Cabaret!

"Life is a Cabaret oh chum, come to the Cabaret!"

Today I saw the play Cabaret performed by the Aloha High School Theatre Department. It was fantastic, I would say it is the best play I have seen yet. The acting was mostly good and the singing was phenomenal. If you haven't yet seen this than see it, if you don't live in aloha than fly to aloha and see it.

The story is about a writer who falls in love with a "lady-of-the-night" during the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. It takes place in Berlin mostly in the "Kit Kat Club" which is a nightclub in the city. The story looks at the lives of several different people, all in scenarios involving the main star Cliff, an American who goes to Berlin for inspiration to write.

Several youth group members were in the play including Tiffany, Alissa, Sam, Kenny, Kevin and my brother Ben.

Overall I would rate the play as I would a movie, and by using the same math.

You pay fifteen dollars at the most (if you are an adult going to a normal showing and paying at the door.) You not only get a whole Cd's worth of awesome music that will be in your head for a while, but you also get a good story and you get to support about a third of the ACOG Youth Group. Also all the money goes towards the Aloha High School. Even if you pay fifteen dollars you will still come out on top, by a fair amount too!

My overall rating would be 9.5/10, don't think I'm a pushover because the last two things I've rated have been have been high, I am actually very strict when it comes to rating.

Santa Friendly? Think again!

Have you ever taken a few hours to deeply think about santa claus? Well if you think about it he has the means nescessary to take over the world! Just think if he can build enough toys to give them to all children on earth then he could manufacture weapons, vehicles, armor and bases. Also think of the elf army he could make! If he can travel across the planet in one night then he could engineer bombers and fighters that fly faster than any other planes.

Just think with me here, don't turn off the computer or navigate away from this page thinking "this guy is crazy!" If santa claus began influencing children he could persuede them to form him a human army, and how does he deliver presents? Dropping through a chimney is impractical for a man with so much technology at his disposal as santa would. He would have a tactical aim and drop system for chimneys, therefore he could engineer the most tactical bombers the world would ever see. Think about it, just his airforce would be able to stealthily bomb select targets across the globe in one night!

Now lets talk about vehicles and navy, his elves could construct the most tactical powerful ships there could be! With the present aim system previously explained and the speed that he uses to get around earth he could certainly make powerful war ships.

And finally what about infantry? He has the trust of children across the world and an army of elves! But what more could he have you ask? AN ARMY OF PENGUINS! What? did he just say penguins> Yes I said penguins! Think about it, March of the penguins, ever see it? I haven't but the name clearly suggests that penguins have been practicing military techniques. Also surfs up? I haven't seen it either but in it the penguins surf, that means they could travel to other countries! And finally the movie happy feet. In happy feet a cute little penguin dances for us... awww... Yeah right! that penguin isn't entertaining us! he is transferring anti-human propaganda to hundreds of other penguins, remind you of any dangerous world leaders that nearly took over Europe in the past sixty years?

So there you go, you can worry about the economy or the "2012 Apocalypse" crap, or you can recognize a real threat... the threat of Santa launching an operation to take over the world!

Les Miserables Review

"What crime did you commit? - Maybe I killed someone... how do you know I'm not going to murder you? -How do you know I'm not going to murder you? - Whats that a joke? - I guess we'll just have to trust each other. - I didn't kill anyone... I'm a thief... I stole food, stole but I payed for it; nineteen years in chains. So they let me out and gave me a yellow passport, what can I do with a yellow passport? I have to go to my parole officer in Dijon and then what, starve to death? (chuckles) Nineteen years and now the real punishment begins. - Men can be unjust - Men not god? Thank you, whoever you are... a meal and a bed to sleep in... a real bed. And in the morning, I'll be a new man."

(about for minuets later in the movie) "And don't forget, don't ever forget. You've promised to become a new man. - Promise... why are you doing this? - Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil. With this silver, I've bought your soul. I've ransomed you from fear and hatred... Now I give you back to god..."

In this movie Liam Neeson plays Jean Valjean, a thief who is on parole after nineteen years in prison for stealing food. The quote up above takes place during dinner, Jean is let into the home of a priest and they talk about his parole, he has to show him his yellow passport before entering their home so they know he is a criminal. He promised to become a new man, that night he steals from the priest and leaves, the guards in the town catch him and he claims the priest gave him the silver he stole. The priest says that he did in fact give him the gold (he didn't of course, but this is necessary information to understand the quote) and the guards release him. Then the priest says to Jean the second quote up above.

Now, normally I would never go this far into a movie, I decided it would be fine in order to get the important quote considering these events happen in the first seven minuets of the movie. It is obviously told in the trailer that he is a thief, so I figured a little elaboration wouldn't hurt.

Lets get in depth with why this movie is good. First off its long, but it holds your interest. That type of movie is for me much more entertaining. Also this movie has Liam Neeson and that should be a rating category in its self. In my opinion Liam Neeson plays an even more Christ like character in this movie than he did in Narnia, where he was playing a character resembling Christ.

I think that any and everyone should see this movie, it is moving and powerful and thought provoking. This is the kind of movie that you can model your life after, and the kind of movie that inspires people like Braveheart or the Pursuit of Happiness. Time to do some math!

Lets see... you pay about five dollars to rent this... but wait! This is the kind of movie that you DO NOT rent, you buy it. This movie can be watched over and over again. Pay twenty dollars for... Liam Neeson... French people... Amazingness... and a message like no other. The only other way you could get this experience is if Liam Neeson was an amazing french pastor. Sadly he is not, so this is what we have to settle for. Twenty divided by good movie minus the Liam Neeson Epicness Discount and the Awesome French Name Discount... Wow if you buy or rent this movie you will come out way on top. I am not at liberty to discuss the specific numbers due to my math being a very complicated ritual, but I can say that this is a movie like no other. I won't be surprised if a clip from it shows up in one of my dad's sermons one of these days, it is such a moving film, It has a unique message for everyone who watches it, I am confident that movie would be meaningful to any person in any situation. If you want to spend your money on an action film or some zombie flick that's your choice, but trust me Les Miserables is a movie that you just have to see.

The ultimate rating would be...

Well I hate to give a movie a ten ten but I honestly can not find a single thing about this movie that I didn't like, there isn't a dull moment in the whole thing... well actually the credits are a little less exciting but hopefully you understand what I mean.

10/10

UPDATE: Oh and by the way sorry this post came late, my computer wouldn't play sound so I had to work with that and then watch the trailer. Check out the blog later for a bit about science and a lot more.

Les Miserables Trailer

Update

I figured I would post a little update on whats been going on with me, also a few awesome pictures of my favorite pets, cats! First off a little bit about whats been going on, I have been doing a lot of work in school and therefore have been very busy. Considering my blog isn't my highest priority I decided to focus more on studies and homework.



Well that's basically it, I've just been doing school and being busy, I will be posting a review of the movie Les Miserables tomorrow around five o'clock. And later in the week I will write about the book "To kill a mockingbird" and also my personal experiences from living in Georgia. And finally Saturday I will post a random thought I have, just for fun.



So check out my blog over the week, hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised!