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Been busy as hell lately. Went from being an unemployed loafer to working like crazy. It feels great to have a job again.It is an overnight job. I am under the gun for 9-10 hours trying to get the Target ready for 8:00 in the AM. It seems that 9-10 hours would be enough time to get things done, but that time passes like crazy especially when things have to be done in a hurry.  My body is still confused. It is trying to ajust to the new schedule.
 Well, I havent watched a whole slew of movies. I did get to see Isolation, Testament, Seconds, and Pan's Labyrinth. 
Isolation was an alright movie. It lacked in many areas but still had some pretty cool ideas. It was about  genetic mutations in cattle due to experiments in making a faster way to produce more cattle. The only actor I knew was Sean Harris, the guy who played Ian Curtis in 24 HR Party People. 
 Testament was a movie from the early 80's. It was one of the many films that came out at that time about nuclear war. This one revolves around a nuclear bomb that goes off in San Franisco. The town that it takes place in is miles away, but the fallout begins to effect the whole town. The central characters are a mother and her children(the youngest child being Lukas Haas). The mother keeps a diary of whats happening in the town and within her family. Its not a very happy movie by any means. 
 Seconds is a John Frankenheimer movie made in the late 60's. Its about a older man who is contacted by an old friend about a company that deals in changing the identity of the individual giving them a new face and a new life. The older man goes through with the process finding himself in regret. Very interesting movie. Worth putting on the netflix list. 
Pan's labyrinth is Guillermo Del Toros second Spanish speaking film to take place during the Spanish Civil War(the first being The Devils Backbone). The fantasy element is there, but I felt that the bulk of the movie dealt more with the war itself. Very interesting period piece.

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enterlinemedia    has inspired me to write an entry on Jericho. I really like the premise of the show. It goes to show how ill prepared most of us are concerning a nuclear bomb. The show is extremely hypothetical, but does give some good pointers of what to do and what not to do in such a case as shown. The timing of the show is impeccable with everything that is going on with North Korea now.    The show is set in a fictional small town in Colorado called Jericho. A mushroom cloud is spotted out in the distance and all long distance communication is lost. Many other events transpire from this. It shows various characters acting differently from the change. The Green family are the governing hub of the town. The father, Johnston, is the mayor. Eric is the  son who seems to be following in his fathers footsteps. Jake, the closest thing in the show to a central character, is the black sheep of the family.  Jake has returned to Jericho after five years requesting his part of an inheritance from his grandfather. Everybody he runs into asks him where he has been.  He seems to have a different answer to the question for everybody. There is introductions to other characters and subplots revolving around the events as well. Later, a mysterious character appears claiming to be a police officer from St Louis suggesting that nobody knows Jericho is around and explaining that St Louis police got with the program after Sept 9/11.  There are other events that take place outside of town too. Jake gets into an accident killing the other people before being flagged down tby a little girl. There was a schoolbus accident. Also among the mess, a prison bus has crashed.          For those following the show, I have a few theories. - I dont think the two convicts were the only ones to escape the bus. I cant recall them showing the prison bus crashing. I believe that Jake was on that bus too.  How he aquired the Camero is another question though. -The tax auditor knows EXACTLY whats going on. She might be from another agency thats NOT the IRS.  -Hawkins is definitly in the know of something too. Although I trust him more than I trust the tax auditor. What his motives are are very unclear at this point. The whole thing with the coordiantes he got from the HAM radio  and the fact that he had those fire arms that he has hidden makes me wonder what he has up his sleeve. I am on the optimistic side of things He might be protecting Jericho from itself.  -The satellite feed given from Asia is rigged. Its a false transmission deployed by our own government. Its linked to everything that is going on with the US Government and that fact that this whole thing could be an experiment to begin with. Which is why I trust the tax auditor less and less. She might be somebody who is keeping the people at bay for the government.  Its very important to pay close attention to the news boradcast in the first episode. I believe that it is key to the whole series. Something about the rise of global disorder.

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