OK, after a 2 week hiatus, guess what's back? If you are thinking me, David, well, you're right I am here, but I have not been gone for 2 weeks like......wait for it....... Interactive Fridays!! Did you miss it?
Well, miss it no more. Its back and well rested.
Here is what I want to ask you this Friday: Have you ever been star struck?
What I mean is have you ever came across and actor or an actress or even a musician that you went like, "wow' there he or she is!" That happened to me this week a little.
This past week I was in California for the July Th weekend and I went to a concert for a band that I like and, what I didn't expect is that I would be meeting the band. The band is called Kutless. They're Christian rock band. Anyway, prior to the concert, on the drive down with a close friend of mine named Donald, if he would have asked me (he didn't) what I was expecting from this concert, the last thing I would have said was meeting the band.
I'll admit it, I got a bit star struck. One of my fave bands and here I am talking to them. I'll have to admit, it felt good to do it and I thank God He allowed it to have happened, but at the same time I felt like I made a fool of my self. Two reasons why I think that. One: is because I had told them I had driven from Arizona to see them, and second: This is a Christian band and all though they have their fans, where does the line get drawn between fans of a Christian band & making it Idol worship, which is one of the 10 Commandments? I wouldn't say I did that, but I am wondering what the difference would be.
Around late 2003, prior to moving to Arizona, I saw another Christian band called 'Five Iron Frenzy' and if memory serves me correctly 'FIF' were on their final tour. I think they were going to break up.
Anyway, I had bought a T-shirt from the band and all of them signed it, except one of them. He had, said, he doesn't mind signing autographs, but he had a personal limit on what he would and wouldn't sign. T-shirts was one of them.
Maybe to an extent, to this guy it was a form of Idolatry. I can understand that.
Lastly, I will tell you, my reader's one more quick story.
I have been in shopping malls and just going about my business, when I glance over to another part of the mall and I think I notice some one familiar to me. Turns out it was an actor or an actress from a TV show or movie. Some of them were not all that known. It has been so long I have forgotten their names and the television shows they were one. But, it can happen. It was nothing I had planned. I didn't look at any actors schedule for their day and say"OK, this actor is going to be shopping here"
I have told this story to people before and they didn't believe it.
I once saw actress Diane Keaton in a mall in Orange County, California. I didn't talk to her, but I saw her. Great actress.
Now, it's your turn: Have you, my dear reader's ever been star struck by an actor or actress that you might have come in contact with?
David
Friday, July 9, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Could It Be Possible
Today's If will not be written today so David can bring you the following blog topic.
The If's (interactive Friday's) will return next week at it's regurely scheduled time.
A couple of days ago I saw 3 movies. well 5 actually, but two of them didn't seem to fit what I wanted to write about today.
The films were " The Boy In The Striped Pajama's" "Two Brother's" & "Changeling"
Before I get started on these films I thought it be best that I explain little of why I am writing about them today. I like movies that make you think after you watch them. As I have stated before, motion pictures to me are not just about having a good time for 2 hours watching what ever you think is good, all though that is why most people go to the movies. Films that make you think could mean a number of things, but one in particular, could something be possible. Meaning the film you just saw talked about an issue that in the back of your mind you have wonder is it make believe or could it happen.
That I think is why I have chosen the films I have. They made me think, it could it have been possible or is it impossible.
'The Boy In The Striped Pajama's' (2008) is based upon a book by novelist John Boyne and is set in World War two Berlin and center's around the Holocaust. I am not goint o describe the whole movie to you, but I will say this. The plot of the storie is a young boy named Bruno moves with his family cause his father has a new job, commandant At Jewish concentration camp. There he meets a young Jewish boy on the opposite side of of an electric fence,named Shmuel. The end of the movie 'Bruno', in striped pajama's is trying help Shmuel find his father. What both boys find is the gas chamber where they mass executed.
Could it have been possible? According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech of New York, the Rabbi spoke that it was not possible. Concentration camps didn't have young single digit children working. But, the question I have and this may disturb some of you reading and if it does, I ask that you not take what you are about to read the wrong way. I am not a racist of any kind, but my point is could a young boy who was not Jewish sneak in to such a camp and end up meeting his demise?
