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On the verge of giving up the nine to five - well, 6pm to 3am - before I have to kill somebody, most likely an investment bank analyst with an attitude surpassing my own. Of course, if do up and leave the rat race altogether, don't ask me how I'll survive now that I've gotten used to the comforts of my own home, nice clothes, shoes, food... Who's gonna pay my mortgage?
My first feature length script, "Passed Caring" was recently awarded Best Screenplay at the 2006 Independent Black Film Festival, Atlanta, USA, and now, with companies like Focus Features asking to read it, all I do is dream about exchanging my current hellish existence (investment banks are the devil's cesspit - but they pay well) for another spookily alluring one (Hollywood, anyone?).
Oh well, a change is, they say, as good as a rest... But wait! There's always the low budget, independent, film festival and art house screened, MySpace hyped, straight to DVD market - and hip trounces trendy, any day - who cares if there's a few zeros missing from the paycheck?
OK... everything above was written in April '06 and Focus Features never called... Still working, but at another gaddam bank! New strategy for '07...? Watch this space!
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My Interests

Shoes (mostly the kind I can't really afford - have credit...), Writing (not prolific enough), Reading (don't do as much as I could/should), Sex (don't get as much as I could - or should - but think it underpins so much of the human experience, consciously or otherwise), Yoga (to keep mind, body and soul together and to compensate for the "dry spells"), Life (well, ocassionally - other times it just bores me stupid), Thinking (sometimes too much), Sleeping...zzz zzz zzz

Frolicking in Hyde park... and Little Venice/Paddington Basin (pics courtesy of "Meir" and Trentski - Easter Sunday, 2007)
Oh yes... and I likes to ParTAY! Pics from Tambay's Brooklyn Bash, New York - October 2006. Again, pics courtesy of "Meir".

I'd like to meet:

As I continue to learn more about myself, anyone who can help the learning process; particulary independent black film makers on any side of the pond...

... and SKYPErs!

... and peopele intent on Growing Older Disgracefully!!

Fashionistas et al... never mind what the new black is - 60 is fast becoming the new 40, 40 the new 30, and being old the newâ€¦ well, NEWâ€¦ or at least re-newed!

So where can you, from the experience and wisdom of someone who's probably older, wiser and sexier than you, learn the secrets to great sex appeal into and well passed your supposed prime...?

Go on... GROW OLDER DISGRACEFULLY! You know you want to!!

Here's a clip from BEAUTIFUL THINGS, a gem of a movie by my friend, Tambay , which pretty much sums up the way I feel most of the time... Enjoy.

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And finally... a little light entertainment for those of us that are here... and a dedication to those of us that aren't.

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Music:

Hate fave lists, ever changing and evolving... Tend towards Soul, Jazz Funk, Acid Jazz - Omar, Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Drizabone - but anything that inspires me from Queen to Fela Kuti, to Outkast (particularly Andre Benjamin's Love Below), to pop cheese like Kylie can keep me happy.

Movies:

Hate fave lists, ever changing and evolving... think most movies are actually over-rated, but off the top of my head: Dangerous Liaisons, Last Tango in Paris, A Streetcar Named Desire, Being John Malkovich, Secretary, Mo Better Blues, Sound of Music (no, really), Fiddler on The Roof, The Wizard of Oz, Mulholland Drive, Reqiem for A Dream, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sideways, The Sixth Sense, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Mood for Love, In Her Shoes, Happiness, Sylvia, The Butterfly Effect, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Closer, Abouna, Bamboozled, Dogville, Manderlay, Shadows, Requiem for a Dream, Beautiful Things , 20:30:40, Opening Night, 8 1/2, Daratt, Lust Caution, Scenes From A Marriage...

Television:

Don't watch much these days, it's usually background noise (VH1, MTV, CNN, BBC News 24). Did love SATC, Frasier, Six Feet Under, Cold Feet

Books:

Hate fave lists, ever changing and evolving... Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; most anything by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou

Heroes:

Anyone who can keep going in the face of adversity

LIGHT A CANDLE FOR PEACE! LIGHT A CANDLE FOR LOVE! PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN!

My Blog

A Working Holiday

So last September I decided to take a month off the grindstone that is 9-5 (or, in my case, 1.00am to 8.30am) and visit friends in the US enroute to/from a well deserved one week of sun, sea and so on...
Posted by Wendilicious on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

If I sound a little squeaky...

I used to write a lot. Sometimes when I was happy, sometimes when I was in a funk... actually writing in a funk is wonderfully therapeutic. But I haven't been writing too much of late. Restless... I'...
Posted by Wendilicious on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:34:00 PST

A case for whiteface...?

I am an African in the 21st century... ... who is either not photogenic enough or not actually worth featuring, even when the issue is about me and mine... ...and who is yet to start her first day at ...
Posted by Wendilicious on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:04:00 PST

All about me: Communicating with style...?

So I read Yemi's blog and thought I'd give the Bell South personality test a go. And this is what it came up with. Not too far off the mark, I'd say. Princess WOO, You are a Motivational Visionar...
Posted by Wendilicious on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:48:00 PST

Imus: My 50 Cents Worth

Hip-hop may not be the sole root of the problem, but successful, mass produced hip-hop is certainly not blameless. Throughout America's short history (i.e. post Columbus), the denigration and ruinatio...
Posted by Wendilicious on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:07:00 PST

Obsession - A tongue in cheek poem for single women over 30 and the men who like to avoid them

Fretting about weight, what dress size I amBeing single sucks, gotta find me a man.Never mind sisters doing it for themselvesDon't wanna end up a spinster, alone on the shelf.Does full make-up make me...
Posted by Wendilicious on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:33:00 PST

It pays to Google

Call me vain (OK, OK, not all at once - geez!), but every couple of months or so I seem to have the need to Google myself. You know... Type my name into the Google search engine, press "search" and se...
Posted by Wendilicious on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:32:00 PST

What the hell is wrong wit' y'all?

Yes, as any non-American may know or have even experienced, when you feel like getting mad (and with gun laws being somewhat stricter than those of our American cousins - though we do s...
Posted by Wendilicious on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:51:00 PST

And the Winner Is... 4 Talent Article

Okay, so the news isn't exactly new anymore and I still haven't received my cheque for $1,000,000 (I wish!), but they say that no news is bad news (or something like that) and I was actually interview...
Posted by Wendilicious on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:45:00 PST

Oh, the Impestuousity of it All!

October 2006. A restaurant in Broolyn Heights, NY. I'm dining with a cute writer guy and we seem to have been getting along pretty well. So when he asks if I know what the word "impestuous" means, I d...
Posted by Wendilicious on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:38:00 PST