Acting in a Digital World
Happy Halloween!
Hope you have a safe, fun and chocolate filled Halloween!
And if you ever find yourself near Pennsylvania, be sure to head over to Chocolate World! It’s a place that I will always love forever, hold close to my heart and never forget.
“Knowing what it’s like on the stage, you would never trade that to be in the audience.”
I got back from San Francisco last Thursday and upon returning, I realized the truth behind a song performed by a hair band in the 80’s. There was a song called “Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone” by Cinderella. that was on MTV and radio while I was growing up. I understood what it meant but at my young age I hadn’t been through enough in life to fully understand.
I can’t seem to get to sleep. I’m thinking it’s because I worked out and ate late tonight. My brain can’t and won’t shut off. So I decided to get up and put it here in hopes of getting sleepy.
I’ve been working out recently. If you can’t love LA for anything, you can at least love LA to motivate yourself into getting in better shape. Everywhere I turn someone has a bigger or better body. Yes it can be taken to an extreme such as you see on TV and in the news but use it careful and it’s a great motivator to have some of the best looking people in the world around you.
I came across a movie trailer for a documentary called Jesus Camp. Needless to say I was quite scared and worried upon seeing the trailer. What upsets me even more is there seems to be no problems or concerns with “religious” organizations teaching children to live or more importantly die for the religion. Am I the only one that is seeing this kind of thinking is moving away from our core American values and instead even moving closer to extremism, the very thing we are suppose to be fighting?
I watched Hotel Rwanda recently. It was a very moving film. It made me angry, laugh, cry and motivate me to get involved and not stand by. However, after some time passed and I was watching the special features of the DVD, I got very upset. Who I was upset with was surprising. I was upset with myself. I was upset with my Country, the UN and the “civilized” world.
Here was one man fighting to save 1,200+ people from being killed. Yet we as a nation and a world, did nothing. We turned our backs, turned off our TVs and went on with our lives. Ten years later, we create a movie detailing this story and the story of roughly one million people in Rwanda being killed. We nominate the film for an award, pat each other on the backs for “bringing the truth” out in the open. But what about stopping this behavior? Why aren’t we ashamed of our complete lack of a response back then?
The worst part? This is happening yet again in a place called Darfur. History repeats yet again. When will we learn? Or do we just not care because they are in another country and of a different color?