I didn’t know but apparently R2D2 from star wars has appeared in a few non star wars movies: http://www.movietome.com/news/30458/r2d2-was-in-star-trek
Seen a few romantic comedies recently and I am getting seriously sick of the final twist at the end. The twist that turns an amazing perfect ending into a big question mark.
Why do they have to do that? Are they just trying for a sequel (never seen a romantic comedy sequel), is it a observation on life or is just another chance for a joke.
Poor little omelette, didn’t survive the last tank clean. 
I really liked him, I think I ether identified with or envied him. He was the strong quiet type, small and submissive but always happy.
Most people accept that people live inside a self created safety zone and that it is best to push on this safety zone to increase it’s size and your life experience.
To extend this concept, I believe people adopt a safe way of thinking. We all try to make sense of life and we do this with our own thought processes and core beliefs. However these thought processes and core beliefs are subject to perspective as much as the experiences in life that we are trying to make sense of.
I’ve recently met somebody who seems to believe that people generally bad and narcissistic, that at the existential level everybody is just self interested. My impression was she was trying to deal with things that had happened to her or that she had done and couldn’t understand or justify. The belief in her own narcism was so strong that it was draining, yet at the same time this belief was only coming from her rational/logical side of her mind. Little things that she did indicated that she wasn’t all that self interested, instead it indicated that she was indeed a nice and caring person. However there is a strong possibility that I’ve forced her into my own belief system, so I can make sense of her. Makes me curious to how she has tried to understand me inside her own belief system.
I believe people are generally good but ignorant, maybe a little narcissistic but generally not to the determent of others, maybe I’m just naive.
Just a few things I’ve found funny.
A clip a friend showed me from the Conan O’brian Show, Start Wars Nerds: Part 1 Part 2
Top Gun Deleted Scene: The Lock
Volley Warehouse: Spoof Website
And I found this on a video editing site. There is just something not quite right about it.
In our current narcissistic culture, the phrase “just get over it” is spouted out by all and sundry.
I detest this notion, this notion that tries to destroy the meaning of past. This awful notion that leads to the disrespect of important parts of our lives. It removes the rich complexity of the emotions in each of our lives by trying to simplify complex relationships and feelings that life offers by trying to fit them into pre-packaged boxes that popular culture tries to sell us.
I’ve seen people live in this mentality of “getting over it” and in about 90% of cases that just aren’t. They are running away from a scary monster, there own emotions, they just don’t seem to understand that monster is a part of them and they aren’t escaping anything.
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes you need to time to process, escape and be distracted. But in words taken from the movie Magnolia, “We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”.
I don’t believe “get over it” is action that one decides to take, it something that just happens, however actions can be taken that don’t disrespect the complexity that can move people faster towards a sense of understanding and closure.
I respect my past, I respect the people from it and I still care a enormous amount about those people and I will never disrespect these people and memories by using crude simplifications sold by the dozen in popular culture.
I’m sure this has been said a million times but I’m just so sick of it, so i’ll just say it again: It should be “Violence: Australia Says No”.
If the fear is that some people think it’s acceptable to be violence with women. My fear is that this simple statement makes it seem that violence can be acceptable against men. Violence is just never acceptable except in self defense.
We live in society where violence is a part of our entertainment, whether it be sporting, films, tv, games. We need to send a clear message that violence is never a acceptable solution.
PS: To all those stupid morons out there, who have ever gotten a power trip out of beating somebody up. I will never respect you, YOU ARE LOSERS, JUST GROW UP.
I decided to start a blog because I’ve recently been temped to share some of my thoughts and experiences with a greater community than just my close friends.
In the past when I’ve tried to keep an online journal I have failed due to a lack of motivation and lack of anything to say. However in the past few months I’ve met people that have really expanded my perspective of life and I wish to share some of the observations and thoughts that threw my head and are often spoke about with my close friends.
Julian has now entered the Blagosphere.
