Monday, September 15, 2014

Tending To My Very Unattended Blog

WHOOPS
I've been very busy.
So busy that I've forgotten to tend to my blog. I'm an actor and we've been rehearsing like hell. Tomorrow's auditions, wish me luck. Break a leg and all that good shit.

Lemmie just take a moment to thank you for all your patience and for just reading this at all.
I'd like to consider myself slightly sophisticated and intelligent at times but I'm really bad at portraying that in this blog, so thanks for whatever schlock and buffoonery you have/will dealt/deal with.

Now lets think of something to write about.
Hum
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I think I'm going to bring an observation I made yesterday on Facebook over to here.
Which was

"I just want to take a moment for all of us to really appreciate the quality of the film by John Singleton, Boyz In The Hood.
Especially in current times where things are escalating so much in Ferguson, that movie helps us remember that sometimes it's not random dudes on the streets that harass, it's anybody that feels stronger than you for whatever reason and they feel like because of that they have the ability to do with you what they please.
That movie may focus more on the color aspect of things, which is still HUGELY prominent today, but I think it did more than it meant to.
It's trying to get us all together.
Cop, brother, white, colored, whatever, it wanted the message to spread.
Ain't no peace if no ones working together.
And it doesn't mater who you are, all that maters is the pull of a trigger, the point of a gun, and whoever is in front of it.
I'm going to live with that on my mind, not to scare myself or anyone, but to remember everyday is another to die.
But don't forget that everyday is also another day to do something great, whatever it may be.
Point is, it's a good movie."

 Well.
I think I made my point pretty well, but I'll go over it with anyone who wants to talk about it.
Shit, I'm gonna say more about it right now.
For starters
I fucking love Boyz In The Hood.
It's movies like that, that not only made me rethink joining the local school gangs and hanging out with crazy motherfuckers like that.
It's also movies like that, that got me into wanting to act, direct, and write. 
Let me reiterate, yes I could have been a "GAYUNGSTOOR" when I was younger, which would have easily effected my life greatly forever in a, probably, negative way.
I don't feel like going over it right now, but slip me a few more drinks and I might go into more detail at some point in the future.

Let's just leave it at, for now, I lived on the bad sides of town.
ALL OF THEM.

Anyway, ending this on something less lame.
I really recommend movies like that.
Boyz In The Hood, Baby Boy, Poetic Justice, Fredom Writers, Coach Carter, Radio!
FUCKING RADIO MAN.
Movies like that really speak to me.


So yeah.
Watch those if you'd like.
They all ask a little question for you to ask yourself.
And they don't really give a straight answer.
You gotta answer it yourself.
And that's why they're good.




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