TGIF Hooray for Friday!!!!!!! I am so glad that it is the weekend…and it puts me fourteen days from signing my lease too! I can’t wait.

Okay, so they gave us our bonus checks today. Excitement there. For once I am following my friend, the devil’s advocate, and holding onto the money for after the move. Hell…that is a new fish tank and stand from what I just saw. The only thing I am not liking at the moment is that they took out 40% in taxes! Granted it is for the last year, but damn! Give a brotha a little bit of money! Kinda a good thing I am following Mr. Devil’s Advocate…that doesn’t give me enough to get a computer anyway! *sad face here*

Here are your weekly movie releases. Movies of possible note are going to be asterisked from now on…and if you see them I want to know how they were!!!

Nationwide Release
*Failure to Launch – Matthew McConaughey (he started a topic at work regarding tea-bagging one day), Sarah Jessica Parker
*The Hills Have Eyes – Aaron Stanford, Ted Levine, Dan Byrd (a lot of no-names here it seems; although I thought I recognized someone in the trailers)
**The Libertine – Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike
The Shaggy Dog – Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Jane Curtin

Limited Release
Ask the Dust – Colin Farrell (tea-bag me baby!), Selma Hayek, Donald Sutherland
The Hidden Blade ­– Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu

Looks like Johnny Depp will be doing pretty well this year. I think The Libertine will be one of his more darker, serious performances, so I am definitely interested in seeing how this turns out. Tim Allen, on the other hand, needs to hang it up. His day has ended and he is trying to milk whatever he has left in these Disney remakes. Hey Tim! Retire already knowing that you had a great run with Home Improvement!!! (Sorry, couldn’t help myself there)

Words for Wisdom
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. – The Dalai Lama

However much we may pray to the Buddha we cannot be saved. The Buddha does not grant favors to those who pray to him. Instead of petitional prayers there is meditation that leads to self-control, purification and enlightenment. Meditation is neither a silent reverie nor keeping the mind blank. It is an active striving. It serves as a tonic both to the heart and the mind. The Buddha not only speaks of the futility of offering prayers but also disparages a slave mentality. A Buddhist should not pray to be saved, but should rely on himself and win his freedom.

Songs of the morning
End of the Earth – Sun
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