1/27/2001

Woes of the Pre-Op

Filed under: — Eternal @ 8:07 am
Well, Jeremy Horton and I went to another Sundance Film showing at the Tower Theater. Tonight we watched a Midnight showing of an italian movie called “Princesa". This was a great movie if you like graphic scenes of various forms of sexual fornication involving Transvestite prostitution. For me, Jeremy, and hopefully everyone I know, this is a disgusting film and a complete waste of time and/or money. The Main Character is a young hermaphroditic girl from Brazil whose name is “Fernando” This is a man’s name. Sadly, she(I don’t describe her as an it, because I believe all things are created by God, loved by God, and as far as people go, they are considered beautiful in God’s sight.) fornicates her way from Brazil to Italy, where she has a job lined up with a male transvestite whore. These are not escorts, they are street walkers. Her Pimp and all her co-workers describe themselves as “faggots” and are, afterall, males who approach cars at stoplights–soliciting themselves.

Our ball-bearing Princesa, Fernando, is involved in a sexual confrontation in which the unsuspecting Italian man finds her “lucky charms". This is not a laughing matter for the man. He forces her from his vehicle and leaves her clotheless and stranded. *Change Over* While a relationship is brewing in the Pimp’s lust for Fernando, she re-encounters the rejecting client who pays her, apologizes and returns her clothes. After being convinced to go to dinner with him to show his sincerity in his apology, a relationship blossoms. A few scandals work through with his marraige as he divorces his wife, and she comes begging for him to take her back due to pregnancy(the man had been wanting a child for sometime, but he and his wife were unsuccessful). Fernando leaves him despite his willing to pay for her surgery(she worked the streets only to raise money for the operation and to help financially aid her mother in Brazil). After attempting suicide by way of plummeting from a Catholic Cathedral(a security guard convinced her that God loves her no matter how hard things were, and that life is worth living…she didn’t jump), she returned to her Pimp and asked for help, forgiveness, and to return to the streets working for him(her?). The movie ends with happy music like most happy endings, only…the screen was showing scenes of the streetwalkers trying to attract clients, and they were going at it again as always. This end was the worst thing about the movie. The viewer began to feel for the “hero", Fernando(a), and hope that either she would have jumped from that Cathedral, or that she would have done something with her life. She continued in her route of immorrality and tastelessly I might add. The director of the movie was there, and though we didn’t stay to tell him, we thought it sucked.

1/22/2001

Action Linton

Filed under: — Eternal @ 8:06 am
My super speedy, high jumping, action packed friend, Mike Linton, stopped by my apartment in Logan today! He’s going on a two year LDS mission to Texas, and is leaving in a week! I’m sad for him because I’m not in to the whole Ladder Day Regime, but happy for him too, because no matter what the result, I think that it should be a positive learning experience filled with mucho personal growth. See ya later Mike; Have Fun!

1/20/2001

Wells’ War of the Worlds

Filed under: — Eternal @ 8:02 am
Tonight Ben Belisle and I went to a production of the “War of the Worlds” The Radio Play. The Radio Play by Howard Kock, Based on the Novel by H.G. Wells, Directed by Anne Bogart & Darron L. West. It was wonderfully performed! What can I say? You shoulda been there! When it first started, I was kinda suspecting a bomb(not good). However, by the time it ended I was amazed at how powerful the radio performance back in the 1950’s coulda been.

1/19/2001

The Hearing Repaired

Filed under: — Eternal @ 8:00 am
I went to a movie tonight, with my buddy Ben Belisle, at the USU Student Center called “Sound and Fury". It was a Sundance Film Festival video dealing with issues concerning lives of deaf and hearing people, and the cultures that each live in. I must admit that I cried(teared-up, but no wailing) about 3 or 4 different times during this film. It had some interesting and powerful things to say. I want to learn sign language as a result of it, but I probably never will. This movie, and the open-mic/signing discussion held afterwards brought me to rethink some things in my life. It brought me to rethink issues I had never…ever…given thought to before. Now I see what a great concern in decision making that deaf parents of deaf children, or hearing parents of deaf children have to struggle with. It makes me re-think my values and concerns. What would I do in a situation like that? I have to ask myself questions about these things, and not only ask them, but answer them as well. Without the answers to questions such as these, I can’t fully understand who I am or where I’m at in comparison to others; as well as finding out why am I at whatever conclusion to which I arrive. If you ever get the chance to see this film, I suggest you do. It might not change your life, but it might help to define who you are. Maybe it will change your life, maybe it won’t, but if you ever have a child born deaf or born blind; born with any lack of senses; this may give you a side of the story you’ve yet to encounter. The point of arguement did not only lie in the bias presented by the movie, but in the ethical debate about whether or not Cochlear Implants should be used on children by their parents.