I would hope not.
Second movie: Two Brother's (2004) is the story about 2 baby male tiger's who lose both their mother and father and are then separated. Years later their paths cross again when both tigers are set to fight one another. Here is the thing: Both animals look each other in the eye and realize they know each other.
Could it be possible that animals know who their sibling or even who their birth parents are if they were to see them again. Do they even know who their parents are even when their first born? If anything, It's debatable. I have heard some people say yes, it is possible and other laugh it off and say no, an animal is not that smart. A few years ago I was watching television and I happen to come across a program about the intelligence of animals.
It was one scientist hypothesis that an animal has the IQ of that of a 6 month old human infant. I am not a doctor and i have never studied the IQ of a six month old infant so I don't know really what they are capable of learning. Well, maybe to a small degree, eating sitting up and turning over and maybe even the early stages of crawling. One thing I have observed with my nieces and nephews was that at 6 months, they knew who their parents were and if they had older siblings, knew them as well. So, like I said, its debatable weather or not its possible.
Third film: "Changeling" (2008) is based upon a true story of an actual crime where a boy in the late 1920's Los Angeles, California goes missing. His mother, played by Angelina Jolie (more on her in an upcoming blog). The L.A. police department find a boy who fits the description of the missing child and send him to the grieving single parent trying to convince her that the child is hers.
Later on in the story the police hear of a case in another part of California about the remains of missing boys. One them, supposedly, the son of the the single mom.
This story, according to documents found by the script writer, J. Micheal Straczynski is true.
Now, here is where you or I have to ask could this be possible. Would anyone, police officer's or anyone find a missing child and claim it to be some one else.
I personally don't want to think so. Parent's know who their children are. They can spot them out of a crowd anywhere.
Granted, police detectives in the early part of the 20th century did not have DNA and all of the advances that they would have today.
So,maybe it could have been possible.
I would suggest all three films to you, my reader's. Allthough some of the subject matter in 2 of the films,'the boy in the striped pajama's and 'Changeling' maybe a little un suitable for younger children. Changeling has an R rating, and foul language.
If you can find these films on DVD, I hope you enjoy them and that they, like they did with me, made you think.
D...out!
The If's (interactive Friday's) will return next week at it's regurely scheduled time.
A couple of days ago I saw 3 movies. well 5 actually, but two of them didn't seem to fit what I wanted to write about today.
The films were " The Boy In The Striped Pajama's" "Two Brother's" & "Changeling"
Before I get started on these films I thought it be best that I explain little of why I am writing about them today. I like movies that make you think after you watch them. As I have stated before, motion pictures to me are not just about having a good time for 2 hours watching what ever you think is good, all though that is why most people go to the movies. Films that make you think could mean a number of things, but one in particular, could something be possible. Meaning the film you just saw talked about an issue that in the back of your mind you have wonder is it make believe or could it happen.
That I think is why I have chosen the films I have. They made me think, it could it have been possible or is it impossible.
'The Boy In The Striped Pajama's' (2008) is based upon a book by novelist John Boyne and is set in World War two Berlin and center's around the Holocaust. I am not goint o describe the whole movie to you, but I will say this. The plot of the storie is a young boy named Bruno moves with his family cause his father has a new job, commandant At Jewish concentration camp. There he meets a young Jewish boy on the opposite side of of an electric fence,named Shmuel. The end of the movie 'Bruno', in striped pajama's is trying help Shmuel find his father. What both boys find is the gas chamber where they mass executed.
Could it have been possible? According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech of New York, the Rabbi spoke that it was not possible. Concentration camps didn't have young single digit children working. But, the question I have and this may disturb some of you reading and if it does, I ask that you not take what you are about to read the wrong way. I am not a racist of any kind, but my point is could a young boy who was not Jewish sneak in to such a camp and end up meeting his demise?
I would hope not.
Second movie: Two Brother's (2004) is the story about 2 baby male tiger's who lose both their mother and father and are then separated. Years later their paths cross again when both tigers are set to fight one another. Here is the thing: Both animals look each other in the eye and realize they know each other.
