Christmas tree!

Ok. I am not going to buy a Christmas tree.
I do like the decorations though, so I will just make one from a magazine
I learned this stuff a while ago but just never did it.

My mom would like this

The only thing is that I didn't spray adhesive and glitter on it
But I still like how it came out.
It's a great use for old magazines
YAY!

Tired

Ohhhhhh mannnnnnn
Whirlwind blocks of time are fun but when its time to 'come down', the tired hits you like a ton of bricks.
One of things we all adored was Coco Before Chanel
Oh my gosh so sweet so lovely!!!!!!!

I wanted to be in Paris just then or England, or wherever

I liked her determination....

In a lot of ways.

This movie was a little sad but happy and fun and adorable.

Just see the movie.

Real life

Dan in Real Life was really funny, sweet, and cute
Plus I love Steve Carell

Because when you know, you just know

See the movie

Best

The two best pics for me at the State Dinner were these two

The president and wife (with Michelle in that gorgeous dress)

Ari Emmanuel livin life and having fun!!
YAY!!!!!!!!

Over and over

That song that plays over and over in my head for dancing these days is the remix of Lady Gaga's Poker Face (Make Her Say).

The Remix stars Kid Cudi, COMMON (oh yeh), and Kanye West

Kid Cudi looked great at the AMA's with Drake introducing Mary J. Blige.
I love this song (for dancing)

I also really like the video so I put in some stills of the shots I really like.

I especially like the one with the girl (who looks a little like me) sitting at the train station with LA, NY and London time above.

Relaxing

Pretty places, and things help me to relax

So I liked that this place looked so nice when we went for brunch.
It was the most relaxing and fun day.

Ok ok

Yes I've been posting about a lot of movies but that's my escape from all the other things that I have to do.

Plus, it's a learning experience.

I feel like I am watching them through new eyes and learning techniques that I like and that I don't like at all.
Si still do things. I guess I should write more about that stuff too!

Will always remember

It's fitting that I use that title for this movie

Code 46 is sci fi and 'love story' perfectly rolled into one.
Not over done in any of the two genres.

Samantha Morton who readily admits that she is not a good actor but instead is a good reactor to her co-stars and the environment, is again brilliant in this movie and Tim Robbins is as Tim Robbins should be in this film. Lovely.

I could watch it over and over.
I love a good sci fi and this reminded me of Gattaca, but it wasn't a knock off.
I love the movie also because they had a small production budget so they took small crews (15) with them overseas and were very resourceful in shooting on streets and in the desert etc...
I like when a budget is small but talented directors and cres can put out high quality film.

umm

I won't bother to write anything much about Love In The Time of Cholera.
Except that it sucked.
I don't even want to read the book now.

I don't know why

But I loved BUG.
Well I do know why.

The acting from EVERYBODY was great.
Brilliant.


Michael Shannon, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.
I fell for this movie.
It kinda made me feel weird though.

I always liked William Friedkins (Director), because i watched interviews with him and he is one of the first directors I saw to own when a movie he makes is crap. He describes how his early films basically had nothing to do with who he was as a director, and they were not good work.
He freely admits to being a 'pest', calling up cinemas in the 70s and making sure they had the right sound levels and light for showing his film.

AND in his director's commentary of films, he is so clear about his intent in each scene each word etc.
Most of his work is character study which I adore because I try to do that in my writing and when I take photos of people in social situations.
I love this.

I liked it!

I watched RocknRolla and I really liked it.

Good cast, twist and turns, acting good, funny, exciting.

Cool!

I know a lot of people didn't really like it but I really enjoyed watching this movie

Busy Busy Busy

Articles, submissions, applications, workshops
ACK. No time to think
Post later!

YAY!!!

The Washington Post reported that Bill & Melinda Gates donated $10 Million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture this month.
The museum is not slated to open until 2015.
They are so cool!

