um, i've been informed that i've been accepted into the objectivist academic center. i got put on the waitlist several months ago... so... yeah. great.
wondermark, the latest comic i've discovered. some have been amazingly funny, but i'll read more before i pronounce
global judgement
i watched moulin rouge today, which I haven't done in a while; i needed to recall the order the songs occured because i was rearranging my music files. i was reminded of how incredibly great most of the movie is, and how horrible the ending is. you can't find more passionate and romantic moments than exist in the beginning, and a more pointless and depressing ending. the feelings it creates are completely and utterly inconsistent; romantic anticipation and triump in the beginning, versus helplessness, disaster, and death in the end. i'd like to say this is the result of inconsistent premises, but it really isn't. i don't know it all well enough to explain, but rand talks about the state of romanticism in Romantic Manifesto, and describes the philosophic forces at work in this kind of movie pretty well.
the same tragedy inevitably occurs in other romantic movies (here i'm using romantic in the artistic, not emotional, sense) like V, where the movie goes win-win-win-win-lose; endings where the good guys make it to the end are so hard to come by. what i wouldn't give for a fantastic romantic musical like moulin rouge that had a happy ending (it'd be nice if there was more cause-and-effect giving weight to the events, but that's a lot to ask for from people who can't even get the ending right)
oh man. watching this great movie, "the god who wasn't there", a really great anti-christianity movie. it talks about the whole bible being a myth and blah blah. it makes a lot of great points, but one particularly hilarious one is that it turns out there's a super-evil sin. you know how jesus forgives everyone for anything if you ask? well, there's one particular sin he wont' forgive you for. you can doubt *his* name and *his* existence, but if you doubt the holy spirit, you're guaranteed to go to hell, no questions asked.
luke 12:10 = "Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven."
mark 3:28-29 = "Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
So yeah. you're all fucked. no matter how good a christian you are now, if at some point you doubted the holy spirit, it's
game over, man. hilarious
hehe, that snakes on a plane video is on
google video
oh man. every morning on fuse they play the "snakes on a plane" music video; it's called "snakes on a plane (bring it)". the video is the band singing while going through airport security, sneaking the snakes on. it's so fucking funny. they all have this look on their faces like "yeah...
we're doing exactly what you think we're doing, and we know we're jackasses". the chorus is "OH! i'm ready for it - come on, bring it!" and it's done by like 4 bands; the artist tag reads "band 1 featuring band 2, band 3, band 4". and of course the video starts with samuel L saying "i'm tired of these mothafuckin snakes on my mothafuckin plane!" and he's in the video, too
