Soxy

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 19, 2007 -> 01:05 AM) im a downward soprial arent i Oh yes you are sweetheart.

Have a very happy (and safe!) Birthday!

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 17, 2007 -> 08:59 PM) Thats why I'm going to see Superbad tonight. Going to see it on Free Popcorn Tuesday! Woo!

QUOTE(knightni @ Aug 17, 2007 -> 02:26 PM) Your movies is too smart fer me. It's really not! It's like a John Clancy book turned movie, but well made and acted! I promise!

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 17, 2007 -> 12:12 PM) Yeah, who eeds that dam letter a yway? ext thi g you k ow, people will be telli g me we ca 't ma age without some OTHER letters, too! We eed to sta d up and U ITE agai st this i sa ity, Soxy!!! ALL FOR O E, and O E FOR ALL!!!! Haha! My lab partner saved the day. I bought a new keyboard for it on eBay, and she is a whiz and can replace it. Problem solved (and for under $30).

I saw the Lives of Others the other day. It was really a great film. It's set in the mid-eighties in East Germany and is about a writer who is, apparently, loyal to the DDR government. However, a high up in the State Security Department really wants to be with the writer's girlfriend (a famous actress) full time (she is seeing him on the side to remain on the good side of the government so they will continue to allow her to perform). As a result, the writer is placed under full-surveillence, wires all over his walls, phone tapped and members of the Stasi (the east german secret police) living in his attic constantly monitoring him. The man assigned to the case is Wiesler, who we see at the beginning of the movie lecturing to a class the importance and advantage of interviewing someone for 40 straight hours to get a confession. At first he just seems like a jerk, but as the film slowly unfolds it becomes clear that Wiesler really BELIEVES in the socialism and idealism of the DDR. As the film wears on, however, this resolve and belief in his country (and in his own actions as a member of the Stasi) is chipped away and he becomes sensitive and compassionate to the people he is spying on. The movie is excellent and had a much more realistic feel to it than "Goodby Lenin" (which was also a good movie), and The Lives of Others also packs a real emotional punch as well as having very tense thrilling moments (especially near the end). Overall, it's a great (and incredibly well-acted) story about right and wrong and discovering the difference between political morality and real morality.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 17, 2007 -> 09:46 AM) Flaxx will be happy. Yeah, truth is, I just don't want to deal with windows anymore. Much less Vista. And I don't mind macs, I think they're pretty intuitive. And I'll mostly just need the damn thing for writing (which makes the crappy keyboard even worse). Well, that and playing iTunes, of course. Can they migrate my songs (that are on a pc) to a mac?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 16, 2007 -> 10:42 PM) I had to use a busted keyboard like that for a little while once. I forget what key was dead, but I just kept it in clipboard memorey and pasted it in every time I needed it. It would have driven me nust if I had to do it for more than a couple days. I am seriously thinking of getting a new computer and switching over to the dark side (mac).

My old laptop is falling apart! Today the n key fell off, and the guy said to fix it we would need to replace the whole keyboard due to the age of the computer. Dammit. I can live without an "n"

A little late, but I see all three as different.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 11:57 AM) Does anyone know of a good site to sell excess school books? Mrs PA and I have like 40 text books from the past 3-4 years. It'd be nice to rid ourselves of the books and make a few bucks at the same time. half.com But many of them probably have newer editions out--so you may be limited in what will sell.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 11:48 AM) Stop that statistics junk, missy... You love bimodal distributions and you know it.

I think the most interesting to me is how few people there are in the middle. Although, this is a very lovely example of a bimodal distribution. Ha.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 10:57 AM) Religious Yes, I attend services 3 or 4 times a month [ 9 ] Yes, but I don't make it to services very often [ 5 ] Christmas and Easter (and when someone drags me) Christian, baby! (or Yom Kippur Jew or Ramadan Muslim, etc) [ 2 ] total: 16 Non Religious I'm more spiritual than religious, per se [ 3 ] I'm still trying to figure that out [ 4 ] Nope, not at all. [ 10 ] Is atheism a religion? [ 7 ] total: 24 in otherwords: 3 to 2 Remind me not to have you do my science.... Personally, I would group the spiritual but not religious and the seekers in sort of a no man's land. Not necessarily non-religious, more of a still looking sort of thing.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 01:05 AM) "Girls are bad to have around the band." "Like 'Wham', they never had any girls around them" Oh man! I have got to see this show!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 04:12 PM) That's a very good observation. You're on a roll the last couple of weeks. Prize please!

