Validate Your Life

just woke up, just water, wore black (Great), no food, no coffee before, energizing awesome convo. good. I saw a darren brown and david tennant clip (for darren’s tv show) and I relized that they went out into public to have a woman draw a picture and david was supposed to have predicted what she’d draw, but the interesting thing was how it almost seemed like david and darren were competing for the woman’s attention to impress her! LOL these two HUGE awesome dudes and names (darren brown and david tennant) with huge massively successful careers, were almost primarily focused on this woman’s attention. I mean i have a ton of respet for david, but my reverence for darren (he’s just so gnalry) is off the charts, so seeing both these two extraordinary guys doing very unextraordiariny stuff (trying to impress a woman and have
vulnerability in that — or maybe that is extraoridinary too!! ;D) was an eye-opener.

I mean Tennant is THE Dr. Who! How much more cool and successful and impressive is that from a sci-fi POV. And Darren….well that guy’s just unfathomably cool and he represents the apex of all the skills in which I have been and currently training. So DB just operates on this unimaginably awesoem level of success. But so here were these two amazingly successful people whom I have massive respect for, doing something very common and normal — kind of “flirting with a woman”!! These guys were just doing what any normal guy would do — flirting with this woman! I mean I guess I figured at some level of success I erroneously thought you wouldn’t have to worry about those htings (flirting, courtship, etc) but while I’m sure those guys don’t worry about them, they still DO them. Romance is alive for every person regardless of their level of success. In many ways I htink romance is kind of the common denominator that makes someone’s career or their image etc, operate from a baseline: yeah we are all human, we all have human emotions. Cool! But it was something to which I could relate. I could only look up to their careers — wow, db’s nlp skills insane! etc — but when I saw them flirting with this woman, I was like “Hey!! Hey! Hey, I’m on the same level with them in that regard at least!!”

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Paul New Man Notes
From 10/10/2008 E Weekly

“Newman won just once, for The Color of Money, and took home two honorary Academy Awards, one for his contribution to film and one for the hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable contributions generated by sales of popcorn and salad dressing to which he lent his name, his face, and witty understanding that he could do an immense amount of good by turning himself into a commodity for his own purposes, not just Hollywood’s” (p.24).

“It’s hard to decide whether there’s more there than meets the eye, or less,” shrugged one interviewer after sitting through an “endless supply of euphemisms, sophistries, and non sequitors” that Newman deployed to keep almost any questioner at arm’s length.” (p.27).

“In the process, he cemented his status not as an icon of American Beauty and masculinity on screen, but as an actor who was interested in the frailty, flaws, and humanity of every character he portrayed.” (p.27)

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Tom Cruise Notes

“I eat life” LOL such a great quote.

“Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It’s not analytical; it’s instinctual. It is their own voice…[and that is what is needed to make movies]“. AWESOME quote because

“What I want in a performance is I want it to be spontaneous; I want it to be now. Not you know happening in the past. We try to work towards getting rid of the mechanics, the technique. Let’s find the spontaneity. With the power of my own imagination or my own ability to believe or my own creative idea of what I’ve created here it just happens, it just happens; it just goes. And I don’t judge it. And there’s times where as an actor where I’m working and I feel nothing and I don’t panic and go “oh my god I feel nothing!” I always take from the point of view of “okay well that’s interesting. I don’t invalidate. I don’t fight what’s going to happen. I din’t try to create. I’ve done my work. It gets inside of you see that it’s just there. And when youre there you just want to fly and play jazz.”

What I would say for the pearly gates questions: She would say (god is a definitely a babe, possibly androgenyous, but at the very least a babe), So SHE would say, “Wow, you rock! I could say that in a way that would take 10 years of detailed explanation, but I’ll be concise, you rock!” Because I know that she’d know all the details of my life and I’d remember most of them so having this long drawn-out explanation of what my life meant or what I did or didnt do would be redundant, so I’d be overjoyed if I got the rolling waves of heaven and She (god) jsut says “you rocked life, you rock!”

Surmised, I think that may mean, you do your work, your preparation like mad — THAT is your work, so then when it’s game time and you actually have a contract, salary, and acting Job, you can relax and know whatever you feel (or dont’ feel) is fully 150% totally valid! .

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Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors.

And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that’s totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it’s not necessarily The Hub for all film. It’s certainly undeniably a major one (and has been The Hub) but the world’s much smaller and film productions can certainly traverse many regions. Filming takes place anywhere in the world (or out of the world, e.g. “Earth to the Moon”) so that’s a cool clarification; something Ira Glass would undoubtedly call a “Modern Jackass” (an assumption you always think to be true and never question, despite its ridiculousness).

