"Once"

Starring Glan Hansard and Marketa Irglova, “Once” is the story of an Irish street musician and vacuum repairman, and a Czechoslovakian flower-saleswoman. She hears him playing his beat-up guitar outside a shop, and they begin a lasting friendship. They play together a little, her on the piano and him on guitar, while both sing, and eventually record a demo album. The acting was brilliant, although neither Glen nor Marketa had ever acted before. The music is amazing. The cinematography is very limited due to the sub-$200,000 budget. Considering this film was made in Ireland, it is no surprise that there is a massive amount of language. All in all, “Once” is a beautiful, well-made, funny and inspiring film. **** 3/4

Too bad they won’t be making “Twice”.

A Close Friend

Anybody who reads this, please take a moment and say a quick prayer for a close friend of mine and Tom's. Her name is Helen. She contracted e-coli at a young age, which did significant damage to her kidneys.This has caused her, among other things, to be pretty short, and she is thus dubbed a gnome. She is now 17, and is currently undergoing surgery to transplant one of her mom's kidneys into her. The operation is to say the least dangerous, and me and my all my friends would sincerely appreciate if you would just say a quick prayer fot the success of the operation and the treatment to follow. To find out more about Helen or to see how the operation is going, go to www.HelenTheGnome.com, and http://helengnomeupdates.blogspot.com

Sincerely,
Patrick

And now for something completely different...

Heres a filler until one of us gets a proper post up:

Long Time... No Post

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. It's cuz nothing has happened since forever, so I have nothing to post about. I am going to Australia next July with Tom and some other people. Oh, I really don't have much of a job anymore. Well, that's 'bout it.

The Original.

1979 MV for "Message In a Bottle."
Embedding was disabled, so I can only provide the link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeQ2yXE1mpU
P.S. I love the drummer.

Summer

Man... I'm sick. Which is kind of sad. I mean, it's the beginning of the summer and I can't really do anything because I am so sick. For those of you that know me, I think it is basically the same cold I had before (and after) the auction. Yeah, meaning soon I'll probably lose my voice. What a party!!

The "prom."

Patrick and I went to an awesome dance, an awesome dance that rocked the house down! They had a quartet play, then a DJ, and it was all cool!
-Tom