1/8/2001

Back to School

Filed under: — Eternal @ 7:55 am
Well, I’ve started classes again this semester. This Fall Semester 2001 I am taking the following:

PHIL 4910 Philosphy Readings and Research
ENGL 1030 Understanding Literature
ART 2140 Drawing 2
PSY 1220 Career Exploration
HIST 4230 History of Christianity
USU 1330 Creative Arts

1/5/2001

Requiem at Tower

Filed under: — Eternal @ 7:54 am
Tonight, one of my best friends, Jeremy Horton, and I went to the Tower Theater in Salt Lake City to see “Requiem For A Dream". This movie is an independant film created by the same man who directed and wrote the movie, “PI".(PI is actually titled with the mathematical symbol PI). I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I was on the edge of my seat almost the entire movie!! And no, that’s not because I had an enormous wedgie or anything weird like that. It was an intense movie. The movie consists of various characters who would do almost anything for the pursuit of a dream, even for artificial dreams that come in capsules or through needles. The underlying social commentary in this film was astounding. It focused on the reliance on drugs and gods that people have in their everyday lives, that they don’t even recognize or realize they have. The main characters in this film are the hard-core screw ups that everyone looks at and seems to me to say, “Oh yeah, thats sick…his arm’s half decayed, and you can see the gangrene has set; yet he still sticks that needle full of heroine right in that purple flesh-eating mess of an arm.” This is one extreme. Another is the girlfriend who is satisfied with literally becoming a crack whore in the pursuit of her dreams for one more hit. Then there’s an old mother whose husband left her long ago, yet she has an abusive, drug dealing son, who moves out of the house to live the “high” life with his companions. The mother is left alone, and feels so lonely with no one for whom she can care. She becomes a QVC Channel-watchin granny. She gets caught up in a falsified hype letter in the mail, with the hopes and dreams of being on television. With nothing else to do, she pursues the idea by trying to fit in an old dress. To do so she needs to lose weight, and eventually takes to diet pills. The diet pills and the dreams consume her, until she reaches the point where the only help left is the unbearable pain electric shock therapy. I almost cried when I saw this. I don’t remember for sure, but I’m on the verge of doing so even now in the retelling of it. The best friend of our heroine addict was caught for possession in an out of town state that happened to be filled with racist, white supremicists. Being that this character was played by Marlon Wayans, an African American actor, you can guess that the prison beatings, and the rest of the outcomes for him were unpleasant to say the least. Though the story focuses on the extremeties; it causes the viewer, at least it caused me, to reflect on the little issues that almost every one of us face on a personal level. Sure they may not be the cause of our end, but they certainly aren’t helping us either. It helps us to reflect on our personal habits and consumptions and question, “What are we really doing to ourselves?” Seeing the requiem(or cost) of their dreams hit very hard in my life; knowing that I have known friends who I held very close at one point be put through the pain of electric shock therapy, another through the withdrawal suffering of heroine(which I have heard time and time again is the worst thing to ever go through), friends who lived their lives for their habits and so far, one of the few of them has already lost his life to his habit by the age of 16. What do we live our lives for? What price will we pay for our dreams?

1/1/2001

Special Operations: Mission Possible

Filed under: — Eternal @ 7:52 am
Celebrating New Years, me and five of my friends went to down-town Salt Lake City, and watched a fountain on temple square bubble over with some sort of dish washing soap bubbles or something, but we had nothing to do with it. At least…I don’t remember having helped in any way! *evil laugh*