Trini Secrets

So my friend sent me a video of a woman beating up a guy (her bf) on the Promende in Trinidad.
That was really something.
It was an 8 minute video and it was really well shot. At the end of it I was thinking: "Wow this could have been in a movie."
But I digress.
It was really disturbing
The thing that got to me was that it was a series of CHAIN UPS.
to those who don't know a 'chain' up is a manipulation to incite anger and bad behavior as a result.
Trinis do it really well and I had forgotten how well.
Its a lilting, scampish tone of voice with the right combination of words meant to cause a reaction.
The reaction is received but sooner or later (most time sooner) it escalates beyond control and beyond anything that the person doing the chaining up could have imagined.
The 'chainers' usually beat a hasty retreat but the reaction continues.
I had forgotten that till I saw the video.
The guy was made because the girl was 'back wining' with some dude in the club he took her to.
He orders her out of his car after some 'chaining'.
She tells him that he better stop or she will embarrass him
He doesn't stop and she gets out of the car and whales on him all up and down the place.
OMG
Thankfully he didn't hit back but it seems to me that they'd both gone down that road before,
I couldn't stop watching.
I mean I've seen this kind of thing before but not 8 minutes of continuous feed and chaining...
Nasty business!

FYI

Pieces of April was a sweet and edgy and touching movie

I didn't know Katie Holmes had it like that!

I like her so much more now and I wish she would be in more movies

Patricia Clarkson of course was amazing as usual.

I like her in everything that she does.

Sean Hayes was the breakout star for me though.

His short role had me thinking about him the whole time.

Rose

OMG
Watched "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and loved it.

I loved the story and the premise
This was so well done.

It can totally happen!
People do get so drawn in to movies...

I am glad someone told this story.

Why did I wait so long to watch this????

Last

Well I saw The Last Life in the Universe.
A Thai film with Thai and Japanese actors.
I really really enjoyed it.

The acting was great but most importantly in the telling of the story, the transitions and growth of the characters was so clear but not in your face and obvious.


The movie just flows along without so much obvious story telling and I really really liked that.
It was relaxing and just great.
I love foreign film.
I have to tell you.
There were two sisters in the movie who are sisters in real life.
Sinnitta Booyasak and Chermarn Boonyasak

Chermarn is younger, a model and has won more awards and been in more films than Sinitta.

However to me, Sinitta is the breakout star of the movie. I like her plain, down to earth acting. Just like a normal and real person. So you like her immensely in the film.

Chermarn is great in her small role and you can see why she has won so many awards.

Haha

I finally updated my South Park avatar

I love it!
http://www.sp-studio.de/
Go here to do it!

Michelle does it again :)

Just when you think that it can't get any better it does
The President's wife had this to say in the CBS interview about dating

"Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person?
That’s the advice I would give to women: Don’t look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart.
Look at the soul.
Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women.

How he acts with children he doesn’t know.
And, more important, how does he treat you?
When you’re dating a man, you should always feel good.
You should never feel less than.
You should never doubt yourself.
You shouldn’t be in a relationship with somebody who doesn’t make you completely happy and make you feel whole.
And if you’re in that relationship and you’re dating, then my advice is, don’t get married.
Get out of it and find that person that brings you complete and utter joy with who you are at the moment.


YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
here is the video or click the pic to see the video on cbs
Confirmation from someone who has a good one. :)

Focused

There are a ton of documents to be written.
They are fairly straight forward but time consuming

I didn't know i looked so out of this world when on the computer.....
Nothing else exists.

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity

In the sci fi vein

I always have liked Thandie Newton.
Everything she does is great...

The fact that she did sci fi is a plus and I liked all her clothes as Dame Vaako.

Yay!

Geez

I have never seen spock like this
Is that a sexaaaayyyyyy smirk?

I think it is!
Wow Nice!

