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Dare Mighty Things

January 13, 2010 in Best Library | No comments

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

I gave myself a mellow fight-off-this-cold-before-I-get-it reprieve from my to do list yesterday. I read a book that I bought years ago but never read, You Have The Power Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear by Frances Moore Lappe and Jeffrey Perkins. I highly recommend it! I love that it was such a good book.

Today I’m looking up all their Hope News recommendations to put on my Netvibes page.

I just added the feeds from these sites to Netvibes, my feed reader.

  1. Utne
  2. World Watch
  3. Yes!

I already found two useful articles from Yes! Yes! :)

  1. Best Options for Helping People in Haiti Please spread the word about this link. I know that many people want to help by donating money and this article points you to organizations that will use the money effectively.
  2. Ten Courageous Things You Can Do to Build Community

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The Wrestler

March 10, 2009 in Best Library | 3 comments

Wow, just saw it. POWERFUL film. My friend and I saw it and we both got a feeling at a certain point in the movie- it just made us want to be kinder to people. It really reminds me of the quote that says to be kind to people- you never know what battles they are fighting.

The movie was awesome, and now I’m thinking maybe it should have won the Oscar. There is just one thing that ruined the realism of it for me- and it was SUCH a real movie. Not that I know anything about the wrestling world, but in the way it portrays desperation it was very real. There is a song in the movie that says you have your “balls to the wall.”  Yay, even sans balls, I’ve felt that. This movie shows it. Not in the wrestling moments, but in the shadowed walk down the hall in your trailer moments. I can relate to those moments of thinking, “What the hell am I going to do?”

The one unrealistic bit: the “broken down” stripper is Marissa Tomei. Please. I love Marissa Tomei and emotionally she portrayed the woman, but she is beautiful and delicate and a woman who looks like her is not going to be found in that trailer trash strip joint. It would have made the movie more powerful if someone who actually looked like they could be rejected as a middle aged stripper was cast in that role. PAlease. Just like Mickey Rourke’s body and face made him so believalbe in his role as a broken down wrestler. I blame the discrepepncy on the fact the it was a male director.

STILL worth seeing! Now I’m going to give the whole ending of the movie away so… read more here only if you’ve already seen it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Media thoughts

February 4, 2009 in Best Library | No comments

Sex and the City the movie may have ruined Sex and the City the TV show for me. BUMMER. Some scenes from the show when it was still good:

The Bachelor
This latest episode is the reason I like The Bachelor. I LOVE when the really nice women are left. I think Jason has really good taste in women. The women left are all SO nice.

True Beauty
I hate this show, but I have to admit I watched it tonight and this moment was really funny. I hate that they sent Chelsea home. She’s a fairly self-centered grouch, but she’s a pretty honest with somewhat of a moral compass. (Ok backtrack: its hard to tell what people are really like in these reality shows)

“Don’t roll your eyes.”

Roll

“Did you just roll your eyes?”

“Yeah”

;D

(This show has the possibly interesting premise of testing people’s “true beauty” by testing how beautiful the contestants act on the inside, but the tests are arbitrary and sometimes mean. I think it would be funny if there was a meta contest and it turned out that the producers and judges of this show were being tested on their inner beauty based on how they treat the contestants and how they treat their unsuspecting and apparently somewhat masochistic viewing audience.)

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