Is Everything for Romance? Even with Successful Careers

just woke up, just water, wore black (Great), no food, no coffee before, energizing awesome convo. good. I saw a darren brown and david tennant clip (for darren's tv show) and I relized that they went out into public to have a woman draw a picture and david was supposed to have predicted what she'd draw, but the interesting thing was how it almost seemed like david and darren were competing for the woman's attention to impress her! LOL these two HUGE awesome dudes and names (darren brown and david tennant) with huge massively successful careers, were almost primarily focused on this woman's attention. I mean i have a ton of respet for david, but my reverence for darren (he's just so gnalry) is off the charts, so seeing both these two extraordinary guys doing very unextraordiariny stuff (trying to impress a woman and have
vulnerability in that -- or maybe that is extraoridinary too!! ;D) was an eye-opener.

I mean Tennant is THE Dr. Who! How much more cool and successful and impressive is that from a sci-fi POV. And Darren....well that guy's just unfathomably cool and he represents the apex of all the skills in which I have been and currently training. So DB just operates on this unimaginably awesoem level of success. But so here were these two amazingly successful people whom I have massive respect for, doing something very common and normal -- kind of "flirting with a woman"!! :D These guys were just doing what any normal guy would do -- flirting with this woman! I mean I guess I figured at some level of success I erroneously thought you wouldn't have to worry about those htings (flirting, courtship, etc) but while I'm sure those guys don't worry about them, they still DO them. Romance is alive for every person regardless of their level of success. In many ways I htink romance is kind of the common denominator that makes someone's career or their image etc, operate from a baseline: yeah we are all human, we all have human emotions. Cool! But it was something to which I could relate. I could only look up to their careers -- wow, db's nlp skills insane! etc -- but when I saw them flirting with this woman, I was like "Hey!! Hey! Hey, I'm on the same level with them in that regard at least!!" :D

Realized that whatever level of success, romance and intimacy is still something that's very alive for people! And it just seemed these hugely massively successful careers, it's like that success got whittled down to just courtship, trying to impress, having a lot going for the sake of romance. VERY interesting. I guess the main insight was if I look at david and darren's careers, they seem pretty amazingly impenetrable successful, like intangible success like invulnerable success! But then when I saw them almost in this teasing, trying to impress mode, it made their careers a lot more connected and real and something that I could relate to! very cool!

Tom Cruise Notes

Tom Cruise Notes

"I eat life" LOL such a great quote.

"Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It's not analytical; it's instinctual. It is their own voice...[and that is what is needed to make movies]". AWESOME quote because

"What I want in a performance is I want it to be spontaneous; I want it to be now. Not you know happening in the past. We try to work towards getting rid of the mechanics, the technique. Let's find the spontaneity. With the power of my own imagination or my own ability to believe or my own creative idea of what I've created here it just happens, it just happens; it just goes. And I don't judge it. And there's times where as an actor where I'm working and I feel nothing and I don't panic and go "oh my god I feel nothing!" I always take from the point of view of "okay well that's interesting. I don't invalidate. I don't fight what's going to happen. I din't try to create. I've done my work. It gets inside of you see that it's just there. And when youre there you just want to fly and play jazz."


What I would say for the pearly gates questions: She would say (god is a definitely a babe, possibly androgenyous, but at the very least a babe), So SHE would say, "Wow, you rock! I could say that in a way that would take 10 years of detailed explanation, but I'll be concise, you rock!" Because I know that she'd know all the details of my life and I'd remember most of them so having this long drawn-out explanation of what my life meant or what I did or didnt do would be redundant, so I'd be overjoyed if I got the rolling waves of heaven and She (god) jsut says "you rocked life, you rock!" :D


Surmised, I think that may mean, you do your work, your preparation like mad -- THAT is your work, so then when it's game time and you actually have a contract, salary, and acting Job, you can relax and know whatever you feel (or dont' feel) is fully 150% totally valid! :D.

Cool Acting Tip. Tom Cruise. Write a whole HISTORY to the character. Where did they begin? What have they been through. Their history. COOL way to get going with great persona to then match up to the script!

This guys AMAZING role-model hero. Attractive, sexy, appleaing to babes, NICE, amazing actor, GREAT Dancer, he HAD and HAS it going on in every dimension. The dude rocks! Cruise is a gentleman, intelligent, but he doesn't care about intelligence THAT's the thing. he has fun and is a player too, but can then go and be genuine and sincere too. Puts thought into his words.

What cruise does THE Best, that I used to do and must resume, is you look into a point in space slightly below the horizon without eye contact and make your script and think of what you're going to say, then when you deliver it, you make eye contact.

Had his step-father pay him $900 a month. And if you subract rent and utilities, I'm getting $500, much of which goes to internet and car, because I was trying to do a lot of web design at the time -- gumball site, romantic web page, life coaching site, blog active, etc.

Brilliant words normalcy ; it odesn't EXIST!!! :D LOL No one is normal.

His Agent, Paula Wagner , was the SHIT sounds like AMAZING, THE agent. awesome.

Scorcese's generosity and love for actors. NICE.

I need to brace myself for "weird shit" shit and people and things that may say stuff I wouldn't expect. That's preperation for what you can't prepare for is NECESSARY and huge because


MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Born on the 4th of july seens looked soooo much like and sounded so much like arguments at 428 with hellish "get out of the house shit".

Paula Wagner looks like Laura hearn...weird!

He has the intelligence, , humbleness, smartness of jimmy davis, too.

dude he flies and owns planes did not r ealize that.

The Image of an Actor as The Product
WOW! :D IT IS image!!! The People that work with Tom Cruise in a business sense (his agent, publicist, manager etc), Kevin Huvane, Rick Nicita, and Pat Kingsley are always working on securing not Tom Cruise, but his IMAGE!!! :D Image is NOT some surreal hoofey-doofy aura bs wavelength crap it's a business product!! Tom Cruise's image of the ultimate heartthrob was what made and does make him huge amounts of coin and it's why the best agency, CAA, works with him! That's fascinating because that's what Breck was talking about "image". Image is NOTHING abou fruedian-jungian-archetypes (well they're images too) but he was talking about IMAGE in the business-entertainment sense. How people see you. Tom Cruise's movies sell HEAPS because of his image as a heartthrob! But then STRANGELY enough....it was his sister Lee Anne Devette that apparently kept him so anchored from pulling the "Oprah stunts" which I didn't think of as that destructive at all, but the media hype DID. NOW I finally see the lens through which agents, publicists, acting managers and the like see actors -- as a product, but the actor themselves is NOT the product, it's their image that's the product. It's the image of the actor that sells. It was tom cruise's image (not tom cruise himself) but his image that garnered 5 consecutive $100+ million films!! Now of course, the actor creates the image, but other people most certainly help shape and mold and anchor it. THAT's amazing. That's the career, actually earning money, business side of acting I've been blind to and am now finally parts of which I am finally understanding! Sweet :D!

Wow. So extrapolating this totally new concept to me of the actor's image as a product

But i mean I can see why some actor's do and don't do Inside the Actor's Studio: it has a huge potential (potentially uplifting, potentially destructive, mostly always uplifting though) impact on image. I mean during Cruise's Inside the Actor's Studio, you could almost just literally see how all of his CAA crew in the Front Row -- Wagner, Nicita, The head CAA manager dude Huvane -- were almost just like monitoring their image-product investment!! It wasn't disturbing nor "wrong" it's just the nature of the business. I think it's awesome! To finally understand the relationship there with actor image and agency and the business side of a creative performer.

Yepp.....yepp...sigh...yeppp yepp this settles it. I'm an actor. I study actors. I try to learn from actors. I believe in actors. I hate christianity, i'm a touch bit buddhist and hindu, but I'm all actor. I'll either be a successful or unsuccessful actor, it's as simple s that. Right now, I feel I've got some great talent, but I'm a god-awfully Unsuccessful actor. But success doesn't frame talent. I just am going to continue to do everything I can to prepare for success! :D

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Yepp.....yepp...sigh...yeppp yepp this settles it. I'm an actor. I study actors. I try to learn from actors. I believe in actors. I hate christianity, i'm a touch bit buddhist and hindu, but I'm all actor. I'll either be a successful or unsuccessful actor, it's as simple s that. Right now, I feel I've got some great talent, but I'm a god-awfully Unsuccessful actor. But success doesn't frame talent. I just am going to continue to do everything I can to prepare for success! :D


Christian Bale Freakout
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbz6-7c_7Hk
I find the fact that these famous, successful and (atleast in regards to Bale) talented performers have and occasionally display rage, a relief; it shows they have real, unpolished, emotion --just like some of us, like you, like myself, like normal people experience.