One of the best

One of the best yet underrated movies I have seen is Forces of Nature starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.
The story was excellent
The moral was on point

The script was so good.
It is a movie about what should happen when you think about the reality of your situation
I love it

My favorite quote in the movie is this

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Ben Holmes: Sarah, everybody loves you, you just... you just think they're all wrong.

Guess

Morris Chestnut is gonna be on:


V


Ahh yes

Life is good :)

And scary

Hilarious

This dude is hilarious (Rallo)

and he is actually

THIS dude!

I may live to regret liking this character...but so far so good :)

Favorite

BGSITE

Comic book

Only 4.00 dollars

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Gonna get it!
Michelle watch blog is so cool too!

Along with Style :First Lady

Tracy

Still really like Tracee Ellis Ross...

I wish they would bring back her show

I miss seeing all of them on TV.
They are total ballers and shot callers!

Currently watching again

© Steve Pica For Forbes.com

HJNTIY
So funny. So true and so good.

So cool

This model was in the new R& B video

Found out she won the Elle Model Search in Canada a while ago
Grache and I think her last name is Mahary.

New models are great, and I like her look

Interested

I was really interested in taking Proust's questionnaire and so I decided to put some answers down here.
It's interesting

questions	Confidences questions	My answers 1890
Your favorite virtue	The principal aspect of my personality	Temperance
Your favorite qualities in a man.	The quality that I desire in a man.	Kindness borne out of sensitivity and empathy
Your favorite qualities in a woman.	The quality that I desire in a woman.	Strength of character
Your chief characteristic		Insight
What you appreciate the most in your friends	What I appreciate most about my friends.	Supportiveness
Your main fault	My main fault	Walking away
Your favourite occupation.	My favorite occupation.	Writing
Your idea of happiness	My dream of happiness.	Surrounded by goodness
Your idea of misery.	What would be my greatest misfortune?	Surrounded by negative, crass, critical people always
If not yourself, who would you be?	What I should like to be.	The Me that people see and like that I don't necessarily know exists
Where would you like to live?	The country where I should like to live.	Wherever I can see pretty things all the time
Your favourite colour and flower.	My favourite colour.	Gold, Daisy
	The flower that I like.	Amaryllis
	My favorite bird.	Robin (with good reason)
Your favorite prose authors.	My favorite prose authors.	Oscar Wilde, Saki
Your favorite poets.	My favorite poets.	Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Wanda Phipps, Gwendolyn Brooks
Your favorite heroes in fiction.	My heroes in fiction.	Clovis
Your favorite heroines in fiction.	My favorite heroines in fiction.	Cassie Logan
Your favorite painters and composers.	My favorite composers.	Renoir, Vivaldi
	My favorite painters.	Renoir
Your heroes in real life.	My heroes in real life.	Anybody with gentleness of spirit who builds up others with their words and kindnesses.
Your favorite heroines in real life.		Anybody with gentleness of spirit who builds up others with their words and kindnesses.
What characters in history do you most dislike.
Your heroines in World history	My heroines in history.	Slave and black women who endured and persevered
Your favorite food and drink.		Water and any Spicy exotic food
Your favorite names.	My favorite names.	Naomi, and french names
What I hate the most.	What I hate most of all.	Meanness and mean spiritedness for its own sake
World history characters I hate the most	Historical figures that I despise the most.	History shapes the future so I am not sure
The military event I admire the most	The military event that I admire most.	Battle against the Midianites
The reform I admire the most	The reform which I admire the most.
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with	The gift of nature that I would like to have.	Along with the others I've been given, drawing.
How I wish to die	How I want to die.	Fast
What is your present state of mind.	My present state of mind.	Clear
For what fault have you most toleration?	Faults for which I have the most indulgence.	The one that I indulge in the most. Needing to be alone.
Your favorite motto.	My motto.	I have two. Keep on moving. Do a kindness.

