Going Green Equals Economic Recession

If everyone in the world (and by that I mean the uber-consumers of the western civilization, not to be prejudiced by any means) decides to suddenly go completely green - recycle everything they use, ride bikes, scarcely use any water, and reduce their consumption to levels of mere necessity - the world with be healthier, but our economy will be taken out with our cardboard and newspapers in the blue bin. In other words, the economical graph will flatline. In other words, it will freaking crash! If everybody decreases their consumption drastically, who is going to buy those gas-guzzling SUV's and the swimming pools with tons of water that evaporates into thin (or rather smog-clogged) air? Basically, what will happen to those multi-trillion dollar companies that survive off selling complete luxuries and greenhouse-gas/garbage/pollution producing unnecessaries, if people suddenly refuse to buy them? Even now, in this recession, companies like GM are suffering terribly and this isn't even a particularly bad recession. They blame other reasons for this recession, but I think this whole "green" trend has a lot to do with it too. There's a reason why the most public calls for government subsidies are from companies like GM who happen to produce vehicles. Vehicles which produce incalculable amounts of greenhouse gas. Vehicles that people have been told to not drive because of said gases filling our (apparently) delicate atmosphere.

Anyways, I'm obviously not an economist by any means. If there are any economists out there reading this little blurb (which, of course, there isn't), please don't e-mail me with an essay as to how completely wrong I am and that I should spend my hard-earned (I can't even type that with a straight face) dough on a basic economics class, or that I should just keep my wildly flapping trap shut about things that don't include the word "film".

Now, as to what I've been up to: school has started so I'm getting into the groove of things in that arena. Pretty good classes. However, my Art History Prof is so old and opinionated, I fear at any moment he could just keel over and heave his last wheezy breath. Yes, I do know that opinionated doesn't necessarily mean that he could die soon, but it's been known to happen...

Now, I also have many "film" events coming up pretty soon that I am pretty excited about. It's like all at once a bunch of things are falling into place. Mostly thanks to the not so grandios, but still opportunistically amazing, Calgary International Film Festival. This Saturday, I'm going to a documentary called "Rock Prophecies" and then to the after-party, which should be fun. Then the following Saturday, I'm going to a couple of film industry panels to learn about the art and industry of Canadian film and just film in general which should also be pretty interesting. In addition, I will soon be joining the Calgary Society of Independant Filmmakers and hopefully taking a workshop or two with them.

Exciting! Exciting!

...and now for the entertainment portion of the blog!
The strange game-show-host-esque quality that sentence was suppose to contain was stifled by the electronic nature of the blog, but I have faith in the power of your imagination that you can effectively conjure the correct vocal quality and replay it properly in your head.
Thank you.

Here is Beyonce singing "Listen" from the movie "Dreamgirls" live on Oprah. She has one of the best voices in the industry today, and this performance is certainly a great display of that.



Here is a video of two more of the greatest voices in the world. Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman singing "Time To Say Goodbye" (or if you're Italian, "Conte Partiro").



Here's another one of Andrea Bocelli. Just because he's awesome. The song is "Because We Believe".



OK, and I have got to admit, straight up, that I am a total and utter Gleek! That is "Glee" and geek put together... Yes, I LOVE that show! Matthew Morrison is awesome! This clip is particularly wicked because he raps!



OK, I think that's it for now.

Gleek!