Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut

"And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time."

"In the past week, " she said, "I've been married to Othello, been loved by Faust and been kidnapped by Paris. Wouldn't you say I was the luckiest girl in town?"

"We wouldn't have the telephone today if Bell hadn't had the guts to call somebody up."

"The question experienced men like yourself usually ask is: how high can I go and how fast? And the answer to that is that the sky is the limit for a man with drive and creative ambition. And he can go fast or slow, depending on what he's willing to do and capable of putting into the job."

"Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for"

"Every character should want something, even if it's a glass of water. "

"Be a sadist. Make awful things happen to your characters in order that we can see what they're made of. "

Movie List

2013

**Play Time -- Jacques Tati

**Lolita -- Stanley Kubrick

**Rushmore -- Wes Anderson

**The Shining -- Stanley Kubrick

***Argo -- Ben Affleck

***Une Femme Est Une Femme -- Godard

***American Psycho -- Mary Harron

***Safety Not Guaranteed -- Colin Trevorrow

***Robot and Frank -- Jack Schreier

**TED -- Seth MacFarlane

*Killer Joe -- William Friedkin

**Virgin Suicides -- Sofia Coppola 

***The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- Stephen Chbosky

*Wild at Heart -- David Lynch

***Full Metal Jacket -- Stanley Kubrick

**All God's Children Can Dance -- Murakami

*Elysium -- Neill Blomkamp

**Monster's University -- Dan Scanlon

***Lost in Translation -- Sofia Coppola 

***Moonrise Kingdom -- Wes Anderson

*Bottle Rocket -- Wes Anderson

**Solaris -- Steven Soderbergh

**Eyes Wide Shut -- Stanley Kubrick

***Gattaca -- Andrew Niccol

**Somewhere -- Sofia Coppola

***Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori) -- Tran Anh Hung (Haruki Murakami) 

***Chasing Ice

***Star Trek Into Darkness

**Olympus Has Fallen

2014

*Alan Partridge Alpha Papa

**American Beauty

**Bad Words

**The Bridge on the River Kwai

**Cutie and the Boxer

***Ernest & Celestine

***Finding Vivian Maier

***Gravity

***The Grand Budapest Hotel

**Her

***The Hunger Games

***The Hunger Games - Catching Fire

**I was Born But

**Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

*Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

**Jeune & Jolie

***Kes

**The Kings of Summer

**The Lego Movie

***Life of PI

***Like Father, Like Son

**The Machine

**Matilda

*Non-Stop

**Oblivion

**Oculus

**One Day

*Particle Fever

**The Past (Le Passe)

**Salmon Fishing in Yemen

***Samsara

***The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

**The Selfish Giant

*Sucker Punch

**Toto the Hero

**The Wolf of Wall Street

*Noah

Romans 12:9-21

Love in Action

9. Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 

10. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 

11. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 

12. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

13. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

14. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 

15. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 

16. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people          of low position. Do not be conceited.

17. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.

18. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 

19. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is          mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. 

20.On the contrary:

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;

if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.

In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.