I know I usually do a weekly (or monthly) “Man of the Moment” but I decided for this week to feature a woman. So…..

Dazzler you are this week’s Woman of the Moment!

Her real name is Alison Blair she is a mutant and is part of the X-Men! Her abilities include turning sound vibrations in to energy and light beams. She first got really into disco music but as the decades progress so did her musical taste.

The idea of  the Dazzler character came from Casablanca Records because of the collaboration of  the band KISS and their comic book tie ins was so successful they wanted a repeat. So the agreement was that Marvel Comics we create a singer female superhero and Casablanca Records would make a singer base off of that.

However there was disagreements between the Marvel team who were responsible in creating Dazzler: John Romita Jr. and Tom DeFalco and Filmworks (who wanted to make a movie based on the comic) on who Dazzler should be based off of. Marvel wanted Drazzler to resemble singer and model Grace Jones.

However Filmworks wanted to showcase Bo Derek and they were very vocal on changing Dazzler’s physical features to reflect more to Bo Dereks’. They couldn’t really agree so the movie was shelved and never filmed.

Despite all of this I think she is one of my new favorite X-men mutant and that is why she deserves to be “WOMAN OF THE WEEK!!!”

 

Today music video of the day is “We didn’t start the Fire” by Billy Joel (1989)

From his album “Storm Front”. This song Billy Joel belts out about a 100 headlines that happened between 1949 (the year Billy Joel was born) until 1989 when the song was release.

The idea for this song came about when Billy Joel ran into Sean Lennon in a recording studio. A then 21 old year Lennon said that it was a terrible time being 21 and Joel replied that they were harder times when he was growing up in the the 1950’s. Lennon believed that nothing really bad happened during that time frame. From that conversation Joel was compelled to write this song.

The music video was directed by Christ Blum and centers around a middle class couple in the 1950’s that wanted to achieved the “American dream”.  Their upwards mobility is show by there kitchen getting constantly upgraded to the next best upgrade by decade until the 1980’s. While all of this is happening Billy Joel plays the all knowing but “invisible” singer clad in all black and wears sunglasses. He is the only one that knows the trouble times ahead because he sees dark times which the video creates Joel space of a  black table that is on fire and a bunch of black and white photos of history’s darker times.

Until Next time!

This week’s round of comic book cover art 

Hello,

with the Barnes & Nobles Criterion Collection 50% off sale in full effect I thought I would throw in my top ten picks on what to get! You really cannot go wrong with any of the movies in the collection. However it is SO hard to pick out a couple considering that this collection has over 400 movies to choose from.

So here it goes in no particular order. Please be advise I am picking new titles that I haven’t previously picked from past Criterion Collection sale lists! 🙂

1.  Straw Dogs (1971) Directed by Sam Peckinpah and stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George is probably the most controversial movie on this list. When it was first released it received a rated X rating in the UK and a rated R in the US.
2.  Wise Blood (1979) directed by John Huston and stars Brad Dourif as a determined young man who moves into a new town and wants to make a name for himself. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a  street preacher and starts his own church.
3.  Ghost World (2001) directed by Terry Zwigoff and stars Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steven Buscemi. Enid (played by Birch) and Rebecca (played by Johansson) are two high school girls bored with their everyday life decides to respond to a date ad in a newspaper and got a whole lot more then they planned.
4.  Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) stars Dave Hemmings as a photographer who was taking photos in a park and accidentally took a photo of what he believes is a murder.
5.  Directed by Albert Brooks (1985) and also stars in this movie as a man who was fired from his job and reevaluates his life by using his life savings to buy a Winnebago and taking his wife in a cross country driving tour across America.
6.   Directed by Sydney Pollack (1982) and stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange  and Teri Garr. Hoffman plays a driven actor who keeps striking out in auditions until he sees an opportunity to play a role on a soap opera but as a woman.
7. Directed by Wes Anderson (1998) and stars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. When Herman Blume (Bill Murray) comes to Max Fisher’s (Jason Schwartzman) school and delivers a speech Blume never realizes how Fisher would take there friendship to the extreme. Especially when they both fall in love with the same teacher.
8.  Directed by Orson Wells (1973) is a documentary about what is consider real and what is consider fake.
9.  Directed by Michael Curtiz stars Joan Crawford as a mother who feels the need to provide her daughter with everything. However her daughter grows up to become spoil rotten and her greediness turns her mother into a  victim of her daughter snobbish ways.
10.   (1998) an in-depth look at the Beastie Boys videos.

 

 

Happy Shopping everyone!

Hello everyone,

Growing up I always had a difficult time trying to make friends because I was always in my own little world and had a very active imagination. For example when I was six I wanted to be a rodeo clown judge who would take care of justice and crime! My robe would be like a mood ring and change colors depending on my mood. And during the summer months  I would go off and be part of a clown who would dress up as a hilarious clown in rodeo gear.

Flash to some years later  to now and I  realized that I don’t have a lot of trouble making friends or fitting in because I came to terms that I like my eccentric taste in things and I don’t have to change that for anyone else who is not a fan of them. I am coining this as “being eccentric is the new cool.” The only person you should want to impress is yourself. I feel like a lot of people have been through some tough times so why not celebrate the person that you are instead of hiding or changing yourself?

Be who you want to be! If you want to be a superhero that dresses up like Mr. Furley from Three’s Company then I say go for it!   There is no shame in being eccentric!

🙂

Until next time!

 

ps… You all are doing a kickass job being YOU!

 

My heart still misses you. 

Claws (2017) stars Nicey Nash.  It is about a nail salon in Florida run by Desna (Nicey Nash) who is trying to make her life better for her family, her co-workers and herself. However a life of crime, chaos and disorder follows them around.

When I saw the promo for this it reminded me of Goodfellas and Scarface mixed into a dark comedy so I decided to watch the first episode and I was hooked! I am on episode five and am super excited to see how the rest of the season pans out. They also announced a season two so the fun and mayhem will continue!

This show is definitely worth checking out!