Wednesday, August 31

The difference between "Finding" or "Looting".

The difference in America....is the same F^%&$#' reason I might really have to search for a sanctuary and safe haven outside of this grand ole' country I love. I do love America. I love the great plains, the ocean, the mountains and all the freedoms....ie...speech, religion, yadda-yadda.....What I absolutely hate and am SICK TO DEATH of is the complicated (could be simple) Black and White relations. Seriously. I'm just really tired of it all. I'm not trying to fight the good fight either. Like a husband who feels like he should go ahead and cheat because he's constantly being accused of it....I sometimes feel like giving in to the "bad wrap" and living the life of "seedy criminal", but then I remember how much of a germophobe I am and how prison will never do. So I shake it off and straighten up and fly right.

So hours later....I'm posting at work and had to walk away from my ranting for a spell. I must remember how settling "walking away" from a heated moment can be. I am completely calm and back to backstroking my way through society. And all about keeping this US citizenship my ancestors went through worse than hell to obtain. It's just disheartening. A reporter is supposed to remain objective (tis' why I'm not a reporter.) And why so many "reporters" should have chosen other careers as well. Knowledge of self, chumps...if you know you are a stereotyping jackass with opinions you'd like to share, then get yourself a blog. It's aggravating but it's not the end of the world...yet...so...Hip-Hop Hooray


Peace and Blessings to the victims of Hurricane Katrina......."Find" or "Loot" as necessary...."Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome" style.

Tuesday, August 30

The Jennifer & Brad intrusions

coming soon to a theatre near you.....


It's been a while since I've had time to post...I've been experiencing some great PLD's (personal life distractions). And am actively trying to make sure most of my PLD's are great or good. Avoiding Bad like the plague. Ya'll here me LIKE THE PLAGUE. I'm walking in Mary's footsteps "No More Drama".

VIOLATING FOOL
Brad and Jen split and it's a paparazzi and freaky fan, violating fest. First the "freelance" reporter for People mag is caught on Brad's property and now some weirdo takes it even further by actually entering Jennifer Aniston's home. Breaking and Entering. This dude is plain out crazy and needs to be in a mental facility. Who takes a cab to the soon-to- be scene of his crime and then doesn't pay. Celebrityhood is frightening. I swear it is. It's a lucrative game but the thought that any nut job can just fixate on you because you're in a magazine or on a hit TV show or in a movie and then come find you. Horrifying. I don't even like to leave my blinds open at night because I feel like some nutty passerby might decide to stalk me because he caught a glimpse of light through some random window. No Gracias.

Charlize Arrested
I'm very excited and really going to focus on buying a television for my home for this reason: Arrested Development's third season. Charlize Theron will be guesting on this friggin' great show that I already love and whose first season being released on DVD blessed a tv-less sister with hours of great entertainment. I am so pleased this show is coming back for a third (even though I completely missed the second season). Looking forward to it.
And what's even better is Charlize Theron as Aeon Flux. I loved this very strange animated MTV show. I tried to not like it because I felt it looked too much like the Heavy Metal movies (love those) but Aeon Flux seeped into my pores and I'm eager to see the Charlize Theron to Aeon Flux transformation. I like the idea of it hope I get to enjoy the reality of it.

So... I've never seen an episode of Six feet Under before the finale last week. My sister was in town so we visited a friend and caught the absolute last episode. Seems like it was an interesting show. Very trippy. I loved the end and the whole showing of how and when all the main characters pass from this earth. Could've been extremely corny but it wasn't. And this is coming from a non-fan. I saw exactly what I needed to see....the finale. I don't think I would've been able to handle catching the show every week or however it aired. I'm extra freaked out by bodies of the deceased and watching families have picnic conversations over embalmbed bodies would have distracted me. I'm officially a part of pop culture because I got to see the final episode of a show I never watched. Goody gumdrops for me.

Tuesday, August 23

POP - 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN

From the first viewing I must say this movie was well done and simple, plain out, undeniable comedy. . I laughed out loud the folks I went to see the movie with laughed out loud. At the end of the movie everyone clapped.