Wise Words on Fame from Some Masters

Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors.

And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that's totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it's not necessarily The Hub for all film. It's certainly undeniably a major one (and has been The Hub) but the world's much smaller and film productions can certainly traverse many regions. Filming takes place anywhere in the world (or out of the world, e.g. "Earth to the Moon") so that's a cool clarification; something Ira Glass would undoubtedly call a "Modern Jackass" (an assumption you always think to be true and never question, despite its ridiculousness).

Recent Celeb Scene and Global Positioning

Heath Ledger might win the oscar for his maniacal Joker character, making this the second posthumous "Best Actor" award in over 30 years, the most recent (hardly not recent) went to Peter Finch in Network in 1977.

Also, I noticed the ever-growing "I hate Paris club" has continued to spawn. Disdain for that woman -- who, imho, is not really that bad, and in some areas, quite likeable, like her ability to handle media and magnetize press to her image (that also, of course, is the same reason why so many loathe her) -- has become a "fad" a trendy thing to do. Even actresses I admire, like incredibly talented Tina Fey appear to loathe her: "She's so unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close. Her hair looks like fraggle." What really stumps me is how she so effectively gets under the skin of so many successful people. Does she threaten? Are they confused by her success? If she was a nobody they wouldn't bother commenting about her. Anyways, that ridicule, no doubt, satisfies Ms. Hilton's image agenda rendering her more successful. Bad flack or Good flack still registers as some kind of attention, so if you objectively seek attention, she's got it!

In other news, Matt LeBlanc's former "Friends" agent, Camille Cerio (not to be confused with pregnant Camilla Alves, McConaughey's girlfriend, of no relation) is trying to sue him for $1 million in unpaid commissions. He actually EARNED $1 million per show, though! And considering that the Friends' series tallied NUMBER episodes, he should have no problem covering that, but gotta pay those dues!

That about raps it up for celebrity gossip, other than the usual -- a lot of babies, a lot of pregnancies, a lot of marriages, and a lot of trips to the beach! One question, do they "time" these things. It just seems like babies are popping out all over the place in the summer with Pitt-Jolie's twins and McConaughey-Alves's expecting and more, it seems that way.

I also just noticed Gyllenhal's been practicing swordsmanship for "Prince of Persia". I've played almsot every video game in that series, so that video-game-to-movie conversation definitely pops onto the "Must-see" list.

I don't like to focus to much on these people because they already get so much flak, but oh, one more thing I noticed is Jolie has some longitude and latitude coordinates tatooed on her left shoulder.



Navigation (along with precision and freedom) stands as one of my three core values, so anything with coordinates and nautical precision gets an A+ for cool in my book, but as a tattoo? That's a pretty intellectual ink-skin maneuveur, especially when compared to a lot of the 2am drunken-stupor tattoos people get permanently emblazened onto their epidermal layer. 4 sets of nautical global coordinates -- you can tell a lot of thought went into that -- very cool. It turns out the represent the long. and lat. of the birthplace of her kids.

Cambodia (N11 33' 0" E104 51' 00")


Addis Abeba, Ethiopia (N09 02' 00" E038 45' 00")


Swakopmund, Namibia (S22 40' 26" E014 31' 40")


Vietnam (N10 40' 00" E106 41' 40").



This dude wrote an entry on finding these out.

Very impressed, Angelina. Awesome work with the nautical alignment. Sure, the ink might have been a bit much, but solid precision.

On the note of awesome navigational nerdiness, is this amazing hack for google maps. Maps doesn't allow you to see Longitude and Latitude, but if you copy this bit of text into the URL field an instant detailed longitude and latitude will pop up detailing the corresponding longitude and latitude of the center of the map! Here's the hack code:

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

Try that hack out! And if you want to brush up in meridians and parrallels, I think if you understand everything in this page, you've got a great foundation of the fundamentals.

