This is my top 10 albums of the decade or the last 10 years cause I know some people get confused with all the decades, centuries and millenniums. Why do we need to shorten everything in life now? Saying ten years doesn’t save anytime either, maybe a millisecond. If we add up all these milliseconds we saved using all these short forms in our vernacular can we trade them in at the end of life for a prize? Say paper clip, a small toy racing car, a hair clip or a longer life. Anyways, a decade is 10 years. So, the list spans the first decade of the new millennium so the years 2000 to 2010. After this I guess it’ll be the best albums of the first century of the new millennium that will include the list of the first decade but scattered throughout the century that is 50 years. A century is 50 years.

            Now, we all know how the Internet works. Someone no body knows or cares about posts a list or an opinion and it sits there waiting for Internet snipers to find it just to call it wrong and rip it apart. There’s one thing you have to understand with this list. It’s my list. Many of the albums on this list probably aren’t considered critically acclaimed. These are albums that affected my life and turned me into the asshole I am today. There’s a lot I want to mention but 10 years isn’t enough. Also, 1999 was a good year for albums. Maybe I’ll do a list strictly to the best albums of 1999. So hopefully, this is an enjoyable list.

10. Brand New- Your Favourite Weapon. October 9, 2001. Razor and Tie Records

            Your Favourite Weapon threw me into a different stratosphere of music. At the time of me buying it I was listening to Green Day, Blink 182 and things like that. For me this album entered emotion into my search for new bands. The utter raw screaming and crunch guitars definitely were like nothing else I had heard at the time. Brand New opened me up to a grunge sound that I hadn’t experienced before this album.

9. Rufio- Perhaps I Suppose…June 12, 2001. Militia Records

            I’ve always liked Rufio and this album is definitely their best. Everything is perfect. Also, the guitar work was a stray away from the usual chugging you hear in your usual pop-punk. It added the catchy metal inspired riff into the equation.

8. A Day To Remember- For Those Who Have Heart. January 27, 2007. Victory Records

            A Day To Remember is definitely a newer band out there. Just getting their feet in the music industry but their first full-length “For Those Who Have Heart” definitely owns the faces of any hardcore, metal or pop-punk kids out there. With it’s heavy belting breakdowns and melodic poppy choruses it shows such an exciting mix of two different genres. It’s always good when bands are original. ADTR are definitely a hard rough example of creativity and originality to change two genres forever.

7. Between The Buried And Me- Colors. September 18, 2007. Victory Records

            One of the first and few metal bands I still like. Colors is just amazing there’s nothing to really say. It’s one of the longest albums I listen to but it’s worth the hour and four minutes of amazing musicianship. I saw them live and they played the whole album and that was it for me a fan for life.

6. Lifetime- Lifetime. February 6, 2007. Fueled By Ramen/ Decaydance

            One of the most interesting and amazing comeback albums of all time. Lifetime fell off the radar in the 90s after a couple full-length releases and interesting enough Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz signed them and they released their self-titled album. It was nothing like I had heard at this point. I was well into punk but this album took all the hardcore punk elements and turned them inside out into this collection of weirdly catchy and addictive songs.

5. Daggermouth- Turf Wars.  March 13, 2007. State Of Mind Records

            Canada’s own. Daggermouth have been having some problems lately and their future is bleak. But thanks for releasing this album before the troubles. “Turf Wars” added the hardcore amendment to Canadian music that has been missing for a while.  I know about Comeback Kid and all that but Daggermouth definitely gave it the boost it needed. How much could Comeback Kid do on their own when they were strictly touring Canada for so long? Daggermouth brought it to the States and killed shows up and down the west coast.

4. Motion City Soundtrack- I Am The Movie. June 24, 2003. Epitaph Records

            What can I say? Motion City Soundtrack is basically The Get Up Kids. But if you want to duplicate something as well as MCS have then by all means as long as it’s good. Motion City Soundtrack was one of my favourite bands with this release. It had fast, slow, fucked up songs and that’s what I liked at the time of its release.

3.Fall Out Boy- Take This To Your Grave. May 6, 2003. Fueled By Ramen

            “Take This To Your Grave” did something with pop-punk that a lot of other bands couldn’t do before it. It made the heavier pop music radio friendly. I have no problems with the music I like being on the radio. The more plays they get the more money they get the more material they release and the more they tour. What’s wrong with that? There’s no such thing as selling out. Isn’t making it in the music business why you’re in a serious band in the first place? I love this album. Always have and always will.

2. New Found Glory- New Found Glory. September 26, 2000. Drive-Thru Records

            New Found Glory is definitely my favourite band of all time. Why it’s not number 1? Because I couldn’t put “Nothing Gold Can Stay” cause that was released in 1999. This album is what sent NFG into the pop-punk hall of fame with every song catchier than the next.  They quickly became one of my favourite bands after this release with every album getting bigger and bigger.

1. Saves The Day- Stay What You Are. July 10, 2001. Vagrant Records

            “Stay What You Are” is a peak into Chris Conely’s dark thoughts on life. He put into this album what most angst filled teenagers are thinking. It was the perfect album for me during high school and college because it put everything I wanted to do into song without having to hurt anyone. It’s just bottom line a great album and is rightfully so at number 1.

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Now, Fox News has compiled a list of top 10 cruel things that women do to men and how they play with the guy’s emotions or ego.

10. They don’t pick up the phone
While men feel good as they manage to take the girls’ phone number, the girls often give them a fake number or don’t pick up the call.

9. Use men for free drinks
Some women go out never planning to spend any of their own money on drinks at the bar or club. Instead, they count on their feminine wiles to convince guys to shell out for their libations. While some of them might begin to get to know him, the cruel and heartless ones will take that drink, flirt a little and move on.

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Jailbreaking your iPhone allows you to install unauthorised apps that Apple have not yet allowed (for example unlocking or video recording).

This post is brought to you by ASPA Mobile Phone Repair

Once you’ve jailbroken your iPhone you’ll notice a new app in your Springboard, called CYDIA. Cydia is the hackers version of the iTunes App Store. Once you open Cydia, you’ll be bombarded with the biggest list of apps EVER most of which are free. Whilst this is awesome, the sheer volume of apps makes it very hard to make educated choices on what apps to install, an

d it’s very easy to install totally useless apps and waste your time. So we’ve compiled a beginners guide to Cydia, 10 apps that will get you going with your jailbroken device and make your iPhone life easier and more useful in the process.

Winterboard
Winterboard is the ‘control’ app for the way your iPhone looks and sounds, once you’ve installed winterboard, you can then go back in to Cydia and choose from the plethora of themes that range from Lock Screens, to wallpapers to soundsets.

Upon installing these Themes, you won’t actually notice anything, until you go back in to

Winterboard and ‘tick’ the themes ACTIVE. On hitting the home screen, the Springboard will freeze and then restart, and your new theme settings will be active.

*Featured theme at top of this article is GRADIANCE V3

iBlackList
iBlackList serves two main purposes, primarily it allows you to create Blacklists and Whitelists for your contacts. Depending on your setup, iBlackList will allow or disallow certain contacts to get through to you. This also works for SMS messages and automatically deletes messages from contacts you don’t want to hear from.

Simply put, MxTube is YouTube with the ability to download videos for offline viewing. This is great because it downloads the high quality streams and plays back at a higher quality than the iPhone’s native YouTube app. MxTube is in beta, and sometimes crashes, which is a little frustrating, however it’s quite possibly our favourite Jailbreak app.