Expressive Eyes

Ok, yes, I like Viggo Mortensen.
A lot.
But it's not just because people say he is sexy etc
It is more than that
I have read a lot of interviews and things he has said about himself, and he is the TYPE of person I really would like.
His April 2009 interview was one of the best for learning more about him as he is right now.
I notice the similarity of thinking and ways of being.
He says this:
"I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else. But I share the passion of the fans for this team, that's for sure."

When asked:
Do you work on relationships?

He says:
"I don't always. When there is conflict it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away,"

Then he says (which surprised me and shocked me but I was glad he was honest)

" If I am sucked in and don't walk away I become very destructive,"

Then he goes on.
"I say things that are personal, that I don't really mean, because if somebody hurts you, you want to hurt them instinctively, go for something you know is going to really upset them."

I was glad he was honest but then I felt a little down. Because when someone does this, just the one time, I am usually done with them. I try really hard to watch what I say to people especially in high stress situations so someone who hauls off and goes for the jugular?
This I can't deal with.

It goes on and is better.
He is so open.
When asked if he has to have the last word in an argument
"Only if I get really incensed. It usually has to do with fairness, or if I feel I've been cornered or misrepresented, then I will lash out.
That is a little similar to me...


He goes on
It's good to have the presence of mind to say: 'Can I call you back? Let me take a break and go for a walk.' Always better."

About relationships he says this...I was so surprised because it is EXACTLY what I would say.

"As soon as it's going well you think: 'We've cracked it.'

It's not going to stay that way.

That person that you love so much and understands you so well, suddenly the next day they say something, and you think: 'They don't really know me well at all.'"

And is that most important to you - to be known by somebody?
That somebody really gets you?
I am cautious about it, but when I connect strongly I want to be honest with that person, risky as it is, and I want them to be honest with me...

On forgiveness he says this....It's exactly how I feel. Try as hard as I might to be better about it. It's the same.

"There are certain things that are said and done and I can forgive, but for my own good I can't associate with that person any more.

'I don't trust you, but I can forgive you.'

I can do that.

Because some things you can't take back.

Some things that have been said, they hurt, they linger. That's in everybody's life."

More movies

Sis sent me some more movies! I get them every Saturday!
Yay for sisters!
The Duchess was a lovely movie and I still like Ralph Fiennes.
He is so able to not go for the OBVIOUS when playing a character.

There is no clear baddie or goodie when it comes to his characters.

He plays them more complex and you can actually get drawn into him.
He is the best

The Proposal was cute! :)
Ryan Reynolds is always so funny...
I like when a couple is fun.

It means they are friends and that's the most important thing

wow

I am in love with

Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de Staël

I can't get enough of reading it.
I don't know anyone who has ever read it so I have no one to talk to about it.
;(

I wish there was somebody.

Boxed In

We went to that place and had to get on the elevator to go to that fun place on the roof that was freezing cold.
On the way there....

Tee hee (us in the elevator- the mirror above)

Relaxing

Wanting to hang out there

Minnie

I really love Minnie Riperton
I have since I was very little

I especially love her song Perfect Angel
Why don't they play her music more on radio??

Yay

It was so sweet yesterday.

All the celebration.

I love it....

Funniest Sweet Wedding

I've seen some real weddings and been to a few and some on TV etc

But Jim and Pam's Wedding was the best wedding in the history of weddings I think.

It was FUN

and People should have fun at a wedding

It should be about the love and the laughter and the FUN!

OMG


I didn't think this existed

But someone did it and its the best.

I love the office

Look at That

Look at all of them

So happy

So fun.

Jim and Pam are the most fun couple ever.

From the best commercial Ever

Its a commercial that sells clothes and tells the time at the same time
You can't take your eyes away

And then Time goes by

The Dancing is so cool

I love the clothes

i love the Location

I wonder who came up with the idea

Very Creative

The music is also very mellow

:)

More maddy ness

On Madmen, one of my fav characters Pete was digging into black advertising

I like this pic of him and hope they explore the storyline

photo effects

SOOO eerie!

Just added my face to this pic!

