I have a few books and movies I need to review, so I’ll do it now during my lunch break! I think I’m going to play around with my Movable Type templates so the book and movie reviews I do will show up on the sidebar in a special listing for quick access if you’re interested in what I’ve been watching/reading lately or looking for what’s good out there.

Last night Ian and I caught What the Bleep do we Know? at the Angelika in Plano.

Overall, good, but strange. Maybe 6 out of 10.

Basically, it’s a mix of documentary and a storyline (like on TLC or Discovery when they’ll discuss a bodily function then have a fictional short where characters act out a real life scenario depicting the topic) that discuss quantum physics meets human biology meets spirituality. If it had been a TLC or Discovery movie and I’d paid nothing for it, I would have said it was very interesting and definitely worth watching. As it is, I think it has some neat concepts, but just feels weird and kooky a lot, so wait for it to come to cable or DVD.

One good thing it has going for it is the storyline part has Marlee Matlin in it, a sweet, talented actress I always enjoy seeing. She is most well-known for the fact that she is a deaf actress who has made it big, though she hasn’t done much lately. Due to her disability (at least I think that’s why), they didn’t give her as many lines as I thought they should have.

If you take out the kooky “I can visualize my day and make it happen” New Age crap, a lot of it really lines up with my views of the world, life, and philosophy. For people who aren’t familiar with quantum physics at all, don’t understand basic biology, and/or are not exposed to religious/philosophical concepts outside their own familiar ones I highly recommend this.

The main points I agreed with are:

• The universe is an amazing, complex thing but it is bound by rules that are built upon those that function at the quantum (sub-atomic) level. We’re infants playing with a supercomputer at this point, we barely can make sense of quantum physics.


• Our bodies are complex organisms which process information and are controlled by chemicals (hormones, peptides, etc). They sort of make a logical case for the argument that positive thinking and good emotions make you live longer, and you have the power to stop focusing on the negative, having to do with how cells respond over time to emotion-linked peptides and how brain synapses tied to certain types of emotional states/situations become linked due to repeated usage. In other words, you always think the worst and plan for it, your body practically becomes used to it, tries to make the worst happen subconsciously, and even gets a little ‘thrill’ off of bad things happening…you’re ‘addicted’ to misery, etc.


• That there need not be a god who created these miraclous things, a petty god punishing random acts of a few bio-chemical organisms on one planet in one galaxy while rewarding others, but rather there is the potential for divine in all interconnected things, and the ability within each of us to control our bodies, perceive reality and interact/affect it makes each of us a god. (Not in a sacreligious I am GOD sort of way, but in the beautiful infinite divinity of humanity sort of way…James correct me but I think either the Buddhists or Hindus believe within each of us is a god).