Watch Rod Hull and Emu on YouTube.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Rod Hull and Emu
Watch Rod Hull and Emu on YouTube.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
mmbtv: Hugh Howey -- Wool, Shift, and Dust
The story, unadvertised and spread only by word of mouth, was so popular that Howey wrote four more stories and novellas that combined, would become Wool. The first story introduces us to the silo and its hierarchy. The second and third stories involve the search for Sheriff Holston's replacement by the Mayor and her deputy. The search takes them all of the way down into the bowels of the silo where the Mechanicals do their work keeping the lights on and the water flowing. At the very bottom they find Juliette who is recruited to help police the silo.
Wool is only the first of three novels in the Silo Saga. The second one, Shift, introduces us to the origins of the silo and the final one, Dust, wraps up the series. I had a few minor quibbles with some of the plotting, but overall enjoyed the trilogy.
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Valve
Ah, yes: Those 65 million users, the ones who make Valve more than just another competitor looking to wrest control of the TV away from Sony and Microsoft. In fact, Valve wouldn’t even describe themselves as wanting that. It’s just about adding a new way to play Steam games, one they say they’re reasonably sure that a big enough portion of their sizable base of loyal fans wants to use. But if they’re right — and if that virtuous cycle gets going, bringing in more players, more games, more players, more games, etc. — in a few years, Steam Machines might be eating a meaningful portion of Sony’s and Microsoft’s lunch. But for now, Valve’s focused on its existing customers.In my humble opinion, more choice is always good.
Source: Wired
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
mmbtv: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
He was active as a published writer from 1939 to 1987, with several notable works.
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long consists of various aphorisms, such as
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.Shop Amazon for The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in!
Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
It’s amazing how much “mature wisdom” resembles being too tired.
tips for gals: How to Plant Azaleas
Thing I Notice: Azaleas
My Pet Peeves: Guys just don't seem to stop and smell the flowers, do they?
Tips for Gals: As WikiQuote says:
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper, Olney hymns, 'Light Shining Out of Darkness', June 1778.
Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.
William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, line 241.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted (1933).
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions, just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), X.
Above his head
Four lily stalks did their white honours wed
To make a coronal; and round him grew
All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue,
Together intertwined and trammell'd fresh;
The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh,
Shading its Ethiop berries.
John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book IV, line 413.
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil,
Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill
Your baskets high
With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines
Savory latter-mint, and columbines.
John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book IV, line 575.
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Csesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 19. FitzGerald's translation.
One thing is certain and the rest is lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 63. FitzGerald's translation.
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
James Russell Lowell, To the Dandelion, st. 1.
"Aye," said Math, "let us seek, thou and I, by our magic and enchantment to conjure a wife for him out of flowers"...And then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they called forth the very fairest and best endowed maiden that mortal ever saw, and baptized her with the baptism they used at that time, and named her Blodeuedd.
"Math Son of Mathonwy", Mabinogion (Jones and Jones, 1989, p. 68).
Anemones and seas of gold,
And new-blown lilies of the river,
And those sweet flow'rets that unfold
Their buds on Camadera's quiver.
Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Light of the Harem.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916).
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148
Color is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.
Philipp Otto Runge, in a letter (February 1802) quoted in L. Eitner Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1750-1850: Enlightenment (1970), p. 150
Thou shalt not lack
The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor
The azur'd harebell, like thy veins.
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act TV, scene 2, line 220.
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 296.
When daisies pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 904.
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white;
Like sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), ActV, scene 5, line 74.
I know a bank, where the wild thyme blows
Where ox-lips, and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act II, scene 1, line 251. Changed by Stervens to "whereon the wild thyme blows," and "luscious woodbine" to "lush woodbine".
To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues,
The purple violets, and marigolds.
William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 1, line 15.
The fairest flowers o' the season
Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 81.
Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can blast the flower,
Even when in most unwary hour
It blooms in Fancy's bower.
Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can rend the shrine
In which its vermeil splendours shine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870).
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, st. 1 (1816).
There grew pied wind-flowers and violets,
Daisies, those pearl'd Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated flower that never sets;
Faint oxlips; tender bluebells at whose birth
The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets
Its mother's face with heaven-collected tears,
When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Question, st. 2 (1820).
And like a prophetess of May
Strewed flowers upon the barren way,
Making the wintry world appear
Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To Jane: The Invitation (1822), line 17.
So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower;
No more doth flourish after first decay,
That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower
Of many a lady and many a paramour.
Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime,
For soon comes age that will her pride deflower.
Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time,
Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book II, Canto XII, Stanza 75.
Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book HI, Canto VI, Stanza 6.
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait."
Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part I, section xxii, stanza 10.
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
They sighed for the dawn and thee.
Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part XXII, Stanza 8.
The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue;
And polyanthus of unnumbered dyes.
James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 529.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1803).
Say it with flowers.
Slogan coined by Patrick O'Keefe (1872-1934), in 1917, for the Society of American Florists, as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 8.
