Author Archives: Jeremy Heckman

Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows – AMC 12 at Downtown Disney, Anaheim, CA

Absolutely beautiful. I wish I could talk more about how beautiful this film was, but I have to be really careful and not spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie(s). Sufficeth to say, if you’ve been waiting for somebody to encourage you to go see it, this is that moment (or it would be if you respected my opinions at all). 😉 The film picks up about 6 months or so after the first one ended and it does so perfectly. It immediately finds it’s groove again and just runs with it. It’s so beautiful to see Holmes face off against his greatest opponent yet! The acting is top notch! So great to see Stephen Fry as Holmes’ brother, Mycroft (unparalleled brilliance). Hans Zimmer delivers another amazing score. While listening, I at first made the mistake of trying to compare his work for this one with his work … Continue reading →

White Christmas – OCPAC

Alright, that was cute. A very nice adaptation with some interesting and eyebrow-raisingchanges. Thank you Sarah for pointing out that the dancing/choreography is amazing – we agree. And yes, the tempo’s are all a bit too fast (even “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me”), but we’ve decided that that is because they added so much content they needed to race through all the songs in order to be done at a decent hour. 😉 Laura very much liked the formation changes – they were very dynamic and effective. I guess at the end of the day, they have to make a bunch of broad changes and the audience gets to pick and choose their favorites. Me, I liked the General and Martha and all of the new songs were VERY well done. The only original songs cut were Mandy/Minstrel Show and Choreography which makes perfect sense as they are … Continue reading →

SOPA/PIPA!!!

**ADDENDUM 1/11/12** WordPress has broken their *personal* vow of political silence to speak up about this issue here! And I’m slacking for having not visited Stop American Censorshipyet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it!!! **/ADDENDUM** **ADDENDUM 12/30/11** Oh wait, sorry that’s the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA wants to give Congress the authority to create a new enforcement agency that police’s the Internet looking for copyright violations and giving them the authority to shutdown sites like YouTube and Facebook for “having a vauge definition of piracy” as it were. O.o Really Congress? Really? I mean sure it’s job creation, but who really wants the job of policing the Internet? Besides that job is reserved for XKCD stick figures who can’t budge from their computers because “someone on the Internet is wrong!” 😉 **/ADDENDUM** SOPA is a bill by Congress (those lovable, out-of-touch coots) that wants to … Continue reading →

Kim Jong Il Tribute

Insensitive? Probably. Hilarious? I seemed to think so…. A mash up of the song “I’m So Ronery” by Trey Parker and Matt Stone from their hit film “Team America: World Police” and this image from Wikipedia.

The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul Brett & Michelle Psalm 85 1 & 2, 35 Forgive the iniquity… That His glory may dwell in our land… Righteousness goes before him… Mark 1:1-8 Paul I have a Facebook account and I’m seeing people complaining about hearing Christmas songs Sorry if you’re here tonight I love singing these songs about God becoming man, rejoicing Man spends a lot of time trying to become god Jon Prayer for the Spirit of God to settle in this room … I love being at this church Thank you for being such a blessing to me Turn it over to Moses Moses Not used to these mics We’re a church plant Nice to get out this way I met Jon when I was working at a mission in downtown LA Started talking about church planting Asked where and didn’t know for sure Little more than a year later people are getting … Continue reading →

Arthur Christmas

Curse you Rob Bredow, you didn’t warn me I would cry!!! I mean congratulations on your promotion (since Cloudy) and your prominent place in the credits! :-)And yay for R. Stirling Duguid!They are both in the credits and we know them personally! The Beiber music video was better than the song (sorry, I’m not a big fan…although his duet with Jaden Smith for Karate Kid 2010 was pretty sweet). The steampunk elves is an AWESOME concept though. Iwas surprised to see that the film was partially Aardman Entertainment’s fault which is kind of cool to see them jump into the digital realm (although the trailer we saw for their pirate movie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits,looks SOOO purdy and makes me think it’s claymation but who knows). It also explains how Anglicized the film was: the leads were all Brits: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy andImelda Staunton! … Continue reading →

The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul Katie I’m the children’s director Dec 18th is the Christmas Program In January we’ll be starting a separate worship team for the kids Just got back from Haiti and so many people have asked that I’m gonna do a review Went with another local church for 2 weeks Loving on the kids and just being able to play with them and supporting those who have given up their lives to help people Going back a 2nd time the most interesting part was seeing where people I met the first time are at now Orphanage is growing by leaps and bounds All the kids are really special If you’ve been to Uganda before, you might want to go back and see what’s changed since them…it can be very special Paul It’s really special when somebody from our church takes the things we sing about and make it real Stephen and … Continue reading →

Watoto Choir Performance – The Rock Church Worship Service

Jon Welcome Good to see you tonight About to see a picture of what the kingdom of Heaven looks like We want everyone to participate We want Lord Jesus to be first in this place Jeami is going to share her heart with us Jeami Our church is really invested in Africa This is Sara, she’s a Mercy’s Village employee who is going to move to Uganda Watoto Choir Performance My favorite song was “Not Forgotten”.