SwirlyMMS
MMS Picture Messaging is not a feature of the iPhone as standard. SwirlyMMS fixes this problem and allows you to send and receive photos to any mobile that has Picture Messaging. The latest version of SwirlyMMS contains all the access settings for all networks.

Video Recorder 3G
The iPhone is remarkably good at playing back video, but sadly it lacks the processing power to record video well. iPhone Video Recorder 3G is the answer. Whilst the quality is still very blurry and at maximum records at 15 (blurry) frames a second, it’s better than nothing. Don’t bank on be able to use this to capture those special moments with clarity though. We’ll have to wait for a good camera in the next iPhone for that…

LogoMe
The iPhone is remarkably good at playing back video, but sadly it lacks the processing power to record video well. iPhone Video Recorder 3G is the answer. Whilst the quality is still very blurry and at maximum records at 15 (blurry) frames a second, it’s better than nothing. Don’t bank on be able to use this to capture those special moments with clarity though. We’ll have to wait for a good camera in the next iPhone for that…

LogoMe
Select any image and LogoMe will replace the Apple logo on start up with an image of your choice. It’s a little bit of fun, and really serves no purpose, but we’re nerds and it’s fun!

Reminder (aka Notifier)
Once you’ve installed iBlackList and turned on your Notifications Privacy you will need a way to see if you have messages at a glance. This is where Reminder comes in to play. This app adds some small icons to the top bar of your iPhone and shows when you have an SMS, Mail, MMS, Missed call or IM.

KeyVib
KeyVib makes your iPhone vibrate on every key click when typing emails or SMS. Whilst it drains the battery a little bit more than usual, it makes typing that little bit more responsive. Try it out, some people love it, some people hate it.

Make It Mine
Make It Mine allows you to change the carrier name (or remove it totally as shown above). Also it lets you change the clock to read anything else you want it to. We like the idea of removing the Carrier name entirely, because it makes the iPhone top bar look less busy.

Apps like ‘Stocks’ are pretty useless for everyone, and we’re not sure why Apple have included it as a basic app. However, most people would prefer it wasn’t visible. Poof! allows you to ‘hide’ apps that you don’t want to see.

I’m planning to start an Ubuntu blog seeing as I’ll have a bit of free time over the holiday season. Finally I’ll be able to do something productive with my time, because we all know school is just a waste of that same, precious time.
First thing that came to mind was a list of my favorite applications OF ALL TIME!!!…for Debian based linux, of course.

10. I’m gonna tie two into this spot because they are both tied for this spot in my eyes. These programs are none other than VLC & Vuse.

Vuse is a very nice and polished-up torrent manager that gives you a more welcome feel than allot of the other torrent managers out there. It has a sort of itunes-esq interface, in that you can connect to something they have set up called the Vuse “HD Network” where you can browse, view, and download media in the form of torrents. This is a very innovative feature which I would have liked in many other programs of it’s kind and is great to kill time.

VLC, well, its just amazing. VLC packs a lot of power in it’s lightweight interface, plays all the formats that I have ever needed playing, and is extremely easy to use. I would recommend this application to anyone who likes to download media content instead of watching it online, so they can have it on the go. Just whip out VLC and you can watch it all, and mix up your style with all of it’s intuitive and very useful features.

9. Gimp is a program that allows you to touch up photos like a pro. Is it easy to use? No. Is it beginner friendly? Nah. But if you spend some time on it and get the basics, it can be extremely useful and you’ll be proud of whatever masterpiece comes out of your sweat, blood and tears.

8. Compiz Fusion is a mix between the Beryl and Compiz projects that made all windows/mac users shouting “Damn! Why can’t my desktop be that cool!?”. I, personally preffered beryl back in the day, but this combination of the two projects has proved to be nothing but awesome taking the image of a beautifully tricked-out desktop to the next level. It doesn’t require much more than a decent graphics card and the Compiz/Beryl desktop can be yours.

7. Kdenlive is a video editor that has often been compared to the wonderful Sony Vegas line of movie editing software. Once you have this baby figured out, configured up, and running smoothly you’ll be making movies like a pro and stun your friends with your awesome movie making skills. It’s well worth the ‘kde interface’ induced headaches.

6. Cairo dock is an amazing OS X like dock that brings a little of you onto your desktop with its amazing ability to be customized down to the littles separator or sub-dock. I could go on and on about it but i recommend just searching it on Youtube and Google. If it’s too time consuming, then I would recommend AWN, just type it in synaptic, which brings us to number five.

5. Synaptic Package Manager is something that keeps me using Ubuntu because it makes it easy to just search for a package and have it on your hard drive in a matter of seconds. It comes built in to all gnome distros and is a necessity if you are someone who spends all their allot of their time on the computer.

4. Boxee is a media center that brings sexy back into home theater systems. It’s sleek and works great right out of the box, has so many apps that can be downloaded straight from the program itself, plug-ins galore, a great interface for playing media already on your hard disk, awesome picture quality and feel for a home media center (also fun and easy to set up), the list goes on and on. Just f*cking download it.

3. Hulu desktop is what keeps me sane during stress filled weekdays when i can just kick back and watch 30 Rock, Heroes, The Office, etc. straight from my desktop in crystal clear streaming quality. It’s perfect and would be tied for #1 with the next two if i wasn’t so lazy.

2. Open Office is Microsof Office on dope.

1. Songbird is an amazing music organizer/player that puts itunes to shame. It’s made by mozilla so you know it’s going to be customizable and user friendly right out of the box and it easily retrieves music from the music folder in your home directory so it’s no hastle getting things in and out. Music is huge to me, and this app makes me happy to be alive.

That’s my list and the first of many to come.

whats’s yours? what do you aspire to do? where do you see yourself in five years? ten?

leave a comment with your thoughts!

Ten more minutes of life

Ten more minutes to die.

Ten more minutes of pride

Ten more minutes of Light.

Ten more faces to see

But no more places to be.

Ten more questions to ask

But no more answers to get.

Cry, cry, for life,I cry

Cry, cry, I cry for life.

Was all my life worth it?

Have I always waited for this?

Death got me in my dreams

He said: Ten more minutes, I’ll give!

Cry, cry, for life I cry

Cry, cry, I cry for life!

Ten more minutes to love

I’ve got: ten more minutes to cry

If I don’t wake up the next day

Don’t cry for me I couldn’t stay!

Don’t cry for me, I cannot stay!

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Forgive me for I became stagnant for the past few weeks. Had issues with my schedule and started going to the gym, so it pretty much ate most of my time. Lately I figured out that the “girl” I usually speak of in my previous entries didn’t make my heart beat, it was nothing but a hallucination so realistic that my body believes it. Or something really close to that. So I made the top ten things why I do not need a girlfriend/special someone.

TRIVIA: I DO NOT LIKE LABELS.

TOP TEN REASONS WHY I DO NOT NEED A GIRLFRIEND

10. I am busy- tight schedule, gym, school works and (the guts to have) a plan to join the choir.

9. My wallet is on a diet.

8. I have a good number of female friends that she may (and will) be jealous of.

7. I am lazy.

6. I have issues with trust. I doubt every second I am with her.

5. I do not need another mother who watches over me.

4. I have enough inspiration- don’t want more than what I can handle.

3. I don’t want any more heartbreak.

2. I am happy; I don’t see any need for it- I am perfectly alone.

1. I am psychic. I can see the end before we even begin.

Every so often I’ve updated the list of films that I have already seen with brief reviews.  Call it the complete-ist in me, but when I’m done with reviewing each of the films in the book, I’d like to have reviewed every single film in the book.

Anyhow, here’s another batch for you to read.

Enjoy!

Shichinin No Samurai AKA Seven Samurai (1954)

The Seven Samurai is the first movie that I had the pleasure of seeing from the master director Akira Kurosawa, and it is also one of his most praised works. Without a wasted frame, the story takes place over the course of almost 3 hours. Kurosawa, as he does in each of his movies, explores more than just the action and injustice featured in the plot. He is a humanist first and foremost, training his lens on the interpersonal relationships of the characters, tracking growth across this epic. As good as this film is, I would have to say that Kurosawa has numerous films that are even better, check out Stray Dog, Rashomon, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and my personal favorite High and Low.

The Ladykillers (1955)

Existing as a special combination of dark humor, and slapstick farce, The Ladykillers is exceptionally funny and unsettling. Alec Guinness stars as the leader of a group of criminals staying at the home of a hardy, vivacious older lady under the guise of being musicians. The plan is simple, rob a bank, and utilizing the trusting nature of the kindly old lady, and the remoteness of her home to their advantage, get away with it. Easily my favorite of Alec Guinness’ films (thanks in part to the Star Wars prequels that is), The Ladykillers features a solid cast of great actors, including a very young Peter Sellers.

Bob Le Flambeur AKA Bob the Gambler (1955)

My introduction to the fantastic Jean-Pierre Melville, I was captivated immediately by the cool as ice gangster come gambler Bob. This film is filled with signature Melville-isms. Glorious post war street scenes in Paris. Trench-coats. Honor among thieves. And who could forget the caper. To talk too much about this film is to give too much away, and to do that is to ruin it for those who haven’t seen it. Other classics by Melville: Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samourai, and the recently released in the U.S. Army of Shadows. All are fantastic, and deserve to be in this book! Incidentally, Bob le Flambeur was recently re-made into The Good Thief starring Nick Nolte and directed by Neil Jordan, and while I’m not generally a fan of re-makes, I really, really liked this film. Not quite as good as the original, but it was one of my favorite films of 2002.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

The ultimate in hardboiled private eye crime stories, Kiss Me Deadly is a full on assault on decency. Kiss Me Deadly proudly presents itself as a grimy PI story, littered with bodies and intrigue. If you even have a passing interest in film noir, this should be your first stop. Violent, misogynist, brutish, and glorious, Kiss Me Deadly begs to be watched and dares you to look away. I myself, loved it!

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Apparently based on a book, The Ten Commandments is an epic in every sense of the word. Colored in bright explosive candy hues, and featuring huge sets, as well as a cast that number in the thousands, The Ten Commandments is more spectacle than great movie. Certainly not a waste of time, but not my first choice when choosing something light to throw in.

Det Sjunde Inseglet AKA The Seventh Seal (1957)

A classic, and well-loved film by Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal stars an extremely young Max von Sydow as a knight who faces Death at a game of chess to decide his fate. This film is filled with themes that find their way into each of Bergman’s works, ranging from courage in the face of death, religion, and humanity. The Seventh Seal still holds up to this day, with luminous black and white photography that, thanks to Criterion’s Blu-ray edition, has never looked better.

Note: Don’t be fooled by the similarly themed, but much worse, “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey”

Kumonosu Jo AKA Throne of Blood (1957)

Kurosawa’s retelling of Macbeth set in feudal Japan. Shakespeare has never looked better as it does in the stark black and white, twisting shadows and swirling mists as seen through Kurosawa’s camera. Toshiro Mifune doesn’t disappoint in the lead role, but the real stand out is Isuzu Yamada in the as Mifune’s opportunistic, poisonous wife. The plotting and scheming starts right from the get go, all the way up till the frenzied end of the film.

Touch of Evil (1958)

One of the many trouble spots on Orson Welles’ resume due to studio interference, and financing issues, still Touch of Evil remains as possibly the best B-Movie ever made. Iconic (and sometimes hilarious) performances by Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston (as a Mexican) and Welles himself as the crooked cop willing to do almost anything to ensure justice prevails (just so long as it’s his justice). The movie is almost as famous for its long tracking shot opening as it is for any of the performances, featuring a nearly 4 minute shot done in one take which travels around cars, actors, and buildings. The film The Player, payed homage to it by mentioning it a few times during a similarly complex shot in that film.

Vertigo (1958)

Flopping on its initial release, Vertigo didn’t gain the acclaim it deserved until much later after it was released on video. Vertigo visits themes present in each of Hitchcock’s other works, including the obsession with blondes, innocence tainted with corruption, and the schlub who get in over his head. Jimmy Stewart plays the schlub, Kim Novak plays the blonde, and gloriously technicolored San Francisco plays the innocence and the corruption. Vertigo has a twisty convoluted story with elements of surrealism, an interesting watch.

Mon Oncle AKA My Uncle (1958)

My favorite of Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot films, Mon Oncle was also the first of them that I had seen. Tati, playing Hulot, is a master of visual comedy, and not in the same way as the Three Stooges, or even Buster Keaton. Tati is an artist whose work is appreciated the longer you watch. The plot of the movie is not so much important to the film as it is simply a guide to get our characters into interesting situations so we can watch them get out. If you liked this film, check out other films featuring the bumbling Mr. Hulot, including Trafic, Playtime, and Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot.

Les Quatre Cents Coups AKA The 400 Blows (1959)

My personal favorite of the French new wave movement was this small-scale film, personal piece from Francois Truffaut. Featuring the director’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows is the first in a series of movies, each about a different stage of life and the challenges that go along with them. The period from childhood to young adult is covered heart-breakingly here, following Antoine through the rough waters of his home life and his interaction with the outside world. Later chapters deal with finding love, getting married, having children, and growing old, but Les Quatres Cent Coups remains the directors most personal and his best.

North by Northwest (1959)

One of Hitchcock’s best, North by Northwest features Cary Grant, suave as ever, being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. Just like in Hitchcock’s most famous works (of which this is one), the witty one-liners, suspense, and drama are heaped on generously. I can’t help but feel sad that a similarly themed, but better film featuring Cary Grant was left off this 1001 list. Charade, also featuring Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn, and Walter Matthau, is one of my favorite movies ever! Check out both Charade AND North by Northwest as a double feature! You won’t be sorry.

Some Like it Hot (1959)

Now this is an example of a classic, well-loved film, with actors that I really love (Jack Lemmon I’m looking at you), a premise that is more than suitable, yet the finished product never really caught me. It’s sort of like Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. I never really saw what all the hype was about. That being said, I didn’t hate it either. It never made fun of me when I had braces, or turned me down for a date, my affections and this film have just always been mutually exclusive. Perhaps it deserves another watch…then again maybe I should just watch The Last Boyscout again.

A Bout De Souffle AKA Breathless (1959)

Jean-Luc Godard is nothing if not a sacred cow of French cinema, and while I have loved some of his other films (Le Mepris, Bande A Part, and Masculin Femenine), Breathless or A Bout De Souffle never really did it for me. I can still rationalize why it was so revolutionary (use of jump cuts, editing, non-actors, and subscription to the aesthetic of the French new wave style), and see it’s importance, but I prefer other examples of New Wave cinema. If you are interested in seeing a Godard film, try Masculin Feminine, it is just as revolutionary and a bit more accessible.

