tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181180852011-04-21T14:11:24.878-07:00Brad Rhoadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181029506340764324noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18118085.post-1131047624012571522005-11-03T11:53:00.000-08:002005-11-03T11:53:44.036-08:00<a href="http://www.apple.com/pro/video/chester/">Apple - Pro/Video - John Chester, pg. 1</a>: " <br /> <br />By Bija Gutoff <br />John Chester, Andre Miller and Erin, whom Chester and Miller met on the streets of Providence, Rhode Island. They arranged an interview for Erin with the Candy Ford modeling agency in Boston, Massachusetts. <br />To most passers-by Jan was just another derelict � a nuisance, perhaps, if you even noticed him, but more likely an invisible blotch of human paint on the noisy canvas of the urban streetscape. To John Chester and Andre Miller, however, Jan was a person of immediate and immense interest: the target for their next guerilla philanthropic encounter. <br />Chester and Miller are the heart and soul of a daring experiment in random acts of kindness that they recorded as mini-documentaries and have now edited into a ten-episode series of true-story experiences for the A&E cable TV network. Since 1996 the two friends have been stopping strangers up and down the East Coast, offering to help resolve some problem in their lives. They call the exercise, and the show, �Random 1.� <br />�Let�s face it, helping people is selfish. We tell ourselves we do it to make the world a better place, but the fact is, it feels good.� <br />�Our mission is to try to make a difference,� says Chester. �And most of what we�ve done for people has worked, although sometimes things go horribly wrong.� Despite the occasional setback � included, without apology, to inject the TV series with an unsentimental dose of cinema v�rit� � Chester and Miller are hooked on what they call �the addictive thrill of encountering the unknown.� <br />�Let�s face it,� confesses Chester, �helping people is selfish. We tell ourselves we do it to make the world a better place, but the fact is, it feels good.� <br />Reality Road Trip <br />Fueled by their provocative vision and backed by a crackerjack"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18118085-113104762401257152?l=podcastbibleschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brad Rhoadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181029506340764324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18118085.post-1131044331165955402005-11-03T10:58:00.000-08:002005-11-03T10:58:51.166-08:00<a href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html">The Complete List - ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME Magazine</a>: "A - C <br />Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972) <br /> <br />The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959) <br /> <br />The Awful Truth (1937) <br /> <br />Baby Face (1933) <br /> <br />Bande � part (1964) <br /> <br />Barry Lyndon (1975) <br /> <br />Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) <br /> <br />Blade Runner (1982) <br /> <br />Bonnie and Clyde (1967) <br /> <br />Brazil (1985) <br /> <br />Bride of Frankenstein (1935) <br /> <br />Camille (1936) <br /> <br />Casablanca (1942) <br /> <br />Charade (1963) <br /> <br />Children of Paradise (1945) <br /> <br />Chinatown (1974) <br /> <br />Chungking Express (1994) <br /> <br />Citizen Kane (1941) <br /> <br />City Lights (1931) <br /> <br />City of God (2002) <br /> <br />Closely Watched Trains (1966) <br /> <br />The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) <br /> <br />The Crowd (1928) <br /> <br /> <br />D - F <br />Day for Night (1973) <br /> <br />The Decalogue (1989) <br /> <br />Detour (1945) <br /> <br />The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) <br /> <br />Dodsworth (1936) <br /> <br />Double Indemnity (1944) <br /> <br />Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) <br /> <br />Drunken Master II (1994) <br /> <br />E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) <br /> <br />8 1/2 (1963) <br /> <br />The 400 Blows (1959) <br /> <br />Farewell My Concubine (1993) <br /> <br />Finding Nemo (2003) <br /> <br />The Fly (1986) <br /> <br />G - J <br />The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974) <br /> <br />The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) <br /> <br />Goodfellas (1990) <br /> <br />A Hard Day's Night (1964) <br /> <br />His Girl Friday (1940) <br /> <br />Ikiru (1952) <br /> <br />In A Lonely Place (1950) <br /> <br />Invasion of the Body"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18118085-113104433116595540?l=podcastbibleschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brad Rhoadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181029506340764324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18118085.post-1131044136706151732005-11-03T10:55:00.000-08:002005-11-03T10:55:36.716-08:00<a href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html">The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels</a>: "The Complete List <br />In Alphabetical Order <br /> <br />A - B <br />The Adventures of Augie March <br />Saul Bellow <br /> <br />All the King's Men <br />Robert Penn Warren <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />American Pastoral <br />Philip Roth <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />An American Tragedy <br />Theodore Dreiser <br /> <br />Animal Farm <br />George Orwell <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />Appointment in Samarra <br />John O'Hara <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret <br />Judy Blume <br /> <br />The Assistant <br />Bernard Malamud <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />At Swim-Two-Birds <br />Flann O'Brien <br /> <br />Atonement <br />Ian McEwan <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />Beloved <br />Toni Morrison <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Berlin Stories <br />Christopher Isherwood <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Big Sleep <br />Raymond Chandler <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Blind Assassin <br />Margaret Atwood <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />Blood Meridian <br />Cormac McCarthy <br /> <br />Brideshead Revisited <br />Evelyn Waugh <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Bridge of San Luis Rey <br />Thornton Wilder <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />C - D <br />Call It Sleep <br />Henry Roth <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />Catch-22 <br />Joseph Heller <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Catcher in the Rye <br />J.D. Salinger <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />A Clockwork Orange <br />Anthony Burgess <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Confessions of Nat Turner <br />William Styron <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Corrections <br />Jonathan Franzen <br />Read the Original Review <br /> <br />The Crying of Lot 49 <br />Thomas Pynchon <br />Read the Original Re"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18118085-113104413670615173?l=podcastbibleschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brad Rhoadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181029506340764324noreply@blogger.com0