I got my new phone today!! *Squeal!* I am very happy.
Very.
I have been playing with it for the past 3 hours and I'm still not tired of it. I've been putting music on it, configuring all the settings, getting a new ringtone (which happens to be this), and all sorts of other fun techy stuff.
I'm also psyched that my phone doubles as an MP3 player. Awesome!
During this reflective time spent with phones, computers, and cables, I discovered that my mother is most definitely technologically challenged.
That and extremely stubborn. Apparently I'm never right, even when I am right. But that's another matter.
I watched The Sing Off this morning. I'm still getting the vibe that this season won't be nearly as spectacular as last season. I mean, there were such amazing, musically sound, passionate groups last year. This year, I'm not feeling it. There's some groups who have a lot of musical talent. There are others with a lot of passion. But I haven't seen a combination of both. I haven't been blown off my seat. And Shawn hasn't totally spazzed out and lost it during a performance yet.
Which is why I feel, this is not going to be as great a season.
But, nonetheless, I'll still hang on, just because I like the judges, the music, and the idea that there are some people out there with more musical talent than just the ability to sing.
I displayed self-control today by not buying a box of peanut butter-chocolate bars. I actually took them off the shelf, got in line to checkout, then ran back, put them back in their spot, and sprinted back to the checkout line. That, my friends, is what I call self-control.
Then I ate 5 mini KitKat bars.
Oh! I almost forgot.
I watched Devil last night. I'm a sucker for anything directed and/or written by M. Night Shyamalan, and I've had my sights set on this movie since before it came out. Thankfully while scanning through HBO last night, I saw it was going to be playing in an hour, so I kept it in mind.
The movie itself was pretty good. Decent acting, cinematography, special affects...
Just kidding. I have no idea what cinematography even is. I think it has to do with camera work and such, yea?
But anyhow, the story. The movie actually started off with a Bible verse. I believe it was 1 or 2 Peter 5:8; the one about the Devil prowling around and such. That got me in a good mood. And Night did this thing where during the credits you were looking at a city upside down. He used this affect several times during the movie and it made everything feel like there was a deeper meaning to what was going on.
Well maybe that's just me, but either way, it looked cool.
Another thing I like about Night's movies are the lack of bad content. Cursing is kept to a bare minimum (from what I can remember, there were only 3, maybe 4 bad words in the whole movie), and there's no sexual content. Violence, well, it's very hard to have a thriller or horror film without violence, but even then, it's not as gory as most movies, or, if it is, it's used in a less terrifying way.
So the movie. Five people get trapped on an elevator in a big building. And as the security people and eventually the police try to find a way to get them out, the people in the elevator start getting attacked by... something. It's assumed one of the people is the killer, but one man, a security guard I believe, thinks it is the Devil. He says that there is one day every year that the Devil goes about the earth, taking people, and that's the day everything goes wrong (i.e., toast falls jelly-side down. Bummer).
Though I can't say too much more about the movie, I will say I enjoyed the ending. It actually has a good message in the end about confession and forgiveness, and though it may not be a Christian film, or be all theologically correct in terms of forgiveness and salvation, it still got some stuff right and left me feeling that it had more depth to it than a lot of other movies, even Christian ones, that I've seen. I love how it ended. Throughout the film, there is a man narrating, as if he's telling a story told to him by his mother. And in the end he quotes her saying, "But she also told us not to be afraid. Because if the Devil is real, then God must be real too."
And so it ends.
There's violence in the film which is a little creepy, though not horribly bad or gory. Very little cursing, and a good message (at least I think so). It's rated PG-13. If you like thrillers, and are looking for something not super scary, but interesting enough to keep your attention, I'd suggest it. I liked it, and though it's not one of Night's best movies, I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the end message of it all.
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