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I Gave 900 Grains of Rice Today ... With My Vocabulary
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JOSS WHEDON - Anything he does, I am there. Below is the post he wrote at Whedonesque.com, sparking the creation of the I am Dua Khalil blog. Joss is a self-avowed atheist, yet he cares very deeply for humanity and particularly for the rights of women (his mother had a hand in the creation of Equality Now). The link below leads to an essay he wrote about violence and misogyny. The best piece of writing I've seen in 2007:
by Joss Whedon
May 20, 2007
Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death
For Fun:
The Employee Song
Sing it Loud, Sing it Proud (or just hum it at work). Keep your cool at work with this little revenge fantasy:
Ray's Employee Song
Theatre
I've done quite a bit -- but have been in stasis for several years; hopefully for not too much longer.
Great Play: Morticians in Love
Too many people to name. I'm afraid if I name them here I'll put a hex on myself, so for now I'll just whisper them on the inside.
* Actors who are coping with having to work a regular job and do theatre on the side.
* Perhaps some discussion on process and effective teachers. What has worked for you?
* Film fans, most genres; I love Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy the most, closely followed by B-Movies and Guilty Pleasures.
* Independent film industry people, to keep abreast of films news and possibly doing film work in the future.
* I'd also like to meet the people who inspire me, who make me laugh with delight and reduce me to a sobbing child, like Joss Whedon and a lot of other folks out there. I would've liked to meet J.T. Walsh when he was still alive. I'd like to meet Christopher Lee before he passes. HUGE fan of his Dracula and just him in general; what an interesting career he's had.
Opera, Broadway, Classical, Jazz, Blues, International, Big Band ...
Two covers of Wild Horses on video follow. The Stones originated the song and it's nice to see them actually perform something mellow (though Jagger leaves a lot to desire as far as singing goes). The Sundays took all their music off their MySpace profile so I can't use Wild Horses as my profile song anymore. So I found a YouTube. Enjoy:
Rolling Stones - Wild horses (Acoustic)
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Metropolis
Movies I love : Once; Talk to Her; The Godfather I & II; Chinatown; Last Tango in Paris; The Conversation; The Big Lebowski; Fargo; Dominick & Eugene; Out of Sight; Insomnia (original); The Loved One; It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Night of the Living Dead; Dawn of the Dead; Sophie's Choice; A Room With A View: A Passage to India; Dr. Zhivago; Rosemary's Baby; Carrie; Sisters; A Tale of Two Sisters; Psycho; Halloween; The Thing; Frenzy; Vertigo; Rear Window; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Somewhere in Time; Once Upon A Time In America; The Gambler; Thief; The Aviator; The Bostonians; Nashville; A Clockwork Orange; MASH; The Company; Gosford Park; A Wedding; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; The French Connection; Gods and Monsters; Superman I & II; Hell Boy; Cronos; La Cite des Enfants Perdus; Frenzy; Vertigo; Alien (all of them); The Haunting; Far From the Madding Crowd; Women in Love; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Memento; The Searchers; Red River; Stagecoach; True Grit; M; El Cid; Jaws; Grand Prix; Glory; Pulp Fiction; Jackie Brown; From Dusk Til Dawn; Squirm; Ssssssss; The Hunger; The Comfort of Strangers; The Shuttered Room; Every Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing film made; Theatre of Blood; Cry of the Banshee; Innocent Blood; An American Werewolf in London; Cure; The Grudge (original); Audition; Forbidden Planet; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; The Elephant Man; Dune; The Dead Zone; The Brood; The Man Who Fell To Earth;
~~ There's about a million more ~~
Favorite Horror (to name a few) : Monkeyshines; The Exorcist; The Exorcist II: The Heretic; The Shuttered Room; The Innocents; All Vincent Price films (but in particular Cry of the Banshee; Conqueror Worm; Dr. Phibes); The Little Shop of Horrors (Corman); The Terror; Them; Nosferatu; Psycho; Frenzy; Badham's Dracula; Coppola's Dracula; Count Yorga Vampire (both); Frankenstein; Bride of Frankenstein; The Mummy; The House That Dripped Blood; The Haunted House of Horror (but it used to be a different name); The House on Haunted Hill; The Haunting; Phantasm; Play Misty For Me; Halloween; The Fog; The Howling; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Terror Train; Bad Moon; Scanners; The Dead Zone; The Devil's Backbone; Cronos; Rosemary's Baby; Insomnia (original); Sisters; Carrie; Body Double; Dressed to Kill; The Hunger; Dominion: The Exorcist Prequel (Schrader); Final Destination; The Grudge (original); Ringu; Suicide Club; The Isle; Audition; A Tale of Two Sisters; Cure .... to be continued
Episode: The Prom ~~~ Music by The Sundays // Wild Horses ~~~
Current favorites:Most of the Law & Order. SVU is at the top.
Dexter, Lost, Supernatural, Criminal Minds, BTVS, Angel, Firefly, House, CSI Vegas; Criminal Minds, Heroes, Bones, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome ...
Past Favorites:
The X-Files, Millennium, Beauty & The Beast, All In The Family, A Year In The Life, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Twin Peaks, Hill Street Blues, The Wild, Wild West, Dark Shadows, VR-5, My So-Called Life, V, St. Elsewhere, Lost in Space, The Munsters ...
... Under consideration
Some Big Damn Heroes to start off with - Firefly :
Which Firefly Line Are You?
"Mercy is the mark of a great man." (Mal, Shindig)
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Joss Whedon
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What I Put in Yahoo's Time Capsule about Joss:
It is my hope that people will discover and rediscover the work of Joss Whedon. That they know that he was and is a great artist and humanitarian deeply concerned about the state of women's rights in our world. Some might say "Well, he was just an entertainer who wrote comic books and directed television series about monsters and science fiction." You couldn't be more wrong. Through his "entertainment," people have met, married, gained friendships, and explored themselves through his artistry.
What does Joss Whedon mean to me? (has stroke from sheer emotional response) Seriously though, if I said the sun, the stars and the moon, it wouldn't be too far off. Joss' work has gotten me through at least one deep depression and even when I didn't want to feel, especially more pain, I kept going back to watching Buffy and then Angel. I think those shows kept me a) human, and b) sane. Because Joss is us and we are him. He is an intellect fused with a large heart (not en-larged, just large). He's the Mozart of his age; a genius who writes for the people, not the rich and influential. It's his calling and while he must write for himself first, he shared it with us lucky mortals. And I love him for it and all the above.
And in addition to that gush from my viscera, Joss Whedon looks into the human heart and soul in a way that very few artists ever do. He's not a man you could ever call mundane. He questions why human beings do the things they do. He is curious and delving and not a little bit humorous in his examination and delight in the human condition.
Just as George Romero uses his zombies to make political statements, Joss Whedon has used demons, magic, westerns and outer space as metaphors for a young girl's journey to womanhood and all that that entails, a troubled man's journey towards redemption, and big damn heroes who sought to change the status quo in a huge universe. It's not that he doesn't want to scare us or cause us pain -- that's part of life. But through great fear, sorrow, and pain comes strength and understanding.
If you have waited to experience his artistry, wait no longer. Jump into the deep end and be rewarded exponentially.
Let me leave you with these words uttered by Mr. Whedon when he accepted his award from Equality Now: "Because, equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. We need equality ... And kinda now."
Buffy - "It's all about power; who has it and who knows how to use it."
The Dalai Lama
Tina Turner; Pam Grier; Robert Altman; Helen Mirren;
~~ More to come