Such large laughs, such small repetition

 I really appreciate a good laugh.  There's a lot of movies I could have over flooding living quarters with just out of gratitude for the laughs they provide.

Death At A Funeral 2005. If you haven't seen this, maybe give it a try.  It doesn't seem like it was very well received by audiences.  I thought it was a blast.  Ymmv

Spy 2016 I had fairly high hopes for GHOSTBUSTERS after seeing this feature from Paul Feig.  Unfortunately the GB remake recalled an earlier movie from Feig-- The Heat.  This movie was comedy dynamite tho.  

Vacation 2016 - Very raunchy, so my peeps from church might want to steer clear of it...  Funny is funny tho (imo).

Liar Liar 1997 it seems like just about everyone by now has seen this movie.  I've just about over-watched it despite it having been years since I last saw it.

Dirty Work 1997 I almost forgot about this one.  This is just all out gonzo funny.  

Drawing a blank.  There's probably at least a few more I could include here.  Groundhog Day is more of a philosophical feel-good movie than a riotous comedy.  What About Bob was similar even tho it was a little more eerie. 

I might update this in a few hours....or something... Might..

AS-IS

I keep seeing people use this phrase to describe their merchandise on sites like eBay.  And I keep having to wonder WHAT the heck is the point in saying that?  How ELSE would you sell an item??  As it ISN'T?  ???

Mind your scrimulous cotton candy!

 https://genius.com/Nirvana-beeswax-lyrics#about

This song always cracks me up.  I can't make out half of what he sang, but the phrase "cotton candy" is intelligible enough...   It always sounds to my ears like he was referencing some kind of deranged anthromorphed cotton candy.  The actual lyrics are not much less disturbing...

budgeting awaah!

 Really unfortunate that so many people who are actually dealing with the pressures of the labor market can barely if at all afford to live.

That being said, I have had some difficulty getting my financials straightened out.
I have a ton of debt I'm really hoping I can get straightened out in December.  And then, aside from the mountain of credit card debt I absent mindedly accumulated ---     ://        -----      I'll be on my way to a fresh start -- hopefully -- in January.  It's nice to have something tangible to look forward to as well.

Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) is being re-released on Blu ray this coming January.  It came out in a limited edition pack about a year ago, and boy was it limited.  It's like $100 to buy it used.  Thing is, I bought it, and the cover art just looks stupid.  I have it on DVD and the cover art is pitch perfect.  This time Paramount is using the original cover-art instead of this pink purply design they used with the first blu ray issuance.  So it'll be cool to have that.  It's one of my favorite movies, probably because it resonates with how I'd feel just working at Kroger or whatever....  Feeling like the life is being sucked out of me, just constantly approaching a black hole.  I don't know what the deal with that is.  I guess I'm just spoiled.  That small amount of time of being a 4y/o was too sweet to give up.  I guess.  I don't know how to explain it.

Anyway...
The Blu ray (it's actually a 4K disc, but whatever) is $33 with shipping.  And then I like to pay for Pandora because I can get access to full length albums that I don't actually have on CD yet/anymore....   And their custom radio feature is unparallelled.  Always good to show support for a job well done.  And it's only $11/mo.  1 CD costs more than that (!)  And I'd like to continue my HBO Max subscription.  It's a good time to be a subscriber.  They've got several things they've released recently and then there's more otw.
Beyond that, I'll have $30 that I don't have anything I specially NEED to do anything with, although I suppose I could start chipping away at the couple thousand dollars of debt I've amassed from my gelatinous mass of credit card usage.... :/  I think it'd be better spent giving to God's work.  Probably just give to Samaritan's Purse, because they do the work of The Salvation Army and Bible translators simultaneously in a variety of ways.

frrrr

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6c980af49addddf3431148719fa2dc7bf889e4572d807098d1aa085d3200eb0aJmltdHM9MTc2MzA3ODQwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=17576d6e-2b11-6c93-278a-7bcf2a3c6de4&psq=what+does+it+mean+for+a+tongue+to+bid+someone+thence+depart%3f&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ncmFjZWZvcnRoZW1hc3Nlcy5vcmcvMjAxNi8wOS8xMy9uby10b25ndWUtY2FuLWJpZC1tZS10aGVuY2UtZGVwYXJ0Lw

"Why is this important as we go through Mark’s gospel? I think this hymn especially, gives us a perspective on who Jesus is and why Mark has as an overriding theme, Jesus, The Son Of God."

