Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Based on what I've read and heard over the years the single greatest obstacle to creativity is fear. Not lack of talent, or lack of time or lack of inspiration. Fear. Certainly I have spent a great many years struggling with that. persuasively convincing myself that I shouldn't even try because I won't be any... Continue Reading →
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - An aging English barrister in ill health (Charles Laughton) is hired to defend an American (Tyrone Power) accused of killing an elderly friend. His wife (Marlena Dietrich) initially provides her husband with an alibi but her story becomes gradually more complicated as she is called as a witness for... Continue Reading →
Umm, yeah. So. Well. This is taking a little longer to get re-launched than expected. Being on break has given me some time to think about some tweaks for what I do here. Actually putting those tweaks into place has been a little complicated. I have a big trip coming up in just a couple... Continue Reading →
A couple weeks ago, we suffered a massive computer crash here at Phlipside Central. The most massive crash I've ever seen actually. As we struggled to get it up and running again I've been able to coast a little because I had a backlog of posts. Unfortunately, we've now burned through that backlog just as... Continue Reading →
I love the act of creativity. Sometimes I forget that it is the act of creativity that is important, not what is created. Because ours is such a "produce, produce, produce" society we are discouraged from being creative because we don't believe we'll create something worthwhile. What we either forget or fail to realize is... Continue Reading →
A Serious Man (2009) - A physics lecturer up for tenure at a small Midwestern university in the late '60s watches his life spin completely out of control. His children have little to no use for him, while his wife boots him out to replace him with a recent widower. His brother lives on the... Continue Reading →
The Big Sleep (1946) - Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is called in to help settle the debts of the daughter of a wealthy man. Seems like a simple enough case but even before he gets out of the house another daughter (Lauren Bacall) throws the first of many curve balls headed his way in this... Continue Reading →
The following books are available only as e-books as near as I can tell. The Chronicles of Mark Johnson by Alan Place (2014) - Mark Johnson was a sought after fashion photographer who turned his back on the shallowness of that world. Now with the help of his friends Mark chases ghosts and fights demons... Continue Reading →
Gone with the Wind (1939) - As the Civil War sweeps through the nation, southern gentility are faced with the end of the life they have known. In the middle of it, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh) collide in every manner possible. I need to be upfront about this movie. It... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you need a little boost. For me, that is rarely a "rah rah" inspirational talk. I've seen and heard too many of them. Far too often they ring hollow for me. I know what I have to do. It's actually doing it that is the problem. What usually does it for me is other... Continue Reading →