This was a dangerous attempt at comedy and ....It worked. I feel like I need to see the movie again, not to laugh hysterically but to make sure it was as funny as I thought it was. For example..."Something about Mary", when I saw this in the movie theatre I laughed so hard, the friend I was with got a little annoyed. She gave me the "It's not that funny" look. But to me, it was. After the film was released on DVD and I watched if again, I didn't find it nearly as funny. Nowhere near. Sometimes I can get swept away by a full house of wide-eyed movie goers, I get caught up in the mix. Sometimes.

I enjoyed the director's wife's as bar girl, performance immensely. I'd like for dramatic purposes to be able to say "She was terrible, lucky for her she's the director's wife." But in all honesty I have to say..... She pulled her weight something lovely. Sliding into the role of "drunk and damaged goods" in a very comedic way. There's a little bug in my ear whispering that this movie really might offend me more than tickle me when I see it again (some of the male views were a little disturbing). I know for sure it won't have the lasting humorous effect on me as Old School had but it made me laugh more than Wedding Crashers (though Christopher Walken has the ability to make a movie worthy).

I'm not mad about giving up two hours of my life for 40 year old virgin. Funny movie. I'll add it to my DVD collection just for the end of the movie and the Bar Girl's drunk driving scene.

Friday, August 19

POP - "TROY"

I finally watched "TROY". I tried to get to the movies to see it on the BIG screen but a sista' works, so I straight out bought the DVD based on my faith in Brad Pitt and (former) faith in Orlando Bloom.

Again I'll say, blessed are those who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. I expected a lot and "Troy" was definitely a lot. I think hollywood should try telling these Big Budget Directors, they have 50 million less than they really do, let them dig into the depths of their talents to get creative and stretch the budget and once they are a quarter of the way through, give them their extra 50 million.

Ummmmm....I don't know if this is just an emotional time in my life or what but I loved Brad Pitt as Achilles and cried (yes cried) when that damn heel showed its vulnerability.

At first I felt like "Troy" was this big budget movie where they had too much money and just threw big sets, flashy lights and some superstar talent into a big cauldron and prayed for the best...I kind of still do feel that way, even though overall I enjoyed the flick. And thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of that damn Brad Pitt. Damn!!! He really is good at what he does and just so happens to have looks to match. And I don't know what he was on for that body but....whew. Brad Pitt might have been Achilles in his former life. He just "became" for me. And only Mr. Pitt, could get away with making those weird fighting moves look believable and admirable. But I digress... The Director did get lucky because the players and some of the great lines in "Troy" act as soothing ointment for the minor and major irritations on the screen...ie...being force fed a story instead of being allowed to naturally flow with it and being expected to swallow, Paris and Helen's weird love.

I went through many emotions....and my opinion on the quality of this movie kept changing throughout. I was angered at one point because it felt like the viewers intelligence was being undermined by the need for the makers of this movie to make an instant Epic. And softened everytime Achilles entered frame. Not (just) because Brad Pitt is beautiful but because Achilles' character was tormented and interesting and well done, well done Mr. Pitt.

Orlando Bloom as Paris
Diane Kruger as Helen of Troy

This couple was awful, straight out awful. They really softened ole' Paris up. I mean he was like Hector's, closeted little brother who pretended to love the ladies in order to throw people off. Orlando Bloom is much more macho and sexy as an elf.
and Helen of Troy...a man brings his country to war over a woman who posesses an innocent and pure quality (like Achilles' love interest). Not for a girl who (although pretty enough) posesses an underlying hooker presence (is that too harsh.) I don't know if it was an intentional mistake or the make-up or what they were going for but, she really gave off a semi-evil aura. I felt nothing for her and sometimes forgot Paris and Helen were in the movie (overshadowed by Achilles and his fine ass like a mo'fo.) And I caught myself rolling my eyes everytime the closeted Prince and his Dominatrix returned to frame.

Breakthrough performance: Eric Bana as Hector (what!!!) He was friggin' great, his wife was great. They were great. A beautifully believable couple who you could feel sympathy and love for. That Eric Bana really put his foot in his role. I thoroughly enjoyed his performance and found myself hoping the end for him I knew to come, would somehow, really not happen. It happened and I was broken up about it.