Just wondering.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 04:00 PM) There is certainly a larger group of atheists, anti-religious posters, than regular Church goers. Certainly the social conservative groups is much smaller than the liberal social group. I tend to avoid these threads, but found an interesting conversation with Jim and stuck around. I think there can be civil discussions, but I agree with PA in some of these threads the gloves come off way to fast and miscommunication is the rule. I think there are probably many, many, many more self-described Christians or religious people here than the other. And I think that some of those posters are not anti-religion itself, but rather anti the way religion is often manifested.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 01:51 PM) Oh, it's ok. Obama is the Second Coming. Seriously. Do you not want to have a serious debate? Or do you just want to make sure that threads descend into snark? Because if it's the latter good job, keep going.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 11:41 AM) I just added Showtime to our cable package. Are any of the series like 'Weeds' or 'Dexter' worth watching?? I've enjoyed the episodes of Dexter I've seen a lot.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 11:19 PM) You are soooo cool Really?

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 10:27 AM) Yeah...good luck with aaaaaaallllllllll that. See, being a trainwreck has its advantages.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 10:17 AM) If you are clear about all of these things, and a boatload of others taken right from the Bible, then you are somewhat of a misanthrope in modern society. If you only think God's word as recorded in the Bible is only eternally binding when it condones bigotry against gays but less so regarding these other ancient dictates, then certainly you are in good company. But your interpretation of the Bible and which of God's laws should be heeded nonetheless remains distressingly selective. An excellent point my atheistic/agnostic friend. I think that when people focus on the Bible so thoroughly they really do act as though God is dead--and that the spirit of the creator no longer speaks to us. I think that spirit should move us to be compassionate and loving to all God's creatures.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 11:15 PM) To me it's pretty clear... Galatians 3:28 There is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Matthew 7:5 First take the plank from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's. Also, if you've looked at the whole chapter of Romans (which I'm sure you have) you know that it is much more about worshipping other gods before God. Most scholars believe that they Paul was taking about ritualistic sex. I guess, that I in some ways I am envious of christians who can spend so much time worrying about other people's lives; I have to spend most of my time trying make sure that I am righteous and I haven't time to make sure everyone else is. Maybe someday I'll become that good so I can spend all my time looking for the faults in others rather than myself. . .

I saw La Vie en Rose yesterday, it's a biopic of French singer Edith Piaf. I feel like if I had known more about her before going into the movie I would have enjoyed it a lot more. She lead a pretty interesting life here's a brief summary: Her father was a circus performer, but who then had to leave to fight in WWI. During that time she was left with her mother, who was a drunk and didn't care for her. Her father returns and leaves Edith with his mother who runs a brothel. For the next bit of her life Edith is raised by prostitutes. She gets sick, goes blind, the prostitutes take her to a shrine to St. Theresa, whom she prays to, Edith's sight is restored. Her father comes back, takes her and she grows up travelling with the circus. Her father leaves the circus to become a street performer, and Edith sings with him in their street act. She has a kid who dies of meningitis. She is later discovered, becomes a cabaret singer (only after dating a pimp who tries to force her into prostitution). Her boss/mentor on the cabaret circuit is murdered by the mob (and her pimp boyfriend is suspected to be involved as is Edith). By this time she has a large drinking problem. She then becomes a proper singer, she comes to America, becomes a huge success. She meets a world champion french boxer (who is married) and they fall in love. She calls him desparate to fly to America to be with her, he does, but the plane crashes and he is killed. She gets in a car accident and becomes addicted to morphine. She died pretty early and looking really awful. The movie was well done--but it dragged on a bit. But the music was amazing! I had never heard of Piaf, and the singing was just incredible. I loved it.