Could it be possible that animals know who their sibling or even who their birth parents are if they were to see them again. Do they even know who their parents are even when their first born? If anything, It's debatable. I have heard some people say yes, it is possible and other laugh it off and say no, an animal is not that smart. A few years ago I was watching television and I happen to come across a program about the intelligence of animals.
It was one scientist hypothesis that an animal has the IQ of that of a 6 month old human infant. I am not a doctor and i have never studied the IQ of a six month old infant so I don't know really what they are capable of learning. Well, maybe to a small degree, eating sitting up and turning over and maybe even the early stages of crawling. One thing I have observed with my nieces and nephews was that at 6 months, they knew who their parents were and if they had older siblings, knew them as well. So, like I said, its debatable weather or not its possible.
Third film: "Changeling" (2008) is based upon a true story of an actual crime where a boy in the late 1920's Los Angeles, California goes missing. His mother, played by Angelina Jolie (more on her in an upcoming blog). The L.A. police department find a boy who fits the description of the missing child and send him to the grieving single parent trying to convince her that the child is hers.
Later on in the story the police hear of a case in another part of California about the remains of missing boys. One them, supposedly, the son of the the single mom.
This story, according to documents found by the script writer, J. Micheal Straczynski is true.
Now, here is where you or I have to ask could this be possible. Would anyone, police officer's or anyone find a missing child and claim it to be some one else.
I personally don't want to think so. Parent's know who their children are. They can spot them out of a crowd anywhere.
Granted, police detectives in the early part of the 20th century did not have DNA and all of the advances that they would have today.
So,maybe it could have been possible.
I would suggest all three films to you, my reader's. Allthough some of the subject matter in 2 of the films,'the boy in the striped pajama's and 'Changeling' maybe a little un suitable for younger children. Changeling has an R rating, and foul language.
If you can find these films on DVD, I hope you enjoy them and that they, like they did with me, made you think.
D...out!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Blasphemous Rumours...Part Two
Hi, my reader's. How the heck are ya this fine Tuesday morning?
Today, I am going to continue on a subject I spoke (wrote) about maybe a month or so ago.
The topic is rumors or lies that are spread about people. But, I must ask before I go any further that if you read this please don't thin "Aww,thats sad, David" Regardless of weather it is sad or not, that is not the basis for writing it.
If any thing it gets it off my chest.
As I stated in the first blog of 'blasphemous rumors (thanks again Martin Gore) I think everyone has heard rumors spread about them.Celebrity's get the brunt of it, I think. I was reading a cover of a tabloid magazine over the weekend and this excellent piece of Journalism was making reference to a deceased musician and how the cemetery he was buried at some how lost his body. If you believe that I've got some ocean front property in Arizona I would like to sell you. Its got a great view. From my front porch you can see the sea.
Do magazines like that have to do that? No. They do it for the almighty dollar.
There was drummer of a band I used to be a huge Fan of when I was growing up. He quit the band and about I would say 12 years later he is reported to be living under some pier at a Los Angeles beach.
He wasn't. He was living in L.A. in a nice house with his wife and daughter.
I would ask you , my reader's to tell me what kind of lies or rumors you have heard about you selves but I wont because i feel its a matter privacy and you may not feel comfortable with divulging the information.
I can't say I blame you.
I'll do it.
You all know I have wrote a screenplay and I think either last week or the week before I gave you a little taste of it. Here is how i got the idea and why this 'Scott' person said what he did.
I was in the 8th grade and it invited to a friends house for Halloween. My friends and I were in to alot of the rock music of the day (1983) and I had a couple of good record's I was asked to bring. (now if there is anyone under the age of 28 reading this and you don't know what a 'record' is, ask your mother or father.)
So, during the course of the night when my friends and I are waiting for rides back to our houses, I was asked how many albums I had brought, I counted them and told every one. There was this one person, kid about my age who thought it was hilarious how I had said the number. I had brought 6 albums.
Next day, we're back at school this guy See's me and starts shouting the number 6 at the top of his lungs. Now, heres the kicker: only about 4 people, including myself knows what he talking about. Doesn't stop him from making a complete idiot of himself by screaming this as loud as he could,making up a storie in the process that alot of kids, some even being friends of mine believed. This was November of 1983. It went on till June of 1984.