Along the lines of global positioning, here's an awesome nifty site, too, that calibrates using Geotagged points any spot on the our Earth that you click with corresponding longitude and latitude I calibrated the link to a "starting base of sorts". Greenwich is 51° 28' 38". With that sequence of getgags. Negative (-) = S latitudes or W longitudes, respectively and positive (+) = N latitudes or E longitudes, so for examplle, Los Angeles is lat:34, long:-118. It's awesome to flip the symbols. Turns out the west coast of Australia is exactly on the complete flipside of the globe at lat:-34, long:118. Sure, you could go crazy with Google Earth, but I found the above tricks, the nifty-geotagged site and the google maps .getCenter() hack very fast and accessible.

After some tweaking, I discovered some cool navigational facts.

The closest spot to Greenwich's 51° N latitude from Los Angeles's -118W latitude is close to Calgary, Canada, so Greenwich (and London) is a bit further north than frequently, thought. I've been into Jules Verne, recently, so to have contingency with said author's pin-point pecision-wisdom, here's some other "longitudinal and latitudinal matchups):

Exactly one half-globe's worth of latitude (-34 or 34°S) still at -118 (or 118W) longitude is smack dab in the center of the South Pacific, about half way between New Zealand and the South American coast of Chile.

The southern tip of Algeria is located along the same parrallel as Los Angeles, but at the Prime Meridian. That sparked fascination.

And, finally, as a tribute to Philleas Fogg, it's interesting to note that the furthest south he went (which holds quite a distance) ended up at at Singapore after passing by Malaysia and before curling up the east coast of Malaysia and Vietnam before Reaching Hong Kong (22,114). His latitude at Singapore was about 1°N or slightly above the equator, a huge variation from London's coordinates at (51°N) nearly 50 degrees difference in latitude, so maybe he did travel a bit further than simply "around the world", well he stayed close enough to the equator in any case.

Just to provide some scope of how far Hawaii is from the US's west coast, it's coordinates are 20, -158, making it, 14 degrees of longitude and 30 degrees of latitude away, and slightly south from southwest US coast. New Guinea is 9,-82, or only 11° latitude and 70° of longitude away, which means that although Hawaii is part of the 50 states, in terms of latitude and longitude, it's closer to New Guinea's parrallel and if you add up the differences it's 44° versus 81° from New Guinea. Just interesting views of proximity.


Head west (or east, you'll end up in the same spot each way) one half globe from Los Angeles along the same 34°N line and you'll find yourself in Nanjing, China, which is slightly Northeast of Shanghai. I can instantly see

If I commented on the number of births, marriages, and baby-gossip, this post would be about 20 times as long, so that's it for now!

Keith Richards on "Shine a Light"

This interview was hilarious. I don't think I've ever cracked up as much reading this. Why? A few reasons.

1. I think I just like hearing british people's responses. They're logic processes appeals to me.
   
2. I prefer articles where the epicenter of the article actually gets heard (i.e. an interview!) instead of some bloke author reporting on something I have an interest in. In other words. I have no idea who the article author "clark collins" is. nor do I care. You read something like this to see more about keith, so having his responses compose the bulk of hte article makes this read worthwhile. In other words, using this example, I want to hear from the horse's mouth what Keith, Mick, or Scorcese had to say about "Shine a LIght" (a movie I seriously want to watch), not some dude reporting on it expressing his views because then you have to filter out and extract subjective perspective. Same goes for any topic.
   
3. Keith's responses were just outrageously HILAROUS!
   

Keith's responses:

1. "You realize, Mick, that you've got five songs in the same key." What?! Why would he have five songs in the same key? I'd appreciate if a musician explained this to me.
2. "Mick is not very musical!" What?! lol. He's like pure music!
3. "Oh, I love film. D.W. Griffith, Hitchcock. William Wellman. I mean should I go on? I know my movies." LOL!! He lists like three of the most old school film-makers Do you realize ALL of those directors were born in the 1800s!! They did like all black and white!. Hysterical.
4. "I think the guy went mad. He's a frenchman. We can't help them." Totally royally hysterical.
   
5. "one of my friend,s in a way is bruce willis. I mean, terrible movies. We know that. But a great harmonic player." What?! Great actor!. hilarious.
6. " That's why you paid for the dinner, eh?" Johnny bought him dinner b/c who used sparrow's character traits modeled from keith? How's dinner fit into that? haha.
7. "No, but there are certain chicks." (about missing years from his noggin). That one I get. So funny.