Miss Lawrence - Closet Freak (2011)

My New Art Blog

I have started a new art Blog on Tumblr called "Cursing Bubble"
Please check it out.

http://cursingbubble.tumblr.com/

Playing the Waiting Game or How I Survived the Winter of 2011

Hello People, I know it's been a while with the posts or updates, but I know it is now time. Let me get the obvious out of the way, Yes...this blog is about me and my life, but I still want to give you a reason to come on through even if you are giving my blog an unimpressed expression like I keep getting from someone who I won't mention.
So, yes that is where the pics come in and that is Chad below and then there is Bert Belasco from BET's new series: "Let's Stay Together." Yeah, yeah...I noticed the resemblance (I wish!)...

Now I can get to me now that I've got that out of the way.
Chad Coleman from "The Wire and most recently "The Green Hornet
Bert Belasco


There was panic in the streets or if I take away dramatic licenses, in the stores, Walmart to be exact. No bread left on the bread aisles or eggs and you know we all need eggs! The Winter pulled out a big punch today but I'm cool with that. The Blizzard of 2011 as it will be known for years to come I'm sure did it's thing today and showed no mercy.

I was on my way to work when I got the call that I might not have to come in. And the confirmation came later. Yeah!!!
So here I sit at home, alone...typing. Grateful for the day or days off.

Happiness ranking on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the happiest I could be: a solid 8! And that is saying something...I think It shows too. And something else...things are finally going my way for once, what the hell?!!!

It's a nice change, so grateful...I must be living my life right, so good things are happening and continue. A move in my future. So many changes that I am just so excited at what 2011 will bring besides a blizzard.

Things are going great with E.R. While trips to the hardware store have slowed, I envision that escapade picking up regularly in the future. Offers made that were unexpected. WOW!

And that was how it all started...WOW! Still a WoW! for me, every time, every time.

So what should you take away from all this mumble jumble that I just wrote: Beats me...I just know that for once in my life, I feel like I am living my life...and I am happy, content but still up for the search, the excitement and the adventure. Oh, and in case you were wondering..."I believe in true love and happiness ever after.."

Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?

Thief of Hearts and Fact Checking

Back in the eighties there were a slew of what I call slick movies: movies that came to the theatre wrapped in pretty and handsome packaging with a synchronized soundtrack to match. Some of my favorites were Flashdance, Cat People and 9 1/2 Weeks.
Was strolling through some movies to watch and came across a little classic called "Thief of Heart." For me, this movie gained repeat, late-night cable viewing for more than one reason.

It' the story of a thief who steals a diary. The diary belongs to a woman who is unfulfilled in her marriage so she writes in her diary of her dream man and the fantasies she has about him. Through reading the diary, the thief falls in love with her and deceivingly becomes the man of her dreams and sets out to meet her.

Thief of Hearts stars one of my favorite actors, Steven Bauer. Steven is Cuban born and you will probably remember him from Scarface as Manny, Al Pacino's right hand man in Scarface. Steven is great actor and he isn't bad on the eyes either. The neglected wife is played by Barbara Williams who is a dead ringer for Barbra Streisand.

At one point in the movie, Barbara's character, after falling in love with him, starts wanting to know more about this man. But since he is a fabrication, Steven's character is unable to tell her the real story about his life and how he is just a bad boy thief from the wrong side of the tracks.

This premise of the movie got me thinking about how we now check on facts when faced with wanting to find out information about people that are in our lives. Back in the 1980s, when someone wants to find out information about a person they would either have to follow them, hire a detective or make a bunch of phone calls after looking through the white pages (remember them?). But in today's "you can find whatever you are searching for on the internet" society, fact-checking and information seeking has changed. If this movie was made today, that guy probably wouldn't have got that far. She could have googled him and found out that he was lying to her about who he was.










In the world we live in today, all she would have had to do was friend him on Facebook and she would have all the info she needed. And that info would have been at her fingertips as she accessed this info from her smart-phone or Ipad.




Me and a friend of mine, when we get together to watch movies, always pick movies apart for their inaccuracies... or if the movie takes place in a certain era but the facts of that era are wrong, we tear that movie apart.
Or in the case of this movie, we would say , Oh they would do it this way now.

So, fact-checking has changed or I just wanted to post some pics of Steven Bauer.













Steven can also be seen in the Eurythmic's video for "Would I Lie To You?"