shame

I was having a conversation with my nephew today about tattoos, we were picking up chinese food and right next door there is a tattoo parlor.

The question came up , Had I ever thought about getting a 'tat'

'No' sez I.

two reasons: 1 - not a big fan of pain
b- back in the 90's , I had a ponytail. Yep, bald guy with a ponytail. How would you like
to be stuck with that choice for the rest of your life?

no tattoos

roar of the greasepaint

preparation is all

behold!

jaques pepin in the kitchen.

I love cooking shows, always have. Graham Kerr, the galloping gourmet, good cook, charmimg host, seemingly half drunk most days.

Without question , for me, the gold standard is Jaques.

I could watch him dice onions all day

stock up on potted meats

Oh , all those earthquakes I referenced the other day?

Add a big ol' volcano

save me a seat

I'm a big movie fan. Have been for as long as I can remember. When i was a young 'un we would do the drive in most summmer weekends.

I feel bad for the young punks today ,that they missed the glories of the drive in. I will take some time in the future to bask in the past that was drive in attendance, the movie and everything that surrounded it.

I remember that being at college in the mid 70's was like living in a movie/film/cinema paradise. you had-the downtown theater (the batcave) The twin cinema in the local shopping center and the theater one town over, as well as the movies shown on campus. Foreign film clubs, classic repetory clubs, silent stuff! thrilling! If I didn't see at least 7 movies a week , in a theater, I felt deprived (depraved)

And to this day There are few things i enjoy more than a movie in a theater. Unfortunately the circumstances of my life right now preclude me from getting out to the local "plex" but I still love me some movies.

One of my fondest memories is sitting in a theater at college, (packed! every seat taken) Watching 'Nashville'. At the end of the movie everyone is getting up to leave and talking about the movie as they get ready. Now' Nashville' is one of those movies you either love it or hate it. It's difficult not to have an opinion about Altman stuff in general. So, people are getting up, some are griping about what they just saw, others are just short of nirvana. Opinions begin to be exchanged. Differences of opinion begin to be exchanged. opinions- shouted! responses- shouted!

Soon enough everyone is involved! sides are taken, people who were out the door come back in to be part of what's happening. The lights are up, the movie is over, but nobody is going any where! For at least a half hour the crowd stays and talks (shouts) about what they just saw.

It was Thrilling. I don't think anybody changed their opinion about the movie but it was a great thing to be a part of.

Now I know I'm treading into old coot territory but does stuff like that happen anymore? I hope so. Are we still passionate about movies? Maybe. I just might not hang around the right people anymore, I'm too old.

I will say that the whole world saw Avatar , but I don't hear anyone really worked up about it. They say they liked it and thats about as far as they go. Just go back a few years and look at Titanic, huge hit AND audiences lived and breathed that movie. Again maybe I'm just hangin' with the wrong crowd. My cat doesn't get out much.

That said I am giddy with anticipation about Kick-Ass. Normally this is not the kind of movie that's at the top of my List but, that coming attraction is absolutely thrilling (you know the one I mean--HitGirl) It would seem that this thing is a no compromise, take no prisoners hard core, comic book (there I said it) action movie. This could be huge,

or I might be setting myself up for a fall

mystic chords

I feel awful

I wrote down this quote a few years back, I do that often, I'll jot (great word) something down and put it in my wallet or in a book I'm reading and then years later-"well , hello little friend!"

I found this in a box of old scripts- one problem, I didn't write down the author! Hence, awful.

here's the quote anyhoo


"sometimes the water is yellow and sometimes it is red. But what color it may be in memory depends upon that day. I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened, I'm going to tell it the way I remember it"

Amen. unknown writer person!

The only type of memory I trust is faulty memory. I like the amendments we make as we remember things. Unless you're testifying at my murder trial I am more than happy to hear your memories- the way you remember them.

Often when I teach an acting class I'll ask people what their earliest memory is. Some folks tell me "I remember when I was was three months old. I was in my stroller and..........) That's great- it's bullshit but it's great.

I have a memory of being on the stoop of our apartment in the Bronx when I was three. It's a memory but, I wouldn't swear it happened. Oh , I was on the stoop a whole heck of a lot , I'm sure. But i don't remember it- that doesn't mean I can't construct a nice memory though.

Sometimes I'm on the stoop and it's winter and sometimes it's spring, depends on the day.

nerves, shaken. brains rattled

Awful lot of earth quakin' goin on recently



just an observation