Psycho (1960)

A prime example of Hitchcock in his prime. Psycho was so good, and so affecting that some of its actors were type cast just on the strength of this one film (Anthony Perkins, and Janet Leigh), so much so that without a little research it’s hard to think of what other films either of them has been in. Psycho may not be as visually shocking and gory as horror films of today, but it still manages to hold up over time and be just as unsettling as it was back in its day. Hitchcock has always excelled at making the comfortable un-comfortable (motels, birds, tea, dreams, the list goes on…), and the subtle touches in this film work perfectly. Consider for a moment that Perkin’s Bates is an amateur taxidermist of birds, and then that Janet Leigh’s name is Marion Crane a type of bird, or the fact before the crime Marion is wearing a white bra and a white purse, while after it she is wearing a black bra and purse. His attention to detail, and knack for foreshadowing is demonstrated in full force in Psycho and remains one of his best films. Despite all the uproar over the Gus Van Sant remake, I thought it actually did some justice to the original film and if nothing else brought it a little more deserved attention.

Note: This film also has the distinction of being the first American film to ever show a toilet flushing on-screen.

Peeping Tom (1960)

Released the same year as Psycho, and dealing with similar subject matter, Peeping Tom wasn’t received with the same acclaim and attention that the former was. On the contrary, Peeping Tom was seen as subversive, perverted, and generally too shocking. The story revolves more around the killer than the victim in this one, whereas Psycho is presented more from the victim’s point of view. Either way, Peeping Tom is a fine film, one worth watching, however it is so similar to Psycho that I’m not sure it needs to be on the list of 1001 films.

The Apartment (1960)

As far as light-hearted, touching movies about someone recovering from a bout of depression, this one is my favorite. Billy Wilder directs Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon in a sweet touching comedy without losing any of his trademark cynicism or the pointedness of his dialogue. The Apartment is another chance for me to champion the somewhat maligned talents of Mr. Fred MacMurray as Lemmon’s boss. MacMurray plays a fantastic creep who really defines the term “heel”.

Spartacus (1960)

Containing almost none of the trademark elements that make up a Stanley Kubrick movie as we know it (Kubrick apparently dis-owned the film before it’s release), Spartacus remains an interesting movie that isn’t great. It is, however, another example of a film that enabled an up and coming filmmaker to gain his voice, and define himself later on in his career. If only for that reason, Spartacus is a great film, but luckily for the studio, it has some other things going for it. Kirk Douglas plays the title role of Spartacus, and despite all the lavish set production, and concentration on spectacle, brings some heart to the slave who defied Rome.

Jules Et Jim AKA Jules and Jim (1962)

One of director, Francois Truffaut’s most well thought of films, Jules and Jim may be the Lost In Translation, or Juno of its time. Viewed from a certain angle, the plot is a completely moving and emotional story that you believe, so much so, that you can see yourself and those around you in the roles that these characters embody. Viewed from another perspective, it can seem a little precious or purposefully manipulative. Depending on what is happening in your life (I’m mostly thinking about whether or not you are in a relationship, and if you are happy), this movie can preach the glory of love and the pain of rejection. On the flipside, if you have shaken free the angsty, teenager-esque feelings everyone has had in their youth, you may feel like you’re being talked down to.

Cleo De 5 A 7 AKA Cleo from 5 to 7

Taking place, as the title suggests, from 5 to 7, we get a slice of the life of Cleo played out before us. Sometimes we, along with Cleo herself, are a voyeurs into the lives of people around her, and other times we are focused on her as she roams around Paris. By and large Cleo lives a carefree, spoiled life, yet we still sympathize with her when times are hard, and cheer for her when they are good. This is a small film in a lot of ways, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t impacting and beautiful.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

I have to admit.  I didn’t like Lawrence of Arabia that much.  Perhaps I was too young to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of Lean’s desert panorama camerawork, or just maybe it was the epic length that decided it for me.  One way or another, I didn’t appreciate it as much as everyone else seems to think I should. 

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Overly reliant on gimmicks and quick editing techniques, The Manchurian Candidate doesn’t flesh out the story nearly…wait, no that was the terrible re-make that came out in 2004.  The original 1962 version, is just as taught, and well executed today as it was at its release.  While the story between the two versions remained virtually the same, the consistent building of tension and anxiety, combined with the pitch perfect acting of Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra (yes…Frank Sinatra), and the devilish turn of Angela Lansbury as the Queen of Hearts, makes for a fantastic film.

Lolita (1962)

It took me forever to finally see Lolita.  I have known the basic story (older man, younger girl) but had just never gotten around to seeing it.  And while I’ve been told that the book is much better, I thought the film was pretty good.  Not great, mind you, but definitely solid.  The shocking and controversial nature of the relationship was toned down a bit for the screen, and maybe as a result doesn’t seem all that shocking in today’s day and age.  Memorable turns by Peter Sellers, and Shelley Winters, not to mention it’s an early film of Stanley Kubrick.

The Birds (1963)

Despite being one of Hitchcock’s most popular, I actually think that The Birds is one of his most over-rated.  I think I owe it to myself to give this one another look someday, but right now I feel that it was too heavily based on the gimmick that had to rely on special effects.  Though it is not necessarily the fault of the movie, but the special effects seemed particularly dated and old fashioned.  Worth a watch, but not my favorite by a long shot.

8 1/2 (1963)

Federico Fellini is, by most accounts, a master of cinema.  One, that I have always had a little trouble getting fired up over.  It’s not that I don’t like his films once I’ve seen them, the problem comes in when it comes to motivating myself to see them.  I couldn’t tell you why, but his films consistently get pushed off when they come up on my Netflix Queue or when I see the one or two I have on my shelf.  I shouldn’t feel this way, considering I really loved the moving poetry, and soul baring passion in 8 1/2, yet it still happens.  One very definite reason to watch this film is the man-crushable Marcello Mastroianni, swaggering through as the alter-ego of Fellini himself.  Dealing with all the reservations with women, making movies, childhood, and the future that the director very famously dealt with himself, Mastroianni embodies a certain cool, yet believable character that begs to be watched.  Combined with imagery that leaves the audience wanting more, 8 1/2 is a fantastic film.

Well, that’s it for this time.  Thanks for reading!

To take a break from all the torturous aspects of roof-filling builders, burning pains and no internet, here is a little list of what I deem the top ten best feelings/things in life. Do note I’m not going to include the obvious (so that’s sex, the lottery and asking someone out for the best feeling out of the question). I hope you enjoy what I’d call a unique list of best feelings in life:

Best feelings

10. Finishing homework

Its a puny little thing, but its a good one. One of the biggest banes of a teenager’s life is undoubtedly homework. Finishing homework gives you a little pat on the back, and even allows for a little gloating. “Have you finished your homework? Because I have. So yeaaah.

9. Finding a song you like on Youtube

When your ears have a first listen to the tune of your life, you feel like you’ve found a gem. You’ll listen to it once. Then twice. Then you’ll stuff it in your favourites, just so you can listen to it the next day after you come home from school/work. A great tune brings a great feeling.

8. Drinking something when you’re extremely thirsty/hot

Your throat is as dry as my sense of humour, your thoughts are plagued with thirst, and all you can speak is the words “drink, water, and possibly goose.” As soon as your lips touch that water you’ve been craving for, you feel like you’ve just fell into an ocean of your temporary favourite thing ever. Your body feels cool again, and everything goes calm. Simply bliss.

7. Catching up with a friend you haven’t spoken to ages

Catching up with someone you haven’t talked to in a while can be a massive relief; you feel like you’ve retrieved a lost connection. It’s rather satisfying to just sit on a computer, when suddenly an instant message from someone you haven’t talked to a while crops up.

6. Falling asleep after a hard day’s work

Need sleep? When your hands have worked so hard they’ve broken, and your mind is searing from all that effort you’ve had to put in today, the calm, welcoming feeling of a warm bed really does break the barrier. You’ll fall asleep instantly, and from there, it’s all simple bliss.