Now, I will say it again, please, no "aww's" or"David, thats sad" once again, not why I am writing this.
Can we stop rumors like this? Yeah I think so. We can just turn around and walk away and tell our selves we know the truth or we can choose to knock their teeth down their throat. Choice is your's. All though the last one isn't very Christ like.
I pushed this moron over about 8 bikes at the bike rack of the school. He never made fun of me again.
Tomorrow, "Siblings" part 2
David R. Meier
Today, I am going to continue on a subject I spoke (wrote) about maybe a month or so ago.
The topic is rumors or lies that are spread about people. But, I must ask before I go any further that if you read this please don't thin "Aww,thats sad, David" Regardless of weather it is sad or not, that is not the basis for writing it.
If any thing it gets it off my chest.
As I stated in the first blog of 'blasphemous rumors (thanks again Martin Gore) I think everyone has heard rumors spread about them.Celebrity's get the brunt of it, I think. I was reading a cover of a tabloid magazine over the weekend and this excellent piece of Journalism was making reference to a deceased musician and how the cemetery he was buried at some how lost his body. If you believe that I've got some ocean front property in Arizona I would like to sell you. Its got a great view. From my front porch you can see the sea.
Do magazines like that have to do that? No. They do it for the almighty dollar.
There was drummer of a band I used to be a huge Fan of when I was growing up. He quit the band and about I would say 12 years later he is reported to be living under some pier at a Los Angeles beach.
He wasn't. He was living in L.A. in a nice house with his wife and daughter.
I would ask you , my reader's to tell me what kind of lies or rumors you have heard about you selves but I wont because i feel its a matter privacy and you may not feel comfortable with divulging the information.
I can't say I blame you.
I'll do it.
You all know I have wrote a screenplay and I think either last week or the week before I gave you a little taste of it. Here is how i got the idea and why this 'Scott' person said what he did.
I was in the 8th grade and it invited to a friends house for Halloween. My friends and I were in to alot of the rock music of the day (1983) and I had a couple of good record's I was asked to bring. (now if there is anyone under the age of 28 reading this and you don't know what a 'record' is, ask your mother or father.)
So, during the course of the night when my friends and I are waiting for rides back to our houses, I was asked how many albums I had brought, I counted them and told every one. There was this one person, kid about my age who thought it was hilarious how I had said the number. I had brought 6 albums.
Next day, we're back at school this guy See's me and starts shouting the number 6 at the top of his lungs. Now, heres the kicker: only about 4 people, including myself knows what he talking about. Doesn't stop him from making a complete idiot of himself by screaming this as loud as he could,making up a storie in the process that alot of kids, some even being friends of mine believed. This was November of 1983. It went on till June of 1984.
Now, I will say it again, please, no "aww's" or"David, thats sad" once again, not why I am writing this.
Can we stop rumors like this? Yeah I think so. We can just turn around and walk away and tell our selves we know the truth or we can choose to knock their teeth down their throat. Choice is your's. All though the last one isn't very Christ like.
I pushed this moron over about 8 bikes at the bike rack of the school. He never made fun of me again.
Tomorrow, "Siblings" part 2
David R. Meier
Saturday, June 26, 2010
There Is A Method To My Madness
Ok,Ok, I have heard from some of my reader's why I dont have a blog everyday. There are to two things I can say. One is I can't think of any. Two: When I go to write a blog, I some times find myself side tracked and when I come back to it, I forget what I was going to write about. It happens.
So, what to write about today?
Can you wait till tomorrow?
David.
So, what to write about today?
Can you wait till tomorrow?
David.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Are You For Or Against It?
Morning, my fellow reader's!! Happy Thursday to you all.
Lets get right to it, shall we?
Yesterday afternoon I heard on the news about a restaurant in the state of Arizona that started serving Lion Hamburger's. The meat of the lion apparently. Now, I will be the first one to say when I heard this I was like, 'no way, they can't be serious' I wouldn't eat it. Not because I think its cruelty to animals, even though that is part of it. Lion for a meal doesn't sound to appetizing to me.
