It is a rare circumstance in which I am wrong. It is even rarer when I care to admit it. Rarer still, are hobbits. Though they did exist (didn’t think I’d pull that one out, didjah?)
Recently, I stated that it is not cool to joke about Lord of The Rings yet. In a strange turn of events, the same comedic actors/musicians that I used as proof for my hypothesis, have turned against me and have sought to destroy all reason, by creating a video on the afformentioned subject (that of hobbits and elves…wait….oh man…I am a hippocrite). Unfortunately, it is very funny.
And someone in their infinite youtube wisdom, remixed the song with Lord of the Rings footage…
The internet is cool. It was created by mostly nerds and the most avid users of the internet probably are still nerds. This somehow makes nerds cool. Hence, it is now totally appropriate and funny to make star wars jokes or references. Not that this hasn’t been done in the past, but now you can do it and girls still kiss you.
If you haven’t heard Chocolate Rain yet, than your not cool on the internets. It is by far the reason our society will fall. We are Rome and Youtube is the gladiator games. The barbarians (terrorists) will sack us in our weakly guarded territories (South Dakota) and the empire will fall.*
The below is a parody of Chocolate Rain by Chad Vader:
*It’s also been said Youtube is just like metaphorically driving behind a big red suburban.
There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
Here I am reading a fairly small book to entertain myself while using the restroom (though I find I don’t get a chance to open the book till the actual process is already over) and the story is moving along nicely and then Lewis drops this one. He is having an imaginary coversation with George Macdonald about the nature of heaven and hell. I won’t argue for or against his theology in The Great Divorce but I will say he gives us chance to re-evaluate our stance. I experienced this same phenomona when reading The Space Trilogy.
Where does Jesus actually fit into the schedule of church, worship, events, youth group, bible studies? I’m not saying any of these things are wrong, I’m just wondering how central Jesus (being the founder and driving force of Christianity) is to the day-to-day responsiblities of a “christian”.
Well, got an email from Heinz this morning that my entry was officially selected. This literally means nothing if you have taken some time to watch some of the entries (there are some great ones though).
I said I would never enter a film “contest” again after the disappointment I felt for not winning an award at a local film festival several years ago. I was a little spoiled by the fact that I had won runner-up for best screenplay the year before.
Then Heinz came calling, promising money and fame. That cruel mistress. I gave the contest a fleeting thought and then mentioned that thought to my co-worker.
Inspired by some events at work, we decided we needed to enter and a week later shot our idea. My brother drove down with 2 hours notice and joined the crew along with his buddy from college who lived locally. We shot it last sunday from 10:30 p.m. to about 3 a.m. and spent basically the entire weekend editing it. Without further ado, Enjoy.
