arts and entertainment

When a man of faith takes a path to strip joint he meets the woman of his dreams or nightmares that will change his life. John a faithful driven man who takes care of his disabled wife takes a paternal interest in Jessica a stripper that opens his eyes in ways he never would have imagined.  While Jessica walks the tight pole between light and darkness herself.   Discover their path on Saint and Slut a series right now just in my mind but could move to a television screen near you.

Most people will never know how people will truly react when we’ve (G-D willing) go through the Golden Gates but Jaden has had many an opportunity.  He is like the cat with 9 lives but hasn’t fallen once.  Jaden can see who really expresses their love to him when they feel he is departed and decide if he should be expressing more love to them while he is here. Mr. Smith can also see who hasn’t been as wonderful as he expected and turn his attention elsewhere. He also can determine who is getting sick of him dying and who still cares after death no #3,4 etc.   These death hoaxes also help build up his profile to do a live performance.  Jaden probably will want a 8-10 more decades before he final makes this move but at least he has had the time and insight to know how people will react in advance which might help determine that outcome (G-D willing) way later.

Stranger Things is the perfect entertainment for me because I’m compelled to watch an episode here or there but not feel the addiction of a “House of Cards”.   It’s an entertaining show with predictable characters going in different directions yet it moves at a pace that keeps me watching but not compelled to do so. I enjoy watching the characters develop, the 80’s feel to it, the sound score and some of the strange things that are occurring.  I can take a breather or two with other life events in my life such as sleep, work or just taking the dogs for a walk without being disturbed by where this show is going and watching it truly at my leisure.  Maybe eventually it will pull me in for I only watched 3 episodes but until that time life goes on with “Stranger Things” occurring when it’s just right which means when I actually have free time.

Other then sharing the same biological chemistry Mylie Cyrus & Phyllis Schlafly couldn’t be any different yet both are “reported” to have passed away, with the one who has always held their truth to be the one walking toward the Golden Arches. Phyllis Schlafly has kept and fought for the values she has held for her entire life even as “society” has fought against her while Mylie Cyrus has decided to embrace those values and even up the ante to gain fame and fortune. While many have tried to discount Mrs. Schlafly’s achievement and talents Mylie is considered ground breaking even if it’s been done before in certain shops with an X in front.  Phyllis Schlafly truly was the individual who was brave enough to stand against societal ambush of the PC Police way before a Trump joined the frey.  Today we mourn the death of Phyllis Shlafly who’s hard work for traditional values will never die for many and hope that some of those values might pass on to a new generation including Mylie Cyrus whom G-D willing is alive and healthy.

I just started reading “Doing Documentary Work” and it is eye opening in discovering how creating a documentary that is actual instead of what one brings to a table is nearly impossible. We come with our prejudgments (consciously or subconsciously) on almost any subject matter before we roll a camera and therefore how can we set those aside to try to shoot the actual. Even if we had that ability there are certain words and phrases  that will be edited in and out that will build a story in one or the other direction. The subject matter might act differently when an outside force (you) suddenly appear and try to give you the information you want or do the complete opposite.  Therefore if the documentary is truly to be about the actual then having two people with opposite perspectives and opinions work together is the only real solution.

Whether Chris Brown is convicted of a crime or the charges are dropped  many in the public will have passed their own verdict. That verdict will be based on their individual perspective of the entertainer including the facts they know about him and the facts they choose to ignore. It will also be based on their own perspective of the police force and the society they live in. That verdict in their mind might change due to facts in the case but more likely will be do to their openness to accept those facts rather then innuendo’s and/or conspiracy theories. For although true justice should be served in a courtroom here and in the heavenly gates above too often our own prejudices, backgrounds and alternate realities play a bigger role then guilty or not guilty does.

FURTHER NOTE- Too be honest my initial opinions lead to guilt due to Mr. Brown’s criminal violent history with Rehina and my own prejudice that says stars can get away with murder if the right lawyer represents them. I hope those initial opinions would be set aside when the facts of the case are revealed.

After hearing and reading all the despicable allegations of child abuse made against the departed Michael Jackson let’s hope that Shana Mangatal’s book tells the real story. This book tells of a man who enjoyed the woman and had a normal relationship with those of the younger age.  Shana Managatal might have just one perspective as a romantic interest of Michael and G-D knows why she waited till now to bring it out now, but let us hope it is the truthful one and that a slew of books come out with this perspective as well.

Isn’t it a sick irony that those who have some of the biggest impacts in our life in the end  forget who they are? Gene Wilder who left people with humor that was passed down from person to person in the end didn’t know it existed and Ronald Reagan the epic force of a strong American was left a weak frail person. all because of the awful debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s. A disease that G-D willing will be wiped out before the next generation and we can forget it existed instead.  Gene and Ronald you have forgot your impact but we will surely keep your talents in our mind in our own lifetimes.