I don't think I am an animal rights activist, all though when you stop and think about it perhaps people that are make some valid points. Nor would I say I am an activist on any level. I know what I like, I know what I think is right to support and for the most part if I don't like something I may or may not voice my opinion. It depends on the situation and how strongly I feel about it.
I think everyone to some degree feels that way. Weather you're a strong supporter of environmental issues or you don't agree with the other politics. To a certain degree, I think that is valid. Then there are times that I don't.
Think about this: As everyone knows there is a war going on in 2 different country's. Alot of people feel America started it, maybe to some degree we did, I grant you that.
But none the less here it is. If you are against it or know of people that are against it they perhaps have been to 'peace' marches against the war. These things are never peacefull. You tend to hear more often than not about people involved with a protest rally that is supposed to be peace full, but when you have people causing a commotion and even being apprehended, that doesn't sound to peace full to me.
I once thought I could support something on the order of actually of rallying with other supporter's of this cause. About 9 years ago in southern California this 13 or 14 year old kid shoots up his school. He claimed he was bullied and couldn't take it anymore. I thought about it a little and thought ' OK, not that I condone what this kid did, but I can see how bullying can effect a young teen. I certainly remember how I felt. Anyway, I heard of this group of people that were trying to lend some support for this teen by going to the courthouse where he was being tried as an adult.
The point was, because of 'bullying' they thought he shouldn't be tried as an adult. Any way, so the time came for the court house thing and I'm getting ready to go, until I think to my self, what am I doing?. I was actually going to a courthouse to support a killer (he shot 2 people, killing them) and it hit me. I can not support this in good conscience. This kid wasn't the victim, the people he shot and the lives he shattered were the victims. I didn't go and I am thankful as I look back on it now.
I am not trying to say if you support something like that or any other issue is wrong. I'll say it again, to a degree I don't think that it is.
I think it is a matter of how you go about it.
I'll give you another example of something that happened to me.
It's the late 1990's and I am waiting for a bus in a major southern California city. I was hungry so I stopped at a Taco Bell restaurant to get something to eat. I finish my meal just as the bus is pulling up. I look around, but I couldn't find a trash can, so I threw my empty bag in the gutter, by the bus stop.
I get on the bus, find a seat and I look out the window and this guy is giving me the most meanest look I have ever received in my life, while at the same time his girlfriend or his wife was picking up the bag and had some one on the bus give it back to me.
Now, in that case, I will admit, I was wrong to throw my garbage where i did. Once again, I don't consider myself to be an activist but I do my share in keeping the environment clean. I grant you it's not what it should be, but I do it anyway.
Here is one more example. Just because some one is against abortion, doesn't mean they're going to stand outside a Planned Parenthood building and protest it. Think there are differences to what people feel is right for them selves. If you feel comfortable with protesting something, than thats how you feel. If you don't, thats fine too.
People shouldn't condemn you for that.
Here is how I look at it for myself personally: I have yet to carry signs of protest weather I am for or against something. Doesn't mean I never will. The only way I would do it, is if I thought it was legitimate enough to want to support it. That has yet to happen.
d....out
Lets get right to it, shall we?
Yesterday afternoon I heard on the news about a restaurant in the state of Arizona that started serving Lion Hamburger's. The meat of the lion apparently. Now, I will be the first one to say when I heard this I was like, 'no way, they can't be serious' I wouldn't eat it. Not because I think its cruelty to animals, even though that is part of it. Lion for a meal doesn't sound to appetizing to me.
I don't think I am an animal rights activist, all though when you stop and think about it perhaps people that are make some valid points. Nor would I say I am an activist on any level. I know what I like, I know what I think is right to support and for the most part if I don't like something I may or may not voice my opinion. It depends on the situation and how strongly I feel about it.
I think everyone to some degree feels that way. Weather you're a strong supporter of environmental issues or you don't agree with the other politics. To a certain degree, I think that is valid. Then there are times that I don't.
Think about this: As everyone knows there is a war going on in 2 different country's. Alot of people feel America started it, maybe to some degree we did, I grant you that.
