Archive for April, 2008

Doing What is Right?

{ April 30, 2008 @ 2:43 pm } · { Movies, Music, Sports... }
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So this week was a week for the books. Not the books that the public can enjoy but only for the misery of a lone individual and God who reads everything. I watched 4 movies this week and found it hard to focus when so much is on the mind. Either way I pulled it off and here is what I got out of it.

No Country For Old Men (2007) ****

I Am Legend (2007) **1/2

Unforgiven (1992) ***

Changing Lanes (2002) ***1/2

Something I learned by watching all of these movies was how hard it is to make the right decisions and how our will causes our destinies. This could be argued and you could say that God knew it would happen already because he knows everything and like I said last week he is everything. I won’t argue with you because I don’t know whether our decisions drive our life or whether God just wanted it so. All I know is that every human being on this planet has the choice to be a good human being. You make these choices Mon-Sun and the wrong choices seem to always come back and kick your ass. Call it Karma or call it God, I call it both.

In I Am Legend we have a guy that has to make a last minute decision, putting his life on the line for something greater then him. In Unforgiven we have a man that is struggling with his counsciuos throughout the movie.  In No Country For Old Men our guy takes the wrong path and although he is a good human being at heart ultimately his decisions come back to haunt him. But no other movie, even though not my favorite this week, showcases this more. Two men cross paths and because of a small error and a wrong decision end up having their life cave in right in front of their eyes and all that is left at the end is right or wrong. Which one will it be?

Its hard, its hard, and once more it is so freaking hard to make the right choices when your feelings and doubts are all you know. Everything tells you to do one thing but the only opposition is right or wrong which is very clear cut but very sharp and lethal. Someone once told me that there is never a right or wrong but just a blurred middle that we have to settle with. I don’t know, I am not all knowing. As a matter of fact I am a man of less knowledge then most. What I pray for daily is wisdom, the ability to make the right decision at the right time. God sure is letting me have my shot at it now. You get what you ask for at a price you didn’t expect, so be careful when you ask next time.

Peace

Are You Mad As Hell?

{ April 22, 2008 @ 3:25 pm } · { Movies, Music, Sports... }
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Something new I will be doing is sharing my movie of the week with everyone. In a normal week, which this one was not, I see around 5-6 movies . As you all know I am a lover of films so no need to explain more. Here it goes.

Sweeney Todd (2007) ***1/2

Snow Angels (2008 ***

In The Valley Of Elah (2007) ***

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005) ****

Legend Of The Fall (1994) ****

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) ***1/2

The Network (1976) *****

It was seven this week and my favorite of them was the Network. One of the best movies I have ever seen. It stands the test of time. Who would have known that in 1976 the makers of this movie would have predicted the lunatic future of today’s world. Frightening dialogue that led me to believe that we are all a bunch of programmed beings, following the steps layed out to us by the demons behind the scenes, who have planned this all along. Is television the Devil? It might just be so. Today we could see 666 flash across the screens of a regular Oprah Winfrey viewing and ratings would catapult like Battlestar Galactica. So do we turn the TV off and dump it out or do we stay tuned and get deeper into the stratisphere of make belief and illusions.

I of all people will have a hard time with this. Movies are what I love and to experience these you have to have a Tube and if you get rid off it you still have its offspring Youtube or otherwise known as the Internet. They work together to bring us all together, to look alike and imagine life to be a soap opera where we can just flip the channel for change and find ourselves in a sporting event and if that doesn’t work we can always fall into the vision of 3 so called leaders of our destructive future nation. All far away from reality. A world of nations is no more, but it is now a world of coorporations.

EXXON…DuPont…Dow Jones…Nasdaq…………….Hell’s Kitchen.

Do you feel as hot as I do right now? I hope you are Mad as Hell and you stand up for your rights as individuals. All I want to do right now is worhip God in a way I have never before imagined. He is the only truth. He is reality in the midst of all that is fake. And all is fake other then Him.

Soon I will be reviewing my favorite movies of last year (2007). I have 8 more movies to see. I hope you guys take a minute a read over my movie blogs and maybe rent a few of the ones that make it to the top of my list. I also plan on telling you why movies mean so much to me and the reality of it all. Stay tuned and deffinetly check out The Network, one of my top 5 movies of all time now.

Peace with all

16 Days of torture

{ April 20, 2008 @ 4:32 pm } · { Work related }
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Let me introduce you to the whiny Mladen. The one that can cry you a river and drown you in a pool of tears. No it’s not really that bad, I just wanted to share some of my burdens with you guys. 16 days in a row at work is no joke. At least I’m not laughing. The first 8 or 9 days were not that bad but every night after that felt like I was a zombie from the Dawn of the Dead movie. In the morning my legs felt like sugar-free jello, not to mention the head aches that could pierce your skull in. So why? you ask. Why do you have to work 16 days straight.

Ever since becoming a Grocery Manager at the Lawndale Harris Teeter my guys and me have been on a roller coaster ride. We started of shorthanded, trying to build the team up and put the pieces together slowly. When it finally happened I lost my Assistant due to a promotion for him. For a month straight I worked all the time. When we finally got a replacement for him it was all good again until a few months later and my new assistant got a promotion, putting us another person short again. Now it’s me working all the time all over again waiting for my trainee (Jonathan) to finish his classes  so he can be my third official assistant.

Funny thing is that I just applied for a Co-Manager position, which I’m asking everybody to pray for me for. It will get me off 3rd shift, get me more money in the future and help me advance in the company. I am excited but it seems like finally when the pieces are about to fall in place, this time I’m leaving. It seems that wherever I go in the Grocery business bad karma or luck follows me around. I get stuck with the worst management, at the worst store, with the worst conditions, working the most hours, working with a bunch of no good slackers. Maybe the future entails something better then the past has. After all I have to keep my head straight and focus on my vision with God as the front and center.

So there you go. I got it off my chest and now you can call me a cry baby, a pansy, Nancy, little girl or whatever other names you have up your sleeves. Sometimes all it takes is to open up and be real with yourself and others.

By the way I miss this whole blogging thing and I’ll try to keep up with it as I have failed on all of my previous promises.

Love you all and please pray that God gets me some rest cause I sure as heck need it.