Heath Ledger might win the oscar for his maniacal Joker character, making this the second posthumous “Best Actor” award in over 30 years, the most recent (hardly not recent) went to Peter Finch in Network in 1977.

Also, I noticed the ever-growing “I hate Paris club” has continued to spawn. Disdain for that woman — who, imho, is not really that bad, and in some areas, quite likeable, like her ability to handle media and magnetize press to her image (that also, of course, is the same reason why so many loathe her) — has become a “fad” a trendy thing to do. Even actresses I admire, like incredibly talented Tina Fey appear to loathe her: “She’s so unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close. Her hair looks like fraggle.” What really stumps me is how she so effectively gets under the skin of so many successful people. Does she threaten? Are they confused by her success? If she was a nobody they wouldn’t bother commenting about her. Anyways, that ridicule, no doubt, satisfies Ms. Hilton’s image agenda rendering her more successful. Bad flack or Good flack still registers as some kind of attention, so if you objectively seek attention, she’s got it!

In other news, Matt LeBlanc’s former “Friends” agent, Camille Cerio (not to be confused with pregnant Camilla Alves, McConaughey’s girlfriend, of no relation) is trying to sue him for $1 million in unpaid commissions. He actually EARNED $1 million per show, though! And considering that the Friends’ series tallied NUMBER episodes, he should have no problem covering that, but gotta pay those dues!

That about raps it up for celebrity gossip, other than the usual — a lot of babies, a lot of pregnancies, a lot of marriages, and a lot of trips to the beach! One question, do they “time” these things. It just seems like babies are popping out all over the place in the summer with Pitt-Jolie’s twins and McConaughey-Alves’s expecting and more, it seems that way.

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This interview was hilarious. I don’t think I’ve ever cracked up as much reading this. Why? A few reasons.

1. I think I just like hearing british people’s responses. They’re logic processes appeals to me.
   
2. I prefer articles where the epicenter of the article actually gets heard (i.e. an interview!) instead of some bloke author reporting on something I have an interest in. In other words. I have no idea who the article author “clark collins” is. nor do I care. You read something like this to see more about keith, so having his responses compose the bulk of hte article makes this read worthwhile. In other words, using this example, I want to hear from the horse’s mouth what Keith, Mick, or Scorcese had to say about “Shine a LIght” (a movie I seriously want to watch), not some dude reporting on it expressing his views because then you have to filter out and extract subjective perspective. Same goes for any topic.
   
3. Keith’s responses were just outrageously HILAROUS!
   

Keith’s responses:

Sinead O’Connor says “We all loved John Lennon better for all the mad things he did – the way he was interested in just tearing open the sky. He was definitely the sexiest of the Beatles because he was angry and edgy. And look at what he did with his fame. He didn’t use it to suck [up] and get more money and be liked by everybody. In fact, that’s the powe rof John Lennon to me: he was real. Even in the songs, he was never afraid to show that he was a bit of a bastard, that he had a nasty side to him like the rest of us do. He stood up and showed that, no matter what, you’ve got to be your frickin’ self” (Giles 64).

Some say that “the beatles split when Yoko sunk her claws into John. Most of his post-beatles work was crap. It was diabolical” (Giles 64). Or that “Ono is commonly accused of having sabotaged her husband’s gifts; how she worked her black magic on McCartney is unclear” (Giles 68). But what is more realistic? Lennon’s wife was some black sorceress witch doctor woman intent on defiling his music to make him less successful, or he simply had a slump and his fans where to fanatical to admit that it was of his own doing? Ono could have certainly have had a bad impact on Lennon, maybe even done some things to purposefully derail if wicked run of generation-defining music, but it’s not too far-fetched to say he drifted a bit on his own, too. The point is that he made great music that perpetuates; it was great then, is great now, and will be great later on.

It’s important to note that singers like Mick Jagger painted an even more rebellious “bad boy” image than Lennon. Compared to Mick, Lennon was a momma’s boy. But this is not a rebellion contest. The point is that Mick, Lennon, Springstein and many other successful musicians weren’t trying to be bad boys. They weren’t out there trying to sculpt themselves into an image of rebel with plaster and a societal chisel. No, instead they just laid it on the line. They spoke their voice and made sure it was heard regardless of whether or not people would accept their message, kill their message, rejoice because of their message. They were masters of authenticity because they didn’t try to sculpt. Society sculpted them into how we describe them today, but their level of authenticity demands so much more attention because of the level of certainty it creates.

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