Against Nothingness

Day to day stuff School starts next week, and I am excited. I have never had such a long break between fall and winter semesters before; 4 full weeks. I would say that I haven't known what to do with myself, but I would be lying. The time off has been great, Kristina and I were able to see both our families; I hadn't been home for nearly 1.5 years (though I had seen my parents). Then I got 2 weeks to sit around, play games, read books, and get a head start on some of my classes. Still, I am ready to be back in school. Our bible study started back up today. I love our group; its full of a great people, and were doing a fairly interesting video/book series (I quite often find canned bible studies to be... not so good, so its a nice change). Its got me thinking too, which will likely be the subject of another post.

Signs of the Times Were losing the message; or the ability to hear one anyway. No message in particular, just message. Either that, or pointlessness makes more money. H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" is a class novel, a science fiction suspense which uses dread to produce a feeling of hopelessness and a commentary on mans false confidence and pride in himself. We turned it into a movie which might was little more than one big holocaust scene; there isn't enough character development to induce dread, and there are far too many Cruise heroics, and not enough time, to gain anything near hopelessnes; finish it off with a nonsensical hollywood ending and ta-da Blockbuster! You may think that missing this particular message is inevatible in a book to movie conversion; perhaps, but consider this. King Kong, originally an epic movie about who the real monsters were (us, humans, just in case you didn't know) has been turned into a 3 hour action flick with so many monsters, such...