Film Friday 7

Everyone is moving back to school this weekend!! These films are about college life. Actually, if you've never been a college student, you may not see the connection; believe me, it's blatent!

The Missing Sock (2007)
Genre: Horror

Run Time: 2 1/2 minutes

Spoons (2008)
Genre: Action
Run Time: 17 minutes

Spoons

Today's Highlights

In my Bible:


Luke 6:12-13 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles.
(Realizing to not be hasty about certain decisions)


Luke  6:35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
(Realizing the character of God)



With my Peeps:


new church experience
new tye dying experience
new baking experience
new movie experience
new frisbee technique

Film Friday 6

This week, both films have the same title. I bet you're glad that I post the years in which they were made now, aren't you? Or else you may go out of your mind trying to keep them straight...?

Okay, so they both have mild themes about insanity. Sorry I can't make more clever jokes.


Get Out (2010)
Genre: Awesome
Run Time: 4 minutes
The music really gets me into it :)

Get Out

Get Out (2010)

Genre: Animated

Run Time: 7 minutes

P.S. If you were curious, artsy clothes are out of my price range even when they are secondhand. Nevertheless, I do enjoy my thrifty (in every sense of the word) T shirts!

Artsy Agenda

Beginning on Monday and continuing until the start of school, a friend and I have planned out a plethera of artistic endeavors with which we can enjoy the end of the summer.

Here are some of this week's plans:

Tye-dying

Photography at the park

Friendship bracelets

Baking banana bread (truly, an art form for some)

Walking barefoot outside (again, artsy)

Actually, those were only the plans from the past two days. Does it sound like I've been having loads of fun in artistic expression?! In reality, we never got around to doing any of these things because of late hours at work and more pressing responsibilities than leisure.

On today's agenda, we had thrift shopping for vintage apparel. I believe this adventure is actually quite high in priority- I don't think we can afford to blow it off. You see, we have noticed a startling pattern: We looked like schlubs at the Corn Hill Arts Fest and seemed to be schmucks at the Park Ave Fest. We hope to feel like we fit in more than bell-bottoms in a crowd of skinnies or denim in a sea of neon. Thus, I believe I will make it to Godiva's Vintage Thrift Shop today with my friend.

Image thanks to Nature Graffiti's Blog

I will let you know if I can pull off the artsy look ;)

Happenstance

This weekend was unforseen. I was actually planning on going ice skating and to a hot air balloon show. It turns out that ice skating rinks are closed in the summer and that the hot air balloon festival was in Bristol, England, and not in Bristol, New York. These two minor details escaped both myself and the groups of people with whom these events were being planned.

Instead, I had dinner with a friend before she left town and an unexpected excursion with my mother and her friends.


This is my accidental adventure as documented in photos:

 

Fifth Film Friday

Unlocked (2007)
Genre: Horror, Romance (how do the two mesh so well??)
Run Time: 3 minutes

Unlocked

The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish (2005)
Genre: Silent
Run Time: 15 minutes
Disclaimer: not founded in history; wrong time period and inventions for Cavendish

The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish

God, Who Fulfills His Purpose in Me

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

Psalm 57:2

This is also translated as, "God, who fulfills His purpose in me."
The ways that I have been praying for God to work in and through my life have not been the ways that He has been working in and through me. Nevertheless, He has been fulfilling His purpose in me. And it has been surprising to see the ways in which He wants to use me and to show Himself through me. I have begun to see His hand in the little things of my day, such as keeping me in work fifteen minutes late so I could run into a Christian sister on my walk home.
 
Has He shown Himself to be working in or through you in such small yet profound ways?

Mott's Apple Mash

On Saturday, a carload of friends and I drove by the Mott's Applesauce Factory in Williamson, NY. Since I have been living on campus, I had altogether missed the latest news on Mott's. Factory workers have been on strike outside of Mott's for quite some time. We drive by on day 76 of the strike. I'm sure the group is still out there today, day 78, under their tent with their picket signs, rallying against corporate greed.

Mott's has already filled the minimum-wage factory line job positions that were left empty by the protesters.

I'm not sure who is being more silly: the dozens of workers continuing to set up camp outside of the Mott's factory while Mott's continues business as usual or me and my friends who swiftly pulled off the road to run and pose with the giant inflatable rat that the protesters had set up outside the factory. We moved so quickly that the picketers couldn't approach us!

Fourth Film Friday

It's my one month anniversary of posting films! This is true commitment. Not to be confused with my lack of commitment to responsibility at the moment - I'm supposed to be packing up my room to move tomorrow. I'd rather blog :)

So this first film is how I feel I react to responsibility - when I watch it, I hear my mom's voice, "Alana, make sure you start packing early. Wah wah wah wah wah..." The second film reminds me of the place I don't want to find myself after neglecting said responsibility. It also reminds me of my friend Carly.

Garpenfargle (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 4 minutes

Garpenfargle

Geeks Anonymous (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 1.5 minutes

Geeks Anonymous

Can I Just Tell You?

Can I just tell you how excited I am that summer courses are almost over? Not that I'm enrolled in them. However, come Friday night, I can reclaim all my friends from the ashes of fervent and anxious studying. Hopefully they will not combust in an organic reaction before then... although I will stay near water balloons just to be proactive.

Tu Amor Hace Eco

I translated this song (with a few liberties) from Spanish into English. You'll love it even more in Spanish. LOVE! It's called "Tu Amor Hace Eco en Todo Mi Universo" and it is by the band Rojo. Scroll down for the YouTube video!!

God, Your Love Echos

There on the cross, in its whole,
Was cleared all that had been charged against my soul.
It was you, Jesus, Lord,
Who paid the price for me to be restored.

There are no words
That I'd want to speak
Nor are there songs
That I'd want to sing;
Because if they're not for You,
They're not anything that I'd want to pursue.

You are the air, the rain, the joy of a child's laugh,
Power, calmness, the Guide with rod and staff,
Mysteries, galaxies, surprises like the ocean's breeze

You are the daylight, the moonlight, the one Light that can set me free,
Destiny, history, treasure of most worth to me,
The key and door, the voice that beckons to eternity

God, Your love resounds throughout all my universe.

I'm no longer lost now that I've felt Your grace,
All my pain leaves under the strength of your embrace.

God, Your love resounds throughout all my universe.
God, Your love resounds throughout all my universe.