5. Having a shower in the morning

The positive feeling of warm water while you’re half-awake and cold is ridiculous. The feeling is so good its almost mind-numbing. Waking up cold, only to be relieved by a rain of warmness, is probably the most relaxing thing on this entire list. Trust me, there is little better then a refreshing shower in the morning; it definitely does set the standard for a good day.

4. Making a speech in front of a crowd of friends

Making a speech takes guts. Reading it all takes even more guts. But a speech can be incredibly heart-warming. Not only to you, but to everyone you read it to. Your friends will be rooting for you, and there’s nothing that can stop the fact that everyone’s eyes are on you. Unless your speech is boring, of course. That’s when you should scroll to the top ten worst things in life. But when you finish the speech, and you see all of your friends staring on proud, you almost feel the urge to smile for the rest of your life. And that is a golden feeling. A feeling that has allowed this to rank to #4.

3. Having a lucid dream

Literally the only way you can do everything you’ve ever imagined, lucid dreaming is perhaps the best way to live your wildest fantasies. Ever wanted to see a Pokemon? Ever felt like flying? In a lucid dream, you can do all of that. And much more. And the scene in a lucid dream can become almost as vivid as real life- its scary.  But the best part of a lucid is the first part: knowing you can do anything. The freedom in a lucid dream is ridiculous- I can barely describe it in words. Freedom so powerful lucid dreaming has managed to rank 3rd in the top ten best things/feelings of life.

2. Finishing something you’ve worked on for years

Sure, it requires a ton of effort, but the satisfaction gained from finishing a project is bewildering. It does more then make up for the effort- it brings success. A project that you’ve given a fraction of life to complete is almost always guaranteed to be a great one, provided you know what you’re doing. However, it’s only worthwhile when you share it with your friends- your beam of glory will have finally lit up, and you’ll feel like life is complete. Then you’ll think its a dream, and when you realize its reality, oh yes.

1. Doing all the previous nine things in one day.

It is possible. Definitely possible. A lucid dream to start the day, and then a shower. After a shower, and a walk to work/school, you get a conversation going with a friend you haven’t talked to in a while. Lessons go past, and you manage to do your homework in the spare hours you have at school. When you go home, you have a party to host to celebrate your biggest project achievement, with a speech all ready. But before you go there, you’ve got a few minutes or so on the internet. You find a good song, add it to your favourites, and then hop off to your location. You get there, make the speech, and there’s uproar in applause. Everyone celebrates your achievement, and you start to get a tad thirsty. After an hour of being thirsty, the water comes in, and you’re in heaven. By the time you go home, you’ve had a hard day’s work, and you fall to your bed happily.

Sure, its incredibly unlikely, but its not impossible. The feeling is so elusive that if you ever get it you’ll feel like the day’s been fixed. But hey, its more likely to happen then winning the lottery, so its much more viable.

And there we have it- the top ten feelings of life (in my opinion). I hope you enjoyed the list- I did… A bit.

Feel free to comment with your personal list, and feel free to share your experiences

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Intr-un interviu din revista Marie Claire, Olivia, sotia lui Andi Moisescu, spune ca in doua saptamani de regim vegetarian, a scapat de cosuri. O cred, pentru ca in doua luni de regim hipocaloric, bazat pe multe legume, si eu am obtinut o piele cum nu am avut de la varsta de 13 ani. Dupa o perioada de batut joc de silueta si ten, cu multa mancare junk, am trecut din nou la un regim sanatos… si se vede. Nu este vorba doar de kg in minus, ci de stralucirea fetei, de tonus…

De exemplu, in aceasta dimineata am amestecat putin ulei de masline, un sfert de lamaie stoarsa, menta, cateva frunze de salata verde tocate marunt cu un praf de sare si o jumatate de branza de vaci slaba – in combinatie cu putina paine de secara prajita, a fost un mic dejun minunat. Si, fireste, benefic!

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Eddie Vedder may be off in Chicago, penning songs for films and baseball teams, but he’ll forever be linked to Ten, that must-have disc from Pearl Jam.

The diamond disc from 1991 is getting the deluxe treatment come spring, with four reissues available March 24.

The reissues include a bunch of extras…

- A remaster of the original album + remix by producer Brendan O’Brien
- DVD of previously unreleased 1992 Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged performance
- LP of the band’s 1992 “Drop in the Park” concert
- A replica of Pearl Jam’s three-song demo cassette with Eddie Vedder’s original vocal dubs
- A recreation of Eddie Vedder composition notebook

The re-design of Ten has been geared primarily by bassist Jeff Ament and designer Andy Fischer (who, interestingly enough, helped with the Into the Wild film soundtrack, the disc that featured some brilliant tunes by Eddie Vedder).

“The goal was to assemble the ultimate fan-piece, something Pearl Jam lovers could pore over as they experience an indelible record all over again, in an entirely new way,” commented Fischer.

“The original concept was about really being together as a group and entering into the world of music as a true band…a sort of all-for-one deal,” added Ament. “There were some elements of the original Ten artwork that didn’t turn out the way we had hoped, due to time constraints. With this reissue, we’ve been able to take our time and invest resources into making the design the way we had originally intended.”

Pre-orders of the Super Deluxe Edition begin yesterday through the band’s Ten Club at www.pearljam.com, with all four editions available at retail on March 24, 2009. The reissue of Ten serves as the launch of a planned two-year catalogue re-release campaign leading up to the band’s 20th anniversary in 2011.

It’s a little treat for the Pearl Jam fan in all of us.

Bismillaah

Ten Things Which Nullify Ones Islam: By: Muhammad ibn’Abdil-Wahhab

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All praise is due to Allaah, Lord of the worlds. May peace and salutations be upon the Last Messenger of Allaah, and upon all those who follow him until the Last day.To proceed:Brother and Sister Muslim, you must be aware that there are matters which nullify your Islaam. Please be Mindful of them.

1. Associating partners with Alaah (shirk). Allaah Most High says (in the meaning ):

“Truly, whosoever sets up partners with Allaah, then Allaah has forbidden the Garden for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the wrongdoers there are no helpers.” (Soorah Al-Maa’ida 5:72)

Calling upon the dead, asking their help, or offering them gifts or sacrifices are all forms of shirk.

2. Setting up intermediaries between oneself and Allaah, making supplication to them, asking their intercession with Allaah, and placing ones trust in them is unbelief (kufr).

3. Anyone who does not consider the polytheists (mushrikeen) to be unbelievers, or who has doubts concerning their unbelief, or considers their way to be correct, is himself/herself an unbeliever (kafir).

4. Anyone who believes any guidance to be more perfect, or a decision other than the Prophets decision to be better, is an unbeliever. This applies to those who prefer the rule of Evil (Taghout) to the Prophets rule. Some examples of this are:

(a) To believe that systems and laws made by human beings are better than the Shariah of Islaam; for example,

That the Islaamic system is not suitable for the twentieth century.

That Islaam is the cause of the backwardness of the Muslims.

Or that al-Islaam is a relationship beween Allaah and the Muslim. It should not interfere in other aspects of life.

(b)To say that enforcing the punishments prescibed Allaah, such as cuttong of the hand of the theif or the stoning of an adulterer, is not suitable for this day and age.

