"As far as I'm concerned, age goes like this: first, you're a baby. Then you're a kid, you're a kid, you're a kid. Then, suddenly, people are offering you their seat on the bus. How and why this happens is one of the mysteries of the universe which will never be solved unless science comes up with proof that age is an illusion, confirming what artists, female and male, have known all along."

-Natalie d'Arbeloff

wow... I missed this one in the theater and finally rented it last week.  A bloated catastrophe of false advertising:  to get our attention they plastered some sword wielding chick with warpaint tattoos all over the movie posters and previews- (hey that's pretty original right?  post modern ninja babe?  awesome)

She was in the movie for about 2 minutes and had one line.  She was in one fight where she attacks the unarmed, unsympathetic, forgettable main character and gets her head cut off.

I mean I don't get it; sure Hollywood puts out crap pretty frequently, as a citizen of the biggest entertainment economy in the world I'm ok with that- but when you create a preview for an entirely different movie than the film you are actually making- that's really hitting below the belt.  The Road-Warrior ripoff-ness of the film (in other words the only scenes they show in the preview) actually accounts for about 15 minutes of a two hour movie.

If the main femme fatale cop had been shot in the first 5 minutes it would have been a better movie; the sword bearing babe with the warpaint was a better actress and she had one line. 

So despite working in the entertainment biz, and collecting movies that feature hotties with big swords for example; in my professional opinion Doomsday sucked ass. 

At least I will sleep well at night knowing they are working on a bloody remake of Red Sonja :D

Love is Forever
But forever outlasts
All human theories
And so we need new ones-

New definitions,
for the Eternal verities
of Life.  And as we
awake to colors we
cannot imagine, to music
no ear has heard, and
to all the joys of Soul
which cannot, or WILL
not translate for our
blinded senses, we
will come into fullness
as the Divine symphony
of idea-

Unlimited, unassailable,
unchanging as that Mind
which made us- expressing
the ONE each in our own
way, through our inspiration,
thought, and action until
the gift of the REAL wins
us over, and the expression
of body transcends to glorious
form, breaching time, releasing
death, and leaving every
shadow of despair to retreat
into nothingness, Forever.

"Time is the illusion that veils God from our sight"

"The claim of material limitation is a test the whole world must pass in order to reach Truth."

"It is not death that the agnostic fears, but conscious oblivion.  Yet presence of consciousness requires the absence of death- hence it should hold no more fear than dreamless sleep, and the same expectation of waking."

"We are all here on a mission of love- that is, all that is required of us is to discover what we love the most."

i'm definitely a student of glass-half-full philosophy

anyway, it's 1am and i'm looking for excuses to not work so i typed up a 50wd essay and sent it in for China's "New Thinker" contest.  winner gets to carry the torch for a few miles or something.  The first line makes me feel like I'm back in middle school- but every submission has to start w that.  if i had to present it in class i'd probably fidget behind my back and stare at the ceiling too... 

"I'm a New Thinker because... I believe that for the first time in human history science, philosophy, and religion are beginning to find common truths.  I believe that the energy of harmony and love that binds us all becomes more apparent as the world shrinks with the expansion of global communication.  We stand poised to uncover higher laws of life and peace that leave no one behind.  We must outgrow fear, let crumbling materialism run its course, and focus on the power to be found in good."

yeah baby yeah.