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Despite my newly organized self, I am still not finding enough time to get through all of my "to-dos" or "like-tos". My case in point is my bookmark folder called "to blog" is overflowing with about 50 things that I would love to post about. Rather than waste a good chuck of the holidays writing about everything, here is a few things I have found to be interesting as of late:

The Chronic of Narnia

If you love SNL parody, you have to watch this rap. As a side note, I just saw the Chronicles of Narnia last night and really enjoyed it (3½ stars), despite being stuck in the second row.

Lot movie

(click to stream, right click and "save as" to download).

This video was produced for my VISA 310 class at UBC and I just thought that I would share it here. It was created as a companion piece to a series of photographs of the same abandoned house. The background music is by the Flaming Lip's, copyright be damned! Here is the description of my photo series, adapted for this video:

This video is meant to spur the discussion of what happened at this house. Why was it abandoned? Why so quickly (or so it seems)? When? Why was it left to deteriorate?

Today while poking about the best movies ever on wikipedia I came across The Razzies, better known as "that other awards show" for the worst movies ever. Understandably, only two actors (one of them Tom Green) and the director of Showgirls have ever picked up their trophies.

The list is long (here as well) so here are a bunch that I remember or are laughably bad, along with some great slams by critics:

Sometimes a movie review comes along that sells me on a film before I have even had the chance to see it. Primer is one of those movies. Made for a mere 7 thousand, not including prints and promotion of course, it holds it's own production value wise with the big-budget block-busters. I have a soft spot for Indies, especially because I am excited about the ways in which new technology can free people creatively and in business to do what they want if they just go and do it. Call it my own "American Dream", a belief that I find fleeting at best.

Also intriguing is that the filmmaker is a Christian, pronouncing that his faith had a direct impact on the themes of the film. I like the way that he uses his faith to inform his art rather than using art as a platform for his faith. I'm probably sounding like a broken record by now stating my distaste for Christian music and movies because of their sub-par production values and their way of glossing over any part of life with easy answers. This is the type of movie that makes you think.