How about just read Mark?  If you want a perspective of Jesus, wouldn't Jesus' words be sufficient?

I found this while looking up what "No tongue can bid me thence depart" means.  What the hell does "bid thence depart" mean?  There's nothing glorious about speaking gobbleygook. Doesn't mean squat that it USED TO NOT be gobblegook.  NO TONGUE SPEAKS LIKE THAT.  The past is dead.  Not even its' memories remain.  Nobody from 1863 is alive today.  That has been the case for over half a century.  Unless we're all going to be speaking gibberish in Heaven, speaking Secret Handshake English is in no way glorious, and, in fact, it is the exact opposite.  Someone who's never been to church walks in the door, he has to practically learn a new language, HOW is that necessary or beneficial???

This is actually a rather small issue for the church at large to address.  There's bigger ones.  But I don't think anything but The Holy Spirit Himself can change the bigger issues.  And I don't think I have enough of The Spirit indwelling in me to really say anything of note on the bigger issues.

  I don't have a problem with the hymns.  They are good reminders of the truths of Scripture.  

But this asinine attitude like we're desecrating a grave or something by tweaking the words so that a modern ear can actually understand it without taking up a second job as a linguistic archeologist is an impediment.  Of all the times people had to type out the words on a piece of paper, for people that understand this Dead speak and ALSO, just so happen, to know the way that people speak today, to at least propose some changes, by now we'd have something that was once just as glorious as "No tongue can bid me thence depart", and it probably wouldn't have taken that long to develop. We'd have had it a long time ago, probably by the time I was born if people had started undertaking it by the 1940s or somewhere around there.  Instead, it's now cemented by a somewhat popular worship band, in the year 1997 no less, when that phrase had already been antiquated for at least a third of a century.

interesting imo -----

 haven't posted on here in awhile.  I don't really know why.  I thought about posting on here a few times but then by the time it occurs to me, whatever prompted the notion fizzles out...

Anyway...  stumbled on this....I honestly don't recall the movie sounding this bad.  What's even more laughable is the "Hasbro Cinematic Universe"  For crying out loud....

15 Box Office Flops Everyone Saw Coming

'Battleship' (2012)

Who hasn’t played the game Battleship and thought, “What if this were a two-hour movie instead?” Universal Pictures heard those cries and gifted audiences everywhere with the sci-fi action extravaganza Battleship. In the film, war games for a naval fleet take on deadly stakes when an alien invasion interrupts the planned exhibition. After several ships are contained within an energy field, the trapped soldiers will need to fight for their lives.

A movie based on a board game was met with more than a few chuckles, even with the cult-classic Clue as proof it can be done. However, a bloated budget that came in somewhere at an estimated $220 million made turning a profit a near-impossible feat for Universal, especially with a $65 million take-home domestically. Battleship’s failure turned out more disastrous than even its critics were expecting, sinking Universal’s planned Hasbro Cinematic Universe. So, depending on your tastes, this story possibly has a happy ending. —Brad LaCour

The best of Phil Collins

 

1. In The Air Tonight
2. You Know What I Mean
3. I Missed Again
4. If Leaving Me Is Easy
5. Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
6. Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning
7. Against All Odds
8. Easy Lover
9. I Like The Way
10. One More Night
11. All Of My Life
12. Heat On The Street
13. I Wish It Would Rain Down
14. Another Day In Paradise
15. Everyday
16. Testify

This actually is one disc's worth of music.

I feel pretty pumped about this.  I used to have the darndest time imagining what a best of Phil Collins would look like.

