No Noose is Good Noose
Mood:  suave
Now Playing: Howard Shore's "The Riders of Rohan," from his score for "The Two Towers"

okay, "The Fantastic Four" is simply a fun movie. don't concern yourself with the critics, just go and have a good time. i did. i went in with some fears but found they were ungrounded. it's not the best superhero movie, nor is it perfect, but damn if it isn't one of the most fun. good laughs, good thrills, good action.

in other movie news, "Vanity Fair" has no redeeming qualities. okay, it's well acted, the costumes are amazing, the locations are breath-taking, and the cinematography is top-notch. but the film just meanders from one boring scene to another. the all-star cast is wasted on a senseless script that makes me despise Thackeray. it's seldom i have such a vehement reaction to a film, but the world must be warned. "Vanity Fair" is an unjust test of your sanity.

i attended Hollie Cook's wedding yesterday (Sunday). that makes three weddings in four weeks. counting my taking in of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," that's seven weddings and a funeral in four weeks. wow. sorry, random tangent. it was a nice wedding and it was cool seeing old friends from Jersey whom i haven't seen since 7th grade.

an interesting point was brought up in concern of one of my last blogs. i mentioned many of us worship the same god, whether ye be Islamic, Muslim, Jewish, or Christian and Amanda disagreed. and i just want to comment on that because it's something i've wondered about and thought on many times:

we Christians all believe in the same Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but the Catholic view of God, someone who needs to be convinced by the saints to help us, is not the same God we Protestants worship, a God who is eager to help. and that's just within Christianity. do we worship the same God, and what does He do when i pray to Him and a Catholic prays to a dead guy (St Peter, we'll say), hoping that dead guy will talk to God on their behalf? technically, we're worshiping the same God. spiritually and characteristically, not at all. i dunno. it kind of saddens me that so many of us can trace our beliefs back to the Bible, but everyone has gone separate directions since then.

pray for me. i may have a career change looming in front of me. pray that i go where i need to and it is my belief that only God knows where i need to be.