to France. Fifteen years later he’s back with Napolean at the fall of the Spanish King. Placed in charge of Spain he is now a secular person, but when the British come back to displace Napolean’s puppet regime he gets his comeuppance at the hands of the church.
There was a lot of brutalitiy in this film. The church was brutal. Royalty was brutal. Spain is brutal. Amazing since it isn’t so nowadays.
It was somewhat depressing, but it reminded me of seeing his paintings at the Prado especially his black period. They were a series of dark, dreadful paintings called hisBlack Paintings. Witches and devils in dark shades peered from the dark canvas. I liked them when I saw them.
3 of 5 stars.
My license is expiring and I have to get it renewed. I’m just wondering if I should keep the mustache?
While I may shave it off, I have yet to tire of it to do so.
It will be another 5 years before I get a new one. What will having a mustache do when someone looks at it years from now?
Steve Jobs, that magnificent bastard, gives us iPhone owners $100 in Apple store credit. I'm planning on getting a 4 GB iPhone! Woot!!
Now where did I put that receipt?
BTW, his letter reads more like Fake Steve than the real deal.
Can I whine about the iPhone price drop? I mean I bought it the first day. I bought into the hype. Steve Jobs owes me. He OWES me $200!
Bullocks!
I knew buying an iPhone then meant getting stuck with a 1.0 release. Being first when getting some kind of tech gadget means that you'll be bummed out when the 2.0 comes out.
And it will come out.
It won't be in the form of an 16 GB iPhone. That'll come this Christmas.
But iPhone 2.0 will be sleeker, cooler, sexier. It will be more powerful. It will have a longer battery life. It will be available for other carriers. It will have cooler applications. It will be another thing to drool over. It will cost cheaper for the amount of features it has. It may still cost $600 but will certainly be worth it.
It's coming. You'll want to buy it. You'll buy it.
And then Apple will pull the rug from under you, drop the price, and bring out iPhone 3.0. Let the whining begin again.
Steve Jobs, that magnificent bastard, lowered the price for the iPhone to $399. That’s $200 cheaper than two months ago. Let the whining begin.
Hey, CapitolSwell can you start a letter writing campaign?
UPDATE: They got the 4 GB iPhone going for $299 while supplies last. Looks to be we’re gonna be getting that 16 GB version for Christmas!
