Give To Your Neighbor

Looking for a way to show some love to a neighbor?
Here are just a few places where you can give to some organizations doing some great things.

Give to:

Adopt a Family: Strippers in Need
XXXchurch and Strip Church want to show commitment, love & support to women in the sex industry.

Musicianaries Musicians that make their living through music and missions.

The Thirsty For those without access to clean water.

Modern Slaves
Help free someone in slavery or give CarePackages to those that have been rescued.
Stop the Traffik
International Justice Mission

Children
Born with severe multiple handicaps

Sal's Oscar Picks

From the Oscar's nominees, here's what should've won in my opinion...

Best Picture
Inglorious Basterds

Best Director
Avatar

Best Writing (Written For the Screen)
Inglorious Basterds

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Precious

Best Editing
Hurt Locker

Best Original Score
Up

Best Sound Mixing
Star Trek

Best Sound Editing
Avatar

Best VFX
District 9

Here's what I've realized about the Oscars... it's politics at it's best and most elegantly dressed.

Broken: Blessed & Broken

John Mayer Apologizes For Using the "N" Word



In a recent interview, he bluntly and boastfully confessed his addiction to pornography and sex. In that confession he used the "N" word as he talked about his sexual distaste in African-American women and also referred to his male genital as a white supremacist. I have a friend who's a big fan of him and has lately read a lot about him. A lot of which is too sad to mention, but he seems to be in a very broken state which I believe to be the very state Jesus declares us blessed in when He says, "blessed are the poor in spirit..." Matthew 5:3

Now I realize the human side of us would want to cast stones and chuck 'em at his at face, but those of you who have experienced God's grace, to some degree, would rather draw with your finger on the sand.

I personally see Mayer as King Solomon: rich, poetic, promiscuous... but we all remember what happens to him at the end, he discovers that there is nothing worth more living for than to know and be known by God. And I hope and pray that this man might come to confess that same fact.

Top 5 Happily Ever After Films

ya ya ya, i know Valentine's Day is over but i feel like the whole month of February has that V-Day feel in the air. least in my world. Here's a list of my Top Five romantic movies with happy endings. please feel free to comment.

Punch-Drunk Love

If Annie Hall's tag line for the movie was 'A Nervous Romance' I'd have to say this tag line should be a 'Quirky Romance.' Adam Sandler is, for lack of a better word, awesome in this movie. With the writing and direction of PT Anderson and the score of Jon Brion, you can't help but watch magical art unfold before your eyes.

The Notebook

i promise my man crush on ryan gosling had nothing to do with how much i liked this film. ya i admit it was tad melodramatic at times. But the story was, you have to admit, gripping. Especially when, knowing the American divorce rate is over 50%, you see elderly couples being married after 50+ years you can't help but feel some light of hope.

True Romance

Tarantino's first script was raw and original. This movie has some of my favorite scenes including the Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken scene. And the unrecognizable Gary Oldman and Christian Slater scene. Some might say that it's a guy flick but I think any girl would go crazy if a guy rescued her from her pimp, got rid of him for good, then ran away and married you. Sounds like something biblical!

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby knows his music...and he knows how to write a decent story with rich characters. I've seen this movie a gazillion times and I still laugh. This is the perfect film for any guy who's been through a few break-ups or two and also happens to have a substantial library of music on his iTunes or in his head at least.

Say Anything

I can say one word and you'll remember this movie: boom-box.
The Ultimate romantic movie of the 80's. Even though I haven't enjoyed anything Cameron Crowe's done since Almost Famous TEN years ago, I still think he's always been a great filmmaker. It has some of the best romantic scenes I've seen in movies in the past 20 years. Had lovable original characters and great dialogue with some of the best lines of the 80's romance movies. Not to mention-killer soundtrack!

So which one of these films are my favorites?? ...i dunno...But I know that I don't know.