Let's discuss this further in the comments until we arrive at a consensus, shall we please? Thank you!
Shop Amazon for flower appreciation
My Pet Peeves: Guys just don't seem to stop and smell the flowers, do they?
Tips for Gals: As WikiQuote says:
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper, Olney hymns, 'Light Shining Out of Darkness', June 1778.
Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.
William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, line 241.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted (1933).
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions, just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), X.
Above his head
Four lily stalks did their white honours wed
To make a coronal; and round him grew
All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue,
Together intertwined and trammell'd fresh;
The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh,
Shading its Ethiop berries.
John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book IV, line 413.
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil,
Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill
Your baskets high
With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines
Savory latter-mint, and columbines.
John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book IV, line 575.
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Csesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 19. FitzGerald's translation.
One thing is certain and the rest is lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 63. FitzGerald's translation.
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
James Russell Lowell, To the Dandelion, st. 1.
"Aye," said Math, "let us seek, thou and I, by our magic and enchantment to conjure a wife for him out of flowers"...And then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they called forth the very fairest and best endowed maiden that mortal ever saw, and baptized her with the baptism they used at that time, and named her Blodeuedd.
"Math Son of Mathonwy", Mabinogion (Jones and Jones, 1989, p. 68).
Anemones and seas of gold,
And new-blown lilies of the river,
And those sweet flow'rets that unfold
Their buds on Camadera's quiver.
Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Light of the Harem.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916).
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148
Color is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.
Philipp Otto Runge, in a letter (February 1802) quoted in L. Eitner Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1750-1850: Enlightenment (1970), p. 150
Thou shalt not lack
The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor
The azur'd harebell, like thy veins.
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act TV, scene 2, line 220.
These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 296.
When daisies pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 904.
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white;
Like sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597; published 1602), ActV, scene 5, line 74.
I know a bank, where the wild thyme blows
Where ox-lips, and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act II, scene 1, line 251. Changed by Stervens to "whereon the wild thyme blows," and "luscious woodbine" to "lush woodbine".
To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues,
The purple violets, and marigolds.
William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 1, line 15.
The fairest flowers o' the season
Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 81.
Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can blast the flower,
Even when in most unwary hour
It blooms in Fancy's bower.
Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can rend the shrine
In which its vermeil splendours shine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870).
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, st. 1 (1816).
There grew pied wind-flowers and violets,
Daisies, those pearl'd Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated flower that never sets;
Faint oxlips; tender bluebells at whose birth
The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets
Its mother's face with heaven-collected tears,
When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Question, st. 2 (1820).
And like a prophetess of May
Strewed flowers upon the barren way,
Making the wintry world appear
Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To Jane: The Invitation (1822), line 17.
So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower;
No more doth flourish after first decay,
That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower
Of many a lady and many a paramour.
Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime,
For soon comes age that will her pride deflower.
Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time,
Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book II, Canto XII, Stanza 75.
Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book HI, Canto VI, Stanza 6.
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait."
Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part I, section xxii, stanza 10.
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
They sighed for the dawn and thee.
Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part XXII, Stanza 8.
The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue;
And polyanthus of unnumbered dyes.
James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 529.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1803).
Say it with flowers.
Slogan coined by Patrick O'Keefe (1872-1934), in 1917, for the Society of American Florists, as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 8.
Let's discuss this further in the comments until we arrive at a consensus, shall we please? Thank you!
Shop Amazon for flower appreciation
Monday, November 4, 2013
mmbtv: The Music of Nashville
The show stars Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, and Claire Bowen as three country music performers at different stages of their careers.
With T-Bone Burnett as the main composer for season 1, this show has an outstanding selection of songs.
Give The Music of Nashville a listen right now!
tips for guys: How to Plant Azaleas
Thing I Notice: Azaleas
My Pet Peeves: Azaleas have to planted IN THE GROUND
Tips for Guys: I learned how to plant Azaleas by Googling "how to plant Azaleas". That may even be how you found this post. Let me make it quick and dirty for you:
Azaleas are colorful, blooming shrubs. You should plant azaleas in the late fall or early spring. Azaleas can be planted outdoors or also grown indoors but are considered high maintenance.
Source: Wiki how
Shop Amazon for Azaleas
My Pet Peeves: Azaleas have to planted IN THE GROUND
Tips for Guys: I learned how to plant Azaleas by Googling "how to plant Azaleas". That may even be how you found this post. Let me make it quick and dirty for you:
Azaleas are colorful, blooming shrubs. You should plant azaleas in the late fall or early spring. Azaleas can be planted outdoors or also grown indoors but are considered high maintenance.
- Find a place in the garden or yard with some shade. There are deciduous azalea varieties that do well with full sun, but most of them need a bit of shade.
- Prepare the soil. Azaleas prefer a slightly acidic soil, such as a pH 5.5 or pH 6. If a soil test reveals an alkaline soil, mix some sulfur into the dirt before planting to balance it.
- Before planting azaleas, prepare a well drained soil bed for the plants. Azaleas do not like wet soil at their roots.
