Renaissance 2.0
Here were some of my favorite things of 2012 in movies, music, TV, etc. Movies I still haven’t seen most of the best movies released this year so they won’t make this list (i.e. Les Miserables, Silver Linings Playbook, Cloud Atlas, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, etc.). Here are my favorite movies that I did see…
I’ve shared my passion for “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens a few times on here before. First about the many different versions of the classic tale and then about “Ghosts of Dickens’ Past” which is an excellent movie about what inspired him to write his story. I’d like to share some more things that…
You never know where or when you’ll stumble across something inspirational. In this case for me it was in an innocuous comedy called “BRUCE ALMIGHTY” starring Jim Carrey. I remember enjoying it and thinking it was funny but I didn’t remember all of the wonderful little nuggets of wisdom in it. For example, I just…
This is an amazing experience that proved quite moving to me. I’ve always been fascinated by the Elephant Man’s story. It’s so heartbreaking and yet inspirational. I’ve shared this poem he often recited to remind people that he was still a man despite his apperance. “‘Tis true my form is something odd, but blaming me…
Exciting stuff. For 200 years it was believed that there was only one portrait of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife Virginia who died tragically young of consumption at age 24 but new discoveries have unveiled a few more including this beauty. As it turns out, the shy, demur bride was a model and posed for many…
In this amazing Ted Talk, Siegfied Woldhek shares his discovery of the face of Leonardo Da Vinci, one of my biggest inspirations in life along with Michelangelo. He went through all of Leonardo’s drawings and found a few self portraits of the master from different ages (from 33, 38 to 63) and confirmed it all…
I’m so excited to announce that my friend and favorite songwriter of all-time Holly Knight has been nominated for induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame!!! You can help by joining the www.SongHall.org and voting for her in the songwriter non-performer category. Here is the announcement! I think once the voters see her amazing body…
Before the internet as we know it today there was AOL and before AOL there was the BBS, Bulletin Board Systems. I remember connecting to BBSes because my older brother Max used to use them all the time. He showed me how to setup my computer with a dial-up modem (I think 9600 BAUD!) so…
Love this song “DEMONS” by Imagine Dragons. I first heard it today in the trailer for Bradley Cooper’s new film that I can’t wait to see called “The Words”. Here’s the song and original music video which is just as wonderful as the song. You have to see the ending which is so powerfully moving!…
I HIGHLY recommend Hey Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird which is streaming on Netflix now. It is chock full of joyfulness. It covers everything you ever wanted to know about the classic Pulitzer prize winning book, the movie that earned Gregory Peck his Oscar and the author who has never written another book. I…