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Friday, February 27
the culture of depression
it's amazing how quickly the
economy tanking has seeped into
our cultural fabric
first of course it was all over the news
and i do think that made a very bad situation into a terrible situation
by stirring up the fear factor
but now what i have been noticing more and more
are the commercials..
the other day i listened to a radio ad for business suits
and the voice said
"i just lost my job, but i know if i go here I'll get a great suit to interview in for very little money!"
target's adds show how you can save the money on manicures
by buying nail polish at target and having your hubby do the manicure
fast food restaurant chains galore
are hawking economy buster meals
its seems like overnight
i never hear food talked about in food commercials
or clothes in clothing commercials
its all about money
i miss hearing food commercials talk about food!
bars in my hood now showcase recession cocktail signs 2 for 1
its just every where
completely entrenched in our every day life
so that even if you have managed to somehow
get thru this recession/depression so far
without losing money
you are losing quality in your every day life
and if you have lost money..you are reminded of it
every time you turn on the radio, tv or pick up a paper
i look forward to the time in the future
hopefully not too long from now
when we all sit around congratulating ourselves that we are well past the
depression culture of the 2008-09
i must say obama's speech to congress the other night
did inspire me
i do feel that if anyone has the energy
and open-mindedness to do something about this mess he can
i just hope that from all this strife
comes good will
a better way of living
a real change for all of us
so that not only will the money come back
but so will our faith
in each other
Monday, February 23
oscars 2009
well you heard it hear first
re the reader
didn't ya?
ok well maybe i wasn't the first
but even though id seen the fantastic merryl streep in doubt
and the divine angelina jolie in the changling
once i saw kate winslet in the reader
i knew she had it nailed
kate winslet is like the classic
humble
beautiful
lovely
actress from other time
she seems to fit into the ranks
of grace kelly
only between you and me
a better actress
and clearly the pairing of her with hubby director
sam mendez is magic
i was sad not see mickey rourke win
oh how i wanted to see him take oscar gold
but winning the golden globe and being nominate
surely has been enough to convince the suits in hollywood
but we the audience have always known
the mickey is so talented
one must over look a decade or so of self sabotage
i did see milk
and did think sean penn deserve oscar gold
maybe just a smidgen less then i think mickey did
but i was happy to see sean dedicate part of his speech to mickey
his "brother"
although sean hey you forgot your wife!
it made my heart happy to see sean
and the lovely young man who wrote the screenplay
and now damn it i can't think of his name
use their speeches to hope that a time has come
to end discrimination against gay's across this country
and sean added
those who voted to stop gay marriage should be shamed
over-all the oscars dragged
its hard to keep 4 hours interesting
but i still feel like an excited little girl watching the oscars
and as winslet said
i too have fantasized oh haven't so many of you
about being up there
accepting my award
and thanking everyone who has believed in me
just a few things
philip seymour hoffman
really? the oscars in a ski caps?
not cool
you're too white, too old
and too rich to try grunge now
i was happy for penelope cruz picking up supporting actress
but must admit oh how i would have loved to see
marisa tomei who in the wrestler her her come-back too
and looked hot! win i just love that lady
when heath ledger one for his joker role
as best supporting it was not a dry eye
and why should there be
someone so young
so talented
and so full of passion
was lost to us
all in all
it was a night that almost made you forget about the economy
and the wars
the problems in the world
especially when slumdog millionaire picked up best picture
this was a movie after all about triumph over the most impossible of odds
if these two lovers could find each other through all that was piled up against them
maybe just maybe we will all be okay too
Friday, February 20
terror, horror and sadness
I don’t know why but I just can not shake the horror of that terrible chimp attack this week..
Maybe it was hearing on the radio news that the hospital workers who dealt with the victim were offered counceling because her wounds were so horrific..
I mean in a hospital! Where you know, car accidents are a norm…for workers to need counceling it must have been unfathomable..
The word is the chimp ate large parts of the victims face and hands..
oh god its terrible!
This story just hit such a nerve because it was a beloved pet of a woman in proper Stamford Connecticut of all places not rural Africa…
Imagining a 14 year old 200 pound chimp going from loving pet to KUJO
Right in front of you is just
Oh man I can’t shake it..
Then I also feel sorry for the chimp who of course had to be shot and killed..because living in someone’s home would drive any wild animal nuts wouldn’t it?
The chimp must have seemed so safe..he was a television star and knew how to drink wine from a glass and use the computer.. what set him off?
Was it the xanax? Isn’t that supposed to have the opposite effect?
oh wild animals in suburbia just.never a good thing..
