Week three for STAR WARS.. and it’s still rocking and rolling the New Years box office in 2016..
Much may change soon–look at that 40% drop. It’s bound to happen.. big dollars cannot continue forever..
Or…
Can they.
Nonetheless, the movie top ten this week.. DADDY is home but nothing near strong enough to topple Kylo Ren’s return with the dark side..
Glenn Whipp writes,
Their fear: The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite will be trending on social media again.
The academy found itself on the defensive last year when white actors earned all 20 of the nominations in the lead and supporting categories. The topic came to define the Academy Awards so much that host Neil Patrick Harris opened the ceremony by quipping: “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest. Sorry, brightest.”
The good thing to remember, all: The Oscars are completely and utterly meaningless when it comes to what is actually a good film.
I wrote several predictions for 2016 and published then on here a few days ago.. Read them if you choose.
I have also been reading some other people’s predictions. One I found in the Wall Street JOURNAL is amazingly accurate, wish I would have said it myself.
Ann Patchett predicts the return of book stores.. She writes,
This is going to be a fabulous year for books. In 2016, Elizabeth Strout has her best novel yet coming out, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” and I can’t wait to sell the late Paul Kalanithi’s gorgeous “When Breath Becomes Air,” and just when you think Louise Erdrich can’t get any better, she goes and writes “LaRose.” Go to your local independent bookstore this year and buy a copy. You’ll be part of the trend.
Independent book stores are amazing. All book stores are amazing.
In my county, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, there are virtually no more book stores left. We have to leave the county to get somewhere meaningful in the print world. This has become a detriment since my nearly 5-year-old loves book stores..
Last month, we signed up at the library for the first time, at least for me, in 15 years.
It’s all worth it.
And yes, progress is amazing. Tech is great. But there will never be anything which surpasses holding paper bound together in your hand and turning pages. .
2016.. the return of book stores. I like that one.
Cliven Bundy is also advising the local ranchers, Steven and Dwight Hammond, not to submit to federal authorities as required on Monday. Instead, Bundy is urging them to go to the Harney County jail and ask for “protective custody.”
A ‘real’ headline from ‘real’ media..
That chilling vision for this year, courtesy of the fine reporting at the MIRROR:
And now it has been revealed that, before her death at age 85 she predicted “a 2016 invasion by Muslim extremists” across Europe.
Oh… Baba Vanga died in 1996, by the way.
She must have been REALLY good to still be quoted today…
The first song of 2016 on Coal Speaker..
Hope you follow me in 2016. I will be here as long as you will…
I’m on Twitter too..
And Instagram.
And YouTube.
Follow me wherever you find me.
While the dust is still not clearing (two sold out shows at my local movie house last night when my wife and I took my son to see the newest Alvin movie), it’s worth noting that some of the amazing reviews the movie was getting is dimming.. the glittering of gold has gotten old.. Stale.. Perhaps over.
Anghus douses it with some cold water–the fandom need this..
He writes, in part:
There were so many moments where I cringed. The scene where Han Solo first appears is so terribly staged. Woefully written with embarrassing levels of convenience wrapped up nicely in an unconvincing action sequence featuring monstrous Rathtars. None of it felt like Star Wars. And yet, it’s still Han Solo and Chewbacca back in action… extremely limited action. Or the moment you realize the movie is going to feature yet another variation on the Death Star. At that moment, my eyes rolled so hard I could see my brain—and it wasn’t happy. Another Death Star? Seriously?
Anghus penned a number of controversial posts on my website back in the early 2000s. He knows how to evoke emotions and be opinionated with purpose–making a good point almost always.
While I did not award STAR WARS the movie of the year on my site for 2015, it did rank up.
And now reading this Flickering Myth column I’m wondering if the movie is just rank.
That cringe worthy scene? The first time we see Hans Solo? I felt it too. I felt that ‘force’ of wincing at the screen..
Time will certainly tell if the movie rates with some of the early STAR WARS films. Needless to say, it already rates stunningly higher than the PHANTOM MENACE.
The new company are aiming to “extend and enhance life" by freezing human brains for extended periods of time using cryonics, a deep freezing technology using very low temperatures, and then putting them into artificial bodies.
But Josh claims the company’s ultimate goal is to preserve a human brain BEFORE a person dies.
Play it.. More than once.
But accept the consequences of a win should you be chosen by fate.
A guy recording an internal tree fire in Defiance, OH.. And he fell twice in the mud.
One of these years he’ll do it.
In the mean time, sit back and enjoy some parody pictures of this very real image:
Chatzy has been around for some time now.. I created a room on there and will utilize it from time to time. I am going to call it something. Just haven’t thought of the name yet.. A place to go and sulk, perhaps exchange some goodness or positive commentary.. maybe lament a day. Perhaps give good tidings or paraphrase contempt for society.. You pick the purpose.
Nonetheless the room exists here: http://www.chatzy.com/64563083013868
I will, from time to time, be live in there.. Stop by, stop in.. leave a message.. If not it will be stagnant. And disappear. Like Geocities.
Let’s not make this a Geocities chat room, okay?
The room name for now: The Sorrowful Passion
Watchful eye on January 11-13 time frame.. This storm will make Christmas Day’s 70 degrees be a distant memory if it holds.. it would be pretty significant and pretty snowy in places that haven’t seen snow yet this winter..
AND there is still a chance all of this will just end up being plain old boring rain. Either way, a storm is brewing.
