Dale Lature: Video and Movies

Tootsie

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The first leg of a double-header Movie Night --- the second one was the one I had higher expectations for, and it turned out that Tootsie was far superior. The other was Dudley Moore and MaryTyler Moore and a title I don't even remember;(I looked it up: Six Weeks)

An Officer and a Gentleman: Our first Movie Theater Movie Date

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The first movie theater date, in Cincinnati, sometime in September 1982

Movies we went to see about 20 years ago

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Gandhi got me thinking about the Cosmic Christ, since he seemed to be better at being a Christian than a lot of Christians. Know what I mean? Later, when I found the book by Matthew Fox ("The Cosmic Christ"), Gandhi's life had prepared the way for me to think about the way Christ reveals himself across and in spite of culture.

20 years ago on this night

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The movie we watched 20 years ago tonight. I found the DVD version of this at Blockbuster, and so I am taking that one home tonight. Perhaps some Pizza Hut pizza to go with it?

Read what I've written so far about Janet and I and "20 years"

New TV Shows

The West Wing starts up again Sept.25th. Lookin' forward to it. Now that I'm a Blogger, perhaps I'll be driven to Blog on things political. Judging Amy, Smallville (my son and wife and I like that one), ER, and NYPD (the last two have been on the decline over the past year, and I'll keep tabs, hoping they can survive as worthy of watching). I haven't even seen a hint of anything that looks promising coming up this fall. I'll have to check out the network's websites and see what's up.

Favorite TV shows of all time (no order here either, just favorites)

MASH (1972-83....I caught on in 1980, AND WENT BACK AND CAUGHT ALL THE RERUNS)

Lou Grant (1977-82)

Picket Fences (1992- 1996)

Paper Chase(1978-80 CBS, 1983-5 Showtime)

ThirtySomething (1987-1991)

NYPD Blue (1993-)

ER (1994-)

Saturday Night Live (Akroyd-Belushi-Chase-Radner-Neuman-Morris-Curtin and later Bill Murray, in the begining, mid to late 70's) and (Carvey, Hartman, Nevin, Lovitz, Jackson, Sweeney, Myers, Rock, Miller in the late 80's-early 90's)

West Wing (1999-)

The Practice (1997- )

I'll Fly Away (1991)

Homefront (1991-92)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Tootsie (1982, jessica lange, supporting actress)

Real vs Virtual as I saw it , 1995-6

I also wanna see "Sum of All Fears". Remember "The Day After" ?

I have dived (have dove, diven, am diving ????) into Weblogging head first, but as soon as I did, I knew my heart was right there with me. This is exciting. After just finishing a book by Lawrence Lessig The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World which depressed the shit out of me about how the Internet is being "monkeyed with", but this time not as much by people of the ilk of the original Net revolution, where protocols were built and standards were developed collaboratively and Open Source type things happened. This time, it's the people who have the most to lose by Open Code and the power of the voice of the people. By closing access, at the edges of the Network, or making it more and more difficult for certain kinds of technologies to flourish, the dangers are growing that the Internet is becoming more like what the Media outlets in power would like it be: something they can control.

With Weblogging, I see a second wave of revolution. If the internet was the original Net Revolution, and the Powers striking back is the counter-revolution, then the Weblogs represent a Third Wave (to borrow a title from Toffler). I have been spouting off about Portals for the past two to three years, and now I see a major avenue and channel for the Portal to really be useful: as a way of connecting individuals to their communties that are out there waiting for them but have yet to discover them. Blogs; Weblogs are personal portals that collaborate across the Net to build something powerful. And nowhere am I more excited about this than how this might empower a new people intelligence within the Theological Community (and in some churches)...