Day: May 11, 2006

Confetti

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Katy and I went see Confetti last night (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427089/)

Most excellent movie. A wedding magazine is holding a “most original themed wedding” contest with 3 couples getting married on the same day at the same venue. One is a tennis-themed wedding, one is a naturist wedding and one is a big production singing/dancing wedding.

The whole thing was completely unscripted and they just improvised around the basic concept. It was brilliant. The actors didnt know about what everybody else was up to and were even encouraged not to talk to some of the other actors before filming so it would really be the first time that they met them once the camera started rolling, to keep it more spontaneous.


And the gay wedding planners were just too cute :)

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Big brother strikes again

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This makes me ill.

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity. The agency's goal is “to create a database of every call ever made” within the nation's borders.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

Also in the news-that-just-makes-me-cringe category, a quote from none other than Dubya himself:

“Brother Jeb would be great president”

Uh huh… let me break out the tinfoil hat now…

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