4 hour lunch break!

OK, I am finishing up a four hour lunch break and am so not wanting to go back to work. So I am going to list a couple of favorite things right now in my life...Genki Sudo Tribute Video on Dailymotion.com is incredible and the first time I watched it, brought a tear to my eye. Sencond, all my music, I have not felt the need for music like this in so long...I love it. Third, everyone who truly knows me knows that my dream in paramount to my existence. My friends are also being great right now, I bet I am so moody with all these massive life changes taking place. I can't wait to make them all proud. Things I am not to happy about, my four hour lunch break, the Boston Celtics, and my internet service has been slow. Ha, I guess my life isn't so terrible if these are the things bugging me right now. Well back to work, I actually don't even know if anyone reads this but I still will keep typing.

p.s. here is the link to the vid I was referencing http://www.dailymotion.com/Beatdown77/video/x1iy6h_genki-sudo-the-legend-of-the-samura

My Top 50 Movies of All Time!

I know alot of people have their own ideas of what is a great movie and I tell you the total truth...these movies have helped mold me into the person I am. That might seem weird and please once you see the list don't call the cops. I hope you enjoy and make an effort to see the bulk of these movies!
These are in order of my favorites.

1. Almost Famous
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Shawn of the Dead
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Original 90's)
5. Kung Fu Hustle
6. Star Wars Trilogy IV, V, VI
7. Battle Royale
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. The Fountain
10. Rockstar
11. V for Vendetta
12. What's Eating Gilbert's Grape
13. The Prestige
14. Red Dawn
15. The Matrix
16. Boondock Saints
17. Detroit Rock City
18. Brave Heart
19. Batman Begins
20. Spiderman
21. Serenity
22. Green Street Hooligans
23. Army of Darkness
24. Duel to the Death
25. Gladiator
26. Grandma's Boy
27. The Incredibles
28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
29. Desperado
30. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
31. Conan the Barbarian
32. Rocky
33. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
34. The Shawshank Redemption
35. Trainspotting
36. Oceans 11
37. 12 Monkey's
    
38. SE7EN
39. Nightwatch
40. Pan's Labyrinth
41. Rushmore
42. Fight Club
43. Iron Monkey
44. The Last Dragon
45. Pirates of the Caribbean
    
46. The Girl Next Door
47. Hot Fuzz
48. Legend
49. Night of the Living Dead
50. Goonies

Well and there it is...I hope you enjoy and check out some that you haven't seen.

The Fountain...

Well, I will honestly say that I have rarely seen a movie have such a profound effect on me. "The Fountain", written by Darren Aronofsky, is a story about life, death, hope and most of all love. I don't want to tell you to much. It is a story that has different effects for different people. The first time I saw this film I took a date, a trendy punk girl, who grew up here in San Diego. Not that it is a bad thing, but she was especially shallow and pretentious. I walked out of the theater looking at this pretty woman and thought, "How great would it be, to have something greater than yourself, to share your life with." She looked at me gazing into her eyes and flat out said,"I hated it...to much dumb music and I really just didn't get it." After I slept with her I decided that she was not the one for me. I am kidding! I am kidding! Just seeing if everyone is awake. I did drop her off thinking, man it must suck not to have been touched by a story as heart filled as the one we just had experienced.

Anyways days turned into weeks and weeks into months until I saw that it was being released onto DVD. An opportunity to share this great story with someone who might actually appreciate this. I thought for a long time, who would like this story, I was at a lost. I do not have that many friends out here and the ones I do keep around balance me, meaning they are not deep, heart broken, emotional wrecks such as myself. More the crazy spontaneous type. See they keep my mind off the things a Scorpio, such as myself, might linger and decay on. So I went to the video store, having just went to the local Coin Star and emptying a cup full of quarters, and picked myself up "The Fountain" and "Pan's Labyrinth" (An excellent movie as well, had my hairs on end at times.), and brought them home along with an order of Carne Asada Fries. If you have never tried them, please do your self a favor, find out the best authentic Mexican Food Restaurant, and order them. My roommate, funny enough, was in the midst of devouring a burrito himself. I smiled and sat next to him and loosely suggested that we watch a movie while we chowed. He grunted something that could be construed as acceptance and I popped open the PS2, put in "The Fountain", and sat back to my meal.

96 great minutes later, I looked over to my roommate and sort of eye nudged him "What do you think?" He looked at me and said, "Woah, I don't think could go through that." I asked if he meant the movie or the story. He cut me off before I could finish my question and said, "I would rather die than have that love and lose it." I laughed in pure happiness and listened as he gave me his rundown on the movie. He got it. I am leaving out what else we actually spoke of to save your eyes from the truth of this incredible movie. I guess I really just started to write tonight on the mission of sharing a great experience and stretched into a story of views, but for yourself, rent "The Fountain" and really think about the story and if it isn't to much trouble, let me know what you think or better yet feel.

Sincerely Phil