Well, I don’t know if writing for Opus had anything to do with it, but yet another contributor just got engaged. This time, it’s David, whose rants you can read right here.
It’s a bit of an awkward situation, since his fiance is currently stationed in Kuwait and won’t be back until January for 2 weeks… before returning for a few more months’ duty. In other words, I’m sure they’d appreciate your prayers and good wishes.
Congrats to both of them, and here’s looking forward to the wedding. Just be sure to stock enough Guinness, guys!
My co-worker just uploaded the new version of his personal site. His portfolio has some excellent paintings, as well as solid web and print work (be sure to check out the “Seven Deadly Sins” piece).
In his own words, “I will like to dedicate my work to the people of my country and to many of the countries of South and Central America, and the Caribbean that suffer the injustices of government and people with power…”
Some day, I hope I can write reviews as good as these.
It’s been awhile since I posted anything remotely political here, but I thought this one was worth it. From a friend of a friend… “With No Plan Apparent, GIs in Iraq Slowly Becoming Frantic”.
I’ve always considered myself a Trekkie… not as rabid as some, but moreso than most. And I have to admit to salivating a bit at the thought of owning this... 48 DVDs containing every single “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode, all stored inside a giant Borg cube.
I just finished watching the trailer for “Return Of The King” (courtesy of TheOneRing.Net) and I have tears in my eyes. Yeah, it’s that good.
HKFlix is currently offering much of their Mei Ah catalog for only $5.95 per disc (plus shipping). Which means you can pick up copies of “Butterfly And Sword”, “A Chinese Odyssey”, “Kung Fu Cult Master”, and “Running Out Of Time”—not to mention a bunch of Kurosawa films—for real cheap!
I always felt bad for not having posted anything concerning Johnny Cash’s passing, anything at all. However, I was just reading these memories of the man (which is part of a large cover story on “Rolling Stone”) and found myself close to tears. There should be no need to say it, but the man was an icon in the truest sense of the word and there will never, ever be another like him. There was integrity and grace and death and darkness and hope and sin and redemption in his music and his life, and they’ll always be an inspiration to me.
My fondest Cash memory was driving down to the Cornerstone Festival a few years back with Nolan. We listened to a lot of country music that day, classic country including Marty Robbins, Hank Williams. But we turned to Cash to guide us down the final stretch of dirt road. We listened to “Daddy Sang Bass” repeatedly and no words could have fit our feelings better than that famous chorus—“No, the circle won’t be broken/Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye”. And how can you not get a chill when you hear him sing “One of these days and it won’t be long/I’ll rejoin them in a song/I’m gonna join the family circle at the throne”?
I bet that’s what he’s doing right now, singing up there with friends and family all around, and with June right there by his side.
...have the best websites. I came across the website for “Save The Green Planet” this weekend, and it was too cool (especially the “Mortal Kombat”-style online game). I just finished visiting the the ultra-cute website for “Please Teach Me English” (I love the classroom metaphor), and “My Tutor Friend”‘s site is almost as fun as the movie. Now if I could only read Korean…
BTW, if you’re a Flash developer, these sites will knock your socks off.
Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet, I found this wonderful blog thread full of reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival, courtesy of J. Robert Parks. He reviews several films that I really wanted to see (“Zhou Yu’s Train”, “Shara”, “Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall… and Spring”) and one that I would’ve seen had I known it was at the festival (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”). The reviews are all solid and very well-written, though I have to respectfully disagree with his glowing assessment of “Good Bye, Dragon Inn”.
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