well it is Oscars night, and can't you already tell I like making lists?

I saw probably 20 or 25 movies that were released in 2007, here are the my top 10. Check out the lists of great directors that made all these movies...


1 and 2 (tie) - There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) & No Country For Old Men (the Coen Brothers).
3. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
4. Zodiac (David Fincher)
5. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
6. Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
7. Juno (Jason Reitman)
8. Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
9. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
10. The Mist (Frank Darabont)


Movies from '07 I want to see: Atonement, Michael Clayton, Once, Sweeney Todd, the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I'm Not There, Once, Away From Her, Across the Universe

"My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."

Those were the last public words that Martin Luther King Jr. said, the day before he was assassinated.

I just listened to his "I have a dream" speech and his last speech. Listen to both of them here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4h3gGYZSk

The last speech he gives almost has an awareness in it that he is going to die soon, and he does not care. He just wanted to do the Lord's will he said. Listen to these speeches, and wake up to the injustice that goes on all around the world and in our country. Racism, rape, abortion, to name a few. Wake up.

just a thought

Promoting animals rights and promoting pro-choice is valuing animals over humans. If you disagree, I would love to hear your argument.

(extreme) Animal Rights says: animals should not be killed for food, they have rights and should not be murdered. Farm owners should not have the right to choose to kill their animals for food, the animals have a right to life.

Pro-choice says: Unborn babies do not have a right to life. Mothers have a right to let a doctor murder their baby if they choose. Human rights start when a baby is out of a mother.


Let me know what you think.

I can't get over this

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iUidvWingPg

it's the same thing over and over for a minute with hilarious music, but seriously how did that happen? I know all you sports fans have already seen this...

would have been a lot better if it happened during the NBA season, but it's legit anyway

random thought

Shame on anyone who is voting for Hillary mainly because she is a woman, or Obama mainly because he is black. People should be judged upon the grounds of their character and beliefs, not on the color of the skin or their gender. I believe just like hating someone on the grounds of race or gender is wrong, esteeming someone strictly one the grounds of race or gender is wrong. A black man with the same character as a white man is no better. A woman with the same character as man, regardless of race, is no better. In deciding who to vote for, how to treat people, and how to look at people, esteem and honor all races the same. Look at people as they are in this present situation.

That said, please Obama, beat Hillary.

Andrew

the radicalness of the gospel

Well, here we go. I am actually going to write a blog that is not about music or about nothing. I just listened to Mark Driscoll's sermon from yesterday about sexual sin. It was really good. He basically boils sexual sin down to the un-worship of Jesus Christ. He says that sexual sin is the worship of created things instead of the worship of the creator (Romans 1). He says that sexual sin is idolatry, and that many people live their whole lives with the religion of "sex." They spend money on it, make plans around it, worship it, think about it, make sacrifices for it, and go to hell because they decided to worship it instead of Jesus.
This sermon got me to thinking about how radical the gospel is. The good news of Jesus, that transforms people's lives, is very counter-cultural. The truth and meaning of life as conveyed by Jesus and Scripture is so opposite of the lies our culture tells us about reality. Every day, in so many ways often undetected, our culture is speaking to us. And it's not always telling us something directly. Images, internet, commercials, the radio, and TV all are telling us things as often as we indulge in them. And I fear that too much as Christians we don't realize that a world view and message is being communicated through the culture into our heads, affecting the things we value and ultimately affecting the things we worship.
That's enough for now, just some of my thoughts.