The Cure sing “It’s Friday I’m in Love.” What are you “in” on this particular fall Friday?

Mixed feelings. But generally, I am in a good mood. I'm excited about the fund raising and donating. I'm not really wanting to go to work. But it's Friday. And Friday's are almost always good.

Why not both?

I was having the worst time recently trying to decide whether I wanted to dedicate myself to the world of cinema or community service... until it suddenly hit me I could do both. While I do think that everyone has a responsibility to their community, I understand the lack of time many people feel they have. I work at two different places and go to school and even I wonder how I am able to find time to do this (much less sleep). I just hope the time lack does not become my excuse.

World,
Here I come.

In no particular order:

• The Birdcage (--)
• Lust, Caution (Se, jie)
  
• The Black Book (Zwartboek)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (--)
  
• The Darjeeling Limited (--)
  
• Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)
  
• Ocean's 11, 12, & 13 (--)(--)(--)
  
• Lord of the Rings (--)(--)(--)
  
• Mongol (--)
  
• La Belle et la Bete (The Beauty and the Beast)
  

honorable mentions? why not.

• Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia)
  
• Eastern Promises (--)
  

Courtesy of polticalhumor.

1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008

3. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)

4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

6. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

7. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

9. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

La Belle et la Bête, 1946

(the beauty and the beast)
director: Jean Cocteau

1946, beauty and the beast

The first time I saw this movie was on television on the channel TCM. I didn't really have anything better to do and subsequently decided to sit down and watch all 96 minutes of it. I sat in awe. All black and white, this certainly was not Walt Disney's version. The actors were real, the costumes were real. The simple editing techniques used in the film looked like art. This movie is perfect (even with the boom visible in one or two scenes) and is a movie that everyone should see at least once.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken

Become the most influential person that this earth has ever had.

So, awhile back the US government spent $700,000,000,000 on a bailout-turned-rescue that has not done much of anything...

With the current administration leaving, and a new administration soon taking over, President-elect Obama can push his green technology agenda even further: if a company wants a bailout, they can get it, so long as they invest one-third of it into green technology. Whether it is GM using $1billion to create greener and cleaner cars or a bank cutting paper consumption and turning their buildings into completely solar powered, the possibilities are endless. And it will give American's a chance to display this inginuity that they seem to possess.

Yes? No? Good Idea? Illogical?
Let's get thinking again.