Apparently, Bill Gates is set to leave Microsoft in July 2008. I suppose, this kind of news is big enough to make a movie out of. Though, depending on how much budget one has for making a movie, it can dictate the caliber of casting you’re going to see. Or so it seems.
Title: Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft
Starring: Bill Gates, Brian Williams, Jay Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, Matthew McConaughey, George Clooney, Jon Stuart, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, and from Microsoft: Steve Ballmer, Christine White, Lisa Brummell, Robbie Bach, Kevin Turner, Ray Ozzie, and Craig Mundi.
If it seems big enough for you, then break out the popcorn, ya’ll! And the box of tissues, too!
Cloverfield is what they all say it is… Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla. It’s very loud and dizzying. It was shot Blair Witch style. Some guy documenting the whole thing with a camcorder. Well, it starts out with some guy’s going-away party. That goes on for about 15 minutes or so, until a big bang was heard. And that’s when the fun begins. I thought the party actually went a little too long. It’s like a roller coaster ride. The party scene felt like standing in a long line. But then, eventually comes, the ride!
Now, I’m not talking about acting here. There’s no rehearsal, no makeup, no costumes. This is a company meeting, for crying out loud! Nobody even expects a cameraman to show up, unannounced. And when someone sees one of those big black things pointing at them, like they’re being held at gunpoint, you can pretty much expect a look of self-consciousness, pretty much all of the time. Especially, when their un-Photoshopped faces are magnified, to their horror, on a humongous wall screen.
About a month ago, I remember seeing a trailer for a movie that quickly grabbed my attention. Needless to say, anything that has a scene of the Statue of Liberty’s head rolling down the streets of Manhattan, will surely grab my attention. And that is, regardless of whether or not, the movie is actually any good. The title of this one is Cloverfield, by the way. And it’s about to come out anytime now, if it hasn’t yet. I’m not really sure what it’s about, though. I read somewhere that it’s a tale of a monster, or something, that is told from the viewpoint of a small group of people, who apparently witnessed it. Oooohhh!
I’ve always been scared of guns. Let alone, the thought of tucking the thing in the pants, with the barrel pointing… well, you know where.
You see, when I was little, Honesty was not imaginary, at all. He was real. He was everywhere I was. All the time. Willing to be the silly, yet simple friend that he truly was. But as I grew up, I noticed him become more and more withdrawn. I would ask him what’s wrong, and he would always snap back with… nothing. Hmm, that doesn’t sound like the Honesty I know. I was a little disappointed by this, in fact. One day, he confessed to me that he has a twin. An evil twin, as he coined it. I was a bit taken aback by this revelation.
Back in the summer of 2005, I recorded a few cover tunes, as I had been running dry on creativity. I included the Thin Lizzy classic, “The Boys Are Back In Town,” since it was one of those tunes I used to play live, at open mic nights. Unplugged! It was sort of unique to play it with an acoustic guitar, as it is truly well-known for being a rock anthem (I can imagine it being blasted in an Irish pub). But people seemed to liked it a lot.
Chris Alma José 