My heart goes out Charla Nash the victim who’d life surely now will never be anything close to the same if she survives or wants to.
I feel a bit creeped out by the owner who supposedly slept with the chimp and said she loved him like a son..how must she feel that she called nash for help with the chimp and then watched in horror as her “son” ripped her friends face off..like she screamed to the 911 operator
This is worse then any horror movie
and for the new york post to make jokes out of this
i don't know if they were trying to be racist or not
but regardless- it was class-less on their part
Saturday, February 7
The Reader
Last night I went to see The Reader with my good pal M
I knew it would be great
I mean Kate winslet and Ralph fiennes how can you go wrong?
Not only have I adored Kate since heavenly creatures
But hey she also won two golden globes this year
The babe is clearly smoking
I knew something of the plot
Pedophilia mixed with nazi a recipe for a drama if ever there was one
But here’s what I did not expect
David Kross as the young Michael…..Ralph’s character
Was just brilliant
The love scenes with Kate as the older Hannah, seducing the 15-year-old Michael
Were just mesmerizing
The movie moved slowly
But I didn’t mind one bit
Because the story un-folded not in the big actions
But in the small intricacies
The look at Kate’s face spoke volumes
The stricken stare of Ralph showed Lena Olin how deep his love really was
For the fallen Hannah
The young David…losing and gaining his life’s story in one afternoon
The movie did not excuse the crimes of a nazi guard
But was the first time id ever seen anything that made me feel remotely sympathetic
and begged the question
what would you have done?
This is a subject I have thought a lot about growing up in a family that wanted all its children to remember the holocaust, that knew so many of its own blood
lost their lives to hitler
What would I have done if I were in nazi germany?
As a jew- would I have fought back or like so many obeyed…marched blindly into the gas chambers hoping to live?
As a non-jew would I have turned a blind’s eye like most seemed to, would i have resisted and risked the life of myself and my entire family….or god help me..joined out of peer pressure, fear and delusion….
oh of course i want to think that i would have joined but not the nazis but the resistance, hid in the shadows saving jews, killing nazis...but what about all my friends, all my family, all their lives possibly taken if i were to get caught...
would i be that brave? could i risk my loved ones to do the right thing?
or would the over-whelming wave of an entire nation caught up in brainwashing wash over me
I saw a little bit of this in this country when everyone regardless of how humanitarian they were seemed to jump on the george bush bandwagon
torture those damn moslems..they don't have rights they are killers
yelled the same people who a few years before were proud to be americans because we are the caring people
To be anti-war was to be anti-american
To be anti bush was to be anti-christian
to lose your human rights was okay to be more safe
And it was infectious
it made me wonder
If the Nazis rose to power again
How many of us would stand up to them
How many would cave in in fear
It’s a human condition
To want to survive and to do whatever it takes to do so
But sometimes living
Is not being alive
The movie like all truly great movies
Still sits in me demanding to be sifted over
Again and again
Let me go so I can do so
Tuesday, February 3
face book virgin no more
dear GOD
this face book stuff is like pocket-ful of coke, a bag of hash, a jug of whiskey
and a menage-a-tois with any babes you dig
okay i don't do any of those things..
um anymore
but seriously
holy shit
within an hour of my signing up last night
i had been contacted by like 23 pals
including 2 ex lovers
one present lover
one present lover's ex lover
some pals from high school
some pals from now
i felt like i was in that old TV show
this is your life
woke up today
and i had like 20 messages
on my WALL
okay
i gotta say
everytime i saw a note in my email
saying someone had written on my wall
my cervix hurt, did i spell cervix right?
don't know why
but enough about my walls
(pushing knees together as i speak)
it took a little pressure from
janet, lorraine, nancy, patty, wolf and shelley
but i finally caved in
late yesterday afternoon while waiting for a meeting
i put my toe in the water
i gotta say
its almost like too much sugar
all at once
raining down bucket loads of sugar
hard candy
i think the trick is not to check it more then a few times a week
i can see that it could easily become a full time job
maam what do you do for a living?
i work on my face book page
yep
now on the one hand
i don't know what the hell i was thinking
i mean i barely have time to check my personal email
but on the other hand
it is fun
and i did hear from a few pals from years back
that im thrilled to be in touch with
and there is that
constant need to be adored thing
pesky i know
okay so now i put my foot in the water and im already up to my waist
hope i won't drown
slowly
slowly i submerge
think 12 steps
and proper borders
just say no
one bite at a time
one day at atime
easy does it
just out of curiousity
are there 12 step programs for face book?
yet?
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