Nothing touches......Achilles and Briseis
Being a girl....I had to drift away on a romantic whim about it...had to do it, but I kept getting smacks of reality from that pitiful Paris & Helen hook-up.

In closing......the movie was too grandesque...Had it been done "Batman Begins" style, it would've been spectacular, instead it was more of a spectacle. There were some good scenes and some sappy sucker sweet scenes. Some really great lines and some corny ass lines....or lines delivered in a corny ass manner (not Brad Pitt.)

There was a profound line about war "Old men talking and young men dying." Damn if that's not true, right now!!!!!

I like the movie (loved Achilles and his tormented soul) but I'm still disappointed because it's obvious to see how great it could've been. But best believe I'll watch it again...and again (and maybe skip the Helen & Paris scenes).

Wednesday, August 17

His FBI file reads "Sean Combs"

So he can be Diddy, Dummy, Daddy, Piddy, Paddy, Party, whatever.....at the end of the day...Sean Combs. Business man and a quite fortunate one. Not the greatest rapper of all times...at all. But a pretty determined and lucky fellow. And I'll get up and dance when he speaks his chorus on Mo' Money, Mo Problems. Love that little, "And I'm bigger than the city lights down in Times square, yeah, yeah, yeah." but you're not curing world hunger so ease off the ego boat Bro'. If his ego is that grandesque then he shouldn't bitch about paying $21,000 a month to keep his first born son in shiny new duds like his larger than life Diddy...I mean Dowdy, I mean Daddy.

"I felt like the 'P' was getting between me and my fans and now we're closer," Diddy said.

Whew...now that the "P" is gone I can breathe again. Thank you, Diddy.
I wonder how he fits his head through the door or has he remodeled his office, car(s) and 100 homes to give them all double doors. I'm sure you'd have to open them both to get that ego through.
An entertainment mogul holds a press conference for the dropping of a consonant from his "stage"(I hope stage) name... Uhhhhhhh.....okay.

And my dear sweet lovely deeply appreciated Madonna (the entertainer) ...It's bad enough I have to pray that my girl Whitney is making it through the day intact. Madonna is another "In the Dayna cradle" celebrity. Those Leo women are superstars... . Undeniably so.

Get well soon. And be careful dammit.


On another note..

I threw together two 80's cd's for my calimobile and am rediscovering my love for those Rockin' Friggin' times.

Playlist 1

Burning down the house - Talking Heads
Everyday I write the book - Elvis Costello
Hold me now - Thompson Twins
Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
Abracadabra - Steve Miller
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E. (damn right)
Big Shot - Billy Joel
Do you really want to hurt me - Culture Club
Let's Dance - David Bowie
You Spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Hold me - Fleetwood mac
Father Figure - George Michael
(Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
Borderline - Madonna
99 Luftballoons - Nena


Playlist 2

Magic - Olivia Newton-John
What Have I Done to Deserve this - Pet Shop Boys
Every Rose Has it's Thorn - Poison
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Don't You (Forget About me) - Simple Minds
(this is the sh&*)
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks (must have some kind of subliminal message because I really can't get enough of this song and want to perform it at a Karoake Bar)
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads (has the same effect on me that Cindafella, Dana-dane, has on me)
Everything She Wants - Wham
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
(Jersey in the house - yeah boyeeeee!!!) Used to have a full life size poster of Richie Sambora on my door. Twist not, the depth of my love for Bon Jovi...forever!!!!!
Little Red Corvette - Prince
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones (nothing compares)


ROCK ON RICHIE!!!!!

Tuesday, August 16

Living it

the LA LA life... where Jill Average Dayna (the aspiring writer) finds herself in a room full of sheep aka actors or wannabee actors looking to the Herder aka casting director for guidance. Lerve it.

