Wanted is about an anxiety-ridden failure of an accountant, the every man Wesley Gibson played by James McAvoy, with his life completely out of control stuck in a dead end job and an unfulfilling relationship. McAvoy does a great job portraying a highly wound up flunky. His life suddenly takes a turn for the dramatic [...]
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File: November 2008
Got done watching Wanted and Tropic Thunder, two enjoyable movies # I wonder when this cold will go away #
Tropic Thunder is Ben Stiller comedy written and directed by the man about a bunch of hot shot Hollywood stars shooting a Vietnam War. Everything that can go wrong does and the demanding financier of the movie (played by Tom Cruise) forces the actors to shoot the film in the live with handheld cameras and [...]
Been using as much free time as possible to read. It’s not that I haven’t been reading anything these past couple of years. If anything I’ve been reading tons of blogs and postings of various sorts. However, it’s apparent that the words you see on a screen are not the same as the words your [...]
The Vietnam War had all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. America’s best and brightest picking up the French’s tab in a colonial war that ultimately marked the beginning of America’s decline, if not economically at least ideologically. In hindsight, we see the Vietnam War as one of the many conflicts in a series of [...]
@JasonCalacanis try KoreaClick http://bit.ly/mXsL #
having been forced to use WinXP at work for the past year only validates my choice to abandon this platform whenever possible. #
“The Best and the Brightest”, another Halberstam classic is turning out to be quite a read, though not on the order of “The Fifties” #
I somehow managed to catch Jason Calacanis on his very first visit to Japan ever making a presentation at Tokyo 2.0. I was just going over my notes only to be a bit shocked to see that I could of read most of these by subscribing to his email list as shown in this post. [...]
Pics from the party I organized, hosted last week: http://tinyurl.com/6bct54 # @Peety add me on facebook # @Yokitis pics are by Mark Oxley based in Japan. Go up a directory for his other works. He’s quite good # My iPhone’s getting sluggish again. Backups take forever and crashed more often. Is it just me??? I [...]