SOY VIVO – The Personal Blog of Phillip Roman!

I was just watching the news and they announced that an Irish documentarian was cut off in a Q&A session with Al Gore. While over hearing the accent, Suzanne shouted, “That’s Phelim!”. Sure it was. Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are the Irish directors the movie, Mine Your Own Business. When I was at Seattle University, I hosted Phelim and Ann on campus. It was a great honor to be involved with their Seattle premiere of the film. After the showing, Phelim invited me to have a drink at a pub. I was sad to remind him that the American drinking age was 21 and that I was only 19.

Phelim was at an Al Gore talk at The Society of Environmental Journalists. Phelim is making a documentary titled Not Evil Just Wrong. He is looking at many of the errors that the British High Court has found in Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Would you believe what happened to Phelim when he asked Gore about the Court’s ruling? Journalists killed his mic. Journalists censored Phelim and protected a politician.

Watch for yourselves.

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Here is an email I just sent the president:

Hey Obama,

I also have a vision of peace. Can I go halfers on your Nobel prize money?

Your Constituent,

Phillip Roman

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Obama just won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. I really don’t know why. The committee stated that he has captured the world’s attention and has given us hope (too bad he could not give US the Olympics). The main thing they are citing is that:

“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.”

The only problem that I see is that this award is premature. Yeah, the US has changed its outlook on foreign policy and communication but we have not yet had the new policies tested, in other words, Obama has not done anything yet. I hope that he does, for the betterment of the USA and the world, but he hasn’t yet.

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I read this review from the Daily Mail for the upcoming release of 2012 and thought that they were being mean and overdramatic movie buffs. Hey it’s the end of the world and things are going to get crazy. Well…I WAS WRONG!!! After watching the trailers for the film, I couldn’t agree more. This movie is RIDICULOUS! Just watch for yourselves.

The first trailer for end-of-the-world disaster movie 2012 proved there really was no stunt too ambitious or too silly for Hollywood’s latest blockbuster.

It portrayed an epic story of a world ravaged by fires, earthquakes, meteor showers and floods and a heroic struggle for survivors.

And the three-minute trailer also found room to show planes flying between crashing skyscrapers, continents sliding under the oceans, and roads torn to shreds like ribbons.

The second trailer not only proves the first trailer’s point, it triple-underlines it and follows up with ten exclamation marks.

Trailer #1

Trailer #2

I loved Barrio in Capitol Hill and I love Barrio’s new location in Bellevue! Suzanne and I went last night before going to see the September Issue (btw: a really great film).

We ordered guacamole, ceviche and crudo sampler, chicken tacos, mexican chopped salad with flank steak, short ribs, tres leches cake with pears, cafe y leche creme brulee, and salted caramel chocolates. Oh and we had watermelon agua fresca and Caffe Vita in a french press to drink.

The food is great, but the prices are ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong I love gourmet mexican food and I have no problem paying “gourmet” prices. However, when it comes to mexican food, my grandma can always make it way better and for free!!! Sadly for me, my grandma is back home in California and I have to eat; plus a good restaurant is way more than great food.

Just like its Capitol Hill location, Barrio is really happening. Their bar was packed and every table was filled. This may be because it is a newer restaurant, it was a friday, or that we were in the middle of Bellevue Fashion Week. Either way the energy was great. Suzanne and I went for a early dinner (we usually go to a restaurant’s last seating but we both forgot to eat all day and were starving) so the place was a bit brighter than I would have liked but it darkened up a bit. The service was good and management was friendly. Barrio is owned by Heavy Restaurant Group. HRG also owns the legendary Purple Cafe (which I have still not had the pleasure of dinning at) which is also opening a Bellevue location right next door to Barrio on Tuesday (Oct 6).

We gave ourselves a little more than two hours to make the film and by the time we knew it, we were late! We walked in to the theatre just moments before they title popped up and had to sit in the second row. Tardiness is always a good sign of a great restaurant.