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Have had two effective non-days at work. Oddly (or not) this is due to my work projects going very well, and I don't feel enormous pressure to start anything new there. And my managers and main collaborator are in New Mexico and not online, so shrug. Been furtively banging on the ol' Frivolity, since there's an awful lot of work cut out for me there. Naughty me. Have set up a meeting tomorrow morning in order to force me to get out and actually earn my pay for the rest of this week.

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Once Frivolity and the Book are done I really ought to kick back and concentrate on smaller projects again, like I used to... and not all programming projects, by gar! Time to bang some breadth back into my media output puh-puh-pipe. I don't know if this is going to happen before 2005, but whenever it does happen, please remind me of this statement if I start drifting towards another Enormous Thing.

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Will anthonydreamer ever get the mac n cheese he desires? It's been months with no update. Maybe he's suffering some weird lactose imbalance and if we get some cheese in him he'll stop trolling davis_square

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I think would really love to see a modern movie about the life of the historical Jesus. (Using "historical" here as shorthand for "no overt water-walking scenes, k thx".) I realized today that a movie that's apparently about nothing but Jesus getting ground into hamburger over two hours... is kind of an insult, isn't it? I mean: Jesus was more than a Christ-figure. Seriously.

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[xymotik.livejournal.com]

There's been no shortage of Christ films over the years, according to this article (including a couple adaptations that show him w/o divinity), but to quote the same piece, "To make a film about Jesus is usually thankless, often financially risky and always artistically difficult." The Last Temptation of Christ had him imagining his life without divinity and illustrated the point by showing him screwing Mary Magdalene. Quite the uproar.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that an independent filmmaker with a DV camera can't make and release a brilliant low-budget film on this theme that slips right under the radar of those who would oppose it on fanatical grounds. (At least not until it was far too late.)

[emotionalgoat.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "Jesus Christ, Superstar?" That's the only one I'll ever watch.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

They should make a movie about Jesus in his high school years.

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

The problem is that there's very little information about the historical Jesus. Scholars have attempted to put things together from the gospels and other accounts of Jesus, but by the time you cross-reference and verify your information, there's not much left. A big problem is that all of the gospels were written 50 to 100 years after the fact, so they're not very trustworthy.

Another problem is the content of the gospels. Jesus: The High School Years wasn't very important to most of the gospel writers, nor were most of the facts of his day-to-day life, so there's very little information on Jesus the man as opposed to Jesus the religious figure. It's likely that he was married but his wife is never mentioned in the Scripture.