(c) To believe that it is permissible to give a rule from that which Allaah did not reveal in Islamic transactions or matters of law, punishments or other affairs. Althoughone may not believe such things to be superior to the Shari’ah he in effect affirms such a stnad by declaring a thing which Allaah has totally prohibited, such as adultery, drinking alcohol or usury, to be permissible. According to the consensus of the Muslims, one who declares such things to be permissible is an unbeliever (Kafir)

5. Anyone who hates any part of what the Messenger of Allaah [saw] has declared to be lawful has nullified his Islaam, even though he may act in accordance with it. Allaah Most High says(in the meaning):

“This is because they hate what Allaah has sent down, so he has made their deeds fruitless” (Soorah Muhammad 47:9)

6. Anyone who ridicules any aspect of the religion of the Messenger of Allaah [saw], or any of its rewards or punishments, becomes an unbeleiver. Allaah Most High says (in the meaning):

“Say: Was it Allaah, and His signs and His Messenger that you were mocking? Make no excuse; you have disbeleived after you had believed.” (Soorah At-Tawbah 9:65-66)

7. The practice of magic. Included in this, for example, is causing a rift between a husband and wife by turning his love for her into hatred, or tempting a person to do things he dislikes using black arts. One who engages in such a thing or is pleased with it is outside the fold of Islaam. Allaah Most High says (in the meaning):

” But neither of these two (angels, Harut and Marut) taught anyone (magic) till they had said, Indeed, we are a trial; then do not disbelieve. (Soorah Al-Baqarah 2:102)

8. Supporting and aiding polytheists against the Muslims. Allaah Most High says (in the meaning):

“Whoever among you who takes them as allies is surely one of them. Truly, Allaah does not guide the wrongdoers.” (Soorah Al-Maaida 5:51)

9. Anyone who beleives that some people are permitted to deviate from the Shariah of Muhammad [saw] is an un believer by the word of Allaah Most High (in the meaning):

“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islaam, it will not be accepted of him, and in the hereafter he will be from among the losers.” (Soorah Aal-Imraan 3:85)

10. To turn completely away from the religion of Allaah neither learning its precepts nor acting upon it. Allaah most high says (what means):

” And who does greater wrong than he who is reminded of the revelations of his Lord and turns aside therefrom Truly, We shall exact retribution from the guilty.” (Soorah As-Sajdah 32:22)

and He [swt] also says (what means):

“But those who disbelieve turn away from that about which they are warned.”

It makes no difference whether such violations are commited as a joke, in seriousness or out of fear, except when done under compulsion (i.e. from threat of loss of life )We seek refuge in Allaah from such deeds as entail His wrath and severe punishment.

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I’m writing this post because so many well-meaning, conscious, spiritual people are missing some significant information and tools when it comes to Law of Attraction and being a conscious cocreator of your life with Spirit.

One of my wonderful Facebook friends recently wrote a post:

“If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so:

‘Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.’ — Abraham”

This sparked a controversy with 19 people weighing in, many fully agreeing and many others, myself included, objecting to this as an oversimplification and stating that, even though it is true that our focus does permeate our vibration and thus create, it is actually NECESSARY to understand and heal our past in order to learn what we need to from it and be able to truly free ourselves from its hold on us and move on into something even better.

We have to put our attention on our intention BUT if we are not aligned strongly and consistently enough with our intention, if we are trying really hard to make it happen but it’s just not working, that’s a sure sign we need to do some inner healing work before we do any more manifesting and attracting and creating. It’s inner, not, outer time, first.

I feel so strongly that so many New Age, metaphysical folks are so hyped up about positive thinking and “just focus on what you want,” they are missing something vital:

For most people, with most long-term issues, simply striving to be positive and focus on their intentions is NOT enough to bring about the desired results. We need to learn from our past, and use that wisdom to create our best future, while living in and enjoying the present.

So here I go on my soap box again.

The Abraham work and all the other good Law of Attraction stuff out there is not intended to be interpreted as “Ladeeda, we can just be positive 100% of the time and only good things will come to us. All that yucky stuff from the past – I’m done with that now and all I have to do is think good thoughts and I will attract all my desires. Abracadabra!”

So allow me to bust that myth and empower you with a much more in-depth and practical approach:

1- Our past is important. Just as our current emotions are indicators of the distance between where we are at and where we want to be, our past is one of our teachers as well. We can – and indeed need to – turn our wounds into wisdom. Some of our life experiences we may label “good” or “positive,” we feel we were successful and these we can apply to continue to utilize and build upon what worked for us, while the so-called “negative” experiences or failures are also useful in several ways.

For one thing, we can clarify more clearly what, exactly we DO want by contrasting it with what we do NOT want anymore. This applies equally well to health and lifestyle choices, work, home, community, as well as relationships.

Secondly, we can learn psychologically and spiritually: What was my lesson in this?

Thirdly,we can discover, with proper reflection, which may include prayer, meditation, journaling, counseling, or even insightful conversations, that there was truly a silver lining, a gift in every experience we have had. Sometimes we don’t see it at the time, it feels horrible, we may even be devastated that that relationship or career didn’t work out, that we had that disability or lost our house, but ultimately, when we see through the eyes of Spirit and Love, we will always find that everything happened for a reason and we can find something to be grateful for, even if it’s just the ability to make a different choice next time.

2- Until we learn our lessons from the past, we are going to UNCONSCIOUSLY repeat them. This is true of humanity when we look at larger societal choices as well as on the personal level. Ignoring our past and zapping it like it didn’t even happen is not the solution. In fact, ignoring our past and stuffing it over there, oh, that’s too messy, I don’t want to deal with that right now, does not free us from it, it actually dooms us to repeat it.

3- The Abraham work says that our DOMINANT thought is the one that runs the show, and I agree with this. The catch is: Our dominant thought is seldom a conscious thought, so we cannot expect to simply push a button and “There, I’m only going to think good thoughts, feel good feelings and make good choices from now on.”

We have to heal all those billions of subconscious beliefs that we are carrying around which arose out – what? Our past experiences and programming, of course.

I do agree that many people spend far too much time simply repeating their “story,” which actually keeps them stuck in it and keeps giving it energy. There is a big difference between looping an old version of a reality we no longer want, whining about it, being a drama king/queen, vs. actually being willing to visit the past (with support if necessary) with the intention of looking in the mirror, releasing what no longer serves, with forgiveness, finding the lesson and gift in it, and moving confidently forward into a better life we are creating for ourselves, from the inside out.

Do we need to look at our past? Absolutely.Do we need to keep telling it over and over? Absolutely not.

4- We need to process stuck emotions. Sometimes we need to move some rage. Shake off some old energy. Sometimes we need to express ourselves to someone, forgive, be forgiven, and it doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead or whether their human self is willing to hear a word we are saying. We just talk to their Higher Self, soul to soul. We look in the mirror and show them a mirror as well. I have an extensive guided meditation and energy healing journey that I guide people through called the Healing Past Relationships Journey (soon to be available as a CD/MP3 audio) which facilitates this soul-to-soul communication, energy exchange, forgiveness and healing. Or you may be able to do it for yourself, perhaps by writing a letter or through ceremony. We need to visit our past just enough to learn from it and to heal it, not rehash it or keep talking about it for decades.

We also need to forgive ourselves. And forgive God!

The work I do as an energy healer, intuitive, hypnotherapist and life coach focuses on identifying the current condition of your Body, Mind, Heart and Soul and creating a complete, intuitively guided healing program that empowers you to remember who you really are, to love and heal yourself completely, and to clarify your vision and reawaken your passion, power and life purpose — to create the life and love of your dreams. I am a Law of Attraction coach, and people often begin working with me when they realize (see with Real Eyes) that they are working so dang hard on themselves, have been for years, yet something is still stuck. They are willing, finally, to do what it takes to really succeed, so we go places, often in the first session, that completely amazes them.

