raising awareness.

A Welsh police department commissioned the film to drive home the dangers of texting behind the wheel. Thank you to the brits for being bold enough to do this to raise awareness. go watch this video ASAP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtZxT9qt1IE

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32549978#32549978

had we but world enough, and time.

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

-Andrew Marvell, circa 1650-52

siskel & ebert.

so i feel like there are a handful of movies i want to see right now. that would cost me quite a bit of money. about $30 to be exact.


The Goods
two words: jeremy piven.
i think he is hysterical & the preview alone is ridiculous enough. im hooked & ready for some laughs.


The Time Traveler's Wife
i have about 50 pages left to read in the book. it is such a fascinating and different story that has never been told before, that i know of. i am so excited to see this with linney on friday :) movie dates with her are the best. we like to go to target before it starts and stock up on drinks & candy. then we sneak it in. this time, she has the brilliant idea of $1 popcorn at target. she's awesome like that.


500 Days of Summer
i havent seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt since 3rd Rock From the Sun. Im interested to see what he's got. Zooey Deschanel is always enjoyable to watch. bottom line..... im a hopeless romantic.


Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
-Tim Burton

i hate war.

HULUGHO, Kenya — A thin, dusty line is about the only thing separating Kenya, one of the Western world’s closest allies in Africa, from the Shabab, a radical Islamist militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, beheading detractors, stoning adulterers and threatening to kill any Americans or Europeans who get in their way.

A Kenyan police officer stood along the Somali border. Some fear the Shabab might infiltrate Kenya and attack Westerners.

In most places this line, the official international border, is not even marked, let alone protected. In the village of Hulugho, there is simply a tattered Kenyan flag and a cinderblock schoolhouse with chicken-wire windows. Then a meadow of thorn trees and donkey dung. Then Shabab country.

Kenya is widely seen as a frontline state against the Islamist extremism smoldering across the Horn of Africa. Few expect the Shabab to make good on its threats to march en masse across the border. But the creeping fear, the one that keeps the security staffs at Western embassies awake at night, is that the Shabab or its foreign jihadist allies will infiltrate Kenya and attack some of the tens of thousands of Westerners living in the country, possibly in a major strike like Al Qaeda did in 1998.

Last month, Western counterterrorism experts in Kenya sent out text messages warning expatriates to stay away from malls in Nairobi, Kenya’s usually laid-back capital, because of possible suicide attacks by the Shabab. A few weeks later, the group threatened to destroy Nairobi’s “tall, glass buildings.”

The Shabab has already penetrated refugee camps inside Kenya, according to camp elders, luring away dozens of young men with promises of paradise — and $300 each. It has carried out cross-border attacks, kidnapping an outspoken cleric in May from a refugee camp 50 miles inside Kenya. Last Wednesday, in one of its boldest cross-border moves yet, a squad of uniformed, heavily armed Shabab fighters stormed into a Kenyan school in a remote town, rounding up all the children and telling them to quit their classes and join the jihad.

“If these guys can come in with their guns and uniforms in broad daylight,” said one of the teachers at the school, “they must be among us.”

Then on Saturday it happened again: Somali gunmen, widely believed to be with the Shabab, stormed the offices of an aid organization and kidnapped three aid workers from a Kenyan border town before melting back into Somalia.

American and British advisers are working closely with Kenyan counterterrorism teams, but the area along the Somali border is known to be a gaping hole.

-Jeffrey Gettleman :: The New York Times :: July 21, 2009

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I have seen war.
I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.
I hate war.

-F.D.R.

just ignore the dreadful things they say.

He's so scared that he'll miss
It keeps him in hiding
And restless and wanting
What if for one minute
He's given a chance
And he does something brilliant

heaven forbid.

Take a breath, just take a seat.
You're falling apart, and tearing at the seams.

If you can't feed a 100 people, then feed just 1.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa