In 2009, I was in Nashville when the news hit that Michael Jackson had passed. I was Southbound on I-65, a woman I was involved with comfortable in the passenger seat. In fact, she was the one that broke the news to me, having discovered it online. I grew up with Michael's iconic music and celebrity the same as she did. Michael's music videos were preferred watching on television and preferred listening on the radio. At birthday events at Pizza Hut, Michael was an overly repe

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) I've honestly never liked the titles to the Tom Holland Spider-Man films. They sound like Sony released Spider-Man studio albums rather than movies...But that's probably just me. HA HA I've liked the Holland Spidey films well enough. Not gonna lie, they're good, entertaining, well-made, but they're not my favorites. Per usual, me being contrary to popular opinion, the Andrew Garfield films are my favorites, flaws and all (Andrew is so good as Spidey.

"Monstrous"...It's a weird way to start, but I think Chris Nolan likes this word. And he seems to want Anne Hathway to say it. (lol) (See Interstellar) "LEGEND THAT HURTS" I've been waiting for this movie for almost thirty years. My introduction to Homer's epic came in 1997, with the NBC television miniseries featuring Armand Asante as Odysseus. And ever since it aired, The Odyssey has held a special place in my heart (I still watch it on Tubi). I seem to vaguely remember rea

Like him or leave him, I could/would never liken myself to Mark Zuckerberg. But I do connect with this particular moment in 2010's The Social Network. If you've never seen the film, the quote I've used for this entry's title is from the moment Mark (Jesse Eisenberg) takes Facebook live for the first time, and he transitions into this extremely peaceful state, rocking back and forth. We don't know where his mind goes, whether he's in an extremely grateful, almost hypnotically

I'm struck with an idea... Results are a prime motivator for anything in life. Success, or the perceivable lack thereof, is defined by the results. I try not to delve too far into the black hole of purist ideals, but I think, for anybody creative, it has to start with the love of the art, the love of the process. The results can't just be about money (which is always great by the way lol), otherwise, you won't be able to sustain your drive. Mulling over my own art, seeing wha

I've mulled over starting a blog for years. But as I've found in life, things happen when they're supposed to. So, here I be. This is really just a rough first step, I think. I just needed to see how it feels to start. I honestly don't know what my exact goal for this blog is, but as an artist, a writer, etc., I have and will have thoughts about my process, about other related things...Thirty-six years of artistic expression, and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface. T