Exercise Myths and Memories

1. Exercise EVERY DAY.
2. Don't stretch BEFORE exercise beyond the normal movement of the limbs.
3. Don't compare yourself to others, everyone is different.

"Blame It On My Youth"

If, I expected love, when first we kissed, blame it on my youth
If only just for you, I did exist, blame it on my youth
I believed in everything
Like a child of three
You meant more than anything
You meant all the world to me

If, you were on my mind, all night and day, blame it on my youth
If, I forgot to eat, and sleep and pray, blame it on my youth
If I cried a little bit, when first I learned the truth
Don't blame it on my heart, blame it on my youth

Thank you for Smoking

What a great movie

Funny, intelligent satire full of perceptive and thought provoking.

Story of a lobbist for the Cigarette industry. Relies on aguement and personal preference as a defence.

Bits to remember:

• The TV pannel
• The school day for this son
• The lunch time team of 3

Writing
Jason Reitman (screenplay)
Christopher Buckley (novel) - I think I might read this now.

Actors

• Aaron Eckhart .... Nick Naylor - Really makes to show
• Cameron Bright.... Joey Naylor
• Sam Elliott .... Lorne Lutch - as always
• Rob Lowe .... Jeff Megall - interesting, but not entirely convincing
• William H. Macy.... Senator Ortolan K. Finistirre
• J.K. Simmons .... Budd "BR" Rohrabacher
• Robert Duvall .... Doak 'The Captain' Boykin

Favorite Movies of all time

Why is a movie good for me? What comes to mind is it memorable, cleaver, new, unusual, funny, moving. It is perhaps have my state of mind when I saw the movie as much as anything.

In the order I remembered them:

• Mystic River
• Grand Canyon
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Usual Suspects
• The good the bad and the ugly
• The Matrix
• Schindler's List
• Assassination Tango
• Blade Runner
• The Usual Suspects
• Silence of the lambs
• LA Confidential

Meme

Meme - replicator of cultural information that one mind transmits (verbally or by demonstration) to another mind.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Memetic_evolution

http://www.memecentral.com/

Addiction - weakness or Illness

Just listened to the Science Now show on addition.

Lots of evidence that it is an illness not somekind of habit that can be changed by just stopping.
It seems that our brains are good at learning what works for survival. Once we have learned then we are programmed to repeat these things. When something goes wrong we have a need to replete things that do not help with survival (we become addicted), but the need to do them is very strong as it is part of how we are wired. For example under stress we are programmed to go back to going the survival things, which in the case of an addicted person is the addictive behaviors or patterns. The research does seem to support that once something has become an addiction it cannot be enjoyed in moderation and much be cut out entirely.

It would seem that the research suggests that many addictions have a similar root cause.

Question:
What is the difference between an addiction and a like or hobby?

Anna Deavere Smith

She seems like a very intersting person I need to find out more

What I took again:

• Where is the artistic processing of our time?
• Courage that what you send your time on is……..
• Hope vs optimism. Hope looks at the evidence and says it does not look good at all but we are going to look beyond and see a better future. Optimism is more nieve as it suggests we see that it is not good and that it might bet better.
• The place where the heart meets the mind
• When you are struggling with the age and the world, look tothe arts to help you withthe struggle, others are stuggling and expressing it in the art (eg off off broadway)
• Took part in Global reality Summit
• just writen play – "let me know easy"
  

http://www.pbs.org/now/index.html

Summerworks - Other Places

Harold Pinter thanks for these 3 short playlettes

Victoria Station
A convincing performance, a late night taxi interaction and questions as to purpose remain

A kind of Alaska
The awakening in 20 Minutes, something was missing from the performance of the patient

Family Voices
The Mother and son speak to each other of the miles. A moment that has been performed millions of times is very well captured and the boy becomes man on leaving the nest. The perspectives are well understood and communicated.

http://www.summerworks.ca/

Summerworks - Invisible Atom

One men and One amazing hour. This is real theatre, a perfect mix of suspense, humour, real story (to real perhaps) of our humanity and simplicity and significant insignificance. Anthony Black an amazing job. One of the best I have seen in a long time.

In that moment the world stands still, for long enough for us to learn and indentify and be transported. We all question our purpose and existance so we all see this. He does not try for answers or explanations, but looks for patterns and coincidence where there is none up to the final comic and deeply desperate betrayal.

I have the thoughts that Anthony has, if was great to know, for sure, that I am not alone.

http://www.2btheatre.com/

The movies that are my lives

when you are an actor, like nicole kidman perhaps you get to live lives every movie you make. Are they stories or parties or a real life? Do you have trouble separating real life from the story? Based on the number of marrages to people that met in filming I think you do. It must be a strange, magical and confusing existance. Or perhaps we are all like this.

http://www.jajah.com

Free phone calls...... this is really cool

Although look out for the one hour time limit.

Art, Truth, & Politics: The Nobel Lecture

Harold Pinter won the Nobel prize for literture in 2005

In interesting speak.

He choice to report writing speach


http://nobelprize.org/index.html