I didn't put much from NO JACKET REQUIRED or BOTH SIDES because those albums are solid gold on their own.  There's not really anything you can easily excise from those albums.  I mean, sure, not every song is equally shiny, but I just think those two albums are pretty weighty overall compared to most of his albums.  FACE VALUE doesn't have any downright bad songs, but there's points in the album that are indeed weaker than others.  Rhino/WEA (or whatever...) surely isn't going to be pressing this on CD, so I figure I can pretend the majority of people agree with me.  It seems like the people that don't probably just don't like BOTH SIDES, but nonetheless would still agree that NO JACKET REQUIRED is staying in their record collection (or whatever it's called nowadays.......)

BTW, 40th anniversary edtion of NO JACKET REQUIRED is coming to blu ray.  Super exciting, but for some weird reason track 11 "We Said Hello Goodbye" is not included.  I'm tempted to just ignore it.

looking back at 1999's THREE TO TANGO

starring Mattew Perry and Neve Campbell, with Oliver Platt and Dylan McDermott

"A rich businessman's assumption that his new colleague is gay leads him to ask the man to keep an eye on his mistress. However, the man is not gay--and he begins to fall for the woman himself."

This movie was funny, because it captures an interesting crosspoint in the culture, where people weren't anti-gay but they were a little hesitant toward the whole thing.  You can see it in the various interactions between the characters in the film.  Of course, as it is today, there are people who get fired up when they hear about people being homosexual for religious reasons, many not seeming to grasp the idea that serving God with one's whole being is just not the order of the day for most people in contemporary USA.  I don't know if it ever was, but I can definitely see a closer resemblance to that when I hear about people back in the 1700s etc.  But anyway...  This movie is more about "the world", the people that make up society as a whole.  Maybe homosexuality should offend me.  I know I have my own sinful patterns to deal with, and I haven't done a great job at dealing with them, so I don't feel like I have any business being offended by other people's sinful patterns.
So, for other people that aren't offended by it, or aren't trying to repent from homosexuality themselves, it's a funny movie.  Society has moved beyond the point where it was when the film was made and released, and I don't think it's for the better, although I was trying to tell people for years that banning same sex marriage was not going to work.  The acceptance of gay people was going to increase and continue increasing and it has.  If someone wanted to implement a permanent ban on gay marriage, as people were proposing back in 2003 or thereabouts, they should have done it in the '80's back when public support was marginal.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/506636/sex-marriage-support-holds-high.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States#National_polls

To the atheist

 

What Genesis chapter 3 describes in what is commonly referred to as “the fall of man” is, in a nutshell, a description of a history making chasm between The Father of all mankind, and mankind.

Religion, in general, began with mankind.  Adam & Eve undoubtedly told people about God and Cain even had a face to face conversation with Him.

As Romans chapter 1 puts it,

“For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.”

So, religion, in general is indeed manmade.  I've heard people point out that other religions bear a striking resemblance to Judaism & Christianity.  What would you expect?  A lie always has elements of truth in it.  

I'm not posting this to win an argument.  I'm ultimately hoping this helps at least one person who might have some degree of humility, at least consider a life with God, not indifferent about Him or opposed to Him.  

I confess I am not as jealous as I would like to be regarding fellowship with Him.  I don't wish the distance I feel from Him upon anyone else and I certainly don't want to see anyone go to Hell, although the unfortunate reality is that for various reasons, the foremost being disbelief, but also a lack of care in following The Great Commission, many will be lost and I alone have little I can do to stop it.  One of the beautiful things about God's word is He knows all things and is by no means asleep at the wheel laying all of the responsibility on His sheep.

Please, at least consider a life with Jesus the Christ.

Communion

 

I'd been skipping communion for I don't know how long.  Pastor usually just says to let the elements pass by if you're refusing to repent.  Thing is, I don't know if I'm refusing to repent.  I am lacking in willingness.  If I were 100% absolutely willing to repent I'd do whatever it takes to get it done.  I'd haunt my room, alternating between wailing in frustration and praying, like a total schizo.  I'd endure going without tv or internet.  I'd turn my face against every female that comes in my line of sight.  I'm still not sure if taking it today was appropriate but it's done.  This time, my pastor said something to the effect of 'Examine yourself, and look 10 x more at Jesus '.  I decided to take a leap of faith.  Ill informed faith, perhaps.  I just can't conceive of being joyful denying myself and preparing myself for burial.  Maybe someday I'll get this figured out.