There Will Be Suckage

I don't care what anyone says; I don't care that it has an 8.4 rating on IMDB, There Will Be Blood is one of the worst movies I've seen as a long time. Some quotes off of user comments on IMDB from someone who likes the film are:

- "It is a powerful and emotionally draining experience."
- "There Will Be Blood will leave audiences feeling exhausted and with a bitter taste in their mouths."

Call me crazy but that just does NOT describe a good film to me, accurate as it is. Frankly it's discouraging, as a filmmaker/writer that THIS is what people/critics like. The fact that I don't get it though is a relief. I don't want to relate, understand or appreciate a film like this. I don't want to be on the same page as it. Maybe I can't "see" it clearly but that's because it's so dark as to be unrecognizable. And I'm perfectly happy leave it there in the dark, where it belongs.

Has this Happened to You?

I just had to stop and express my joy from the new Coldplay CD, Viva la Vida. I love it when you're listening to a new CD and you're chillin', lying on the bed taking it in, then sitting at the computer writing, whatever. Maybe it's been a while since you've allowed yourself to feel much of anything but the music overwhelms you, it seeps into you. You can't help but stop and listen and then you understand the songs are speaking to you (especially LOST & Viva La Vida), like a long song sermon of love from the universe and it's really like it was written just for you, just for this moment... the music moving in sync with the waves of emotion you're experiencing. And then you're crying, then laughing... It's only happened to me a few times. But when it does, it's hard not to believe there's something more than just the physical, there's something more to us than what we see. I feel so connected and loved and loving and like everyone of us is ok or will be ok... at least eventually. You know some of us are slow learners. :)

Anyway, I do believe that things/people/whathaveyou come along at various times in our lives (a lot of times it's books for me) and I think they are messages from our higher selves/the great spaghetti monster in the sky/whathaveyou but man, when it's something as beautiful as Chris Martin's voice singing to you, articulating exactly how you're feeling at that very moment, it's like being inside Sacre Coeur, the most amazing church that sits at the highest point in Paris, or whathaveyou.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Btw, there's a pretty decent article on Martin in this month's Rolling Stones.

Have you checked out vlog4reel yet?

Item# 5,343,590 - VLOG4REEL!!!

Sometimes life seems little more than a series of adding and deleting things from one Gia-Normous TO DO list.

All I do is make to do lists... I have one for work, one for my personal life, one for Blog4Reel and now one for.... (DRUM ROLL PLEASE) VLOG4REEL.COM! Yes, it's true.. we were having so much fun with Blog4Reel that we decided it needed a sister. Actually though so many people's blogs are already Vlogs and it seemed a natural evolution to add a vlog competition. We'd been talking about it for forever and it just seemed the right time to make it happen. So if you get a chance, please Check it Out!

I know I have failed in my attempt to blog every day. Bah. I wanted to.. I blog in my head but then life has its way with me. I was sick for a week, as you know, and then the bf was sick for a week (yes, my fault)... limiting my access to the computer at home, which is when I usually blog. On top of that I've been mad busy trying to get all the little details in order for Vlog4Reel to go live. It's just the way it is. If we had 48 hours a day .. it might happen.. or I might commit seppuku out of sheer exhaustion. Who wouldn't? Instead I have to accept that I can only do what I can do. I mean does it really really matter anyway if we can or can't do anything? I don't really really think it does. Do the best you can and relax. That's all I'm committing to doing these days.

Do I sound drab? This post is a little blah but probably because I'm trying to do a fast post. I'll write more later when I have time to muse and meander. But I just wanted you to know!

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Off to Work We Go!

Spent the day working on a video for a contest. I'll let you know more once it's up. Was fun except for working outside in the 100 degree heat. This is going to be a busy busy week. Have tons of editing to do on the new B4R thing and also have a press release to work on, just for starters. Not to mention catching up on all the crap that piled up from being sick last week. Ugh.



$$$Prosperity Game - $2,187,000 - Day 7$$$

Because One House isn't enough... I found a gorgeous gorgeous place in the French Country, not to far from the Riviera. It's so warm and inviting. This is a dream house 4 sure. Check it out and imagine.........

http://www.french-property.com/vp/nv/ds/midi-pyrenees-gers-mirande-residential/id/107381/

CHANGE to be FOUND...

