Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
EAT PRAY LOVE
EAT PRAY LOVE, title of the current movie, reminds me of a Nike shirt - EAT SLEEP PLAY/REPEAT - love it! That's how to live life! That's what it's all about.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
This Is It!
This is It! - by Michael Jackson
I've just finished watching the movie to get some tips for my school's College of the Holy Spirit Alumnae Grand Reunion Show this July 24 where I am going to be the musical director. And I was totally immersed in Michael - The Man, the Musician, the Legend, the Phenomenon, the Icon!!
Why, Michael, why?? God, why??
This is it! - Did the title of your song, your upcoming world tour, stand for your passion, your intense, conscious desire, to make the most successful, triumphant, unparalleled comeback in the music world? Or was it, at the same time, an unconscious precognition, a self-fulfilling prophesy of your final bow, your farewell, your detachment from all material world and your journey into the next?
This is it!
This is it, Michael... Goodbye... The whole world misses you!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
WORLD MUSIC AWARDS 2010
Just wrapped up!
"Life is Music and Music is Life. Life is My Music and Music is My Life."
(Go to my music blog to see more of WORLD MUSIC AWARDS 2010)
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Toy Story 3
Great movie! I forgot what the original story and part 2 were all about, but now I remember, it's about the life story of toys who belonged to a small boy, Andy. And in 3, Andy is 17 and going to college and this is now the story of his toys who are feeling their loss, vulnerability, who are concerned about their future, even facing their own "mortality".
A work of art! A stroke of genius!
Who wrote Toy Story? Watching the movie, you'd think the toys wrote their own life story 'cause who even knew they were "alive", that they "breathed"??
Of course, people, human beings, not toys, wrote the story. But I thought it had to be a child, cause only a child has the purity, the innocence and the imagination to make up a story like that. But not even Andy knew his toys were real!
Of course, it was real people who did the whole story and film. And with all the modern-day animation, special effects, technology, it's got to be adult people who have the experience, the expertise, to have done this! But they weren't just adults, not just geniuses, but people who, at their age, still have that "child" in them.
How wonderful it is to possess that quality, that virtue of childlikeness, at our age, in this age! We must never lose it as it is that which gives us joy and love and passion for life, that which brings out wholeness and purity of life in each of us, the very essence of life!
Yes, a work of art, live in 3D, a stroke of genius, of childlike genius! Beautiful!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
New Orleans Jazz at the Mission
Just got back from a New Orleans Jazz Concert at a new Performance Center at the Mission with the PRESERVATION HALL NEW ORLEANS BAND. Fabulous show! Great musicians! New Orleans jazz has gotta be the happiest music in town, in the entire world, I should say! It was exhilirating! The whole audience was ecstatic! Everybody got up to its feet and danced around the whole theatre! A young guy started it with her girlfriend or lady friend and I jumped up and joined! Then we got everybody to stand up and join the line and dance all over! You can't stay glued on your seats! The music was just too, what, I can't even describe it, you simply can't ignore it! Well, Norman had to stay in place cause he had to watch my purse and coat while I went wild! He stood up, though, and he was dancing!
Wow! And to think that I almost missed the show!
There was a show at the store I wanted to see - the Jazz Camp Open Mic, a wrap-up to the just concluded week-long camp! I've never been to one and all musician/friends have been telling me to attend a jazz camp, even once, so I wanted to go see what's happening in tonight's event, have an idea of what they do in a music camp, thinking I might get inspired, (which, of course, I always do), and go to next year's jazz camp. Norman and I were splitting the 2 shows tonight, he was going to the New Orleans Jazz show. But because of the anticipated riot, protests, after the Meserhle conviction this afternoon, the event was cancelled. So I ended up at the New Orleans'. Boy, now I'd like to go to New Orleans!
Lately, we have been totally immersed in a lot of live music - gigs, his, mine, ours, shows, concerts, all kinds! That goes without saying, being musicians, but these past few weeks have been unusually plenty. I ain't complaining.
I'm exhausted now from all the dancing, no, not exhausted, exhilirated!
It's late. Nite-nite...
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Jazzed Out!!
I'm all jazzed out this weekend from the street fair and my solo gig yesterday plus the Jazz Worship at Calvary today! And all "flagged" out with my american flag outfit from my american flag baseball cap to my american flag jacket right down to my american flag socks! I have a pair of american flag tennis shoes but I couldn't find 'em! And, oh, all "corned "out from all the corns on the cobs - roasted, wood-fired and steamed! And, of course, all full with good food, too. Nice to be home and just relax...I'm wiped out!!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
KING TUT EXHIBITION
Finally, I got to see TUTANKHAMUN and the GOLDEN AGE of the PHARAOHS yesterday! In one word, MAGNIFICENT!!
P.S.
When I was at the gift shop, seeing all the souvenirs, I remembered that I have a King Tut jewelry box made of...well, ah...tin. It's been buried somewhere for ages! I better dig it out, clean it up, and check all my jewelry inside, sort them out, give away what I don't need, even have some stolen. Hey, many of the treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb were stolen and they were priceless, the jewelry were "Simple yet Elegant", so I can afford to lose some in my box as they're just "simple and...well, ah...plain". They're cheap. I shall rename my jewelry box, TINCANKHAMUN.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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