Okay. I mentioned this in my last blog as a highlight to my weekend. Well my broseph does the whole blockbuster movie deal, and he decided to go with a documentary for one of his recent rentals.
Man on Wire is a documentary about a wire walker who attempts to walk between the World Trade Center's twin towers. I know right? It happened in the mid 70s. The general layout of the movie is two stories...one focuses on the actual Twin Towers story, and the other is the story of how he got to that point.
It was kind of bittersweet because some of the documentary covered the construction of the towers (not in detail). It was weird to see the actual construction of the buildings that are now gone.
Here's the actual summary per IMDB...
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.
Anyways, if you are looking for a good documentary, I would definitely recommend this one. It was very interesting, and apparently it won best documentary in 2008. The trailer is below.
Randomness
So this weekend was great fun with the fam. Here are some highlights: lunch with the sis, Easter egg hunt, jumping on the tramp, coach pitch baseball, Apples to Apples, my grandad's bday/lunch with the whole fam, Man on Wire, ladder golf, laughing my ass off with the bro (as usual) and my fave...playing with my nephews' Little People collection. So much fun. Basically I was a kid again this weekend, and it was great.
ALSO...
While discussing North Korea on Fox and Friends Sunday, they showed this clip of from Team America. I could not get over the fact that I was seeing Team America on Fox News or any channel besides the movie channels.
On my way home yesterday I decided to switch it up since I was tired of singing my heart out and didn't have any new audiobooks to listen to. So...I listened to ESPN radio and National Public Radio. This American Life happened to be the show that was on when I was pulling into Nash, and it was super awesome. Check out NPR fo sho. I had subscribed to the podcast for This American Life, but I just hadn't put it on my new Zune. I will now.
Go Bravos! They have a winning season so far at 1-0. Yesss.
ALSO...
While discussing North Korea on Fox and Friends Sunday, they showed this clip of from Team America. I could not get over the fact that I was seeing Team America on Fox News or any channel besides the movie channels.
On my way home yesterday I decided to switch it up since I was tired of singing my heart out and didn't have any new audiobooks to listen to. So...I listened to ESPN radio and National Public Radio. This American Life happened to be the show that was on when I was pulling into Nash, and it was super awesome. Check out NPR fo sho. I had subscribed to the podcast for This American Life, but I just hadn't put it on my new Zune. I will now.
Go Bravos! They have a winning season so far at 1-0. Yesss.
Dark Skies and Blue Skies
Have you ever seen the show I Shouldn't Be Alive? If you haven't you totally should. It's out of control. Anyways, I definitely felt like I was (or should have been) on an episode of it last night. I had planned on driving down to O-town last night since driving in from Nash on a Friday normally only gives me one good day on Saturday.
I thought if I drive in on Thursday and work from home on Friday I'd gain some quality time to spend with the fam and friends. Well Mother Nature had something to say about my genius plan.
I had planned on leaving Franktown around 4 yesterday, but after finishing up a call around a quarter til I checked weather.com...tornado warning. We could hear the sirens going off but I was still hopeful. Opal Optimist ladies and gents. So I checked again about 20 minutes later...tornado warning/flood warning. It definitely wasn't looking good as far as the ETD went for me.
I finally ended up leaving around 6 which would have put me in O-town around 10:30 or 10:45ish. Little did I know that over half of the trip (from Nash to Bham) would be spent with no radio at all (by choice) and me constantly looking out different windows including the sun roof for any type of funnel cloud not to mention while being pounded by rain. I felt like an idiot/tornado chaser, and I have never been so happy to see lightning in my whole life. Everytime it struck I checked the night sky for a funnel.
Needless to say, I made it. I probably won't try that often in the future. I figure you can only be fortunate so many times. Anyways, it's absolutely gorge outside right now and I'm busy working (taking a break right now) outside. I'm coming up on a year as a TN resident, and I can definitely vouch for the fact that Alabama's skies are that much bluer (??).
Can I also mention how much I like the new Alabama car tags...the Sweet Home Alabama ones. I mean yes that is the most overplayed song of my life, but the design is so much better than the last one.
Happy weekend!
I thought if I drive in on Thursday and work from home on Friday I'd gain some quality time to spend with the fam and friends. Well Mother Nature had something to say about my genius plan.
I had planned on leaving Franktown around 4 yesterday, but after finishing up a call around a quarter til I checked weather.com...tornado warning. We could hear the sirens going off but I was still hopeful. Opal Optimist ladies and gents. So I checked again about 20 minutes later...tornado warning/flood warning. It definitely wasn't looking good as far as the ETD went for me.
I finally ended up leaving around 6 which would have put me in O-town around 10:30 or 10:45ish. Little did I know that over half of the trip (from Nash to Bham) would be spent with no radio at all (by choice) and me constantly looking out different windows including the sun roof for any type of funnel cloud not to mention while being pounded by rain. I felt like an idiot/tornado chaser, and I have never been so happy to see lightning in my whole life. Everytime it struck I checked the night sky for a funnel.
Needless to say, I made it. I probably won't try that often in the future. I figure you can only be fortunate so many times. Anyways, it's absolutely gorge outside right now and I'm busy working (taking a break right now) outside. I'm coming up on a year as a TN resident, and I can definitely vouch for the fact that Alabama's skies are that much bluer (??).
Can I also mention how much I like the new Alabama car tags...the Sweet Home Alabama ones. I mean yes that is the most overplayed song of my life, but the design is so much better than the last one.
Happy weekend!
Email from the Mom
My mom is the queen of forwarding emails, so when they are short and sweet, I typically read them. Here's a recent one...
Dear Employees,
As CEO of this business that employs 140 people, I have accepted the fact that Barack Obama is our new President and that our taxes and government fees will now increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for this additional overhead, I figure that the clients will have to see an increase in our fees of about 8%, but since we cannot raise those prices right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off several of our employees instead. This unfortunate economic reality has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.
After giving it considerable thought, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 11 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They wanted change; I'm giving it to them.
If you have a better idea, let me know.
Sincerely,
The Boss
Dear Employees,
As CEO of this business that employs 140 people, I have accepted the fact that Barack Obama is our new President and that our taxes and government fees will now increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for this additional overhead, I figure that the clients will have to see an increase in our fees of about 8%, but since we cannot raise those prices right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off several of our employees instead. This unfortunate economic reality has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.
After giving it considerable thought, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 11 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They wanted change; I'm giving it to them.
If you have a better idea, let me know.
Sincerely,
The Boss
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