Texas Needs to Be Annexed

Seriously. Look at what came out of the Waco District!!!!

Lookie!!

Wow, if they get angry about the new facts developing moon, like its a reflector, imagine the riots when someone mentions Darwin's Birthday coming up on February the 12th.

Screenwriting- "Can Films Make A Difference"

"Writing Consciousness-Raising Stories" - Catherine Ann Jones
Student Filmmakers July 2008

In 1994 Quentin Tarantino's film Natural Born Killers, a satirical crime film, the main couple murders about 50 people "for the great sex after". The week it opened, a couple in the Midwest recreated the film's premise. When they were arrested, they gave the names of the characters. This shows the dark side of film, but there is also the story that provides a carthatic release for the viewer. The trick is to finding the balance in it I believe.

Amazing Cookies!

Instead of doing work, I made chocolate crinkle cookies that absolutely rock my socks!!

I have been told they are the secret love child of the brownie vampire princess (Sofia) and slave werewolf cookie (Lucian). This love story ends tragically though, because her father burns her to prevent the abomination in her tummy. And this metaphor leads doesn't work because the base is a chocolate cake mix and it's good for the stomach...........

Anyway, this leads into a long rant about how much I want to go see UNDERWORLD: Rise of the Lycans!!!



Super Easy Chocolate Crackled Cookies

Ingredients:
1 devil's food cake mix (18 1/4 ounce)
1/2 cup shortening
1 tablespoon water
2 eggs

1 cup powdered sugar for non-rick rolling!

Directions:
1. I was making Squash and Mac so the oven was already at 350!!! But if not preheat oven and lay down parchment paper or SPLAT or professional baking mat.

2. In your local Kitchen Aid, beat together the shortening, water, and eggs. Add the cake mix, and mix until smooth. I usually have to get out a spatula to incorporated.

3. Roll balls into balls about a half golf ball sized ball. Then plop the the balls in a bowl of powder sugar, prop onto . Place cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets.

4. Bake for 10 minutes. Enjoy for about a week!!! (I don't actually know how long they last because they're gone in about 3 days!)

Lawrence of Arabia

The middle east has always been ducked. Various tribes all fighting for bare necessities in a barren trek of land between the rivers and seas. Under an oppressive sun and outside interests, pride and religion clashing like calvary swords, under the cloak of brotherhood . The ideas of brotherhood, of loyalty is what Lawrence of Arabia explores.

The graphic scenes of bloodshed, of true wartime battle, are explicitly and exquisite shot, literally moving pictures, where each scene is a photograph. Lighting, set design, and costuming drive the point of fine art home. The contrast of settings, from the barren deserts to the lush seaside of Damascus and Aqaba. Seeing the conditions that the Arab tribes live in, barren, bleak desert, makes them more understandable, the thirst for blood like that of water. The loathing of members of rival tribes, the disdain and fear of the different.

Costume design plays a key roll, visually separating British commanding officers in their tight pants from natives in their flowing robes. The costuming also designates change of loyalty, the inter-battle going on in Lawrence is captured in his wardrobe. His loyalty to Britain is first shown when in Officer regalia; his change of loyalty shown as a change of clothes, his rebirth from a bastard son of Britain to an Honorary Arab. His change from trousers, lapels and buttons to flowing traditional garb visually captures his change of sides, where his loyalty then lies. But he switches back into pants, back to his old life after war changes him, the gallons of blood he and his own little army spilled, piling on him. Then his loyalty is tested, his own judgment change; during one of the first vividly homoerotic, openly sadistic scenes where his is captured and beating because no matter what he wears, under the keffiyeh he still has blue British eyes, and he will never be an true Arab.

Lawrence of Arabia captures the inner battle between Lawrence and his loyalties, his loyalty to Britain, to his moral code, and to the Arab tribes.

Orange Pecan Gems

These soft orange cookies are a great juxtapose to the crunchy pecans in the dough and the gem! This recipe was in my cookbook for a few weeks, and I wanted something easy (because its a cake-mix) but crazy awesome. I wanted to make something new for my mother's garden meeting!

Orange Pecan Gems
Active time: about 30 unfocused minutes
From start to finish: 2 hours
Makes about five dozen amazing cookies!

1 box of Orange cake mix
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
(if you only have one, use one cup of that)
1 egg
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1 cup finely chopped pecans
Pecan halves for decorations

Preheat oven to 350F. Spray Pam to treat cookie sheets. (I used four sheets in total, rotating between Ikea sheets with Pam and old pans with SPLAT mats.)

Add cake mix, yogurt, eggs, margarine, and chopped pecans to bowl of electric mixer, and mix together for about two minutes, then scrap sides of the bowl. Drop about one and a half teaspoonfuls two inches apart on the prep cookie sheets. Press the pecan halves down into the cookie dough.

Bake at 350 for 11 to 13 minutes or until bottom sides brown or golden. I cooled on sheets, but a cookie tray would be better. Store in an airtight container.
These cookies are amazing with a cup of Black Mango Tea with honey and milk.

Lighting Your Subject's Face for Most Flattering or Most Dramatic Effect

The reason behind good lighting is professionalism. The most effective lighting accentuates the performer and the performance. To do this, move lighting around the subject in order to find the ideal height and position, key lighting should falls on the side of the face furthest from the camera.

20th Annual Asian Culture Festival

Code 51 will be going to the Asian Cultural Festival, and we will eat amazinly and I shall buy my belly dancing bell belt!!

For those who can't remember Asian Fest!, it is amazing because the sheer amount of vendors, participants, crazy amazing acts and fricken awesome yummies!

The picture is the start of the shirt design I'm working on to commemorate this crazy awesome day.

March 7th and 8th, 10am to 6pm
Admission: 7 dollars

I believe in little elves!

Originally said by Steven Colbert when asked if he believes in money.

This is based on the idea that money is an agreement of value, a unit of trust. This is why the bills in your pocket are signed by the Secretary of Treasury, this is the promise of money.

But what is money really, besides a unit of value and a unit of account, its a belief, an exercise in trust, of those that deal it, those that accept it for payment for goods and services rendered. Its a belief, its a promise that anyone who uses money.

By the logic of belief, that if enough people believe in something, then it makes it true. But it also makes it a religion!!!

So technically, all atheist do follow one religion if they buy or sell!!