mid August already???

Summer as usual is a whirlwind! And now it's almost over...

Minnesota was visited by tragedy 2 weeks ago today with the 35W bridge collapse. My thoughts continue to be with the victims, those still missing and all their families as well as the community and rescue workers who rushed to the scene to help. With the storms we've gotten in the last couple of days the river has surged, and yet the divers were back in the water at 2:30 this morning risking their lives to help find those still missing. I have the utmost respect for these folks!

Project Updates:
-Legacy: Nebraska was blistering hot in July! But Albert was cool! We spent some time with him and are now starting to edit the project. We'll also be doing more research to acquire some necessary photos and newspaper articles for the project.
-Dakota 38: We've received some funding and will continue to submit grant proposals where we can. We will also continue doing our research.
-Colin Devlin: We continue to edit, now playing with the new titling tool and filters (ie the new edit tools)...hopefully more soon.

Recent movie theater visits:
-Bourne Ultimatum, entertaining (as is the Jimmy Kimmel spoof with Guillermo!).

Recent netflix viewings:
-Dreamgirls, certainly powerful voices all around...but not being a musical fan it wasn't really for me. I have a hard time with... dramatic moment=break into song. I'm more a purist with music. For cinema it's in the background driving emotion, or you are featuring pure performances. Which actually Dreamgirls does quite well. It's just the dramatic moment=break into song moments pull me out of the story. Nothing personal against Dreamgirls, I feel that way for all musicals (except the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More With Feeling" because Joss Whedon is a genius and solved the "take me out of the story" problem by embedding the reasoning for breaking into song into the plot).
-Bobby, a nice tribute to RFK that isn't really about him but about his impact on people of the time.

Recent purchases:
-Sweet Land (of course)
-Veronica Mars season 1, 2 (and pre-ordered 3). Gotta support the strong female characters. So few on television these days. And hopefully spending money on them shows the CW they goofed in cancelling it or at the very least shows the creators it was appreciated.

Looking forward to purchasing:
-Serenity Special Edition DVD. Again spending money not only for the additional content on the special edition but to show those holding the future of the 'verse in their hands, that it would be worth it to greenlight a second film!