16 Books I like

1. Crick Crack Monkey - Merle Hodge
2. Push- Sapphire
3. Paris Trout- Pete Dexter
4. Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rys
5. The Picture Of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
6. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
7. Green Days By the River - Michael Anthony
8. To Sir With Love- E. R. Braithwaite
9. The Chocolate War/Beyond the Chocolate War- Robert Cormier
10. The Year in San Fernando - Michael Anthony
11. The Short Stories of Saki- by Saki, H. H. Munro
12. Emma - Jane Austin
13. The Hungry Sea - Leslie Ames
14. Our Nig - Harriet Wilson
15. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry-Mildred Taylor
    
16. Center Line- Joyce Sweeney
    

Trains

Well I went into "foreign film and needing to be dead alone' mode...so I went to that tiny cinema by the train tracks and watched Closely Watched Trains.

There were 4 other people at the movie.
It was dark and I was happy.
I like the movie for the cinematography, and the crispness of the film.

For the straightforward and simple acting and script.
I just liked the simplicity and everything was as it should have been.
I felt alone watching it and that was the point.
I identified with the characters but didn't get overly attached and I was glad.
I needed to rest.

Here goes

The Shape of Things:
Made me Like Neil Labute (director) more. In some places this show really dragged. Could have made better use of long shots, but what so I know i am not a filmmaker. Acting wwas fine but something about the movie seemed a little bit amateur.
However I liked the premise and the 'surprise' at the near end.
It was pretty sad.
Rating on a scale of 1-10 = 5.9

Bride Wars
It was cute. It was just a cute chick flick. But I liked it so much because it wasn't a typical story and even though the hi-jinx were over the op- it was sweet
Rating 6.5 for cuteness



Disfigured
I didn't know what they were trying to say during this movie but I liked the friendship tha developed and I liked seing Deidra Edwars on camera. I just liked watching her. I also liked Staci Lawrence and but for them being there this would seem like an afterschool special that I don't really want to watch.
I liked the subject matter but it seemed to jump all over the place :(
Rating for development of characters and their friendship 6.4


My Best Friend's Girl
Crass and weird. But you know what some guys actually behave in these crass ways (and I am not talking Dane cook I am talking the guys in the film who hire him. SO I am gonna add 1.5 to whatever rating I give this
Rating for MINDLESS entertainment 4.5
Overall rating 6

Sooooo adorable

Wow

I can't get enough of these pics

So adorable!

So sweet!


Great people.
You can see the whole batch here

mmmmm

Favorite thing to do- skylarking!



Sing it baby
"SO Fine" Imperial Blaze

Blaze

I have been listening to Imperial Blaze Over and Over and OVER and dancing
Sean Paul has the hottest music in dancehall these days

WOW!

Cut

Sigh :(
I watched IN THE CUT.
I still like Mark Ruffalo.
This was hist first movie after having the brain tumor removed so I understand. he was sad and broken and wanted to start working again. I understand.

I don't know why Meg Ryan did this movie. She is so cute. She didn't need to do a movie like this where she is nude etc.
I love Jennifer Jason Leigh...
no matter what movie she is in I just like seeing her act. She is always good
The movie was so painful sometimes to watch...just long and pointless sometimes.
but it's better than other things I have seen so.....
:(

Lovely

This girl is a great writer...

Oh I love this book..and its about FOOD!

Just Relaxing

Just whew!

A relief to just relax sometimes...

Only one purpose

Elly gave me this...
Its my new fav thing to wear.

Its a big deal because I rarely ever wear OTHER necklaces
I love the significance of it- after she explained it all came clear

my book

It finally came

I just love how it looks

I am going to do this on a bigger scale some other time :)
I am so excited!

I have shown it to Flor already

Gonna show Elly

Then Cris later today when I see her!

Those boys

There has been a lot of press on the Beatles recently.
I used to like them a lot when I was younger.

Here is the most fun pic I found of them