The Week’s Best, 5/22 – 5/28
Last weekend I saw Rango at the $2 theater and it was better than four of the last five movies I’ve paid full price to see combined. It gets the Overthinking It treatment here: “Rango: A Capitalist Carol.”
In other movie news, the awesomeness of this red band trailer for the ‘Merican remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo transcends the fact that it’s a video camera capture — in fact, that might even make it better. You get plenty of foreboding, some sick editing, and Karen O and Trent Reznor covering “Immigrant Song.”
This trailer for The Muppets is just as awesome. But completely different in every respect.
“EPIC” (Facebook account required) kicks off this Thursday at Watkinsville First Baptist. It’s a . . . um . . . I’m actually not sure what it is. It’s a teaching series focused on the “story of the Bible.” That’s about all I know. I got volunteered to lead a discussion group, though, so if you’re a high schooler/college student/recent graduate/graduate student/”young at heart”/still live with your parents, you can come chill with me. Because of course my group will be the best. Might even bring the Phokus Phishe out of retirement.
Roger Olson has a good post about contexts and emphases.
Not much is happening in the football world, the biggest story of the week being Phil “Georgia could run the table in 2010” Steele releasing his pre-season All-SEC teams. The potential super-conference rumblings are intriguing, but they won’t make a difference until next season at the earliest.
Songs I’ve been listening to this week:
Killa — Lecrae
Dry Bones — Gungor
Bulletproof Heart — My Chemical Romance
All of the Lights — Kanye West
Little Girl — Death From Above 1979 (They’re back together! Yeah, old news, I know.)
In closing: I finally saw this, so now I get the joke. My Man Card application is in the mail.
And, as usual, xkcd nails it.
