FISHING FOR AVOCADOS! –– C.A. BROADSTONE on FILMMAKING, WRITING, MUSIC –– POLITICAL HUMAN IDIOTS? –– and Other Things BCP/Texas POĒtrope! ***PLEASE SUBSCRIBE with your email below.
WOW! Very cool! SLIPKNOT has released an interactive 360-degree live video on YouTube.
Try it out. When bored with what's on screen, just use your cursor to
move around the stage. That's right, just "click & drag" the view
on-screen around with your cursor.
I'd love to see this new documentary on
the amazing JOHN COLTRANE. But it's only playing this weekend here in
Dallas before moving on. But check out the trailer and the link to
upcoming screenings for showings in your town.
Such a terrible shame about the Manchester bombings. An example of "wrong" in its most profound form. Open boarders have worked sooooooo well. Brought nothing but friends and flowers and smiles and sunshine into our lives in the West. 30 years ago I wrote some lyrics titled LIFE IS CHEAP IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Unfortunately, they still hold true today, except now the Middle East has been brought to the west. Yippy. :(
LIFE IS CHEAP IN THE MIDDLE EAST On the corner, a gun With a man in its hand. He's there night and day Burning each country's flag. But today is a holiday. He's got nothing to do, Except rally and preach Of better living through dying For one more private army -- Cause Life is cheap Life is cheap Life is cheap in the Middle East!
Please read about my great friend Judith Herdman––who
has helped me with proof reading many of my published stories––and If
you can please donate anything you're able to, to help her get the
surgery she desperately needs. Thank you. Please feel free to help Judith by sharing this post. Again, thank you.
THE MAKING OF “THERE IS NO…”!!!! (53min/Color/Stereo)
Make
some popcorn, turn out the lights, crank up the stereo, and turn on the
time machine! Enjoy this Behind-The-Scenes Super-8mm Vintage Feature
now showing (for the first time since 1986) on YouTube. :)
Starring WENDY BROADSTONE, JIM COCKE & CHRIS BROADSTONE
HAHAHAHA! Well...seems IRON SKY
(sci-fi/comedy/parody/B-Movie/Whatever it is) has its fans, and will be
back with a sequel in 2018, IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE!
Due to
escaped Nazis finding refuge and thriving on the Moon, the original has
been dubbed racist by some, but as one viewer on Netflix states quite
sensibly: "... there is a difference between portraying racism to make
fun of it (as this movie does) and portraying it to encourage it. If you
can't tell the difference between the two portrayals, perhaps you don't have enough intellectual machinery to be watching a parody." Amen to that!
THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (Coming September 2017)––Starring BILL NIGHY (who is always quite good).
Billed by LIONSGATE as a "horror-thriller film", this looks
Sherlock-Holmesie cool and high-brow, and I'm always a bit of a sucker
for the macabre Victorian vibe, so...this adaptation of PETER ACKROYD's
1994 murder-mystery novel might make for a great watch on a cold winter
night. I'm in––anyone want to bring the candles?
WOODSHOCK (Coming September 2017)––Starring KIRSTEN DUNST. Debut from writer/directors KATE & LAURA MULLEAVY.
Hmmmmmm...trippy...arty...but will it make any sense or be any good? Time will tell. Although I often don't mind watching Kirsten when she's turning on her creepy sex appeal.
JUST
ACHING TO MAKE PEOPLE DESPISE ME MORE, I GUESS...for speaking my mind
and the truth (as only I see it, I'm sure; me a demon among angels, as
usual)––always a bad thing, it seems. :) Hmmmm, yes...
Such
a shame about California, isn't it? :( But oh soooo true. I know, I
lived there from 1995 to 2016––so I doubt anyone will be able to
convince me otherwise. What saddens me most is that some great people I
know are among the fray. But to each his/her own, for I know they would
never leave. As the TALKING HEAD's David Byrne sings: "Home, is where I
want to be, But I guess I'm already there." And I am home now too. Thank
the powers that be for that. No state income tax, low gas prices, easy
to deal with the DMV (unlike CA), truly a far more relaxed feeling here
in TX; mostly peaceful and quiet and people get along––except for the
typical individual killings that are plaguing the nation over all.
_
Seems
people have learned that there is no debating with others and reasoning
with logic––because very few are logical nowadays (but were they
ever?). The only way you change someone's mind is to kill them. Welcome
to the cancer of the world growing in leaps and bounds. And I really
don't think it will ever stop––gun control won't fix it––it's just too
easy to kill someone, if you simply, wholeheartedly want to (a kitchen
knife or a hammer will always suffice). And all of this is generally the
result of a planet with too many people all wanting too much and
wanting it yesterday all the time. This is the legacy of the human
race, which, in all truth, has been unfolding endlessly since the
beginning of the species.
_
Now,
however, there is a slight, yet alarming, difference: the deafening
cries of the few––special interests and the media––far outweigh the
needs of the many, who must hold their tongue. At least until they
pop...explode. And this "popping" or "exploding" will continue
indefinitely, because people are fed up. The usually calm and sensible
crowd are all fed up with a world going terribly out of focus––forced
out of focus by the "victims", the special interests, and the media.
Thus, most people are now "mass" victims of the minority of "victims".
Reminds me of lyrics I wrote for an ≈9x song 30 years ago, called "Get
Me Off This Planet":
"Looky, there's a pimple on the planet
"Looky, the pimple is a man
"Looky, the man is going to explode
"With everything I cannot stand --"
I'm
sure many will disagree with what I'm saying. But they are the squeaky
wheel singular "victims"...and worst of all, the "pedantic": the
overripe, self-righteous, devil-in-the-details, know-all geeks who
believe their way is the only way––because they're "smart", they are the
"media". They are the most dangerous ones forcing the world out of
focus, because they go out of their way to control even the singular
"victims". And possibly irreparably so. A world war is on the brink.
But this world war will be fought on every continent and in every
person's yard. The days of the caveman approach steadily. Seems the
troglodyte is unconquerable.
Alas,
the more that things change, the more they stay the same. I hope time
will prove me wrong about a new World War, but only time can do that.
We are all sitting on the beach of Uhgggg and the high tide of calamity
is rolling in. Have a nice day Humans, on this ever bloody planet
Earth. :)
16 Reasons Not To Live In California article here: