Went and saw this movie the other day- was quite a funny wacky movie... My favorite part were the owl mariachi band. Those who are musically inclined will love the Hans Zimmer soundtrack-Here is a suite he wrote for it.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
School Chaplaincy
I found this on youtube, an old talk by John Brereton.
This is why I'm a school chaplain- (though I am unable to teach RE)
If you get a chance check out http://supportschoolchaplains.com.au/
Friday, March 11, 2011
An NFL Player Interviews for a Regular Job
As you may or may not know American football (NFL) players maybe either going on strike or locked out by the owners due to pay disputes. Be funny to see them in the real world.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
A Katy Perry discussion????
This is how low I've sunk in my blogging inspiration. I'm writing a blog about Katy Perry... I hang my head in shame.
I know there will be sacrifice
But that’s the price
For those who have been living under a rock for the last few years Katy Hudson (stage name Katy Perry) is your typical Pastor's kid gone bad. Other's might say she has has sold her soul to the devil to be famous- and famous she is. With songs like "I kissed a girl", "Hot and cold", "California gurls", "Teenage dreams" and "hot and cold" you are unable to find one positive lyric. However these are the songs on teenagers lips. It has caused me great amusement when, one of my housemate who is obsessed with her, if I am in the room and a song of her's come on, he will switch off the tv but leave the sound on as he knows I'm gonna stir him about the pretty much soft porn of her video clips. However the lyrics are just as bad. And these are played every sat morning and her catchy melodies are sung by millions of children, teens and obsessed young men.
But did you know she Toured with Phil Joel back in the day?
Or she sings on one of my favourite P.O.D. songs "Goodbye for now" a song which I think really looks towards the hope we have for the future. (she is at the end of the song)
But anyways Why am I posting about her? Well I heard a song of hers that made me think and I'm guessing will cause some interesting discussions. Most of them will probably be by teenagers and Isaac Andrews claiming "Look at this song she is a christian, therefore her music isn't bad" Well it is worth having a look at.
The Song is called "Who am I living for?"
Good question.
It seems to have some great religious content e.g.
So I pray for a favour like Esther
I need your strength to handle the pressureI know there will be sacrifice
But that’s the price
or
I can see the writing on the wall
I can’t ignore this war
At the eh-end of it all
Who am I living for?
I can’t ignore this war
At the eh-end of it all
Who am I living for?
But as I had a quick look around some of the forums there were some fascinating discussions about this song. Some are proclaiming that this is why we teach our children religious things young because you never know if they are coming back to them.
Others would say that the song is really about the occult. The Vigilant Citzen says this here
Is it a song about occult initiation? Some might interpret the song as a religious song, perhaps about Christianity. But the terminology used however strongly points to occult mysteries: reference to a phoenix (a metaphor of man’s spiritual rebirth), a sacrifice, light growing from inside (illumination), duality between heaven and hell, etc
Still other theories are still out there including Dan Brown's Favourite- the Illuminati. If you are unaware there are many Conspirator's theories about this sort of thing. This comment was found here
I know someone of you will be completely unknown to this "theory", but a lot of people (including myself) believe there is this secret society that has been around for centuries, they're called the Illuminati. Alot of very successful artists practically sell they're soul to the devil for stardom, and they're usually granted their wishes; because of the immense control this group has on the movie and music industry.
I think the song was written about that. How Katy Perry is so strong in trying to resist the powers of this group. There is alot of religious undertones to the song.
I think the song was written about that. How Katy Perry is so strong in trying to resist the powers of this group. There is alot of religious undertones to the song.
Still others in the same discussion argue that she is indeed part of the group and this is describing her struggle/cries for help
Well I'm not sure about either theory. But I do point out that whilst this seems to kinda have a christian message- after she had released this song she still made videos prancing around in almost nothing and defiantly not living like a christian. So what do you think? I hope that when Isaac does come running to you with this song you have a rebuttal.
Lyrics to Katy Perry's "Who am I living for?"
I can feel a phoenix inside of me
As I march alone to a different beat
Slowly swallowing down my fear, yeah, yeah
I am ready for the road less traveled
Suiting up for my crowning battle
This is test is my own cross to bear
But I will get there
It's never easy to be chosen
Never easy to be called
Standing on the front line
When the bombs start to fall
I can see heavens
But I still hear the flames
Calling out my name
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for?
I can feel this light that's inside of me
Growing fast into a bolt of lightning
I know one spark will shock the world, yeah, yeah
So I pray for favor like Esther
I need your strength to handle the pressure
I know there will be sacrifice
But that's the price
It's never easy to be chosen
Never easy to be called
Standing on the front line
When the bombs start to fall
I can see heavens
But I still hear the flames
Calling out my name
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for? (x2)
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
Heavy is head that wears the crown
Don't let the greatness get you down
Heavy is head that wears the crown
Don't let the greatness get you down
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for? (x2)
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
As I march alone to a different beat
Slowly swallowing down my fear, yeah, yeah
I am ready for the road less traveled
Suiting up for my crowning battle
This is test is my own cross to bear
But I will get there
It's never easy to be chosen
Never easy to be called
Standing on the front line
When the bombs start to fall
I can see heavens
But I still hear the flames
Calling out my name
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for?
I can feel this light that's inside of me
Growing fast into a bolt of lightning
I know one spark will shock the world, yeah, yeah
So I pray for favor like Esther
I need your strength to handle the pressure
I know there will be sacrifice
But that's the price
It's never easy to be chosen
Never easy to be called
Standing on the front line
When the bombs start to fall
I can see heavens
But I still hear the flames
Calling out my name
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for? (x2)
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
Heavy is head that wears the crown
Don't let the greatness get you down
Heavy is head that wears the crown
Don't let the greatness get you down
I can see the writing on the wall
I can't ignore this war
At the end of it all
Who am I living for? (x2)
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
(At the end, at the end)
Who am I living for?
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Cyberbullying
Bullying these days has reached new levels. In the past we could head home and know we were safe. However now with facebook and phones there really is no escape. And kids are vicious. I read with great sorry this story below about how some bullies created a guy on facebook- had him woo a girl and they then "dated" on facebook for 3 months and then had him commit suicide. Wow how devastated would you be. Read below- found here
CYBERBULLIES tricked a 15-year-old British girl into believing that she had an online boyfriend for three months before cruelly "killing" him in a hoax suicide.
The victim, from Blackburn in Lancashire, northern England, was devastated when she saw Facebook reports that 16-year-old "Jaydon Rothwell" apparently killed himself with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs, the Lancashire Telegraph reported.
"Jaydon" was in fact the fictional creation of two 16-year-old girls who wanted to hurt the victim because she was once involved with one of their ex-boyfriends.
Police arrested the pair and forced them to apologise to the girl at a restorative justice meeting for what was described as a "devious plot".
Authorities were alerted when the fake suicide led 2000 people to join an online tribute site - but there was no record of sudden deaths in the area.
"I cried because I was shocked, gutted and scared. I was grieving for someone who wasn't real and felt I had been so gullible," the victim said.
Sergeant Paul Schofield said: "When all is said and done, this is online bullying. Social networking is a fantastic tool, but it can be misused by a small percentage of people."
A Facebook spokesman added: "Facebook is a place for real friendship, and we encourage people to think carefully about who they add as a friend."
CYBERBULLIES tricked a 15-year-old British girl into believing that she had an online boyfriend for three months before cruelly "killing" him in a hoax suicide.
The victim, from Blackburn in Lancashire, northern England, was devastated when she saw Facebook reports that 16-year-old "Jaydon Rothwell" apparently killed himself with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs, the Lancashire Telegraph reported.
"Jaydon" was in fact the fictional creation of two 16-year-old girls who wanted to hurt the victim because she was once involved with one of their ex-boyfriends.
Police arrested the pair and forced them to apologise to the girl at a restorative justice meeting for what was described as a "devious plot".
Authorities were alerted when the fake suicide led 2000 people to join an online tribute site - but there was no record of sudden deaths in the area.
"I cried because I was shocked, gutted and scared. I was grieving for someone who wasn't real and felt I had been so gullible," the victim said.
Sergeant Paul Schofield said: "When all is said and done, this is online bullying. Social networking is a fantastic tool, but it can be misused by a small percentage of people."
A Facebook spokesman added: "Facebook is a place for real friendship, and we encourage people to think carefully about who they add as a friend."
Monday, March 07, 2011
Shattered and Furious
Well I'm back to actually typing a blog. I think its been a lack of things making me angry recently. Maybe my blog should be called How fast can a van rant and youtube clips. but anyways onto my next Rant.
As you may have guessed I'm pretty shattered by the demise of the Fury. Now you may shut off at this point and say " Look mate- no one went- thats what happens when no one supports a team." Fair point. But you may not have heard the full story.
