Remembering Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey In Dirty Dancing

Who doesn’t remember Patrick Swayze and Dirty Dancing? I’ve watched it a million times, and each and every time, I swoon over the sensitivity and fluid grace of Johnny Castle, played by Patrick Swayze. His character was truly a beautiful thing. This movie was more than just a dancing movie; it was a sweetly poignant movie about trust, love and coming of age. The beautiful song,The Time of My Life, is a song that just completely sums up one of the best breath stealing, sigh inducing movies of head over heels summer love. Whenever I see the movie, I’m still taken back to a more innocent time. Truly a timeless, enduring, classic movie. We will miss you greatly Patrick Swayze. You really left an impression.

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~P.S.~ Patrick Swayze and his wife of 34 years, Lisa Nemi, penned a Patrick Swayze Memoir entitled The Time of My Life. Some other movies of Patrick Swayze’s include, Ghost, North and South, Point Break and To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, just to name a few.

Stephenie Meyer Day In Forks!

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OOOH! Before I forget! This weekend in Forks, September 12th and 13th to be exact, they will be celebrating Stephenie Meyer Day 2009! Of course we know that she made the small town famous with her “little” vampire saga (little! hehe!), and in her novels, September 13th is fictional character

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Bella Swan’s birthday.  Why not take a jaunt down to Forks, Washington and join in the vampy fun! Forks is even inviting Arizonians — or is it Arizonites? You may even catch a glimpse of Stephenie Meyer herself, if she opts to surprise fans with an appearance, and get those hardcovers I know you Twihards will be lugging around with you autographed maybe! (It is rumored Stephenie will not be making an appearance in New Moon like she did in Twilight — BOO! News on the street is that director Chris Weitz forgot! How embarrassing, as Stephenie Meyer was actually on set during the shooting of New Moon!)

~Quickbite!~ The Vampire Diaries premiered last night. I wonder how it measured up, because you know it will be compared to Twilight. (It even echoed the mother of all vampire tales, Bram Stoker’s Dracula!) It’s been called a Twilight/Trueblood hybrid — Truelight! ™ — how will it stack up against these two vampire empire giants? I wonder if they’ll play the heck out of it like they are Melrose Place 2.0?

~MAJOR P.S.!~ I did not know this! L.J. Smith wrote The Vampire Diaries series which was first published in 1991! That’s like 18 years ago! Way long before Twilight. Stephenie Meyer would have been 18 years old at the time. Interesting. But as we all know, every great story has it’s kernels from something great that has gone before. It is inevitable. I wonder how big the books were with fans back then? I wonder why Twilight took such a stranglehold on fans in this era of fantasy and lore literature? Maybe we’re just ready for stuff like this now?

Tags: book, Forks, Stephenie Meyer, vampire

Jennifer’s Body vs. Love Happens

Prediction!!! I think Jennifer’s Body with Megan Fox and written by Diablo Cody

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will beat out Love Happens with the body of the real Jennifer (Aniston, that is!) and Aaron Eckhart.

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Both hit the box office Friday, September 18th, so I guess we’ll see. I know what I wanna see —Jennifer’s Body — what about you?

Follow Me On Twitter!

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As with all things, we must move forward. So this is me joining Twitter. I still can’t believe I’m a Tweeter-er now, but stranger things have happened. You can follow me here — BrighterScribe (or just type in http://twitter.com/BrighterScribe). Tweet on!

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~Tidbits~ Just some Tweeter-ers I’m following on Twitter — Namiac (http://twitter.com/Namiac) and RosieReay (https://twitter.com/RosieReay)!

Institute for Human Continuity? WTF?

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SO, I’m watching History Television (a fairly credible and serious station) and I see this ad for human continuity and preparing for the end of the world. Now, I’m no stranger to viral marketing, but WTF?!? Thankfully, prior to seeing this ad, I’d already seen the movie trailer for 2012 at the Harry Potter flick in July. (Thankfully, I also knew about the supposed end of the world date because of the dreaded Mayan calendar thing). Said trailer simply showed a huge, taller than the tallest mountain tsunami wave completely obliterating a few frantic monks and their bell tower; after that, big white lettering against a black screen appeared that read simply, Google: 2012. If I hadn’t been aware of these things, I seriously would have panicked after being subjected to this commercial I saw on History Television. Even so, my heart did skip a beat. The commercial suggests you check out a website for “human continuity” and ensuring that “the end is just the beginning.” The website for the Institute for Human Continuity is very comprehensive for a hoax, and believable; until you see the © 2009 Sony Pictures Digital Inc. All Rights Reserved imprint at the bottom left corner of the page. Thankfully, I’m wise to these advertising tactics, or I may have wondered if it was legitimate or not, and I would have been caused at least 5 more minutes of true, heart palpitating, agonizing concern! Viral marketing — is it effective or offensive?

2012 hits theaters Friday, November 13th, 2009 (what a coincidence! LOL!) Will you be ready for the end?

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~Footnote!~ Did anyone consider that maybe, just maybe, that Mayan calendar dude just disappeared? or quit? or something? And maybe no one else knew how the thing worked? Maybe a new ruling class took over and decided calendars were to be outlawed? Maybe that explained the mysterious ending of the calendar? Just a thought. According to new archaeological evidence, the Mayans didn’t just vanish as originally thought. There may be solid proof that they assimilated to new government and new customs and traditions and were absorbed into a new civilization.