Song of the Day – ‘Inner City Blues’

Rockets, moon shots Spend it on the have-nots Money, we make it ‘Fore we see it, you’ll take it Oh, make you wanna holler The way they do my life Make me wanna holler The way they do my life This ain’t livin’, this ain’t livin’ No, no baby, this ain’t livin’ No, no, no, […]

‘My Scandal Audition’

(cutting and pasting this opening from yesterday; if you already read it you can skip ahead to the backstory…) The family and friends don’t get to see the millions of middle steps in between ‘here’ and ‘There’ so today’s posts are for you… Here’s the ‘why’: NBC and the American Black Film Festival run a […]

My ‘True Detective’ Audition

The family and friends don’t get to see the millions of middle steps in between ‘here’ and ‘There’ so today and tomorrow’s posts are for you… Here’s the ‘why’: NBC and the American Black Film Festival run a competition called ‘the Star Project’ where the non movie stars among us can audition for the network […]

Redemption Song 2015

I don’t assume anymore when I fall asleep that God is going to wake me up.  That single train of thought is why I’ve shifted to making a more conscious effort into leaving all of my interactions with positive karma (or at worst, if I’m indifferent about you, I’ll just leave you to live your […]

Song of the Day – ‘Redemption Song’

Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong By the ‘and of the Almighty. We forward in this generation Triumphantly. Won’t you help to sing These songs of freedom? – ‘Cause all I ever have: Redemption […]

Song of the Day – ‘Scream’

Thought my mind would want a break in between finishing my first pilot and moving on to writing the feature. Nope!  When the creative juices are flowing, gotta let em flow. Wrote my first fight sequence to this, haven’t seen it used in anything yet. Hmm…

‘Glory’

You guys can thank W. Kamau Bell for today’s post… On the last episode of the ‘Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor Ever’ podcast, they finally got around to ‘Glory.’  No one really argues about this film. I had to go back and look up the clip below though.  I remember the first time I […]

Here and Now

For me personally, the greatest benefit to being old (so far) is the end of overthinking.  There’s a big difference between a) analyzing all the options and taking action and b) being paralyzed by all the possibilities and letting ‘the Moment’ pass you by. So, for whatever name you give to it, the process of […]