But none the less here it is. If you are against it or know of people that are against it they perhaps have been to 'peace' marches against the war. These things are never peacefull. You tend to hear more often than not about people involved with a protest rally that is supposed to be peace full, but when you have people causing a commotion and even being apprehended, that doesn't sound to peace full to me.
I once thought I could support something on the order of actually of rallying with other supporter's of this cause. About 9 years ago in southern California this 13 or 14 year old kid shoots up his school. He claimed he was bullied and couldn't take it anymore. I thought about it a little and thought ' OK, not that I condone what this kid did, but I can see how bullying can effect a young teen. I certainly remember how I felt. Anyway, I heard of this group of people that were trying to lend some support for this teen by going to the courthouse where he was being tried as an adult.
The point was, because of 'bullying' they thought he shouldn't be tried as an adult. Any way, so the time came for the court house thing and I'm getting ready to go, until I think to my self, what am I doing?. I was actually going to a courthouse to support a killer (he shot 2 people, killing them) and it hit me. I can not support this in good conscience. This kid wasn't the victim, the people he shot and the lives he shattered were the victims. I didn't go and I am thankful as I look back on it now.
I am not trying to say if you support something like that or any other issue is wrong. I'll say it again, to a degree I don't think that it is.
I think it is a matter of how you go about it.
I'll give you another example of something that happened to me.
It's the late 1990's and I am waiting for a bus in a major southern California city. I was hungry so I stopped at a Taco Bell restaurant to get something to eat. I finish my meal just as the bus is pulling up. I look around, but I couldn't find a trash can, so I threw my empty bag in the gutter, by the bus stop.
I get on the bus, find a seat and I look out the window and this guy is giving me the most meanest look I have ever received in my life, while at the same time his girlfriend or his wife was picking up the bag and had some one on the bus give it back to me.
Now, in that case, I will admit, I was wrong to throw my garbage where i did. Once again, I don't consider myself to be an activist but I do my share in keeping the environment clean. I grant you it's not what it should be, but I do it anyway.
Here is one more example. Just because some one is against abortion, doesn't mean they're going to stand outside a Planned Parenthood building and protest it. Think there are differences to what people feel is right for them selves. If you feel comfortable with protesting something, than thats how you feel. If you don't, thats fine too.
People shouldn't condemn you for that.
Here is how I look at it for myself personally: I have yet to carry signs of protest weather I am for or against something. Doesn't mean I never will. The only way I would do it, is if I thought it was legitimate enough to want to support it. That has yet to happen.
d....out
Monday, June 21, 2010
Friendship
Hey, everyone! How are you this Monday afternoon. I pray all is well. Hoe you all had a good weekend. Mine was OK.
Early this morning I was watching a little bit of a film I have seen countless of times called 'Stand By Me' (Columbia Pictures,1986) Based upon a Novelia by Stephen King. The film center's on four adolescent boys who in the summer of 1959 set out to find a missing kid's body. What they end up discovering is more about themselves. The thing that gets me about this film is the camaraderie of the boys. One,a young writer who doesn't quite know what he wants out of life and the other 3 are just pushed in to a social situation there is no way out of. Unbeknown to them that that summer would be the last one the 4 of them share together.
The moral of the story is I think 2 things. One is learning about your selfs and your friends and the bonds of friendships which in later life helps one of the central Character's to write about the experience. (older "Gordie"played by Richard Dreyfuss)
Its friendship. A very important ingredient I think to human life. Maybe even all creatures of this planet,cause even animals have friends.
I can recall a couple of of times where friends of mine were there for when I needed them and vice versa. A couple of those times are scenes in my screenplay, 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' I'll give you a small example.
As a freshman in high school in 1984, I was bully ed by this kid named Scott. He just wouldn't give me an even break. I had just joined my schools cross country team (running) and I had made friends with some of them alot sooner than I thought I would have. I had told some the teams varsity about my problem with Scott and they told me they would take care of it. I will never forget the day they did. They found him at lunch one day and cornered him. To this day I have no idea what was said but I was never bullied by him again.
What about you? It doesn't have to be getting saved by a bully, although that does help, what is it too you that makes a friend?
