bowling for columbine

i just watched bowling for columbine, it's a documentary, so everyone thinks that its dead boring, even i thought so, but this was one heck of a great show. i watched this as i kept in mind that this was more or less an one sided, biased documentary, but hell, it conveys the point so well.

now i really want to catch fehrenheit 9/11. michael moore did a fantastic job, a real eye opener. i know i said some time ago that i was disillusioned about the 'american' ways, well, after this, im questioning that statement, coz this gave me more questions to ponder about.

its astonishing, that this only touches on the topic of arms. it was unbelievable when they succeeded in convincing k-mart to stop selling bullets from all of their chains, and also discovering that corporations like lockheed martin supports firearms and some of these governmental decisions actually pump money back into companies.

i was excited that a big and renowned company like lockheed martin would be one of the potential employers for georgia tech graduates, but now, im seriously going to think twice about working in a company that will be associated with dealing in firearms like that, even if i am going to be working in the technological side. its a scary revelation.

side-tracking... watched hellboy, since it was one of the dvds i rented this afternoon (also got whole nine yards, to end all wars and mystic river) i thought the movie would be bad, but it wasnt that bad, just a anticlimax ending. im glad that i picked up mystic river, one of the major movies of last year that i missed, i still have to catch cold mountain, monster and big fish as the big name movies i missed out on. frida, which i watched this morning, was pretty interesting, very artistic, not the usual kind of movie. but it makes you think about art appreciation. my question is, it seems that nowadays, its mainly the wealthy who seems to know how to appreciate 'true' art. as everyone would say, its a bunch of shit, since its usually only to show off their wealth that they buy art pieces for astronomical prices. i just found it funny to see during the movie that when they have art exhibition, all the attendants were rich businessman, politicians, etc, etc. well, im not complaining, since it kinda helps these artists who really have a tough life starting out, its to somewhat compliment their struggle and determination. but sometimes its nuts how established artists do not need to put in any effort or imagination coz people will buy their pieces anyway. ive heard of this artist who suffered something like a writer's block or some sort and published an empty canvass, which sold for a price we all can just imagine. it takes an established artists to publish such 'abstract' art, but not for a nobody, who could be thinking of the exact same thing as this established artist...

anyway...

ripped couple of my dad's CD collection today. instead of copying them into individual CDs, i piled them together as MP3 files (although on 92kbps) and managed to squeeze in about 12 CDs (actually 13 or 14, some were double CD compilation) worth of songs into a single CD-RW CD. if i want to, i could transfer them to individual CDs at a later time, but not now. among the ones i copied were michael buble, jamie cullum, bond, nat king cole, kenny g, luther vandross, etc, etc. the modern jazz crooner collection is more or less done, i need to get hold of harry connick jr, renee olstead, norah jone's 2nd, diana krall, steve tyrell, josh groban and lizz wright. ok, tts actually quite more than just a few...

having my physical checkup tomorrow. so technically im on a detox from junk food. well, who am i kidding... im not.