The photo above is of the 3D glasses from the theater. The manufacturer was careful to mention on the inside of the bows that these are “Not Sung Lasses – No UV / Sun Protection.” That makes me wonder how often they have been mistaken for lasses of any sort, sung or otherwise…

Anyway, back at the apartment after the movie tonight, I demonstrated Twitter.com for my roommate Scott. He was quick to express the opinion that this Twitter thing could be very beneficial for me because it forces communication in 140 characters or less. It’s difficult! Already, I find myself going back and changing longer words to a synonym with fewer characters, removing punctuation, and any other shenanigans I can come up with to cram whatever it was that I wanted to say into that tiny space… ) Yes, this is going to be good for me.

The movie had a lot of great U2 songs in it, and in some ways was surprisingly like what I’d imagine having some really great seats at a U2 concert would be like… except that you find yourself sitting down the whole time and aren’t being jostled by the guy jumping up and down next to you. Oh, and the music was too quite for most of the time.

I couldn’t help but think of worship a couple of times during the movie. For one thing, I experienced something like what happens to me when someone else is leading the singing at church. I often get a significantly greater flow of creative ideas coming to me during these times than at other times in the day or week. The first ten minutes or so of the movie in particular were similar to a worship service in that respect. Along other lines, there was a place in the movie (which would be easy to miss) where some of the people in the front row seemed to be making a bowing motion toward Adam, the bass player. That was more of a reminder of the sort of worship we shouldn’t be doing.

Anyway, though the movie was enjoyable overall, it did seem to be preaching a bit. U2 seemed to be trying to say that all religions are equivalent (“Mohammad is true, Jesus is true”) and that we should therefore all get along. I certainly agree that we all ought to try to get along, but I don’t think this is predicated on all religions being equivalent. The lyrics of Rebecca St. James from the song “You’re the Voice” come to mind. “We’re all someone’s daughter; we’re all someone’s son. How long can we look at each other down the barrel of a gun?” To me, this talks about the importance of living together peacefully and manages to do so without mixing in other messages. We’re all people. We ought to find enough in common in that to treat each other with respect.

Has anybody else seen U2 3D? What did you think of the movie? What about those who haven’t seen the movie; do you have any thoughts on good ways to pursue peace here on earth? To some degree, Christians believe that we will never fully realize peace on earth. However, I don’t think it hurts to try to make the world a better place while we’re here. )

I got my new music software installed on the computer last night and it’s calling my name… I’ve been looking forward to using it all day… even though I should be sleeping soon. Ok, I should be sleeping *now*. It’s the weekend though and I think it’ll be ok. I won’t be long… )