The Writer's Journey

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Lady Gaga - Telephone - Parody ("Accident Prone")

This is hysterical, just saying!

FOR COLORED GIRLS - Trailer

Well kids, we saw this absolutely incredible roller coaster of a ride movie last night and child I left the theatre a big ole mess!! Kids if you have not seen this as of yet YOU MUST!!!! It is at the very top of my list of MUST SEES and now I want to see everything else Tyler Perry has done in film. I even went right from the movie theatre to Boarders and bought the book!

Janet Jackson--flawless ice queen who rips your heart out in the end and hands it to you
Phylissa Raschad- as you have NEVER seen her before
Whoopi Goldberg- as crazed mother was un-freaking unbelievable

Friday, November 19, 2010

Jason Dottley Hit Play (Manny Lehman Remix) Full 9 Inches Video from JASONDOTTLEY on Vimeo.

Well hello Gorgeous--- Mr. Schu ! Matthew Morrison

Somewhere Over the Rainbow piano - Xianning

News of the day

Well I know it has been awhile since I have posted about what is going on here and part of it is I guess I just didn't want to jinx anything. Kent State University School of Fashion got a grant from the Cotton Foundation and within that grant we will be printing our very own patterns on material. I was one of nine students asked to participate, one of two boys and the ONLY freshman participating.

The grant supplies the material, the patterns and the school does the printing on sight. VERY few places are doing this and very few designers are also doing it. What little I know about this technique it is mostly Ready To Wear on demand and COUTURE!!! There are two $500 prizes, two $200 prizes and a chance to show what I create INTERNATIONALLY!!!! I am so freaking excited about this whole thing and that I was asked to participate. I think it speaks volumes about me as a person and a designer, especially considering I am in only my very first semester at KSU.. Can I repeat how freaking excited I am!!!

There will be a huge fashion show involving the coats with the prints done in a black and white theme but we have access to digital embroidery processes, laser cutting and layered printing applications through computer layout. The coats remain the property of KSU and have a possibility of even being on display at some point at the KSU Fashion Museum. So needless to say this girl is thrilled beyond freaking words and is going to be working his ass off to make the best, FIERCEST coat ever!1

With all of the excitement comes though these HUGE feelings of depression and a lot of it revolves around my turning forty-four this week. Feeling old, feeling unattractive, feeling fat, feeling bald, the list is endless. I know I have talked before about how I perceive myself and I guess my biggest obstacle is overcoming my own insecurities and being at peace with myself inside and out. It has been very hard and a lot of what also maybe going on is just plain simple survivor's guilt. The only guy in a group of fifty in our twenties who made even forty. As I have said before AIDS has been a brutal villain in my life and has taken so much, but finally I feel to some degree that I am finally claiming something for myself--my future, whatever that maybe.

Well for now thank you so much for this time together and will more than likely post something a little more up than what was the end of this post!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Silence

The fine art of communication is the one thing that is lacking for many of us in our daily lives. That by limiting the way they communicate with each other is more of a harm than anything else that we are doing or may not be doing with the way they live and achieve. The use of limited communication is more of a threat than the drug dealer on the street. Lack of communication is the very under minding of a family and will unfortunately keep them in the world in which they are lving and will be living in the rest of their lives.

The family as a whole unit needs to understand that by effectively communicating with others and with themselves, we determine the quality of our very lives as well as that of our futures. By effectively communicating, it not only works for our own successes, but we need to work at how we communicate continuously to make it successful.

The limited repertoire of vocabulary skills in this instance imprisons them into a world of submissive silence that not only breaks your very soul but also undermines our very success. The sin of silence is that it makes cowards out of men. We become complacent in our very thoughts and expression of those thoughts and feelings. If we cannot bring about those emotions in words, how does that affect our very lives? How does it affect our futures if we foolishly remain silent? Does it affect our own confidence in our abilities and ourselves? Are our family members in the our household suffering because they are not talking effectively with each other in open and honest ways? Are these surface connections denying them the rare capacity to connect with each other beyond all odds? Are we then denying ourselves to give freely of ourselves to those who have worked to make our lives what they are today? By doing so are we denying the very future of not only ourselves but also the next generation?

Possibly we are very happy with they way we interact with each other. Possibly all of our verbal and emotional needs are being met. Possibly we know no other way. However, the right words, said the right way, at the right time can change your life completely … or at least give you a new lens and a new vantage point that was not there before. We might be providing that new lens and new vantage point but are they providing themselves the skills to be productive in instances outside of family, friends and the home. If our limited use of speech continues, no one will honestly know if all of our needs are being met collectively let alone individually.

There is no greater unbearable agony like your own untold story. By not speaking or expanding on what is said we are in fear that our words will not be welcomed, we will not be heard. But when we remain silent we still remain in the recesses of that same fear. We remain silent when we are afraid...afraid of what we do not know, afraid of what others will think of us, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we remain silent, the thing we fear grows only stronger. Will this silence ever end?

Marie Clare Turkey

Thought of the day

Another quite and thought of the day from "Losing Julia" by Jonathon Hull.

"The bravest and the meekest were the first to die. The rest of us tried our best not to look like cowards but sometimes, when asked to charge a German Maxim nestled in a concrete bunker surrounded by three belts of wire, a man would shit his pants and there was no stopping it. The body goes beserk like an animal being dragged kicking and whining to the slaughter house."

"We were all in awe of the stretcher-bearers, who as a matter of principle would risk everything to bring back the wounded and even the dead. I often looked into their eyes as they headed out and wondered why men will risk almost certain death in an attempt to save other men. I decided it was because men will do anything to give their lives some meaning and virtue, especially if it looks like they'll die anyway."

So what thing either already in your life, or you are wanting in your life, would you be willing to die for?