Friday, Jun. 21, 2002 - 4:38 P.M.
An amazing movie you are just going to have to see to believe.
Last night I watched one of the best movies to come out this year, and I'm betting the majority of you haven't even heard of it.And no I'm not talking about watching a porno of Bring it On. As tempting as that was, I was more in the mood to watch a movie that didn't require me taking my pants off to fully enjoy the movie. The movie I am talking about is simply titled Donnie Darko. Now don't let the title of the movie fool you. This is not some cheep and cheesy horror flick we are talking about, oh no. This film apparently was a big hit at the Sundance film festival. And after I have watched it, I can definitely see why. A movie on the levels of American Beauty with its sharp, high colored quality film and morbidly strange plot and twists. You even have a couple big name actors in this movie also. Patrick Swayze who plays a motivational speaker. Develops a very simple belief structure to explain and help guide everything and anything anyone feels. A belief strucuter people cling to tightly because they are desperate for answers and clues about life. Despite the fact we all know life is a hell of a lot more complicated then these belief structures of the moment allow for. Noah Wilde from ER playing a very intelligent school teacher who holds conversations with Donnie Darko. Drew Barrymore, who is an executive producer for the film, plays a teacher trying to reach out to the youth today and expand there minds. The main character, Donnie Darko, is played by that kid from Bubble Boy. Now don't let that fact keep you from seeing this movie. He did such an amazing job playing the role of Donnie Darko. Where as Bubble Boy was a inane movie of slap stick comedy and dumbed down humor. Its almost impossible to believe its the same kid when you compare the two movies. Now the movie itself, I'm not going to really go into details. After all I want you to see the movie, I'm not going to ruin it for you then. I will tell you this though, amazingly enough this movie is about time travel. I say this is amazing, because really it doesn't feel like a movie about time travel. It does talk about time travel itself, even bringing up Stephen Hawking's theories about black holes being portals which you can traverse space and time, but the movie is about more then that. Much more then that. And the ending of the movie is complicated, moving, and confusing all at the same time. Its one of those movies you go back and watch again, now that you know how it turns out, and see all the things as they are. I can not emphasis this enough to you all, I highly suggest you find some time and rent this movie. Its such an amazing movie that its tragic it wasn't given more media backing by there movie company. So, for the sake of seeing a really good movie that will leave you sitting there saying "wow", I say go rent this movie. I'm sure you won't regret it if you do.
Well I see on the news that Verizon comunications and Microsoft are the works for this huge project they are doing together.
Now let me see if I remember this correctly. Didn't Bill Gates go through that whole monoply law suits awhile ago? Yeah, aparently that isn't detouring him from his plans on dominating the world.
Aparently there hoping to get more people with internet connections in there homes. They believe they can raise the current 10% of internet access in homes to 40-50% by the year 2004.
Can we say ruthless corporate dictatorship folks? I thought you could.
It seems Microsoft just can't seem to want to control everything. Let me give a most recent example here. Since the introduction of there X-box, there has been talks of getting it online. Recently Microsoft has informed all the gaming companies that the servers used for the online X-box will be there own and run by there own company. Which would mean that they could look at these gaming company's customer information anytime they want to. So none of the company's could actually say that your information is safe and not be sold or used by any other company.
Electronic Arts, EA, has been reported to be very unhappy about this. Before Microsoft had made this statement, EA had spent millions of dollars on there own servers and a team to run them. Now Microsoft tells them they can't use those servers, you have to use ours. Since EA doesn't like this strong arm tactics, they have completely backed out of EA games online on the X-box.
I just have one question through out all this. How can something with the word Micro, meaning minute and small, be so fucking big?
  
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