"I am APOCALYPSE! Look upon the future, AND TREMBLE! All who oppose me... shall be crushed!", "Increase the power! I want to hear the cries of a future being born!" or "Watch me and tremble... for I bring the purity of oblivion!" And my personal favorite: "I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me and be broken!"...
Have you ever wondered how an uprising starts? Like what causes people to choose one side over another side with vehement enthusiasm. To the point where it is almost maddening? We see this happen a lot in television shows and movies that we watch...
I woke up early this morning and was pondering the following: “Who in my life is a cool arrow that I can always trust to be in my cool arrow quiver?” We all know someone who falls in to the cool arrow category. This person does not necessarily have to be the smartest or nicest or funniest person you know, but they are definitely the equivalent of a quiver-worthy cool arrow that if shot from your metaphorical bow in to the world, they make it a safer more interesting place to live.
Creation is electric. An idea strikes like a fervent brush stroke that stimulates necessity. It lights up your mind like a lightning bolt of effervescent freedom and possibilities. This creativity is beautiful and contagious and soon a merger of souls occurs.
I would like to start off by saying that I do NOT hate the Beta Report podcast. I really and truly don’t. No matter what you may have heard on this week’s podcast or on CNN. If you heard that anywhere, you’re being bamboozled!
So I told him, “You guys need a villain. An anti-hero. A Donald Trump, a Gooch, a Newman even.” He said “Nah we are good as far as that.” Then why ask me for my opinion? I do think though that from the few episodes I have listened to that something amazing is missing. A good villain. Every good show, story, plot has a great villain.
At one point in time, I was really in to reality television shows. I’m talking like really in to them. Like I thought my life was interesting enough that I should have my own camera crew. I mean my life was interesting but not THAT interesting (at least not yet) but I thought it was.
So the Oscars are upon us and I am sure The Beta Report guys are doing some sort of Oscar awards show where they talk about the movies that were nominated and who they think will win and yadda yadda yadda.
Committed to the unseen, a memory played out in this dream like scene: A Star Wars sheet on my living room floor soothes like oceans’ pour. Every wrinkle is the ebb that my fourth grade fingers smoothed out to let comfort flow. The heat outside extinguished by the ceiling fan breeze from our Cudahy home. My surrogate sun, the TV was the only source of warmth as the Capri Sun and Cheetos filled my belly.
The Sundance Film Festival currently taking place in Park City, UT, is definitely an event I one day hope to experience in person. Spanning about two weeks (this year the dates were: January 21-31), festival goers are treated to some great, others not so good—but all certainly interesting—films vying for their place in film history.
