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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
$15.00
What a relief to know that we're not the only ones out there with challenging teen-agers. What a relief to know that "wha" and "hunh" are only a temporary phase in our kids' vocabulary. This book offers insight into the mindset of teen-agers and how to handle situations. The author is enlightening, sometimes humorous, and dead-on right about many matters. I ordered 2 copies for good friends with teen kids, and they couldn't put down the book until they finished reading it from cover to cover. Thank you, Dr. Wolf!

Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
$14.98
This has to be the worst waste of time and money I have ever experienced. The title is supposed to mean 'life out of balance', but in what language? The first film Koyaanisqatsi is a hotch potch of timelapse footage of mountains (yawn), and trees (super yawn) and cityscapes. The second, Powaqqatsi is more about people doing dirty work in the third world.

The music does not in anyway match the visuals which are lazy to say the least. Timelapse footage is like the stop motion animation such as Morph or Wallace and Gromit, but at least animators move things about and make an effort to entertain, these guys have just left a camera running pointing at a tree or a mountain for a day, if they were even there to supervise at all!

As mentioned, the music is really grating, a pseudo modern classical attempt at a score but is really just an endless repetition of violin loops. The theme is by someone called Phil Glass, a glass probably filled with strong cider judging by the lack of musical direction. I watched it again with the sound down and played Shakira's first album over the top, she seems to suit the visuals far better, and she sings about mountains.

Koyaanisqatsi is the better of the two as there are more colours and variety, Powaqqatsi has too much orange tinge to it and also one example of a green face near the end.

Considering this film is supposed to have been made in the 80's, it has no car chases or explosions and looks decidedly 1970's. It seems like a collection of similar incidental footage bundled together and packaged as a timecapsule of our changing environment and lifestyle where in reality it just looks like a poor version of Dallas or GTA IV's opening credits.

If timelapse footage is your thing check out 'Trapdoor' (a parody of the life of Fred West) or the 'Private Life of Plants', although the latter has amateur naturist Dave Attenborough trying to make sense of the vegetative nonsense.

In summary then, avoid these DVD's, or borrow them and make your own mind up, but be prepared for the most disappointing 180 mins of your life.

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cleanFLO Eco Friendly Chrome Finish Kitchen Or Laundry Sink Faucet With Pull Out Spray Head
$44.99
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