Monkinetic Weblog

I'm a total sucker for song covers. I've suffered this affliction for years, but it's only been since discovering various... *ahem* alternative *ahem*... sources of music ^#f1">1 that I've been able to fully enjoy my addiction.

Well, I've been pretty quiet lately, especially given the momentous process |Jodi| and I are in the middle of. It's now T-2 days until Jodi and I get on a plane bound for London, then to Kiev, Ukraine, to find and adopt our first child! Remarkably, I'm not stressed too much. If you've not been following along, have a browse through Jodi's Adoption Week-by-week posts to catch up. This has been a crazy year, but we have been surrounded by friends and family who have been simply amazing - the level of emotional, spiritual, and financial support has blown us away. Our child will be brought into an environment that is primed and ready for him/her! God is so good!

|Jodi| and I went to see Spielberg's new movie, War of the Worlds last night. I wasn't sure what to expect, and had tried to stay away from spoiler sites (which are generally a guilty pleasure of mine). I read the original novel by H. G. Wells in an anthology I got as a kid, and also had heard the Orson Welles 'Mercury Theater on the Air' broadcast on cassette tape as a teen. Speilberg's vision borrows from both, and exudes the hopelessness and desperation that Orson Welles' interpretation captured so brilliantly.