Caught a cold some time in the last few days and it finally manifested itself late Tuesday night. Now I'm battling it with whatever I can get my hands on.
In other words, I feel like shit.
But it's only temporary.
Here's something to listen to... Have a better day than I.
I was talking to my boyfriend about this the other day. He made mention that in truth there is no such thing as original in this universe bc in truth, every combination has already been thought of. The only thing you can do is present whatever combination in the best way possible that you would be proud of to show.
I can see his point. How often have you heard someone say "I thought of that years ago..." I guess in many ways he's right. It's really the presentation that really makes an idea or breaks it.
Something to prove the point...
A well known, generally positive character with the ironic spin.
I read a book a few days ago called "Save the Cat", which is a book on screen writing. The first thing it spoke of is the writing of the pitch line. They made mention that what typically sells well is something with a ironic sense to it. In many ways, I guess that's what makes movies entertaining. Not the portrayal of the normal, but the examination of the not-so-normal.
I was talking to my boyfriend last night and we got into the subject of politics. Then he tied a quote from a series of books called "The Sword of Truth" by Terry Goodkind. In each book there's a new rule, but the one that my boyfriend pointed out was the first, and seemed to be, most important of the lot.
"People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe."
Here was the character explanation: "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
When I used to work conventions, and also with promotions with the public, I was first taught the above. That to deal with the public, you have to treat them like four-year-olds bc half the time they aren't listening in the first place (even if they are there by their own accord). Advertisers, politicians, and other groups know this fact and take advantage of it by promoting their own wares, which if you add the advertisers, politicians, and these control groups into the "people are stupid" mix, then intrinsically we are the blind leading the blind.
Something to think about.
Talking about politics, and knowing that last week was primary week, and talking about my boyfriend, figure it would be a good thing to put up his indie film from last year...
This is the trailer to an indie film my boyfriend co-wrote. By looking @ the trailer you'd never think it was a political film, but it is. If you get a chance to find it, watch it.
Lincoln, Neb. The defendant in a state senator's lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He's everywhere.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."
He's seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.
Can you say "drama"???
1857 scandal laid to rest.
It might be one of the most bizarre relationships - and murders - in New York City history. And it took only a mere 150 years for it to come full circle.
The victim and the alleged killer in the bizarre case that captivated New Yorkers in the mid-19th century will finally receive headstones today on their unmarked graves at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
During a crim wave in the winter of 1857, Harvey Burdell, a prominent dentist who lived at 31 Bond St. in Greenwich Village, was found in his office strangled and stabbed 15 times.
Suspicion soon fell on his mistress, Emma Cunningham, a 36-year-old widow who Burdell had taken into his home along with her five children.
"She needed a wealthy new husband willing to take on five children," said Benjamin Feldman, author of "Butchery on Bond Street" a new book about the case. "And she made a bad choice."
Burdell, according to Feldman, "took ruthless advantage" of Cunningham, routinely raping her, impregnating her two times, and twice performing an abortion on her.
Still, she needed the money and respectability a husband would bring, and so, when Burdell refused to do right by her, she hired an imposter to stand in for him at a wedding ceremony. When this ruse failed, she took to voilence.
"I never in my life have heard a story that incorporated so much dysfunction and sociopathic behavior between a man and woman," Feldman said.
It got worse. After the 46-year-old dentist's death, Cunningham maintained that she was entitled to his fortune because she was carrying his child. She stuffed pillows under her petticoats to make herself look pregnant but was eventually caught when she sent a friend to "borrow" a newborn from Bellevue Hospital to pretend it was her own. Cunninghamd was acquitted at trial, moved to California for 25 years but eventually settled back in New York, where she died in 1887.
Their graves went unmarked, hers because of destitution and his because of greed - that of his family, which squabbled over his estate.
