The Invisible begins with golden boy, Nick Powell, who dreams about killing himself during an agonizing graduation party. I sat there for the next half hour, watching his interactions with his mother, friends, and the school bullies who preyed upon his best friend. He defied his controlling mother by enrolling himself in a writing course in London, only to toss his airline ticket at a girlfriend who voiced her pleasure at rebelling against his mother. At that point, he gives up on the writing course and leaves the party to go home.
In the meantime, bad girl Annie Newton is out for revenge against Nick because she was told that he ratted her out to the cops about a jewelry heist. Annie and her cohorts, along with his spineless best friend chase him into the woods. She and the cohorts beat him into unconsciousness, and then hides him in a sewer drain because they think he’s dead.
Nick finds himself in a limbo state, stuck between life and death. He learns that not everybody thinks as highly of him as he was led to believe. This doesn’t stop him from screaming with self-righteous anger at everyone who disappointed him. Of course, nobody can see or hear him.
His spirit latches onto Annie, who is under suspicion with the police in connection with Nick’s disappearance. He follows her everywhere, both shouting and pleading with her to tell the authorities where his body is located before it dies. This was the best part of the movie. I was disappointed with the ending because it was unrealistic and contrived. To me, it went against human nature.
Up until that point, I enjoyed watching The Invisible. I loved the soundtrack and plan on hunting for it later. Also, I felt that the Seattle-like town added to the dark and somber mood.
One of the things I love about the latest web technology is that you can watch the TV shows that you missed because of the network schedule or your own. You can also see full previews of upcoming shows. Next Monday’s episode of Medium promises to be a doozy. Alison has an incredibly long dream of a young woman who finds herself stranded in the parking lot of the place she works. She calls her mother on her cell phone, but the mother is not much help. Then comes a stranger, eager to lend her a hand. You can pretty much guess where this is going, right? The end of the dream might surprise you.
When I saw this article, I thought, “Only on Ebay.” I don’t know if anything can top the infamous Virgin Mary Toast auction, but this one is right up there on the weirdness scale. This skeleton won’t fit in any closet. Instead it takes up most of the garage of California resident Nancy Fiddler. One of her ranch hands discovered a large tooth on her property back in 1997. An excavation unearthed a rare, nearly complete skeleton of a mastodon. The only thing missing was the tusks.
Fiddler donated the mastodon to the Oakland Museum of Natural History, where it was on display for several years until they made a replica. Whether they gave the original skeleton back or she took it, I’m not sure. But now she wants to use her sauna, and her son wants to use the garage to build hot rods. So the mastodon must go.
The minimum bid is $115,000, payable with PayPal. So far, there are no takers.
Last night marked the 11th anniversary of the infamous Phoenix lights, which the government still claims were flares despite the testimonies of countless witnesses from all walks of life who said otherwise. The video above shows Jim D’Litoso of Village Labs explains how the lights weren’t flares. His presentation was interesting and thought-provoking.
I found another video from AZFamily.com that shows two opposing sides in this controversy, a Ufologist and a noted astronomer. You can either read the transcript of this newsbit or watch the video.
