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Well, I must say that my Halloween weekend was an INCREDIBLE success! It first started out by me and my boy Paul going to see SAW 2, which was really good and had some over the top gore that just made me fall in love with it...almost as much as the first one. Although, the suprise ending was as good as the first. I loved IT!!!! I had a pretty dull Saturday and Sunday.....nothing that exciting really happened, but then on MONDAY....me and Angela went to a concert to see................DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE!!!!!!!!!!!!   IT WAS PHENOMEONAL!!!!!  He/they sounded amazing and they played like TWENTY SONGS from all their albums. It was a great mix and it was the BEST Halloween ever......I would like somebody to write in and try and top it......GOOD LUCK! By the way, I am as of tonight, on facebook so whoever has it....look me up.

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This is for you RECKLINE: A History of Violence and Greatest Game... are below this...

I thought I would finally update my xanga....I know it's been a while, but I figured it was the right time. Well, I wanna start this one off with some good news and that is......I got into USF(University of South Florida) for those who don't know or care! I am very excited about finally knowing and I feel relieved, but at the same time I also came to the realization that I have no place to live down there right now b/c I am not living on campus. So my celebration was shortlived. So now, that is what I am concentrating on getting together as of now...who knows where the Lord will lead me, but that is something I am praying about fervently....Now on to even better things....

A History of Violence:

I must say, I didn't have high hopes going into this movie, and I know by now anyone who actually takes the time to read further is just doing so for fun b/c this movie is probably out of theaters by now, but what the heck. Anyways, I didn't expect much outta this movie partly b/c I didn't know much about it. I knew it had something to do with the mob, a plain family, and violence. But seriously, that is all that is needed going into this movie. It was suprisingly good. A major drawback was that at the beginning, it took a while for the movie to get started. The slow parts were slow, but the fast parts were crazy fast. This movie took violence in a whole different direction than what people are used to seeing in horror movies or action movies. It shows violence preformed by a man that knows what he's doing and portrays it in such a realistic way that if you were to watch a man get shot in the head at point blank range that's how it would look. It is hard to put your finger on and almost scary because at one point at the beginning of the movie, the two men at the start of it commit such a violent act you begin to be appalled by it, but then become intrigued and in a way want to see more of it, preferably done to the men themselves. I will say the gore is amazing, and no, not the "horror" movie gore where someone gets impaled and you know in the back of your head how they did that. This is the stuff that happens in real life. This is the stuff that makes the movie "in your face." The story moves slowly and really the only thing keeping it to life is the gore, but if you can be patient through the slow parts, it is a good movie.  

                                                                                            THREE STARS

GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED

Obviously, if you love or even are interested in golf this is an amazing movie to go see! The beginning was a little akward because at first you don't know what's going on, but the movie moves at a pace with the flashbacks and different cities that it gives you time to put the pieces together. What I loved about the movie was not that it was about golf, but that it was a true story and that these were real competetors coming to America to compete in the U.S. Open. The golfing scenes were great and the way the players played back then was amazing to watch because the movie made it very accurate all the way down to how the players dressed and even how they smoked on the golf course. I came into it thinking that it was just going to be about this kid trying to win in some major tournament, but I was completely wrong.....well not completely, but that is not what they focused on. The majority of it was the backstory of the best British player of that time and his goal to come over to America to win the tournament, but also it chronicles the uprising of Shia Lebouf's character as well. I know this probably reads like a bunch of wrambling, but just go see the movie and you'll understand. It's lighthearted and you know he wins, but it still keeps you on the edge. I will say this, I do not like the little kid in the movie. He's a punk and his little ryhmes get on my nerves to the point where I wanted to just slap him, but that's about it.

                                                                                THREE 1/2  STARS

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                                                  LORD OF WAR

Well, what can I say that already isn't in the title. This movie is not for the light of heart and the best way I can think of describing this film is if anyone has seen the movie CRASH. They understand how real that movie is when it deals with racism and how common it is in our society. Well, the scary thing is, that this movie is the same kind of real, but with arms dealing. It hits you hard.....and fast...trust me....It's not so much graphic, although it does maintain the type of cinematic element to it, but it also shows how arms dealing is done and what kind of people are capable of doing it. It scary to think that there are really ones who do this for a living. But the reality of it all hit me in the last ten minutes when Nicholas Cage's character was speaking with a police officer and mentioned that the U.S. deals in arms all the time and sometimes they need "underground" people to do the dealing for them so they don't get pegged directly.....that is why they never end up in jail. Like I said, this isn't for the light of heart. This movie hits you with everything that is involved in the present topic, starting from the early eighties to how it has evolved to the present day. I thought it was a great movie, but not in the sense of it being as great as The Shawshank Redemption. Literally, the replay-ability is a 0 if not a -2. But that being said, it was an excellent movie that just makes you take a moment and think about all the wars over the years and how they were won and with what guns and how it all happened.

                                                        THREE STARS

You know how sometimes people might come up to you and say the words, "I am praying for you." It is sad to say that most of the time those people don't really mean it. They might say that they are, but they really don't partly because they forget or they have their own problems to pray for. It could be a number of different reasons. It is those people that say that they are praying for you and really do that actually make a difference with prayer. I am saying all of this because I need prayer right now. Not from the people that say they will and then forget it, but the ones who will seriously write my name down on a prayer list or just pray for me after they read this, or just when they wake up or go to sleep. Those are who this message is aimed towards. I need prayer for a couple of things that are important to me and worry me slightly. I know God will take care of them in his time, but it helps to have more than one person praying about these things. I first want to pray for my mother and her recovery from the surgery she undertook this morning. She is doing well, but it will still be a couple weeks for a full recovery. I also want to pray for my college situation, and not only that, but my living situation once I am in college. Next, I would like to bring my grandfather to prayer because this Friday, he is undergoing surgery. He is on my mom's side so you could imagine my grandmother having to endure two surgeries within her family this week. He is old, but strong and I just hope he does well with this. All in all these things might seem small to someone who does not know me or have ever been in this situation, but now more than ever I have learned to rely on prayer and just allowing God to speak to me through it. Thank you to all who read this and actually commit to it.