I opened Twitter this morning to see this hanging out on top of the page. When I read it I wasn’t paying attention to who wrote it. In fact, for a few minutes I thought it was written by my friend Roger who is good at pointing out God’s love to us, and who had a tweet under this one. I saw his picture and assumed he wrote it. Then a couple minutes later I looked again because I was going to reply to him. That’s when I saw that it wasn’t Roger who wrote it. It was none other than Kevin Smith. Yep, That Kevin Smith. I don’t know much about his faith, but I will say,  I really didn’t expect to hear spiritual truths about who God loves this morning from the guy Silent Bob–whether it was intended or not.

But I’m glad I did. I just wish more people understood God’s love and not God’s hate.

3 Idiots was a great movie. I saw it last week and loved it. Granted I was there with the only “3 idiots” in line that weren’t Indian and were even asked if we thought we were in line for Avatar, but it was still a great time. It’s supposed to be the first movie legally released via YouTube, which should happen in about 3 months.

Don’t let the preview fool you. While it is very funny (too bad there aren’t subtitles in the preview–there are in the movie) and extremely silly at times (a few Indian songs in the middle), there are moments it is very sad and sobering.

I highly recommend you check it out either in the theater if it’s near you or when it comes out on YouTube.

Aal Izz Well.

YouTube – 3 Idiots – Official Trailer.

This is an excellent video. You should check it out.

YouTube – Social Media Revolution.

I’ve been sitting here watching clips from Britain’s Got Talent this morning. They had the first semi-final round this weekend and of course Susan Boyle made it through to the finals. There was a couple of things that struck me though about this show compared to American Idol.

First, this show goes by much quicker than American Idol. It’s like they audition, a few nights of semi-finals for different groups, where you find out that night if you are in the finals, and then they have the finals. American Idol just drags on and on. Weeks of auditions. Weeks of singing and eliminating. Performance shows and then results shows. It’s ridiculous. I realize it’s all about advertising and making money, but it’s the reason I can’t watch it. It’s just too long.

Second, the demeanor of the show and overall attitude just seems more positive. Now, I’ve not watched it a lot. In fact, before Susan Boyle, I didn’t realize it was even still on the air. But just watching that video, and other audition videos and seeing Simon and the rest of the crew smiling like they were, just made me want to watch more. I’m sure they have bad auditions, but that is the thing…unlike American Idol, where they make shows or clips out of just bad auditions and drama-filled people, I haven’t seen it on Britain’s Got Talent. I’m not saying they don’t do it, but it just obviously isn’t as popular when they do it. Americans just seem to thrive on others’ failures, while the folks on the British show seem to want their people to succeed and even the judges do.

Maybe it’s just me and I haven’t seen enough of the show to see the bad sides of it. I just know that based on what I have seen, I’d much rather watch Britain’s Got Talent any day of the week.