5- We need to heal core issues and heal on all levels.

For example, some of my recent clients have improved their relationships, found lasting love, launched their heart-centered business, created more harmony in their parenting or other family relationships…..In every case, we needed to do some deep CORE ISSUE healing at the level of the SOUL and the ENERGY FIELD, the kind of healing that is more difficult to do by one’s self when we are emotionally caught up in our “stuff,” scared, frustrated and depleted.

I do sometimes have clients who try to turn the sessions into talk therapy and keep going on and on about their problems. They are stuck in their story. So I ask them, “Do you want to talk about it or do you want to heal it?” If they keep wanting to talk about it, they are not ready for the kind of healing I do. If they want to heal it, I can help them heal themselves but we have to go much deeper than just talking. Deep omnidimensional energy healing at the soul level i.e. soul retrieval, regression, rebirthing, hypnotherapy/NLP, ceremony, forgiveness work, can be extremely helpful, especially if a person is unable to break free of an old belief/energy. We shift the energy & belief at the original cause and core. I channel empowering self-healing techniques they can do on their own to continue the healing and keep building the positive energy.

We don’t ever have to be 100% healed, nor is that even possible so long as we are human. But we need to be healed enough to be free to focus on what we do want, move forward and create from an aligned, clear, positive state of being and love.

6- ALIGN, ATTRACT, ACT.

People so caught up in the Law of Attraction who simply read a few books, go to a few workshops, watch a couple of movies, often fail to understand that trying to get into ACTION mode before you are ALIGNED does not work. Law of Attraction works – once we are aligned with our desires. If some part of our subconscious mind or energy field is still playing the tape of a limiting, negative belief, we are not going to be able to just attract what we want, no matter how many affirmations we say or vision boards we make!

7 – I want to make one more point about the past and this concept of time. We can only live in one time: the present. We need to heal and learn from our past and draw upon its power, we need to envision and align with our best future, and yet we can only live right here, right now. All times exist in this moment of choice: now.

I personally feel we need to spend MOST of our attention right here, where we live. In this body. On this planet. Enjoying this life to the fullest. Mindful. Heartful. Soulful. Bodyful. Beautiful! When we work with the concept of time as fluid and simultaneous and quantum rather than linear, we find that every moment is a portal home.

We can also change our past shamanically, redream it. This helps us create our best future as well. This can be done through shamanic trance healing and/or conscious dreaming.

We each have the power to facilitate miraculous healing and success beyond our wildest imagination. We don’t have to spend years healing the past. We can heal it in an instant, or it may take several months or longer, but if we go deep enough and work at the level of the soul, core beliefs and original causes, the quantum and cosmic fields and on all levels, if we do this work with a vibration of love for ourselves and all beings, we will grow into being who we came here to be.

I love the Abraham work but sometimes a phrase taken by itself does not present the complexities of the spiritual nature of the Universe. True healing and conscious creation of our lives will always involve navigating the territory of our past with loving kindness and forgivness, with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow so we can create an even better future. And we can do this today.

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1. Mantener una actitud muy abierta para expresar y escuchar lo que te gusta y lo que te disgusta.
2. Siempre tener en cuenta las diferencias entre la propia libido y la de tu pareja.
3. Descubrir la propia sensibilidad mediante la masturbación.
4. Dejar de buscar los orgasmos simultáneos, pues no es común que se presenten.
5. Olvidarse de los orgasmos múltiples; con uno basta.
6. Respetar los casos en los que la otra persona no desea relaciones.
7. En serio: olvídese del punto G, pues no hay evidencias definitivas de que exista.
8. Evitar las drogas, el alcohol, y el cigarro, pues afectan la erección.
9. Comprender que el secreto del orgasmo femenino está en el clítoris, que se estimula mejor con la lengua o las manos.
10. Finalmente, siempre hay que recordar que el sexo es la búsqueda del placer, no una competencia de resistencia atlética.

Stoppard, Miriam. Family Healt Guide, 2004

The best auto accident lawyer in California in all probability does not have any of these character profiles or tendencies. Consequently, these are clearly not your ten best reasons to hire an auto accident lawyer or what you should be looking for in a good auto accident attorney. They’re reasons to fire an auto accident attorney. Here are our best ten.

1. He doesn’t own a car.

2. He doesn’t know how to drive.

3. He doesn’t look like he’s old enough to shave.

4. He works at a fast food outlet during the day.

5. The bar association has never heard of him.

6. He used to sell cars.

7. Your neighbor, the one you can’t stand, recommended him.

8. When you call him, someone in India who normally handles computer questions, answers the phone.

9. When you mention his name to other attorneys they break out in laughter.

10. He keeps moving his office to different states.

If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website.

At the law firm of Sebastian Gibson, we don’t seek to take cases from other attorneys. If you’re having difficulties with your current auto accident attorney, the first thing you should do is request a meeting and let him or her know your concerns. Ask to see your file. You may find out that he or she is actually doing a good job. Or you may not.

On the other hand, if your attorney refuses to meet with you much less return your phone calls, and if you’ve lost all trust in your auto accident lawyer, you may have no alternative but to change attorneys.

If you’re already in litigation, don’t fire your attorney until you’ve lined up a replacement lawyer. You may have difficulty finding a lawyer who will take your case once it’s in litigation. Many attorneys won’t take cases that have already been filed in court. Our firm feels the same way. The reason for this reluctance is that no attorney wants a case that has been mishandled, especially if it has been mishandled in the litigation phase.

If your claim hasn’t yet gone into litigation and its become clear to you that you can no longer continue with your current lawyer, you may want to consider this fact. If your attorney quits, he or she isn’t entitled to any portion of the attorney fees from your settlement. Consequently, it will be easier for you to find another lawyer if that lawyer doesn’t have to eventually split his or her fee with your former attorney.

On the other hand, if you fire your current attorney, any new lawyers you contact will weigh whether or not your case has sufficient value to make it worthwhile for them to become involved if they have to eventually split their fee with your former attorney.

What this means is that it will be beneficial to your ability to find a new lawyer if you can convince your current attorney to quit. An attorney formally quits by sending you a letter that he is declining to represent you any further. If you are in litigation, an attorney can withdraw only by filing a substitution of attorney replacing himself or herself with you or with your new attorney.

Having made a mistake with the first attorney you hired, you now need to know how to avoid making the same mistake twice. You can’t afford to hire a second bad attorney for your case. But what makes a good attorney from a bad one?

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not his or her skills in the courtroom. It’s his or her personal communication skills. A good attorney returns every client’s phone calls as soon as he or she is able to. A bad attorney ignores his clients’ calls when he or she thinks they don’t need to talk to him or her. An attorney with good communication skills, both in how he talks and listens to you, and how he or she can write, will likely be just as good in court as he or she is in his office and on the phone.

A good attorney is meticulous and organized. A good attorney can still have an office that’s messy, but your file had better be well organized or it will be very unlikely he or she can prepare a thorough and complete evaluation of your case with copies of all the medical bills and records, wage loss documentation, car damage photos and estimates, witness statements (if necessary), the police report and police photos (if any) and a well-written demand letter from four to twenty pages in length, the length of which depends mostly upon the volume of medical records and the severity of your injuries. A bad attorney almost certainly won’t be conscientious or sufficiently organized to prepare anything close to a good demand package for the insurance company and as a result, the settlement offer the insurance company makes on your case will reflect this.

