Dear Friends,

So,
This week I saw the best...and worst movies I have seen this year. It's kind of a tradition really. Every year within 7-10 days I see the "This movie changed my life" movie and the "I can't believe I just spent money on this" movie. Last years winners?

Best - American History X (I know I seem to inhibit sloth when it comes to seeing movies when they come out)

Worst - Mummy Returns (we won't speak of this movie.....ever....ever...again)

Back to the point. The movie of the year for 2002 so far was a movie I have always wanted to see but, end up forgeting every Blockbuster trip. Dead Poets Society. Unbelievable movie. If you haven't seen it...I urge you to. If you have seen it....watch it again dang it. A movie like this should be viewed and then discussed until the wee hours of the morning (just before the trip to West Plains.....ok....sorry everyone else...only steven will understand that one.....which reminds me if you ever want to hear a REALLY
funny story....). You can sit and relate this movie to life as easy as you can munch on a Freeze-Pop. And....just like Freeze-Pops there are so many differant colorful angles to choose from (except the orange ones of course...they are icky). The greatest of these though is the ability to realize that your life...is yours. Not anyone elses. True there are people in our lives that to guide us but, last time Webster and I were chatting....Guide did not equal control. The ability to control is so scary to me because it isn't in plain site. It has disquised itself in such words as "Teach" "Parent" and "Raise". Have you ever heard the words..."We know what's best for you?" Even the thought behind that statement thas been constrewd. The words should be..."We know a bunch of things that are bad
for you and so we are gonna warn you about them." See the a problem I have with the world today is the same problem that has been happening since it started. At some point...PEOPLE....STOP....THINKING. They get to a point in their life where they say..."well, I have learned everything there is to learn on that subject, so I don't have to worry about it anymore." That's Cow-Poop. I am willing to bet everything I own (which really isn't too much) on the reality that Micheal Jordan does not know everything there is to know about Basketball. That Bill Gates does not know everything there is to know about Computers. That Kerri Maxwell is Pretty (how did that get in there) But, more importantly....That we DO NOT know everything there is to know about life. I sure as heck don't. Have you ever been sitting inside on a rainy day. You stare out the window watching each drop of water hit the ground. Imagine what it would be like to be holding your hands out staring up at the sky. Each drop hitting you as you play. Freely doing something that has always been deemed not right. I am not talking rebellion. I am talking about your mind. And the fact that it's yours.

Love you guys,

Anthony Doria