I don't know if is possible for parents to be 'friends' with their children. I am not saying its a bad thing if they are, I think what I am trying to say is everyone regardless of age needs their parent's, doesn't matter if its father's with their son's or mother's with their daughter's. Or even father's with their daughter's. In life, we all need some one to talk to. I have said this before, I am not a parent, but at the age of 40 I still look forward to asking my mother for advice on things that I need to do or just her take things she thinks I should do. She does that with all my siblings and while I don't know how they feel about, I know I feel a little better because it helps me with decision making. Which is something everyone needs from time to time.
I had the opportunity a few months back to meet a father and his family, his wife and two children. All four of them have become friends of mine and I enjoy their company and talking with them when I get the chance. I can't say weather he feels he is his kid's friend or if he feels he is his kids father. Perhaps it's a little bit of both. I wouldn't doubt for a second that both his son and daughter like the fact that he is around and all that he does for them, while at the same time needing their quote un quote 'space' which I am sure he gives them.
I strongly recommend either renting or buying the DVD of the movie' Stand By Me' Its a great film that talks about the importance of friendship. It is directed by Rob Riener, son of comic Carl Riener (Meat head in the classic television show, 'All In The Family')
Until next time, the balcony is closed. People are still falling out of it. Maybe it's best to put up a railing.
Drmeier
Early this morning I was watching a little bit of a film I have seen countless of times called 'Stand By Me' (Columbia Pictures,1986) Based upon a Novelia by Stephen King. The film center's on four adolescent boys who in the summer of 1959 set out to find a missing kid's body. What they end up discovering is more about themselves. The thing that gets me about this film is the camaraderie of the boys. One,a young writer who doesn't quite know what he wants out of life and the other 3 are just pushed in to a social situation there is no way out of. Unbeknown to them that that summer would be the last one the 4 of them share together.
The moral of the story is I think 2 things. One is learning about your selfs and your friends and the bonds of friendships which in later life helps one of the central Character's to write about the experience. (older "Gordie"played by Richard Dreyfuss)
Its friendship. A very important ingredient I think to human life. Maybe even all creatures of this planet,cause even animals have friends.
I can recall a couple of of times where friends of mine were there for when I needed them and vice versa. A couple of those times are scenes in my screenplay, 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' I'll give you a small example.
As a freshman in high school in 1984, I was bully ed by this kid named Scott. He just wouldn't give me an even break. I had just joined my schools cross country team (running) and I had made friends with some of them alot sooner than I thought I would have. I had told some the teams varsity about my problem with Scott and they told me they would take care of it. I will never forget the day they did. They found him at lunch one day and cornered him. To this day I have no idea what was said but I was never bullied by him again.
What about you? It doesn't have to be getting saved by a bully, although that does help, what is it too you that makes a friend?
I don't know if is possible for parents to be 'friends' with their children. I am not saying its a bad thing if they are, I think what I am trying to say is everyone regardless of age needs their parent's, doesn't matter if its father's with their son's or mother's with their daughter's. Or even father's with their daughter's. In life, we all need some one to talk to. I have said this before, I am not a parent, but at the age of 40 I still look forward to asking my mother for advice on things that I need to do or just her take things she thinks I should do. She does that with all my siblings and while I don't know how they feel about, I know I feel a little better because it helps me with decision making. Which is something everyone needs from time to time.
I had the opportunity a few months back to meet a father and his family, his wife and two children. All four of them have become friends of mine and I enjoy their company and talking with them when I get the chance. I can't say weather he feels he is his kid's friend or if he feels he is his kids father. Perhaps it's a little bit of both. I wouldn't doubt for a second that both his son and daughter like the fact that he is around and all that he does for them, while at the same time needing their quote un quote 'space' which I am sure he gives them.
I strongly recommend either renting or buying the DVD of the movie' Stand By Me' Its a great film that talks about the importance of friendship. It is directed by Rob Riener, son of comic Carl Riener (Meat head in the classic television show, 'All In The Family')
Until next time, the balcony is closed. People are still falling out of it. Maybe it's best to put up a railing.
Drmeier
Friday, June 18, 2010
Drugs
Hi,everyone, sorry for the delayed blog. I am going to try not to let it happen too much. I am going to skip interactive Friday this week, but it will be back next week. I think I have a very interesting blog topic today.
