December 2011
58 posts
The Artist
Please go see The Artist written and directed by Michel Hazanvicius. It stars two French actors Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. Both gave beautiful performances. Plus it has Joel Murray (yes Bill Murray’s bro) who starred in the first film I was part of GOD BLESS AMERICA (coming to theaters in Spring 2012). It’s fun to say oh hey that guys in my cell phone.
Really the film is...
Yes, I’m sitting in a movie theater on a date with myself. Yes, I love going to the movies alone. Yes, I got here super early so I’m sitting inside the theater on my phone writing this post, so I look important. Yes, I’m a dork and yes people I’m on vacation.
Ps I’m seeing The Artist, so shhhhhh please.
The aroma of saffron reminds of home and childhood and everything about me that is Persian. As I grow older, I have a stronger yearning to know more about where I came from and the things that always made me different are now making me proud.
Where Art Thou
I want to do a remake of Sleeping Beauty. Except I think it’s more like Prince Charming is lost and asleep in the woods waiting for his Princess to save wake him.
“Passion by its nature has the power to impassion others.” — taken from watching the making of the 2008 film Hunger by Steve McQueen.
Mama Bear gets in at 5 o’clock. Just finished 6 straight days of spin and now I’m making oreo truffles for some SheShe Holiday Cheer while listening to Christmas music in my ridiculously gaudy leopard print robe.
And this is for all us who Believe…
For some Santa Clause is coming to town, but for me Mama Bear is coming to lala town.
And today I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed some more in preparation!
Be Fearless
turbogirl:
“If you make only one resolution this year, let it be to live boldly. You control this moment: Rather than cautiously test the water, dive straight into life with freeing abandon. Imagine the person you want to be and the life you want to live, then simply commit to them. Believe in yourself. Embrace your beauty. Discover a new passion. And whatever you do, wherever you go, don’t be...
“Every big dream starts small.”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
It’s 4am. I can’t sleep. Im reading the Robert Rodriguez book. I love reading about the process and it’s so cool because the book is the journal he kept as he wrote, shot and edited his first feature. So inspiring and you feel like you are actually there.
So I sent the second draft of the script to a friend to read. I asked her to be gentle but she immediately called me and...
This is what sitting on your bed writing a short while having a couple shots of scotch looks like…
Just kidding, I haven’t had any scotch. Just a double cappuccino.
This is what sitting on your bed writing a short looks like…
a short from a short
I’m going to tell you a secret. Ready? I’m writing my first short film. I have some cohorts helping me, of course. We are filming end of January. I’m also going to be acting in it.
Here is the real secret. Writing is hard and completely makes you crazy. Not really a secret, but it feels like one when you are writing as if no else has experienced the madness before you. I...
what they call a miracle
Life is peculiar at the moment. Nothing that I could put into words that would make any sense to anyone. In ways my life is going beyond my wildest dreams and in other ways I feel things crumbling at my fingertips.
A friend of mine years ago was pretty miserable. In his own words he felt as if “the universe was out to get him.” One day he remembers precisely saying,...
Yup, looks like 2nd spin instructor crush is also gay. I need to stop taking spin classes in West Hollywood.
crush update
So I went to a later than usual spin class today because, frankly, I can (ps I have the next two weeks off, sorta!)… Anyway, I may have a new spin instructor crush and are you ready for this?! He may actually not be gay. The only sad thing is that I can’t usually take 9:30 am classes sans holiday cause of a petty thing called “my job,” so I may not get to see him as often...
“It was as if he was giving voice to an idea I wanted to express but didn’t...”
– From the film IM NOT THERE.
“I feel as if I’m always on the verge of waking up.”
– Fernando Pessoa (via misswallflower)
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via turbogirl)
I’m really feeling the holiday spirit today!
On another unrelated note, I just found out I’m getting a year end review today… HA!
“Here’s what everyone who made it — had in common: an addiction to...”
– from The Mailroom by David Rensin
So I’ve been thinking about my life. I’ve been thinking about the times when I’ve been lucky. Every time good things have come by way, times when things have fallen into my lap. Well, there seem to have always been certain things aligned right before the “lucky” break.
I’ve worked my ass off. Harder than even I thought I could.
I’ve had an amazing...
really important
Things you really want to know…
1) I’m super hungry today. I want something completely satisfying.
2) I work on the lot where they shoot True Blood. Last week I almost killed the entire cast of the show as I was driving to lunch.
3) When things get exciting at work, I get extremely happy.
4) Last night I got my nails painted in this silvery/greyish glitter color. So not like...
I’m so behind the times. What is GPOY?
pop goes the bubble.
I remember graduating from college in 2000. I remember getting a job right away at this law firm (within a week). People literally eating up my lackluster resume. I remember getting crazy bonuses. I also remember quitting my job via email at 1:00 AM with no two week notice plan. I told my boss I wasn’t coming in anymore. Ya know, simple. I THEN remember getting called into his office...
“When you meet the other half of your soul, you will know in a flash why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else until now and be grateful to all those who rejected you and let you go. You will see each one of them was an angel guiding you in the right direction. Take that view point now and be at peace.”- Jackson Kiddard
Back in 2004, I attended a First Friday Art Walk in Phoenix, AZ with a group of my friends. Our first stop was The Willow House (a cafe built in a house!) for a cup of joe. I went with my friend to the bathroom and was waiting outside for her, standing next to a bookshelf filled with old books. When she got out I said, “Hey, let’s pick a random book, open it to a random page, read...
When the Sunday Night Blues creep up on me, I like to read sad, sad poems and bawl my eyes out.
(dramatic pause)
Wait, you don’t do that too?
THE SADDEST POEM
by Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can...
scarletbooksandthoughts:
I love this. I think it is a beautiful myth. Makes my heart happy. Thanks Sheila.
Yay! Your happy heart makes mine happy.
It’s Sunday and my heart feels heavy.
“Pain is not the enemy; the fear of passing through pain is.”
– Pia Mellody (via lifeinversion)
Agreed.
- Angry (via theangrytherapist)
“The only way through is through.”
theangrytherapist:
lifeinversion:
My cover of...
yup
turbogirl:
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.” - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
Grace
I’ve always been terribly sensitive. Wearing my heart on my sleeve has at times served me well and other times left me crippled. I’ve never taken rejection well, but I’m learning that rejection can be reframed. Rejection is just another form of RELEASE that something even better is in store. Of course, Mastin talks of it more eloquently on The Daily Love. Today I need to...
sweat worthy
This morning was great! I made it to the spin class my spin teacher crush teaches and watching him spin was heavenly.
p.s. For those of you following my crush life, based on some online stalking (on my part), my crush spin instructor is now confirmed to be 100% gay.
Minor details. Minor details.