A good auto accident attorney will be experienced in negotiating auto accident settlements. He or she will also be good at negotiating the medical liens and any amounts that have to be paid out of your settlement for your medical treatment. A bad attorney will recommend that you take the first or second offer an insurance adjuster makes on your case and will also think that you have to pay your medical liens and any medical bill balances dollar for dollar, when in reality, they can often be reduced substantially.

A bad attorney screams and yells at insurance adjusters, putting themselves on the adjuster’s mental list of attorneys they least want to talk to. A good attorney is respectful, even when disagreeing with an insurance adjuster’s evaluation of a case, and persuasive in presenting your claim because he knows all of the details having written a thorough demand letter to get the best settlement possible.

A bad attorney leaves all of the above to his or her staff of secretaries, clerks and paralegals while he or she does other things. A good attorney does virtually all of the legal work himself, leaving just some of the typing to his secretaries and just the research to his law clerks or paralegals (and many good attorneys won’t even delegate the research) while preparing the demand package letter and talking with the insurance adjusters himself or herself.

Most of all, a good attorney is personable. He or she has a sense of humor and is able to make you feel comfortable and even smile. You can relate to him or her just as he or she can relate to you. He neither brags nor needs to. He or she has a quiet confidence and a winning personality. Most of all, you feel like he or she could be someone you’d want to call your friend.

At the law offices of Sebastian Gibson we return every client’s phone call as soon as it comes in, or if we are in court, as soon as we return to the office. There are no secretaries writing demand letters, returning the calls made by clients wanting to speak to the attorney and no staff member talks to an insurance company adjuster in place of Sebastian Gibson.

Attorney Sebastian Gibson has obtained millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar settlements and has over thirty years of experience.

We invite you to visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, pedestrian, bicycle, car, truck or motorcycle accident or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death or if you or a family member has been bitten or attacked by a dog or other animal and need to retain an attorney.

We believe that you hired an attorney for your auto accident case for that attorney’s expertise, not for him or her to shove the work off onto inexperienced and untrained in the law staff members.

Most of all, we like our clients and we hope they truly like us. We hope that you will feel the same way about your attorney.

The best accident lawyer in California in all probability does not have any of these character profiles or tendencies. Consequently, these are clearly not your ten best reasons to hire an accident lawyer or what you should be looking for in a good accident attorney. They’re reasons to fire an accident attorney. Here are our best ten.

1. He never went to law school.

2. He never passed the bar exam.

3. His only degree is in bartending.

4. His only real computer skills are in playing video games.

5. The last time he was in court was to defend himself.

6. After he was released from prison, he changed his name completely.

7. His staff looks like they were in prison with him.

8. To enter his office you have to get past his bodyguards and be patted down.

9. His office is under surveillance by law enforcement.

10. He always calls you “sweetie.”

If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website.

At the law firm of Sebastian Gibson, we don’t seek to take cases from other attorneys. If you’re having difficulties with your current accident attorney, the first thing you should do is request a meeting and let him or her know your concerns. Ask to see your file. You may find out that he or she is actually doing a good job. Or you may not.

On the other hand, if your attorney refuses to meet with you much less return your phone calls, and if you’ve lost all trust in your accident lawyer, you may have no alternative but to change attorneys.

If you’re already in litigation, don’t fire your attorney until you’ve lined up a replacement lawyer. You may have difficulty finding a lawyer who will take your case once it’s in litigation. Many attorneys won’t take cases that have already been filed in court. Our firm feels the same way. The reason for this reluctance is that no attorney wants a case that has been mishandled, especially if it has been mishandled in the litigation phase.

If your claim hasn’t yet gone into litigation and its become clear to you that you can no longer continue with your current lawyer, you may want to consider this fact. If your attorney quits, he or she isn’t entitled to any portion of the attorney fees from your settlement. Consequently, it will be easier for you to find another lawyer if that lawyer doesn’t have to eventually split his or her fee with your former attorney.

On the other hand, if you fire your current attorney, any new lawyers you contact will weigh whether or not your case has sufficient value to make it worthwhile for them to become involved if they have to eventually split their fee with your former attorney.

What this means is that it will be beneficial to your ability to find a new lawyer if you can convince your current attorney to quit. An attorney formally quits by sending you a letter that he is declining to represent you any further. If you are in litigation, an attorney can withdraw only by filing a substitution of attorney replacing himself or herself with you or with your new attorney.

Having made a mistake with the first attorney you hired, you now need to know how to avoid making the same mistake twice. You can’t afford to hire a second bad attorney for your case. But what makes a good attorney from a bad one?

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not his or her skills in the courtroom. It’s his or her personal communication skills. A good attorney returns every client’s phone calls as soon as he or she is able to. A bad attorney ignores his clients’ calls when he or she thinks they don’t need to talk to him or her. An attorney with good communication skills, both in how he talks and listens to you, and how he or she can write, will likely be just as good in court as he or she is in his office and on the phone.

A good attorney is meticulous and organized. A good attorney can still have an office that’s messy, but your file had better be well organized or it will be very unlikely he or she can prepare a thorough and complete evaluation of your case with copies of all the medical bills and records, wage loss documentation, vehicle damage photos and estimates, witness statements (if necessary), the police report and police photos (if any) and a well-written demand letter from four to twenty pages in length, the length of which depends mostly upon the volume of medical records and the severity of your injuries. A bad attorney almost certainly won’t be conscientious or sufficiently organized to prepare anything close to a good demand package for the insurance company and as a result, the settlement offer the insurance company makes on your case will reflect this.

A good accident attorney will be experienced in negotiating accident settlements. He or she will also be good at negotiating the medical liens and any amounts that have to be paid out of your settlement for your medical treatment. A bad attorney will recommend that you take the first or second offer an insurance adjuster makes on your case and will also think that you have to pay your medical liens and any medical bill balances dollar for dollar, when in reality, they can often be reduced substantially.

A bad attorney screams and yells at insurance adjusters, putting themselves on the adjuster’s mental list of attorneys they least want to talk to. A good attorney is respectful, even when disagreeing with an insurance adjuster’s evaluation of a case, and persuasive in presenting your claim because he knows all of the details having written a thorough demand letter to get the best settlement possible.

A bad attorney leaves all of the above to his or her staff of secretaries, clerks and paralegals while he or she does other things. A good attorney does virtually all of the legal work himself, leaving just some of the typing to his secretaries and just the research to his law clerks or paralegals (and many good attorneys won’t even delegate the research) while preparing the demand package letter and talking with the insurance adjusters himself or herself.

Most of all, a good attorney is personable. He or she has a sense of humor and is able to make you feel comfortable and even smile. You can relate to him or her just as he or she can relate to you. He neither brags nor needs to. He or she has a quiet confidence and a winning personality. Most of all, you feel like he or she could be someone you’d want to call your friend.

At the law offices of Sebastian Gibson we return every client’s phone call as soon as it comes in, or if we are in court, as soon as we return to the office. There are no secretaries writing demand letters, returning the calls made by clients wanting to speak to the attorney and no staff member talks to an insurance company adjuster in place of Sebastian Gibson.

Attorney Sebastian Gibson has obtained millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar settlements and has over thirty years of experience.

We invite you to visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, pedestrian, bicycle, car, truck or motorcycle accident or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death or if you or a family member has been bitten or attacked by a dog or other animal and need to retain an attorney.

We believe that you hired an attorney for your accident case for that attorney’s expertise, not for him or her to shove the work off onto inexperienced and untrained in the law staff members.

Most of all, we like our clients and we hope they truly like us. We hope that you will feel the same way about your attorney.