Now that I'm back on the "too busy for pity wagon". I'm continuing my "strange" life flow. Not to mention I'm still flowing in my circle of sheer heaven out here. Sheer ya'll for real. It's amazing to me, what comes from opening oneself to all possibilities.....doing things with folks, I said I would never do and having a ball.

I auditioned for a game show today...called "Distraction" on Comedy Central. Sent my picture and little bit about myself in yesterday....went to the audition today. I had to answer a bunch of basic questions....I might be a little uninformed.
Who won the civil war? Got that one
Who won the NBA playoffs this year? I had no clue.
What's the capital of Wyoming? "Please" was my written answer.
And I won't even go into some of the really stupid answers I gave for some of the questions. Knew the answers, knew I knew them....answered wrong as hell. They asked me if I had any special talents...I can touch my tongue to my nose and I did it for the camera.....hey....just adding to my LA experience.

I've gone on three "official" auditions since my move to Los Angeles...one for a national bank ad...I actually got a call back. I wasn't expecting to, I was just going with the Los Angeles flow...I have no desire to act. I have a tendency to freeze up in front of the camera , so I went to a Mexican restaurant and downed three margarita's before I went to my call back. I was still nervous with the camera staring down my throat but I did what I had to. Didn't get the gig. Don't think I should have either. But getting a call back was cool enough.

The next one was for an "Extreme Dodgeball" game show...Most of the women didn't get to play because they couldn't even hit the other side of the wall with the ball. Dayna-dane made it happen and got to play. And after I got nailed with a ball thrown by some angry sexually frustrated twenty year old male...I wished I hadn't made it. I'm all about experiences but forget that Co-Ed Dodgeball nonsense. Guys throw harder. It's a fact. I felt it first hand.

And now my third one.."Distraction"
We'll see. Gotta be in it to win it. I'm living this weird surreal semi-starting over life so....Sign me up .

And a birthday shout out to another one of my LEO buds...Leo (women) are da' bomb...
Go Sarah, it's your Birthday, sip Bacardi like its your Birthday ......Rockin' Sushi was da' bomb!!!!! When are we going back?

Sunday, August 14

Out here on my own


Some days I need a little reminder of how far I've come and how much further I have to go....I have these brief, Irene Cara as Coco in FAME moments

Sometimes I wonder where I've been
Who I am
Do I fit in.
Make believin' is hard alone,
Out here on my own

We're always provin' who we are
Always reachin' for the risin' star
To guide me far
And shine me home
Out here on my own


and then I take it here.........
Sometimes I wonder where I've been
Who I am
Do I fit in
I may not win
But I can't be thrown
SERIOUSLY
Out here on my own
On my own

and then I get over it and pick myself back up and press on....
Sometimes it just feels like my foot is nailed to the ground but I shall free myself and pedal on, dodging the monkey wrenches, the naysayers keep trying to throw in my spokes.

Avoiding the humans who suffer from U.D.A. (unpursued dream angst.)

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

I might be forced to tattoo this to my forehead.

Sparked by discouraging moments of self-publishing my(our) children's book.....
Which WILL be coming soon to a bookstore near you...or from the back of my truck....Come hell or high water.


"I CAN'T BE THROWN" so stop trying.

Dayna's honorary lyric change - "I may not win" to " I'll somehow win and I can't be thrown"
Win what? Who knows. But if there's something to win, I plan on winning it.
didn't know what I was doing or why but I was doing it.

Thursday, August 11

Peeping People

This guy receives a citation for trespassing on Brad Pitt's property. Very obnoxious move on that kid's part. That's exactly what he is, some 23 year old kid working for People Magazine, who thinks he can do anything in the name of career advancement. If People magazine had nothing to do with sending him to violate Brad Pitt's homefront then he should be straight out fired. Made an example of. I like Brad Pitt and I understand his "bidnezz" is hot news and I read the articles in People magazine like the next guy but resorting to trespassing on a celeb's property to watch them with a set of binoculars, is outright WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Over the top and a bit creepy.

