Moonlight

I have this love hate relationship with vampires. I love to watch movies about them, but when I see them I have to pull the covers up and over my head.

• Fright Night
• The Lost boys
• Interview with a Vampire
• Dusk til Dawn
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  

...and now Moonlight

This show is good. Mystery and the vampire mythology are hard to resist. I hope this show stays around for a good while.

you know what just came out this weekend....30 Days of Night. Yeah I want to see it.

Friday Night

So, I got my haircut. Thank Goodness!

My friend J called and asked if we could get together tonight because there's some drama happening in his life that he has to talk about in person. I'm slightly worried. We're meeting for pizza first and then going to B's birthday at a bar in the village.

When am I going to see "Why did I get Married"??

My Prediction

The United States will attack Iran so the Republicans will have something to debate about during the elections. I think it's the only way to polarize the Nation and create a issue. I wonder if it will work.

Yep, it will! I don't have much faith in the American people.

Ace and Gary Safety Tips

So funny! I have to share.

Happy Friday

Beautiful! this could be my new cologne.

Surprised & Undervalued

EW ran an article about Why did I get Married and it's top spot at the box office. I'd like to know why it's still news when a movie with all African American stars succeeds at the box office.

I'd call that prejudiced. I'm sure that mindset of undervaluing Africa American stories and box office draw filters down to the stories they cover. I saw Superbad and thought it was trashy and vapid. EW gave it a B.

from the article by Joshua Rich, EW staff writer:

"Anyway, as my colleague Tim Stack's terrific recent profile of Perry makes clear, the entertainer continues to be a victim of underestimation in the eyes of Hollywood (and those who cover ''the business'': yes, I stand guilty). Maybe we've finally learned our lesson. I sure have."

This is not funny and I would be embarrassed admitting that. It's 2007 and people are surprised that an all black movie, who's creator has had number one hit movies before, can top the box office??? What's really going on is that they're surprised that a movie where the central characters are black and aren't jumping around acting like buffoons can be successful.

Obviously, the media has a lot of catching up to do. These overprivileged kids that go to Brown, Columbia, NYU, Harvard and Yale know nothing. They're in a bubble. Unfortunately, until hiring practices change the media will continue to be prejudiced and vapid.

Capricorn for the Week

Capricorn Horoscope for week of October 18, 2007

Your symbol of power in the coming week is a book by businessman Robert Rodin entitled Free, Perfect, and Now: Connecting to the Three Insatiable Customer Demands. He talks about how important it is for a company to provide cheap prices, excellent quality, and quick responses. That's a good formula for you to remember as you brainstorm about how to generate greater interest in the products and services and experiences you create. But I also encourage you to meditate on the theme of free, perfect, and now in its widest sense. How can you bring more of the exuberant spirit of that mantra into everything you do?

Scarcity

Webster's definition of scarcity is: the quality or state of being scarce; especially : want of provisions for the support of life.

That definition surprisingly sums up Scarcity a haunting and troublesome play about socio economic status and desperation. The playwright, Lucy Thurber goes for the jugular here. No character is deprived of their moment of baseness and/or humiliation.

Who would have thought 3rd Rock from the Sun's Kristen Johnston(Martha) was such an amazing actress. I haven't seen a performance like this in a while. Her Martha was so present, so reactionary, so alive on stage it was hard to keep my eyes off of her. She had a living, breathing character up on stage. I was compelled, which is saying a lot, since I see a lot of theatre. Good actors are ones that listen and react. She should teach classes on that topic alone.

How does a child cope in an environment where they want to leave, but have no role models, no "help"? All they have are two parents struggling to survive, to pay the bills and to cope with their own mistakes. Martha, the mother, says to her 16 y/o son, "Don't make me have to look after you". Absurd yes, but in the context of the play, it's understandable. The mother is exhausted supporting the family, looking after her little girl and enabling her alcoholic husband. Billy, her son, is very smart will have opportunities to break out of her world. He's knows this and is willing to do anything in order to achieve it.

His savior comes in the form of Ellen, a wealthy woman, who moved to the rural part of western Massachusetts to teach because of her "enlightenment" of rural American culture (she did her undergrad at NYU and her MA at Columbia...blah blah blah). Ellen grew up in a world of privilege and never knew people without privilege. She pities Billy's family and is desperate to make a "difference"with her Ivy league education. This family is her first "assignment" and her attraction to Billy, who's sixteen, is more about what he represents than him as a person.

Rachel, Billy's sister, reads tarot cards and reads Jane Austin novels at eleven years old. It seems that both children used the library and their studies to escape the sting of their home life. She wants out too, but mainly because she doesn't want to be alone with her parents.

In the concluding scene when Billy leaves his home and "gets out", he has this moment with his father. The father, Herb, knows that he will probably never see his son again and that his son must leave or end up like him. When Billy walks out of the house it's like Herb's tiny world of disconnect and alcoholism closes in on him to make him even more distant.

Billy got out, Rachel is alone and Martha and Herb keep on doing what they always do, playing cards and drinking. In other words, life goes on, but with one less person.

For me, I had a great night at the theatre!

Sniff Sniff...Pass

My primary fragrance is running very low. I like to have one fragrance, at the most two, for a season (Spring/Winter). For the spring I used Costume National. It's soft, light with a subtle roundness to it. Right on schedule it's getting low and I need a replacement, maybe two (one for day/night).

I choose Barney's to find my favorite scent. They are more expensive, but I'll spend extra to find a fragrance that everyone else won't have. I've been through the Le Male's, Marc Jacobs, Armani, Burberry's, Givenchy, Ralph Lauren, Calvin's Eternity/Obsession (high school) and DKNY. It's time for something new.

Hermes, Gucci and Yves St. Laurent have some nice fragrances. I'll start there.

In addition, to cologne I like to have custom oils made for me. I go to Harlem where there's this very nice man that will mix a scents from different oils i.e. sandalwood with vanilla and a little bit of cocoa that after a shower will make my skin look and smell like chocolate. Hmmmmm....delicious!! LOL

Le Male

I know my recent posts have been very "male centric" but that's what's on my mind. This clip below is hot. See, they don't have to be undressed.

CO2 + Trees = Life

Today is Blog Action Day for the environment.

I believe what you put out in the universe comes back to you. In New York City, or better yet, in my world it's about how the little things add up.

At night I unplug any unused electronic devices (except DVR) that I use exclusively in the apt, which is easy because I use surge protectors to protect things like my Airport Express and Road Runner Broadband device.

In the morning, I take a 5 minute shower more out of necessity than the environment, but at least it works out. I use New York City Transit to get to work in 40 minutes (door to door). Not only that, at work I turn off my computer every night.

So, that's my small contribution to the environment. It's all I can do by any means. For starters, I'd like to sign up for Con Ed's "go green" program where the power you use is provided by the wind or sun. I'll call this week!

Go green people, for Mother Nature.

Frederic Michalak

This is a long video, but you only have to watch the first few minutes to see the smile! I couldn't understand a thing, but I didn't have to.

Talent? Competition

She showed such bravery. I love Star Wars too, but could never have done that. I wonder if she won?