Change is on the wind, you see. I can smell it in the rain. I have friends, not prophets, predicting the end of the world. The OIL will be the end of us, they say. Ironic if so since it is LITERALLy the END for all creatures... liquid creation. LIQUID devastation.
I feel a story brewing, working it's way up from the core through the cracks of consciousness. I feel it. Can you feel it? It's in the music. It's on the TV. I want to dance like we did in 1999 to Prince at the club (what was the name of that club???) with my best CuZiN & best friend, dance like you are free and young and there is no tomorrow. Just the end of the world (as you know it). I guess everyday is like that, but it doesn't feel like it sometimes - it feels like a clock turning endlessly endlessly on the dial. The same numbers, the same cadence. Just the Same Same Same.

And all I want is Change.

$$$Prosperity GAME - $729,000 - Day 6$$$

A house A house A house!

This may seem like a lot of money for a house but not in the lovely neighborhood that I live and rent in - Alamo Heights in San Antonio. This will probably afford me a nice modest 3-bedroom house. I want a garden full of veggies and herbs and berries. I want a pretty yard my little ChiWA can run around in. And I want a Pool so I can swim every morning in the moist air. I want, at last, a place to call my own. I've been moving around my entire life... not living in one place for more than a few years at a time. If I add it up.. wait.. let me do the math.. I've lived in.. shit.. I can't even remember but I've stopped somewhere around 20.

Beyond the Fog

I'm starting to come out of my Sicky Haze. Finally. It's still mind-boggling to me the things our bodies can do. No I won't go into detail as I don't wish to disgust anybody. Or do I...? Well anyway,I was blog searching today - looking for bloggers to tell them about us and ran across an interesting one, at least for me. It's not really B4R material but if you like Whales/Seals, it has some cool photos.
Check it out:

http://sfbaywhalewatching.blogspot.com/

I'm going to try to buckle down and work on a media kit this weekend with the help of my cousin-in-law who works for a major advertising agency. I have some experience with this but it's been so long it will be good to get some advice from someone who is current with all of the ins and outs of the ad world. It's ridiculous to me.. all the lingo. It's just like any particular industry. They keep out the "laypeople" by using language that makes no sense. But once you learn it it's pretty easy. All the online specs gets pretty confusing for me but am sure I'll manage.

By the way, I'm looking for video content at the moment.. if anyone has anything good, let me know!

$$$Prosperity Game - $243,000$$$

This game is definitely getting fun. Finally getting into some $ I can do something with! Woohoo!

$43,000 - Travel to Europe - Greece (pic is of Santorini), Britain & prolly a little stop-over in Amsterdam. Let's face it to have a first class trip overseas nowadays is gonna cost an arm and a leg with the current exchange rate. I went there in 2003 on a very frugal budget and still spent $5,000. I want to travel in style for a change and see how the other half lives. Rent a villa in Greece, see all the sites in GB and party like a rockstar in Amsterdam.

$50,000 - shopping spree - clothes, jewelry and shoes, shoes, shoes!

$150,000 - WON WORLD - to counteract my indulgences, I want to start a non-profit company whose mission it is to disseminate TRUTH - information on health & the environment in particular. This is pretty much just start-up money and will require further investment. I imagine we'll need to do primary research since I think a big problem with most information we get today is that it's biased. It would be nice to have a group that's sole goal is THE TRUTH. I don't know about you but I'm tired of sifting through half-truths on the news, internet etc., and trying to base a rational opinion on that information. How nice would it be to have a source that you know is accurate and trustworthy? Or... even better... imagine a world where everything you see, read, hear is the truth.. no lies, no evasions.. nothing to hide. But we gotta start somewhere!