Has People magazine really resorted to arming their Peeping Tom soldiers with binoculars and addresses or did the boy act alone. Me thinks a little of both. Just a little speculation on the part of me. Not accusing, just raising my eyebrow in "THE ROCK" fashion. If it turns out he was out on "assignment" then People magazine should be fined......BIG TIME!!!!
Humans have the tendency to be rude and belligerent for no good reason on a day to day basis, but armed with binoculars, digital cameras and title of "journalist on assignment".....it's like a get out of jail free card for jackasses. I imagine you have to be a special kind of person (borderline stalker or coldhearted S.O.B.) to accept a position like this anyway. To procure photos at any cost, even a person's life or worse...endangering their offspring, is some career. I understand celebrity status means you sacrifice a certain amount of privacy...if no one cared....you wouldn't get paid, but in PUBLIC not PRIVATE. If Brad Pitt is sitting in Starbucks or Mel's Diner on Sunset then he's fair game...Sorry but he and any other CELEBRITY out in PUBLIC is fair game. Fair game meaning a photo taken from afar, without disturbing..not shoving a camera lens down some celeb's throat or chasing them into the street or down an alley or wherever.


Moment of Silence for ridiculous Paparazzi behavior..

this was actually a good one........Brittney Spears
this was rotten....Reese Witherspoon

and the most tragic..
Princess Diana
(even though me suspects a little foul play, the paparazzi set the stage for the tragedy)




On a nicer note.....I spend at least 50% of my "on the clock" time in Staples. Today as Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write The Book" poured into the atmosphere through hidden speakers, it had a lovely influence on all the Staples patrons....black, white, whatever...we all swayed and sang together...seperately in our own little worlds. I wonder if anyone else noticed.

Tuesday, August 9

Happy Birthday....





WHITNEY HOUSTON

HOLD UP THE LIGHT!






and Kurtis Blow (hip-hop pioneer) and Gillian Anderson (x-files)
and a birthday Shout Out to my currently "inactive bud".....Have a happy!

Thursday, August 4

Stick a fork in Chappelle Show

Charlie Murphy has released a statement that the show is done. Charlie Murphy was a vital player in the comedy sketches of Chappelle Show. Sounds like it's really over. Dave Chappelle's show is beyond funny and I seriously have been watching my dvd copy of Chappelle show every night this week (remember I'm tv-less.) I recently told a friend that Dave Chappelle didn't have to do another thing for me after the Rick James/Charlie Murphy sketch and all the sketches with Tyrone the crackhead. I guess he's holding me to my word.

This is what happens when the extra-talented try to negotiate with the talent-less executives aka shot callers. They drove the boy crazy (not to say he wasn't chillin' on the edge of insanity anyway.) Not knowing where else to turn he went on a spiritual retreat and now" shot callers" lean they're heads to the side in question. "I don't know what's wrong with him", "We tried to do right by him", "He really is Rich, Bitch. So what's the problem?"




I hope on his way to one of his South African Spiritual retreats Dave Chappelle stops in Atlanta and takes Bobby Brown and his "done" ass with him...

Tuesday, August 2

On and On & On and On

just when I think I can take no more...


My cipher keeps movin’ like a rollin’ stone.

It is quite nice to move in several circles of friends. I have found a circle of sheer heaven out her in Cali. On July 30th, Saturday night around 11:30pm in Hollywood, I found myself sliding around back to what looked like the entrance to a port-o-san. What it turned out to be, was this little hole in the wall club. Hot and steamy with a DJ, actually spinning records. Jamming.....In my island orange dress I couldn't help but sway and sweat with the crowd. Too bad the club fun ends at 2:00am here in LaLa land. It was a great night and great morning. Okay, there might be a light at the end of the Los Angeles tunnel and I'm easing on down the road towards it.

Keep hope alive.

Monday, August 1

WONDERFUL WONDER WOMAN


Thank you Lynda Carter for your role suggestion for who's to play Wonder Woman in the major motion picture release, set to shoot next year. Please Hollywood, don't go with a boring fool because you think she'll draw the numbers. Let's search for a WONDERFUL WONDER WOMAN. Come on..Take a chance. Find a beautiful, gymnast who is in her last year of law school. Beauty, flexibility, confidence and depth. It's a tough act to follow.