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“Are you free tonight?” Is the famous line by Michelle Williams, who I have not seen in a film since The United States of Leland (2003). However I feel Williams is very fresh in this movie, and nearly outshines the stars, Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGreggor, who start the movie off in a quite awkward scene, which totally threw me off in the beginning, and had me expecting something far worse than the final product.

The film continues to evolve quite rapidly, into McGreggor being “inadvertently” inducted into “The List” which is a quite appalling thought, of men and women who simply exchange number, and then call eachother asking if they are “free tonight?” and proceed to meet at a hotel for sex, without ever knowing eachothers name, or what the other does for a living, and these are the RULES of the club.

However, setting aside the strange rules of the club, the movie delivers. It keeps you guessing and guessing on the many plot twist that happen, even if some are predictable. The film sets you up for some thrills along the way, some of which fall short of their intended goal, but overall, as a whole, the film was worth the money.

Its a great first film by director Marcel Langenegger

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Well I want to start off by saying this is my first review of anything, I thought it would be good to do it on something I just recently discovered! So here it goes!

So I’ve never actually thought twitter could be useful, until today.

Having Twitter integrate so seamlessly into my blog works wonderfully! (See right hand column for what I’m talking about!)

I’ve also integrated Twitter into my Facebook account, via the application TwitterSync. I chose this application, because the standard “official” Twitter syncing application keeps updating your status as “is twittering:” followed by your real status update, which gets QUITE annoying, to ones self, and their friends.

I’ve tried using the MySpace application by the same name (different author) but it’s intentions are different, it takes your current MySpace status, and syncs it to Twitter, which isn’t my preference, I would rather go to Twitter, type in ONE status update, and have all my social networking sites update with the same status, until somebody codes a MySpace application that does what the Facebook one does, I think I’ll be leaving my MySpace status as blank for a while, it is to much of a pain to update it separately.

Overall, I really love the idea of Twitter, and it can be turned into quite a powerful tool, especially for bloggers like myself!

If anybody is curious, the Twitter updates I have on the right hand side of my blog, is direct code from Twitter, it is NOT a plugin or widget for Wordpress (what my blog is powered by) which makes it even more exciting!

I’d just like to be known (not famous) for being a part of a happy family… There’s really nothing I would love more to live out the entirety of my life with a wife, who is truly happy doing whatever she wants to do in life, w

ith me being right by her side, us supporting eachother every step of the way… And of course to have a child or two down the road, who is brought up and raised in the best way we could possibly do… A truly happy family, I’d love to be known in whatever community I end up living in for just that… being a part of a happy family. I don’t need fame, nor a monumental amount of cash. I’d prefer not to have too much media attention either, that would simply get annoying, and would [in the long run] most likely, prevent me from being a part of that ideal happy family.

P.S. - I can’t forget about Frankie, the black and brown doxon, who we will undoubtedly have someday!

Time.
There’s not enough of it…
I’ve been busing my ass lately at school to get to where I want to be. Every opportunity that shows itself, there’s always some reason about why it won’t work out for me, and it all has to do with time.

Just this past Thursday, there was an exclusive job fair ONLY for Cisco certified partners, and my CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor) wanted me to go… as well as some other students in the class, telling me that it would be a great opportunity for me, and that is the kind of thing I need to be doing… Unfortunately it was at 9:00am in Southfield, MI. Too bad I had to work at 10:00am, even if I wanted to go for a half of an hour or something, I would have had no way to make it back to work on time.

At least I know they all wanted me to go right? It makes me feel good about myself at least. I have no doubt that someday, once I have my CCNA, and CCDA certifications as well as some others… I’ll be getting a wonderful job working for an amazing company, who better be stationed in California!

But in the meantime, I don’t hate my current job at Starbucks, I actually really love [nearly] everybody I work with. I actually AM passionate about coffee, and espresso. It’s an art really… unfortunately most people that work for the company fail to see that.

Starbucks has really been a life-changing experience for me, and I know it has been for Angela, as well, and even Justin. They take an amazing pride in teaching their partners how to be genuine, and that we really SHOULD care about the customers/patrons. I really used to be extremely shy, and have the “I don’t care, I don’t know them” mentality about everybody. But throughout my training, and growing as a person working for Starbucks, I’ve really changed alot of my views, I truly have become a much more friendly person, and more genuine. I have no doubt that what Starbucks has taught me, will help me succeed for the rest of my life, even on that special day when I do land my dream job.