Surya Bonaly originated the backflip in the Winter Olympics and was penalized for it. She should have won the gold medal. Now the Olympics is celebrating another skater for doing her move. The Olympic Committee owes her an apology and a gold medal.
Stanley Clarke deserves more credit as he composed iconic soundtracks like Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Roll Bounce, etc.
His ability to implement what we know as Smooth Jazz into a traditional film score was really fckin cool. An underrated legend!
Turning stress into motivation. The old way of doing things when dissatisfied with life was to self medicate, pout and distract myself. That doesnโt work. Now I will use the dissatisfaction as fuel for change.
Note to me:
The finished project is the wish fulfilled. It resided in your mind and you held the vision until your body acted out what was necessary to make it real. That alone is a commendable act.
Congratulations. I mean that.
Now start again.
Today on his birthday, weโre remembering the great Tony Todd, not only for the iconic roles he embodied, but for the tremendous passion he had for his work, and for his thoughtful and nuanced approach to a genre that was lucky to benefit from his gifts. He is missed.
Ten bad years can disappear fast when you finally lock in. Six months of real discipline can crush a decade of drifting. Thatโs why momentum is magic, it makes the past irrelevant.
Major life cheat code: Learn to work without validation. Write when nobodyโs reading. Build when nobodyโs watching. Train when nobodyโs cheering. It doesnโt take talent. It just takes courage. Those with the courage to work in the dark will eventually shine in the light.
Stop paying so much attention to what everyone else is doing and run your own race. How much time is spent reading other people's posts on social media, watching other people's exploits in the news, listening to other people's ideas on podcasts? Go have coffee with a friend. Go make something. Go outside. All those hours spent looking at someone else's life on a screen could be used to take action in your own life.
Iโd agree that Trek doesnโt have to be gritty, but Iโd argue that some of the best Star Trek features characters with questionable morals. (Gul Dakat, Quark, Section 32)
The main issue the new stuff is TONE.
"sci-fi doesn't have to be full of death, swearing and questionable morals to be consumed by adults. it has to be thoughtful and imaginative. i'd like to see star trek get back to the spirit of tos" simon pegg you're the only one i trust with AOS, please write another movie.