For those who listened to the way-too-long podcast. Thank you. We will have another shortly which will be short, I promise.
However, this post is more about a fantastic movie I saw this past weekend, "The Nines".
The Nines debuted at Sundance last year and made a whopping $63,000 at the box office. Nevermind the less than stellar performance in the theater, this movie is pretty dang awesome.
I will try and summarize the plot: Gary, Gavin, and Gabriel an actor, writer and video game designer respectively are portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in three short films. Each film independent of the next yet each seemingly happening simultaneously as the prior. We, the viewer, know that they relate to some extent but are restrained by the writer to the extent we so desperately want to know. The writer (John August, "Big Fish") cleverly answers some questions while leaving most of the film for us to ponder. (Think Keyzer Soze meets Neo type thinking.)
After I finished watching I immediately watched the DVD extras and started prying Heather, Zach and Leanne's mind as to the meaning.
Anyways, if you haven't seen it, rent it or rather Netflix it. Let me know what you think about it all (and please do not comment on Ryan Reynolds body... we all already know about it).
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Nin9s
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Image
I haven't taken many pictures lately. I need to get out and about. Maybe sometime this week.
In lieu of the visual images, I will try to produce an equal product with mental images.
Location: Mom's House
Time: Early Afternoon, following Easter celebration on Saturday
Credit my mom for trying, but hiding empty plastic eggs did not fool my nephews very long. Instead random self entertainment evolved. For clarification, this self entertainment is not referencing my toddler nephews, I am talking about my adult brothers finding a need to entertain themselves. When trying to get an egg stuck in the tree tired, Zach and Scott quickly saw a challenge to see if Zach could swing Scott like Zach had been doing recently with Bo.
You know the swinging; where Zach would hold Scott's forearms and start spinning with the goal to lift Scott's legs off the ground. Well, it was very unsuccessful. In fact, so unsuccessful it demanded a retry so that the image of failure was not the lasting image we, spectators, saw.
Round Two. I help call Abe and Bo away from the location and once Bo and Abe were secured, Zach tried to spin Scott again. Rev (Clay's) son apparently wanted in on the action. As Zach's back was turned to the "audience" he began the spin. At that exact moment Rev began the run. In slow motion, we all yelled "S-T-O-P" but before we could get it out of our mouths Scott's heels and calfs made impact with little Rev's legs. Believe me, the spinning/flying-kick-into-a-2-year-old image was pretty frightening, but luckily Rev survived. He came and saw me at work today and he had no problem running to and yelling for [uncle] "dwew".
To help you visual, here is a picture of little Rev (with his daddy).
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
North Texas Snow
Last Thursday North Texas got a legit snow storm. I have more pictures on the way, but these pictures were taken with my phone out the window of our office in a matter of about 3 hours. Though the quality is poor, I think you can grasp the volume of snow we received by these pictures below. It totaled just under 6 inches when it was all said and done.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Dallas Mavericks
After the game our good friend, Kyle Tapply, got us into the Ghost Bar. I didn't feel cool enough to be there. I was surrounded by people much cooler than I. This was all too apparent when T.O. Owens came through the door. Nevertheless, the night was awesome!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
New member of the family
Here she is, my new automobile (or "whip" if you prefer). A 06 Nissan Xterra 4x4. It hasn't rained here in a while and the mud flaps are highly effective, but I had fun on an off road trail yesterday with my brother-in-law. Though I have only had her one week, I am extremely impressed with the truck and look forward to thousands of miles on and off the road.
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