“Its like that legal Crack” Those are the words a friend of mine uses to describe things that are amazing, things that are so awesome they should not be legal. There are very few experiences in life that you can say are so amazing, life changing and perspective altering. In my time I have experienced very few.

It might be late but you knew this was coming. I found an hour and $10 to spare from my crazy schedule and dwindling budget to go see a movie I have been waiting for. I am not a Star Trek fan and have never really followed the series but there were two major reasons I wanted to see this movie. 1. It looked like Star Trek for non geeks/fans 2. It was loved by critics.

This is a movie based on a memoir of the same title. There were two things that attracted me to this movie. First, the trailer which I thought was funny and had funny actors in it and Second, the name sounded a lot like a self help book my friend has been begging me to read: How to win friends and Influence people (Which he hasn’t read).

Every year the world seems to get more efficient. More information is passed along, more technology to do things faster and more, more and more. I can’t help but wonder sometimes when this will all end. What is the human threshold and how much information can we take in how much farther can we take technology and to what end? I found this video will surfing the web and I thought it was really interesting.

In 2009 so far there has been nothing really good to watch. In fact the only movie that has dragged me to the theaters recently was Watchmen which I thought was really good. Well you really have to know a lot about the book previously to know what to expect cause otherwise it is going to look really whack.

Well I was 20 minutes early to Watchmen so I got to see some previews, it so happens that all the movies that caught my eye seem to be coming out in May. I guess its gonna be a good month.

It is Wednesday, March 11th 2009. This is a day after I come back from Acapulco, I am back to the real world. No more late night partying, staying out till 6am and other activities that are questionable in a politically correct society.

I wake up 6:45 am (only God knows how). To start my day off, I haggle with AT&T for 45 mins about my phone bill and the call ended with me paying $554 (Long story, ask me when you see me). I then head to class, Note: remember that I have missed two days of school, so I had the WTH expression on my face for the whole day cause I did not understand what the professors where talking about.

So a friend of mine showed me this video a couple weeks ago while we were having one of those intellectual conversations, and I thought it was really cool. I think the idea of the world having a collective memory or something we all share makes sense, or the part where we feel like we have been dreaming for days and it is actually just 5 minutes happens to me all the time. This is an excerpt from a movie “Waking Life” its an amazing movie check it out when you can.

“God is a comedian performing for an audience afraid to laugh” is a quote from Francois Marie Arouet that has kept me thinking. Recently some of my friends were telling me tragic tales, stuff that I felt very sad and angry about I could feel the fire burning in my chest, I could feel my perspectives on issues altering, I could feel myself getting angry. What is interesting is that at the end of the conversation we were laughing. If there is something we are good at is laughing at very bad situations we are in.

To hit the nail on the head Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona is a beautiful film. This is not a hot film, it is not sexy, it is not cool, it is just beautiful. Beautiful in the way we explain vintage art or one of Mozart’s masterpieces. I say this movie is beautiful because it paints a raw picture of human love and the human situation, something many movies shy away from because of how sensitive and real it is, so we end up getting happily ever after love stories like “How to loose a guy in 10 days“.