Mark Wahlberg Has Lots of Acting Style!

MOVIES: Wow!  They can energize me in a really good way.

POWERFUL!  Yeah, high energy music abounds in adventure cinema.

    The films that are gigantic fun tickle me.  The new action story 'Contraband' starring the mighty Mark Wahlberg is a terrific package of thriller-flick fun. There is no question that Mark Wahlberg can tremendously bring a real powerhouse acting job to the huge cinematic screen. If a person is trying to derive grand escapist delights then this mighty new movie, the one tagged 'Contraband' is "cool."

Book of Proverbs=Maximum Meaning

HAPPY TIMES:  I am thoughtful today, Many things have happened lately. I realize realizing certain modes of thought can ease our souls, tremendously. I want you to know I am reading The Book of Proverbs in the King James Version of the Bible lately. It seems to me that the passionate words of proverbs are passionately GREAT!

ENJOYING THE SUNSHINE: Today, I am loving viewing funny videos like lego man in space. I want so much for this to be a day that is full of fun time. Let's LOVE LIFE!

Deep South's Complicated

DEEP SOUTH CULTURE  is complicated.  Unusual stuff happening.  Today, lots of us are jumpy about the weather.  So much flooding and odd storms sticking things on edge.  Alabama had rugged stuff already...we are all praying now that things ease up.  One fantastic thing occurred yesterday.  I enjoy the clever art that is Pro Football and a favorite unit of mine....the mighty New York Giants....won yesterday.  Makes me happy.  Now we got us a grand Super Bowl coming up...The Giants and The Patriots.  Let's all enjoy our lives and whoop it up as the little tykes say.

Late Night With Letterman Is 'Right On!'

GOOD THINGS are poppin' in late-night tv.  One guy is getting things done, beautifully. I have enjoyed the mighty David Letterman Show so much in the last month or so.  The man has a truly renewed energy and his comedic work sparkles with feisty originality.  I delight in his crafty way with political material.

TRULY, I also am tickled constantly by David Letterman's ability to connect well with his audience.  The guy is a terrific delight as a creative, masterful television personality. Letterman has a lot of good savvy on so many subjects.  He has been tremendous working in interviews with guests like Brian Williams.  Again, David Letterman has a good show.  The guy "gets it."

'Dangerous Method' ....Film Cleverness!

I SAW A VERY ENGAGING FILM  recently.  It was 'A Dangerous Method' and it brings in famed historic people like the remarkable guys Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.  This gem of a film has fine performances by Keira Kinghtley (the patient), Viggo Mortensen (as Sigmund Freud) and Michael Fassbender (Carl Jung). I enjoyed the depiction of the provocative times when Freud's breakthrough ideas were really popping. Also the sleek grand thinker Jung was doing sophisticated work innovating psychotherapy also. In my opinion the acting work of Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender is vigorous and truly compelling. The windows of the mind and the intricate mechanisms of contemporary psychology have always been clever and fascinating to me.

THE FRESHNESS  of the film 'A Dangerous Method' is especially unique. I believe modern films need to convey more of a vigorous interpretation into the inner souls of humans. There is a huge need in this country to have all kinds of more focused artistic and creative experiences and it is a grand essence that happens when we have a sleek conundrum of cinematic directing like what Mr. David Cronenberg dis with fashioning this artful film. The man possesses a terrific amount of style and it pleases me that a tremendous number of thinking, and a bit enigmatic but thinking souls have latched on to this new movie as fine art and something fun to watch from both an emotional as well as an intellectal standpoint.

My Yamaha Keyboard

Lots of big fun playing great jazz and rock on this instrument.

My bizarre elephant art.

The power of the wild elephants helps my art creativity.

A Son's Birthday

Today is special.  If he had lived my youngest son would be celebrating his 38th birthday, today.  He battled the horror and ravages of insanely brutal cancer for 13 months. His cancer started in the esophagus and then spread throughout him. We miss Gary our youngest son.  He was a kind man and a man of intense passion. He loved fine writing...was a writer himself....and also he loved art, movies and music and sports.  Many times we talked over the latest movies and also the classics. Today I went out in our yard and stood there looking at the tree (a memorial) we planted for our youngest son, Gary. He passed away on a rugged Sunday....It was March 13, 2005, the most horrible day I have ever had.. I miss my son Gary and My wife misses him so much also.

Soaring Saxophones Prove Mysterious

MULLIGAN, WEBSTER:
Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax and Ben Webster on tenor are men who produce a full resonant-toned jazz river of sounds that engulfs all of us listeners. There is so much mystery and joy abounding.  I feel the ability to move a classic slow tune along in a beautiful way is such a marvelous thing. Tonight I 've listened again to Gerry and Ben playing the vibrant, engaging number called 'In a Mellow Tone.' And listen this composition has me smiling in a big way. People have been so kind to me today and that fact and also the super-polished jazz I have dug tonight (as produced by Mr. Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster) has made me have a terrific, so-satisfied feeling. On the jazz I heard in this set the other guys were the sleek Jimmy Rowles on piano, Leroy Vinnegar on the bass and the man of style, Mr. Mel Lewis on the drums. This jazzy, good feeling evening has made me feel so very good.

Love my Alto Saxophone

This great sax gives me plenty of fun
playing jazz or blues.