- Place the azalea plant in the soil. Dig a hole in the dirt deep enough to cover the root and bottom of the plant. If the soil does not have good drainage, set the plant about two inches below the soil line and fill around it with an acidic mix. Dig a few inches wider than the ball of the root. Add soil into the hole around the plant. Spread the dirt around and under the azalea, and lightly pat the soil into place with fingertips. Mulch the area around azalea plants. Use pine bark, pine needles, sawdust or wood chips between the bushes. This will keep the soil moist and the temperature of the dirt even. Mulch will also help keep out weeds.
- Water the azalea plant. Water the plant and the soil slowly and thoroughly. Water again the day after planting. The plants must be watered at least once per week, unless they are in direct sunlight, in which case they must be watered more frequently.
Shop Amazon for Azaleas
Sunday, November 3, 2013
mmbtv: War Zone / Comfort Zone
WAR ZONE/COMFORT ZONE, a co-production of Connecticut Public Television and Squidface Films, tells an eye-opening story of activism and persistence in the face of tragedy—about military and civilian women banding together to create something—-that has been largely unknown to the general public. With footage from intense public meetings as well as in-depth portraits of women veterans on the verge of homelessness, the documentary is both raw and intimate. It charts the struggle of one small group to create something completely new: a transitional, supportive house for homeless women veterans in Bridgeport, Connecticut.Greg Proops gave this documentary a shout-out on his Smartest Man in the World podcast.
Visit the Squid Face Films website to view to see the trailer, and look for this important documentary through PBS.
mmbtv: Diamond Dogs
It's a concept album that blends Bowie's interest in George Orwell's 1984 with a glam-rock post apocalyptic vision.
Great songs from the album include the title track Diamond Dogs and Rebel Rebel.
According to Wikipedia, the album was certified gold in 1974, and was a precursor to punk rock, what with it's
raw guitar style and visions of urban chaos, scavenging children and nihilistic lovers.Give Diamond Dogs a listen right now!
Diamonds: Threat or Menace?!
That's why they keep coming up with all these crazy new inventions, like
jewelry drill bits a bunch of other diamond-y things!
And that's why they keep the Valentine's Day Marketing Conspiracy alive...
Guys: if your gal really loves you, she'll love you even more for caring enough to teach her all about the "thing"! It might be hard at first, but soon she'll come to appreciate you, even thank you for opening her eyes to the big menace of the "thing"...
Really, wouldn't she be better off with a useful small appliance, or a new top of the line gaming system, or, if she's really something special, the biggest plasma TV on the market?
She'll thank you later once you expose that huge "thing"!
Gals: don't let that nasty "thing" get the better of you! Think about it, and ask for a gal's REAL best friend, like an electric toothbrush or a pearl necklace or something...
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Shop Amazon for things gals will learn to love
Saturday, November 2, 2013
mmbtv: Joan Jett
Joan Jett was a member of the Runaways in the 70s and has been leader of the Blackhearts since about 1980. In a career spanning about five decades so far, she has made over 12 albums of great music, from her work with the Runaways, as a solo artist, with the Blackhearts, with Evil Stig, and with collaborations with many other artists.
Read about Joan Marie Larkin at Wikipedia.
Some of her good music includes
Good Music
Cherry Bomb
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
New Orleans
Just Lust
Tulane
I Wanna Be Your Dog
and many more great songs!
Her latest album is 2013's Unvarnished. Give it a try right now!
Read about Joan Marie Larkin at Wikipedia.
Some of her good music includes
Good Music
Cherry Bomb
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
New Orleans
Just Lust
Tulane
I Wanna Be Your Dog
and many more great songs!
Her latest album is 2013's Unvarnished. Give it a try right now!
Friday, November 1, 2013
mmbtv: Ender's Game
The book was based on a short story originally published in 1977.
The film has a running time of 114 minutes and opened in Germany, the United Kingdom, and other countries in October. Stars include Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin.
Empire Online has given the film a rating of 2/5 stars. They note:
The film’s problems are dialogue-based; the script never quite explains why these children are so important, especially given that Ben Kingsley’s war hero, Mazer Rackham, is still around. Losing the novel’s Earth-set subplot, focusing on Ender’s siblings, means that we also lose context for both the war effort and for Ender’s deep-seated fear of turning into his sociopathic brother. And there are moments that fail: after a particularly draining war game, Ender and his team stand around as though waiting for dinner rather than reflecting the trauma they’ve just witnessed. The result is a slightly flattened take on a world that Card brought to life.Read reviews of Ender's Game
When we survey the whole field of religion
~ William James ~
Source: WikiQuote
Thursday, October 31, 2013
mmbtv: Downton Abbey -- The Essential Collection
If you've watched Downton Abbey, you may not realize that just like there is a version of the Bonanza theme song with lyrics, there is a version of the "Downtown Abbey Suite" (the instrumental that plays at show's open) with lyrics, called, "Did I Make the Most of Loving You."
Give Downton Abbey -- The Essential Collection a listen right now!
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