Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins

TWO GREAT TENOR SAXOPHONE men were my gigantic happiness today!  I listened to the immortals Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins.  These bright and shiny men of the tenor saxophone have such a terrific presence in jazz history.  When you dig these guys you realize what awesome music is all about.  The sound of vigorous, linear jazz lines makes one appreciate the magnificent gift of life.  We enjoy breathing and so we enjoy superior and so articulate grand music.  I love listening to these tenor sax men.  The have the heady, creative essence that I call "greatness."

Protect us

Lord...help us! Protect us from big, harsh weather and icy roads!

H.G. Wells...A Highly Articulate Visionary

'THE TIME MACHINE' is a poignant masterwork by the brilliant man, H.G. Wells.  The tone of this work with its fable nature and early science fiction cleverness is certainly very engaging.  I am reading again this good Wells work and I confess it has pleased me so much.  Also, I  read another H.G. Wells grand work the other day, the one entitled 'The Invisible Man.'  It is another very fine piece of literary creation.  When one reads H.G. Wells it is for sure one has a tremendously good time enjoying a quite grand writer.

Bradley Cooper...Awesome Acting Guy

THE PROFOUND POWER of BRADLEY COOPER is wonderful.  His new movie, 'Silver Linings Playbook,' is a really superior achievement.  His work with De Niro and Lawrence is awesome in this film.  Terrific creativity in film resonates so greatly in our modernistic culture.  Enjoy the feisty, fine work of Mr. Bradley Cooper...A Great Soul!

Jennifer Lawrence ... Super Talent

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is a fun film.  So happy the grand talent, Jennifer Lawrence, is getting plenty of acclaim for superb acting with clever men like Robert de Niro and Bradley Cooper.  This woman, Jennifer Lawrence, is an acting inspiration...a person with a poignant dynamic of dramatic intensity!

Nice Day Indeed

BEAUTIFUL...this lovely Monday.  Cool January days help us to think and enjoy our fine American culture.  Let's enjoy our passions...our art, our films and our music!

Great Film, 'Suez'

TYRONE POWER can put together a super acting job.  I enjoyed viewing Tyrone Power and the really delightful Loretta Young in a fine 1938 movie, 'Suez,' the other night on TCM.  There is something mystical and terrifically awesome about 1930s films.  This 'Suez' was a great one,  an adventure-filled epic with exciting joie de vivre.

Charlie Sheen...1-17-13.

SUPER Charlie Sheen interview on 'The View' today was unusual.  The wit of Charlie Sheen is so sleek and profound.  Barbara and Elisabeth and the others did a good job with Charlie today.  Hope the new 'Anger  Management' show on FX tonight (Jan. 17, 2013) is REALLY GREAT!

Mean Types Are Really Quite Gross

MEAN people get on one's nerves after a number of years.  There is something odd boiling in our chaotic culture.  The souls who manipulate us and try to stomp us are proliferating like mad.  Am tired of so many gauche rejections, so many attempts at maneuvering and taking advantage of others.  Let us have more kindness...Let  us pivot and get away from all the idiotic and so moronic non-empathy personalities floating around.

Hope for Better Days

Read lots of Dostoyevsky..think more .. pray really hard for a good life.

Don Byas....Super Saxophone Guy

DON BYAS was a true genius of bop and swing, playing a profound jazz saxophone style with a glorious tone that really enchants us listeners.  The guy played well with fine bands like Basie but also he worked with great minds in the bop era.  In 1944 he came up with dazzling work with the so-creative bassist, Slam Stewart.  The music of Don Byas impresses us all with its shiny originality.

'Gangster Squad'

'GANGSTER SQUAD' is coming to the movie houses, this Friday, Jan. 11.  It will be a good film.  Looks like mighty good work by Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin.  This history-flavored movie should entertain lots of us.

Sonny Stitt

TODAY IS GREAT!  I am listening to the fine sleek jazz artistry of Sonny Stitt on saxophone,  His robust wild sound is profound.  I like innovators like Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper.

My Youngest Son's Birthday

TOMORROW is an important day!  My youngest son...(if he were still here)...would have been 39 tomorrow.  He passed away on Sunday, March 13th 2005.  I think about him all the time.  He was a great man...a tremendously talented writer and a creative, great soul.  He succumbed to cancer after a long battle.  When we lose a child it is horrible.  But somehow we have to keep going and praying and trying to find a bit of hope.  Let us all remember to enjoy life and also to be loving toward our people.

Julianne Hough

LOOKING FORWARD to February.  The great one, Julianne Hough, has a new movie coming out, entitled, "Safe Haven.'  I am a romantic so I know I will like this one.  The film is based on a story by the wise Nicholas Sparks, the man who did 'The Notebook.'  I enjoy the work of Julianne Hough, a really talented soul.

Seven Days in May, A 1960s Thriller

THE 1960s PERIOD was such a huge scare almost all the time.  The other night I watched the interesting John Frankenheimer-directed film, 'Seven Days in May' and it was quite a vigorous tour de force as the canny pundits might say.  This movie has to do with a wry plot to make gigantic difficulty take place and the good guys are hard to figure out in this slick cinematic recipe.  There is a heady mix of fine acting in this big, brazen film.  Burt Lancaster is the strong, Gen. James Mattoon Scott, Kirk Douglas is the wry, Col. Martin  "Jiggs" Caseyband and Ava Gardner is the sensuous, Eleanor Holbrook.  The 1960s had so much confusion as a constant bit of filmic thematic material.  The underlying vile jumpiness in this big old film is the fear of a sneak attack.  The mean vicious hunks of 1960s living put many of us on edge as we remember and contemplate all the sordid aspects that were then and still are a part of contemporary roughhouse geopolitics.

Political Culture and Stock Surprises

THE LAST FEW DAYS have been wild.  The F. Cliff negotiating has been bizarre and then today the stock situation got abrupt and oddly healed itself for a little while..The Dow rose 308 today...What an unusual state of affairs we are in...

Hello 2013!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to Everyone!  Enjoy All Experiences!