The Wrestler

I'll go ahead and get it out of the way.  I used to love pro wrestling.  I can think back and remember matches that changed my life as a kid.  I remember begging my parents to let me order a pay-per-view because I was worried Mankind was going to kill Shawn Michaels (my favorite wrestler).  I remember sitting around at school the next day listening to a kid tell me what happened in detail in every match because his dad ordered it.

So it was no surprise that when a movie about a washed up professional wrestler was released I wanted to go.  The fact that the reviews were as good as they were was just a bonus.  I have never seen Ready to Rumble... just for the record.

Mickey Rourke plays Randy "The Ram," an extremely popular wrestler from the 1980s who is now wrestling in small companies to make enough money to pay the rent.  After a particularly brutal match, he has a heart attack and has to change his life.

The Wrestler is an absolutely amazing movie.  It is a movie that I have processed in my mind over and over.  One of the few movies that has ever left me completely engrossed for a day or two afterward.  I found myself thinking about the movie the next day and looking at it from all the different angles.  I highly recommend it even if you aren't a fan of wrestling.

My Consistent Blog...

Seems like an oxymoron right?  I've been pretty lazy with this thing for the last few months.  I'm gonna get better, I promise.

I think I'm just going to get some quick thoughts out and use another post to talk about some politics and other things.  I had to write a 17 page research paper on the relationship between Christianity and Politics in America.  While I said a lot in that paper, there are a few things that I would like to say in a less formal tone.  Maybe a few questions to ask as well.

Here are my quick hit thoughts of this week.

-Not only do the Gators win the BCS Championship game but Tim Tebow and Brandon Spikes come back?  I'll take it!

-Dear Jaguars, please pick Percy Harvin.  Cut Jerry Porter and Troy Williamson.  Draft Percy Harvin.

-My love for British Rock-and-Roll grows by the minute thanks to my continued love for Led Zeppelin, the Kaiser Chiefs, and the Beatles, as well as my newfound love for Bloc Party and the Arctic Monkeys.  I'm sure there are tons of bands I'm forgetting. 

-I agree with whoever said the Killers are the best British band to come out of America.

-I don't know if there are enough hours left in my life to see all the great movies I have missed over the years but Netflix makes it a lot easier to see as many as possible.

-Watchmen looks like it's going to be great.  Should do a good job telling the story.

-The list of books I have to read is too long.  Into the Wild, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Living Biblically, The History of God, Million Dollar Baby, and all my stuff for school.  I have a ton of work to do.

The happiest note of all this is that I finally feel like I can think on a graduate school level.  I feel comfortable with my beliefs and feelings about certain issues.  I'm excited to move onto the next portion of my life story.