Sicky 4 Real!

I hate being sick. It's depressing. It's like I'm unable to remember a time when I wasn't it so overwhelms and absorbs me. It's hard not to be with Phlegm being a constant reminder. At least I finally slept for a couple of hours today, mouth open, drooling. I woke up in a pile of it, wet and cold on my cheek. Although it would seem you have all the free time in the world when your sick you don't have the energy or inclination to do anything but... be... sick. I find myself sitting and staring at nothing in particular, like I'm some old senile woman waiting for the wind to carry me home. I know I'm dramatic. It's a built-in mechanism that I have no control over at this point. I'm probably thinking on death a little because I watched "The Savages" tonight.. a pretty good movie with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (one of my favs) and Laura Linney about these two siblings and their dying estranged father. It brought up old familiar and heartbreaking memories of my mom in the nursing home. She was there for 10 years (I was 15) before she died. Horrible places, nursing homes. I hope never never to step foot in one again. But that's a long story and I'm tired.

$$$Prosperity Game - $81,000$$$

Well, I would buy a new body right now if I could be considering that's probably improbable and even if I could it would cost a whole helluva lot more than $81,000, I think what I will do with this money is invest it into Blog4Reel as a necessary but loathsome marketing budget.. print ads, online ads, maybe even a billboard or two. I'm sure it won't buy much on a national level but it's a start!

Sicky Blog

You know what I like Best about Blog4Reel.com - it's reading other people's blogs or inspiring other people to blog. It's like this never-ending train of Creation... and it keeps going and gets passed along and keeps going and the ideas and the stories are like little nuggets of joy. I love them!

Feeling a little under the weather today - head cold or allergies. I hate coughing and hacking and sneezing and well just plain breathing when I don't feel good. I'm a baby. But I'm still working & Blogging! Yay me!

So.... $$$Prosperity Game - Day 4 - 27,000$$$

I've been waiting for this one! Woohoo...!!!

$20,000 - A NEW SCION XB. I love them. They're adorable, reliable and get pretty good gas mileage.

$4,000 - Pay off the old car and donate it or give it away.

$3,000 - Buy my BF a Scooter. For the moment his only vehicle is a mountain bike. And I know he's been wanting a scooter for a while!

$$$Prosperity Game - Day 3 - $9,000$$$

By the way, I guess I should clarify that I didn't mean to multiply times 3 each day but to triple each day, if that makes any sense. Whatever, it's my own math.

This one's an easy one - $9,000 clams straight to the IRS - cha-ching! You're welcome Uncle Sam! Please don't spend my money on War, Subsidies to the Oil Companies or Walmart, and I'll be satisfied!

But I won't hold my breath.

I Suck, Part 2

Ok so this has been a good learning exercise. I am, evidently, highly undisciplined. Seems I can't even get through 3 straight days of blogging. But as mentioned previously, I will keep trying till I get this right! I am proud to say I've been a little more disciplined with the WiiFit - which is a blast and actually pretty good exercise if you put in the effort. I am quite fond of the balance games - slollum skiing is a blast!

Well we are 2 weeks away from announcing the "addition" to the blog4reel site. Very exciting! I'll be working on some video this week with one of my favorite comedians, Jade Estrada, whose music video I posted earlier. He's hilarious and I can't wait to see what new material he comes up with.

Went and saw the new Indy movie over the weekend. What can I say but, as fan of the trilogy (minus #2), I was sorely disappointed. I mean Harrison is still gorgeous, even at 80 (jk) but let's face it... Lucas shouldn't have been allowed to touch this project. He's frakked up every movie he's created since 1984. Sad. But still, don't mess with my Indy, dammit! The writing was weak, the production values, which I expected to be through the roof, was also weak. And the ending.... come on! I mean seriously. I could have written a better premise in my sleep - in fact I often do. My dreams are more whack than a Stephen King/Joan Rivers love-child. I was going to say Hillary Clinton but I didn't want to piss anyone off. :) See, politically correct am I!