Precious

It touched the other half (where she would have a shifting insight, or wake up in a way) briefly (Like the beautiful scene where she paused for a moment, then consiously put her red shall over the little girl's shoulder. The movie didn't develop on that and left the audience thirsty.

Avatar

"Alright, I'm going in!"

"No one can teach you to see."

"It is hard to fill a cup which is already full."

"That is called taking the initiative."

"That is the bond, feel the heartbeat feel the breath"

- Do I have to do this now?
- Yes now, while it is still fresh."

- How will I know he chooses me?
- He'll try to kill you.

"Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream."

Neytiri: To become "taronyu", hunter, you must choose your own Ikran and he must also choose you.
Jake Sully: When?
Neytiri: When you are ready.

Dr. Max Patel: Jake! Listen to me! You're not used to your avatar body. This is dangerous!
Jake Sully: [Excited] This is great.


Dr. Grace Augustine: Don't shoot! Don't shoot. You'll piss him off.
Jake Sully: It's already pissed off.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Jake, that armor is too thick. Trust me. It's a territorial threat display. Do not run or he'll charge.
Jake Sully: What do I do? Dance with it?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Just hold your ground.
[the Hammerhead Titanothere charges and Jake run towards him and yells to scare him. It goes away]
Jake Sully: Ha, ha! Yeah, come on! Show what you've got! Oh yeah, who's bad? That's right. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about bitch. That's right, get your punk ass back to mommy. Yeah, you've got nothing. You keep running. Why don't you bring some of your friends, huh?
[Turns around and sees an angry Thanator standing in front of him]
Jake Sully: [to Grace] What about this one? Run? Don't run? What?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Run! Definitely run!

Excuse me, this is my video log here.

You have to fly, the first flight seals the bond.

I was born to do this.

Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould

My own personal philosophy of interviewing - and I've done quite a bit of it on the air as perhaps you know - is that the most illuminating disclosures usually derive from areas only indirectly related to the interviewee's line of work.


It was a very penetrating interview, the most intelligent questions I think I'd ever heard about the North from experts, laymen, or anything else, questions that required long answers. As I would start to speak or make a point he would register his feelings not by voice but by a smile but all the time he was using his hands and conducting. This was slightly off-putting when you're trying to think dep thoughts, but because I had no idea what this was all about, but he continuously was just waving his arms and would sort of bring up this idea and so on. I was his orchestra for that hour.


So he decided to wear this business suit and I discussed it with him, and I said, "You know, Glenn, I am not sure the public will understand what you're trying to convery but if you want to do it, go ahead," which he did. And he was probably the first artist who went out on stage without what was considered the proper concert attire, but he again was at the forefront of change.


He used to wake up at about 4:00 in the afternoon, and to get himself awake he used to phone people and I was one of those people he phoned. He'd talk about anything, you know. He just wanted a listening board.


The phone rang, and as I picked it up it was Glenn Gould on the other end and he said, "Hi, this is Glenn Gould, and I feel like talking."


"Mario" he said, "I came across the most marvelous opera for your program". I said "What is it?" He said, "You know Ernst Kreck?" I said "Yes, certainly", He said "I've got this marvelous opera by him." He said, "Wait I've got the score here, I'll sing it to you." So he sang this entire one-act opera, one-act, two-scene opera, over the telephone in his not-very-pleasant voice." [How much I miss this beautiful loving context]

I like what he did about the Sortex stock!


In the fall 1977 the US government sent two ships, Voyagers I and II, into space where they are eventually destined to reach the edges of our galexy. In the hope that someone, somewhere would intercept these crafts, a variety of messages were placed on board that would be capable of communicating the existance of an intelligent creature living on a planet called Earch. Among these was included a short prelude by Johann Sepastian Bach, as performed by Glenn Gould.

Glen Gould died in October 1982.

Voyagers I and II left our Solar System respectively in 1987, and 1989.

Milk

We'll form our own business association.

We have at least one block, in one city, right? We'll start there and then we'll take over the neighborhood.

The police hated us and we hated them right back. They would come in and attack us and beat us just for fun. But that wouldn't stop us.

- Don't do that.
- No, if you put it away, you put it in a drawer, it just gets bigger and scarier. Here it's right here. We see it every day. It can't get us.
- You spend all this energy to make yourself a target? For something you're not gonna even win?
- I keep telling you, it's not just about winning.

- If we loose this, it'll just be you and me again.

- Anita Bryan did not win tonight. Anita Bryant brought us together! She is going to create a national gay force!


- We have to let all those people out there know that they know one of us. And if somebody doesn't want to step out of the closet, we open the door for them.

- Harvey, that could be really really dangerous. I mean, there is such a thing as a right to privacy.

- Privacy. In this moment at this time, I'm not saying this as a supervisor, privacy is the enemy. And if you want real political power, if that's what you want, try telling the truth for a change.

- Those are kids in there, You're asking them to lose their families.
- If their families don't love them for who they are, who they really are, then they should lose them.

A Shine of Rainbows

The 28th Vancouver International Film Festival started today with A Shine of Rainbows as the opening act. The Canadian-Irish film was touching and the relationship between Tomas and Maire and specially the develeopment of the relationsip between Tomas and the Maire's husband was depicted beautifully.

