And speaking of REM...

For most of you this post will be meaningless...but some will understand.







"I'm glad you're here with me Sam, here at the end of all things"



To new horizons...

REM Hollow Man

Interesting new song from REM...



If the rest of the album is as good, it will be worth getting. Interesting song to come from the poster boys of postmodern lyrics.

"What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself." - Blaise Pascal

"You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are rest-less till they find their rest in you." - Augustine

Indiana Jones

Ok, ok, it's true - I love Indiana Jones - always have since I was a wee girl. The Matrix generation will probably not get it, but when Raiders of the Lost Ark first came out it was billed as "The Return of the Great Adventure". It wasn't like anything else - it was a classic adventure film, and it was amazing. There's nothing James Bondish or computer generated about it, and I'm happy to say there still isn't. I think No. 4 is great! Old school, very entertaining, Harrison Ford still does all the stunts himself, and he doesn't pretend to be younger than he is. Plus, Marian is back...

So, here are some of the better lines - but like all true action films, they sound better in the film...

Mutt Williams: You know, for an old man you ain't bad in a fight. What are you, like 80?

Agent Irina Spalko: Belief, Dr. Jones, is a gift you have yet to receive. My sympathies. Indiana Jones: Oh, I believe, sister. That's why I'm down here.

Agent Irina Spalko: No defiant last words, Dr. Jones? Indiana Jones: I like Ike.

[Indiana realizes he's in a nuclear testing site when sirens begin wailing] Indiana Jones: That can't be good. That can't be good at all.

Indiana Jones: Oh, Marion, you had to go and get yourself kidnapped. Marion Ravenwood: Not like you did any better. Indiana Jones: Same old, same old.

Indiana Jones: Marion, take the wheel! Mutt Williams: That's not fair, she drove the truck! Indiana Jones: Don't be a child. Find something to fight with!

Indiana Jones: Drop dead! [Dovchenko punches him in the face] Indiana Jones: I'm sorry; I meant, "Drop dead, *comrade*."

Marion Ravenwood: I'm sure I wasn't the only one to go on with my life. There must have been plenty of women for you over the years. Indiana Jones: There were a few. But they all had the same problem. Marion Ravenwood: Yeah, what's that? Indiana Jones: They weren't you, honey.

Indiana Jones: You want to be a good archaeologist... [Mutt drives them out of the building on his motorcycle] Indiana Jones: ...you've got to get out of the library!

Indiana Jones: You're not from around here, are you? Agent Irina Spalko: And 'vere' do you think I am from? Indiana Jones: Well, judging by the way you're sinking your teeth into those 'wubble-yous', I'd say Eastern Ukraine.