2 years ago The NQ Fury joined the A-League Their crowds were modest at home but away from home they had the biggest attendances in the A-League. Meaning wherever they were on the ladder people came to see them mostly due to big signing Robbie Fowler- a english soccer Legend (Think Mal Maninga big). The FFA (Football Federation of Australia) trumpeted their arrival as "Key to a gateway into Asia" However no one from the FFA actually showed up to the launch. Strange
At the end of the first season The owner filed for bankruptcy and quit the club and some of Townsville's most astute business people came on board to "Save the Fury" The campaign was good- thousands of people signed up to keep the fury. Then The White Knight the FFA came on board. We all celebrated the saving of our club. They then sacked everyone. A few players were resigned. A new board appointed. Everyone else's contracts were ripped up.
Strange but ok... The FFA know what they are doing. A new coach appointed. good news. The budget is released- The Fury Salary cap is 85% of every other team. Adelaide who at this stage is also owned by the FFA doesn't have this stipulation. Also we are to have no marquee players (Players who aren't included in the salary cap- e.g. the players you pay the most to play). Most other teams have 4.
This young team launches the 2nd season- with maybe 1 or 2 bigger names. Everyone else was a reject or a very young player from other clubs. Half the players were signed before the coach was selected.
The FFA made it clear that they were only there to help the Fury get onto their feet. "Over the next few years we will be looking for a new owner to take over as it is not the FFA's job to fund clubs"- Frank Lowry. And soon great news came. A Singaporean organisation wanted to buy the Fury. The FFA rejected the sale as it wasn't an Australian entity. Strange considering they wanted the club to be a gateway to Asia.
The Draw was released. The NQ cowboys have shown that the only time slot that works in north queensland is sat night. Even friday night games aren't very well attended and sundays don't work. In the entire draw we had only 4 sat home games and only one of them was at 7pm (1 at 5pm the other 2 at 8:30). we had more monday night games than sat. We had more Wed night games than sat. And the wed night games were mostly on at 8:30 pm??? who is going to take their kids to game on a wed night at 8:30?
The only sat night game at 7pm happened to be a night where 200mm of rain fell on the day of the game. OF course our crowd figures were bad. But The draw was mostly to blame for this.
As time went on it became more and more clear that the FFA was solely focused on getting the world cup in Australia and they were propping up the Fury so they didn't look bad when the fury folded. However the World cup bid was a failure. 50 million dollars spent to get one vote. The Main man responsible for this (Ben Buckley) then came back to his forgotten job- to find the Fury a new owner.
The Board proposed a new ownership system- a community ownership scheme. FFA took the model to review it and promptly announced the Fury was losing money and was going to lose 3 million over the next 2 years. It was up to the NQ to find half of that money and they had till the end of January. This was announced just before Christmas. Any business owner will tell you the hardest time to find money is around Christmas time. The community ownership model wasn't approved. So the board began madly trying to raise money The state government came on board- things were looking great. Then we had the flood and the state government pulled out. The team wasn't doing great mostly due, in my opinion, lack of certainty in their future. The worst refs were sent here and actually cost us games. The FFA responded by fining anyone who complained about the standards of refs sent up.
The deadline drew near- we hadn't raised the money and we asked for an extension. A reply never came back just some ho humming about how the timeline wasn't set in concrete. A just after the deadline the community model was approved. This was on a friday. That next week Cyclone Yasi hit. Townsville was quite messed up and yet despite this sponsors and people started to come on board. The 1.5 million was reached with another 500,000 dollar sponsorship in the wings. The FFA received the books and said to the chairman "You guys have done an excellent job: leave it with us"
Ben Buckley then flew to Townsville two weeks later and closed the Fury down. His reasoning- you have not raised the Capital needed. Apparently sponsorship was not to be included in the 1.5 million. The Board learned that at 11:30 am on the day the Fury were closed. Now the FFA had the Fury's books for 2 weeks. Surely 1 quick phone call would have told the Fury board this.
See I can accept the the club being axed due to lack of support in Townsville. However what I can't accept is the goal posts being constantly moved. Rumour has it the decision was made in August to axe the fury and make it a nice even 10 team comp. However this wasn't made public because they still wanted the revenue from the remaining games. I'm angry about being promised "a few years" and not even getting one. I'm angry that the FFA can spend 50 million on greasing up FIFA executives and wont spend 3 million dollars on the future of football in north queensland. I'm mostly angry because despite the fact that the supporter were held up as some of the best in the A-League apparently we weren't good enough. People's lives have been seriously affected by these broken promises and whiles't its not mine, its gonna take a long time up here for anyone to trust our football authorities again.
As you may have guessed I'm pretty shattered by the demise of the Fury. Now you may shut off at this point and say " Look mate- no one went- thats what happens when no one supports a team." Fair point. But you may not have heard the full story.
