Wow, it's been awhile since I've updated. Well, things are going really well in school. I'm learning more and more about the film business and that being lazy is not an option. If you're late for five minutes, they will find a replacement for you. I better stand up and fly right from now on. I've been also reading scripts for Script Analysis class from the films Alien 3 and Lawn Dogs. Lawn Dogs was effing boring as hell but the Alien 3 ones (3 drafts) were interesting. The screenplay written by Walter Hill and David Giler (the one they actually shot for the movie) was the most intriguing.

It's also pretty nice to have two classes Monday, no classes until 6:30 pm Wednesday, and the last one of the week on 2:00 pm.

On the audio front, I downloaded a free track from iTunes from this band named Kasabian. After listening to their first single, "Club Foot," I am definitely buying their album come March 8th.

On other notes, I saw this DVD player from Barrett's (a DENON 5910, to be exact) while walking around downtown Chicago and the picture quality was amazing. I entered the store and went straight to the DVD player. Man, I saw the price and my jaw dropped. The price for it was $4,499 and that was on sale. Man, the picture quality coming out of this player was simply jaw-dropping to say the least and displaying it calibrated with one of the best new displays, this brand new Sharp HDTV 45-incher, was incredible.

On other note, Emmy Rossum is absolutely luminous and ravishing. She's just simply too beautiful for words.

Don't forget people, the Oscars are on Sunday at 7 pm on ABC. Here's hoping that Million Dollar Baby will win Best Picture.

On the subject of Million Dollar Baby, I have something to say about the film. If you haven't seen the film, STOP READING NOW.

The ending to Million Dollar Baby has caused great controversy within the United States because of its subject matter. Hilary Swank's character Maggie is sucker punched by Billie between rounds during a title fight. Because it's between rounds, the cutman places the stool on the corner for the ring for Maggie. Maggie gets knocked out and her neck breaks on the seat of the stool. Now straight to the point, Maggie feels that her time on this world is over and asks Frankie (Clint Eastwood) to kill her like her dad killed their disabled dog. After some deliberating with a priest and himself, Frankie kills Maggie.

What disability groups have their tits in a twist is that they feel that Eastwood is glorifying euthanasia. In my opinion, if he's glorifying anything, it's the guilt one man should suffer throughout his life. The trade off is that Frankie is sacrificing his way into heaven but one's suffering. He's doesn't want to see her suffer and he kills her. The pain he goes through is so great that he doesn't even want to see Morgan Freeman's anymore. The other thing is that, she wants this to be done. She even says it in the film, "I've seen the world. People chanted my name. It really wasn't my name but they were cheering for me." Film critic Roger Ebert has said, "We go to movies but we always don't agree on what people do in movies." Million Dollar Baby is a fine example of this statement and for people who protest this film are either oblivious to it or are just plain ignorant.