In addition to the charm in most of the dialogs, there were a couple of interactions that were particularly catching, including when Tomas was hiding from the other kids in the stable, and Maire, wanting him to join the kids, after saying that the kids were mean at first because they were exicted to see him, told him "Come, if you want" from a space of contentment and detachment, leaving him free to choose what he wants.

The film also beautifully mentions the power of wanting and desiring, for e.g. the tall stone statue being a wish-granter.

John Bell did a great job of playing Tomas in front of Connie Nielsen as Maire.

VIFF with over 370 films has been ranked among the top 5 film festivals in North America.

Up

The Pharaohs of Egypt believed that the soul that doesn't belive in death will never die.

... So how does mythology fit into our lives? It is said that our unconscious motivations do in fact dwell in the mythical world; that deep inside us are gods and goddesses in embryo. In the business world for instance when someone orchestrates a grand and wondrous venture, it is akin to the heroic journey of buildling a pyramid to oneself, expanding our imagination, of what is possible.

In the Hindu tradition, the spiritual quest begins by going inward ... there is a prayer ... which says:

Lead us from darkness to light,
From ignorance to truth, ...

My mother read to me stories which you may call mythology, but for me they were truer than enything that existed in reality. In fact those stories inspired me to do everything that I do to this day. They lifted me from the mundane to the magical where anything was possible. ... Myth lifted me from the mundane to the magical and told me that both worlds were in myself. I could fly through the air, I could witness miracles and healing, I could experience coincidence, transformation, and magic. ...

The evidance of Indian mythology was all around me. I could link monkeys chattering in the trees with the monkey-god Hanuman, the provider of courage, hope, knowledge, and intelect.

Then there is Shiva who stands for destruction but at the same time the potential for renewal and resurrection. Shiva is not a god of death, but part of an eternal cycle, responsible for shedding the old to make way for the new. India took a step that Egypt never did, and made death creative.

Shiva's son is Ganesh, wildly popular in India. Ganesh is the remover of obstacles. He has an elephant's nose which is very discriminating. He has huge ears to remind us to be active listeners. He has a huge belly to digest all the problems of the world. With one foot on the ground, and one in the air, he is in this world, but not of it.

This cycle of life was part of the raw materials of my imagination. Ultimately myths became embodied in my spirit, psyche, and soul, allowing me to do things I never dreamed of before.

Some dreams are worth the fight

- You like to fight?
- If I have to.

You can heal your life

Louise L. Hay:
When she was 18 months old her parents got divorced. She was about 5 years old when her mother remarried. Her step-father physically abused her for the next 10 years. She was raped by a neighbour at one point. When she was a teenager her step-father started to having sex with her. She left home when she was 15. She became a show model in New York and married an English man. They lived 18 years together. Then they got devorced. And five years later he stepped into the Church of Religious Science.
Later on in her life she was diagnosed with vaginal cancer and she took it as an opportunity to apply what she was about on herleft. The cancer was healed.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer:
He lived in a series of orphanages until he was ten as his father walked out of the family when he was little.

Hey Scott! I was just thinking about you!

All of us are on a journey, whether we know it or not. We are all on a journey of learning to express our full potential in this world.

We tempt to live our lives based on what we believe, about ourselves, our world, our capabailities and our limits. Where do those beliefs come from? More often than not they come from what other people have told us. History, science, religion, culture, family. What if they're wrong?

Anything you complain about repetitively is something that you have an uncouncious intention to produce.

"There is a power inside every human being against which no earthly force is of the slightest consequence."

-Neville

"I don't heal anybody, that is not what I do. I just provide a space where we can uncover how absolutely wonderful we are, and many people find that they are able to heal themselves, and this is very heart warming to all of us."

- Louise Hay

Narrator: I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer: You told us you'd say that, too.

- Fight Club

I know one thing. I'm an actor, I follow my instincts.

- Can I stay at your place?

- Yeah!

Have I been being Tyler more and more?

-God Damn! We just had a near-life experience, fellas! (when they crashed the car).
-The things you own end up owning you.
-This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
- Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
- Tyler: [whispering] Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.
- Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
- Sometimes Tiler's words came out of my mouth.
- Have I been being Tiler more and more?

- Tiler: cut the foreplay, just ask.
- Narrator: Can I stay at your place?
- Yeah!
- First you have to give up, first you have to *know*... not fear... *know*... that someday you're gonna die.
- It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.
- Its not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything

Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?
Narrator: What?
Tyler Durden: Being clever.
Narrator: Great.
Tyler Durden: Keep it up then... Right up.

-Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Narrator: You're insane.
Tyler Durden: No, YOU're insane.

Narrator: You're making a big mistake, fellas!
Police Officer: You said you would say that.
Narrator: I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer: You told us you'd say that, too.
Narrator: All right then, I'm Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order. We're aborting this mission right now.
Police Officer: You said you would definitely say that.

-When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

(This one is amazing!)
Tyler Durden: [the Narrator is trying to disarm a car bomb of nitroglycerin] You don't know which wire to pull.
Narrator: I know everything you do, so if you know I know.
Tyler Durden: Or maybe, since I knew you'd know I spent all days thinking about the wrong wires.
[Narrator pauses]

"What can I do? Come on. Help me. Please. Just this once. I'll just keep on running, okay? I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting..."