Here goes.
Earlier this week, I was having some dinner and watching a little bit of television and came across comic who was talking, well singing actually about medical marijuana and the benefits of it. I have a little bit of an issue with that. Why after so many decades of marijuana being illegal and people telling everyone it's bad for them, why with in the last 12 or 13 years have they been saying, that there are benefits to it and it can help some people.
I don't get it.
here are some of the quote un quote 'benefits':the amelioration of nausea and vomiting, stimulation of hunger in Chemotherapy patients and even treating Glaucoma. I am not a doctor and I personally have not tried marijuana nor do I ever plan to. It has been offered to me by many people, but I turned them down each time they offered.
But, I'll say it again, I don't understand why after so many years of people saying this stuff is bad for you when you get that "high" once again, I have never used it so I don't what it feels like.
A pastor that I once knew of made this hypothesis when the state of California passed the usage of cannabis in the late 1990's. He said the only reason why the law passed is so people can find a excuse to get high. That might be a correct hypothesis when it is illegal to use or carry marijuana on your person. It is still illegal and if you don't have a prescription for it, the police can and will apprehend you for it.
Motion pictures have depicted the use of drugs in many ways. Very few of them have ever discussed the issues of the so called 'benefits'.
Mostly when it is discussed it is for recreational purposes and even making a joke out of it.
A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a woman who was trying to tell me the definition of the medical use for it.
I think the bottom line is this: Its an excuse for wanting to use an illegal drug. People want the proverbial 'high'. If the get in trouble, thats their fault, no one else's. Am I being a little biased? Perhaps.
I just never understood why people would want to numb themselves with stuff like that.
Two films I would recommend for you that handle drug issues is one from the 1930's called 'Reefer Madness' and a film released in 1993 called 'Dazed and Confused' Both movies are considered to be cult classics.
Speaking of films, the remake of the karate kid, I told you all I was going to see. Don't waste your time and money on it. Rent or buy the 1984 original with Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio. The Karate Kid is one of those films that doesn't need a remake. Shame on the people that thought it did.
D....out
Here goes.
Earlier this week, I was having some dinner and watching a little bit of television and came across comic who was talking, well singing actually about medical marijuana and the benefits of it. I have a little bit of an issue with that. Why after so many decades of marijuana being illegal and people telling everyone it's bad for them, why with in the last 12 or 13 years have they been saying, that there are benefits to it and it can help some people.
I don't get it.
here are some of the quote un quote 'benefits':the amelioration of nausea and vomiting, stimulation of hunger in Chemotherapy patients and even treating Glaucoma. I am not a doctor and I personally have not tried marijuana nor do I ever plan to. It has been offered to me by many people, but I turned them down each time they offered.
But, I'll say it again, I don't understand why after so many years of people saying this stuff is bad for you when you get that "high" once again, I have never used it so I don't what it feels like.
A pastor that I once knew of made this hypothesis when the state of California passed the usage of cannabis in the late 1990's. He said the only reason why the law passed is so people can find a excuse to get high. That might be a correct hypothesis when it is illegal to use or carry marijuana on your person. It is still illegal and if you don't have a prescription for it, the police can and will apprehend you for it.
Motion pictures have depicted the use of drugs in many ways. Very few of them have ever discussed the issues of the so called 'benefits'.
Mostly when it is discussed it is for recreational purposes and even making a joke out of it.
A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a woman who was trying to tell me the definition of the medical use for it.
I think the bottom line is this: Its an excuse for wanting to use an illegal drug. People want the proverbial 'high'. If the get in trouble, thats their fault, no one else's. Am I being a little biased? Perhaps.
I just never understood why people would want to numb themselves with stuff like that.
Two films I would recommend for you that handle drug issues is one from the 1930's called 'Reefer Madness' and a film released in 1993 called 'Dazed and Confused' Both movies are considered to be cult classics.
Speaking of films, the remake of the karate kid, I told you all I was going to see. Don't waste your time and money on it. Rent or buy the 1984 original with Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio. The Karate Kid is one of those films that doesn't need a remake. Shame on the people that thought it did.
D....out
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