Archive - Mar 2, 2007

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Gary's Birthday and Bowling

A couple weeks back we celebrated Gary's birthday with some cake and ice cream on Saturday, mongolian bbq for lunch on Sunday, and bowling Sunday afternoon. Lisa was the bowling champ. Jonathan brought up the rear, even losing to most of the kids. Here are some photos and a couple videos:

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And if that isn't enough pictures, there are a bunch more here (and I've started uploading photos to the Picasa web album at high enough quality that they should print well and you can order them from Shutterfly...just click the order prints button).

I am filled with Christs love

200px-Saved!_movie_poster.jpgTonight I finished watching Saved! (2004,PG-13) (ScreenIt! Review). From the ScreenIt! Review:

After becoming pregnant following her attempts to cure her boyfriend of his homosexuality, a teen finds her fundamentalist beliefs tested.

My favorite scene was when Hillary Faye yells "I am filled with Christ's love" while throwing her Bible at Mary and striking her in the back. What a great metaphor for how Christians often throw the Bible at other sinners without love while at the same time implicitly claiming to be filled with Christ's love.

Another interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

During a scene where Cassandra fakes speaking in tongues, the original script called for Hilary Faye and Mary to speak in tongues as well. In the commentary, Moore reveals that the woman who was training her and Eva Amurri to speak tongues gave them phrases to repeat, including "she bought a Hyundai" and "untie my bowtie."

And what Mary said looking at her newborn baby:

Life is too amazing to be this random and meaningless consequence of the universe. There had to be a God out there or something. Something inside. You just had to feel it...and when you think about it, what would Jesus do? I don't know, we'll be trying to figure it out together.

And The Replacements' songs at the prom.

I give it 4 out of 5.

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