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Entertainment, Idealist, Leadership, Personality, Temperament Information

Diplomat’s Sanctity

May 17, 2012 Kip Parent Leave a comment

Marvel’s The Avengers crushed it at the box office it’s opening weekend and is now the highest grossing domestic movie weekend of all time at just over $207 million. The previous record holder had been our dear friend Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows- Part 2 at about $169 million who just got owned. The superhero ensemble film was the fastest movie ever to reach $100 million, $150 million and $200 million at the box office, enjoyed the highest per-theater average ever for a nationwide release with $46,057 per theater, and is currently rocking a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s almost as if these people knew that I was going to start blogging about the four basic personality types so they went ahead and made a huge blockbuster movie about it and decided to break a bunch of box-office records with it. Thanks guys. ‘Ppreciate it. Earth’s Mightiest Hero’s will not be the only nerd-gasm to behold on the big-screen this summer, as the film’s debut came with fresh new trailers for The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider Man. Web-head’s “origin-story-reboot” will be looking for cinematic redemption after Spiderman 3 cast Eric Foreman as Venom and was just generally epic fail. The movie stars Andrew Garfield as the titular webslinger while Emma Stone plays Petey’s main squeeze Gwen Stacy. Australian actor Rhys Ifans will be playing primary villain The Lizard. WHO IS your friendly neighborhood spiderman? A devoted Idealist.

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Assembly Required

May 1, 2012 Kip Parent 7 Comments

The day of reckoning is nearly upon us my dear friends as The Avengers drops this Friday and can be seen in 3D and IMAX at a theater near you. Pre-release tracking on the film projects Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to have the biggest domestic box-office opening of all time. Why all this huss and fuss, jibber-jabb, and riggamaroo over a silly film about a couple of guys in leotards you ask? Because the core concept of the story is that there are four basic kinds of people.

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Entertainment, Idealist, out of the box

Diplomat’s Destiny

April 26, 2012 Kip Parent 7 Comments

NBC/Universal has evidently decided that they don’t want to suck at making movies anymore so they went ahead and took the classic tale of Snow White and made it “darker and more epic”. Some cynics point out that the very premise of the film is fundamentally flawed, being a story about Charlize Theron getting jealous because Kristen Stewart is prettier than she is. Which quite frankly doesn’t make any sense. Superficial stupidity aside, it looks like the film is actually shaping up quite well so hat’s off to our dear friends over at Universal Studios for not sucking anymore. The films June 1, 2012 release date is fresh off the heels of Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror (49%), which was a more family-friendly, comedy-oriented and generally less cool Snow White version. What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves really about you ask? The true beauty of an Idealist’s heart.

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Entertainment, Famous personality, Guardian

Supplying the Cool

April 24, 2012 David Keirsey 1 Comment

It’s cool daddy-o.

Have you heard the expression? If you have, when?

If you haven’t, it says something about you. Maybe your age and where you were born.

He had heard it, and really had a subtle influence on the lingo as the 50s and 60s as they progressed.

As the host of the television after-school dance program “American Bandstand” he made an ideal surrogate chaperone: a wholesome, polite, honorary adolescent. Although he was 27 when the program was first broadcast nationally on Aug. 5, 1957, he could have passed for 17. At the time he seemed the sort of mild-mannered superannuated boy who might once have served on the school safety patrol and been elected class treasurer. In fact he had been the president of his high school student council in Mount Vernon, N.Y. [Wikipedia]

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Tactician’s Swagger

April 22, 2012 Kip Parent 6 Comments

Yes. I used the word swagger. The next James Bond film entitled Skyfall is now up and running and currently filming in Shanghai after a slight budget debacle involving MGM studios filing for bankruptcy. Those silly suds seem to have gotten back on track however as Skyfall is slated for an November 9, 2012 release date. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as the world’s best secret agent, with Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) at the helm, academy award winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) playing the primary villain, and equally not-terrible actors Ralph Phiennes and Albert Finney cast in unspecified roles. The 23rd installment of the world’s longest running movie franchise will see “MI6 come under attack, revealing M’s (Judi Dench) dark past and testing 007’s (Daniel Craig) loyalty to her as he goes after the threat no matter the cost”. Who is Bond… James Bond? The ultimate Promoter Artisan.

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Angry Young Man

April 19, 2012 David Keirsey 8 Comments

The Voice is unmistakable.

You know the music.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. And, it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the …

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Entertainment, Rational

Foreboding Forethought

April 15, 2012 Kip Parent 4 Comments

Sir Ridley Scott’s epic return to sci-fi is one of many solid films coming this summer:

For those of you who do not know Ridley Scott was the guy that was nice enough to make a movie about my younger days called Gladiator. He also did Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, and American Gangster among others. I personally am not a huge fan of stuff like Alien (Sci-fi thriller’s—they call them) but I have to admit that Prometheus looks pretty dope (it’s been called an Alien prequel). Prometheus marks Sir Ridley Scott’s return to the genre he redefined. The plot follows the crew of the spaceship Prometheus in the late 21st century, as they explore an advanced alien civilization in search of the origins of humanity. What they find evidently is NOT daisies and lollipops. Which is what I thought might initially be the case. It’s not. What is Prometheus REALLY about you ask? A Rationals’ dark side.

“To make man more like the gods, Prometheus gave him fire: the symbol of light and energy. In harnessing light and energy mankind gains control and understanding of nature. To understand and control nature is to possess powers, and it is that—the desire for powers—that sets the Promethean apart from others.” — Please Understand Me p. 47

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Well-Rounded Wizardry

April 8, 2012 Kip Parent 1 Comment

Happy Easter! The spring is officially upon us my dears and with it comes the grand opening of Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter in Leavesden, England, 18 miles north of London. On the heels of the smashing success of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, our dear and beloved friends at Warner Bros. Studios have decided to make the place where the most successful film series of all time was shot available to the general public. In other words if you ever feel the urge to go hang out at Hogwarts Castle or Diagon Alley, you now have the ability to do so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7mLsvaaZ0g

And wouldn’t you know it, but the Four Houses of Hogwarts match up right on the nose with the four temperaments. Much like the sorting hat matches up right on the nose with the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. I know…. Right!?? Let’s take a look.

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