I wrote that?

by Madeline Laughs

I was plundering some of my old posts last night and re-reading some of the events I have processed over the last few years. One post caught my eye and I sat back to read through the whole thing.

This is something I rarely do.

I reached one paragraph and was quite impressed with what it said. I wondered to myself who I had quoted so I scrolled to the bottom, looking for the quotation marks and the credited source. I didn’t find any, so I scrolled back to the top, thinking I must have missed something. There weren’t any quotation marks at the top either.  

Watching the Oscars!! Hooray for Hollywood!

31st Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theater, Hollywood, 1959 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by Madeline Laughs

Oscar night is this Sunday night!

I have been watching the Academy Awards show for as long as I can remember. I worked in the motion picture industry for about 4 and a half years and back then I was pretty good at guessing who was going to win in each category. I’m not so good at guessing now that I’ve been away from the business for such a long time.

Some folks think this is just a bunch of hoopla and not worth their time. I think those folks are missing out on something pretty amazing. The film industry and everything it represents to me, is pure joy.  

Looking beyond your own nose

by Madeline Laughs

Do you ever freely give praise to anyone…without asking for praise for yourself too?

Do you ever get inspired by someone else…without trying to shove your accomplishments right next to theirs a second later?

Do you ever talk about and promote someone else’s work…instead of always talking about your own?

Do you ever look at or consider anything else in this large and vast world…except your own shit?  

Unconcealing

The wet weather made them sad,  and their sadness made them more attentive.
- Jonah Lehrer

So you don’t have to suffer for your art, you just need to get yourself into a depressed state before you begin to create it. Apparently you pay more attention when you are bummed out. Probably to further flaws.

Someone said to me recently that everyone sees the flaws first, it’s just rude to point it out. I disagree. First of all some people never see the flaws, they are focused on what is right about the thing or the situation instead of what is wrong. Secondly it’s usually simple force of habit, not an actual conscious choice. But most of all not to point it out would be a lie. For me to sit in your face thinking this or that and not bothering to tell you is a bit two-faced for my taste.   

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