2 years ago The NQ Fury joined the A-League Their crowds were modest at home but away from home they had the biggest attendances in the A-League. Meaning wherever they were on the ladder people came to see them mostly due to big signing Robbie Fowler- a english soccer Legend (Think Mal Maninga big). The FFA (Football Federation of Australia) trumpeted their arrival as "Key to a gateway into Asia" However no one from the FFA actually showed up to the launch. Strange
At the end of the first season The owner filed for bankruptcy and quit the club and some of Townsville's most astute business people came on board to "Save the Fury" The campaign was good- thousands of people signed up to keep the fury. Then The White Knight the FFA came on board. We all celebrated the saving of our club. They then sacked everyone. A few players were resigned. A new board appointed. Everyone else's contracts were ripped up.
Strange but ok... The FFA know what they are doing. A new coach appointed. good news. The budget is released- The Fury Salary cap is 85% of every other team. Adelaide who at this stage is also owned by the FFA doesn't have this stipulation. Also we are to have no marquee players (Players who aren't included in the salary cap- e.g. the players you pay the most to play). Most other teams have 4.
This young team launches the 2nd season- with maybe 1 or 2 bigger names. Everyone else was a reject or a very young player from other clubs. Half the players were signed before the coach was selected.
The FFA made it clear that they were only there to help the Fury get onto their feet. "Over the next few years we will be looking for a new owner to take over as it is not the FFA's job to fund clubs"- Frank Lowry. And soon great news came. A Singaporean organisation wanted to buy the Fury. The FFA rejected the sale as it wasn't an Australian entity. Strange considering they wanted the club to be a gateway to Asia.
The Draw was released. The NQ cowboys have shown that the only time slot that works in north queensland is sat night. Even friday night games aren't very well attended and sundays don't work. In the entire draw we had only 4 sat home games and only one of them was at 7pm (1 at 5pm the other 2 at 8:30). we had more monday night games than sat. We had more Wed night games than sat. And the wed night games were mostly on at 8:30 pm??? who is going to take their kids to game on a wed night at 8:30?
The only sat night game at 7pm happened to be a night where 200mm of rain fell on the day of the game. OF course our crowd figures were bad. But The draw was mostly to blame for this.
As time went on it became more and more clear that the FFA was solely focused on getting the world cup in Australia and they were propping up the Fury so they didn't look bad when the fury folded. However the World cup bid was a failure. 50 million dollars spent to get one vote. The Main man responsible for this (Ben Buckley) then came back to his forgotten job- to find the Fury a new owner.
The Board proposed a new ownership system- a community ownership scheme. FFA took the model to review it and promptly announced the Fury was losing money and was going to lose 3 million over the next 2 years. It was up to the NQ to find half of that money and they had till the end of January. This was announced just before Christmas. Any business owner will tell you the hardest time to find money is around Christmas time. The community ownership model wasn't approved. So the board began madly trying to raise money The state government came on board- things were looking great. Then we had the flood and the state government pulled out. The team wasn't doing great mostly due, in my opinion, lack of certainty in their future. The worst refs were sent here and actually cost us games. The FFA responded by fining anyone who complained about the standards of refs sent up.
The deadline drew near- we hadn't raised the money and we asked for an extension. A reply never came back just some ho humming about how the timeline wasn't set in concrete. A just after the deadline the community model was approved. This was on a friday. That next week Cyclone Yasi hit. Townsville was quite messed up and yet despite this sponsors and people started to come on board. The 1.5 million was reached with another 500,000 dollar sponsorship in the wings. The FFA received the books and said to the chairman "You guys have done an excellent job: leave it with us"
Ben Buckley then flew to Townsville two weeks later and closed the Fury down. His reasoning- you have not raised the Capital needed. Apparently sponsorship was not to be included in the 1.5 million. The Board learned that at 11:30 am on the day the Fury were closed. Now the FFA had the Fury's books for 2 weeks. Surely 1 quick phone call would have told the Fury board this.
See I can accept the the club being axed due to lack of support in Townsville. However what I can't accept is the goal posts being constantly moved. Rumour has it the decision was made in August to axe the fury and make it a nice even 10 team comp. However this wasn't made public because they still wanted the revenue from the remaining games. I'm angry about being promised "a few years" and not even getting one. I'm angry that the FFA can spend 50 million on greasing up FIFA executives and wont spend 3 million dollars on the future of football in north queensland. I'm mostly angry because despite the fact that the supporter were held up as some of the best in the A-League apparently we weren't good enough. People's lives have been seriously affected by these broken promises and whiles't its not mine, its gonna take a long time up here for anyone to trust our football authorities again.
Extreme downhill bike run
Extreme downhill bike run: "Watch through the eyes of a crazy Chilean cyclist as he risks life and limb in the VCA race run in Santiago"
Sunday, March 06, 2011
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