English language word of the week: Quintessence

He/she/or it is the quintessence or the epitome of. A certain type of style. Falling Water became the quintessence or epitome of the modernist mid-century style. Came to define the style.


Main Entry: quin·tes·sence
Pronunciation: \kwin-ˈte-sən(t)s\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French quinte essence, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia, literally, fifth essence
Date: 15th century
1 : the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies
2 : the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form
3 : the most typical example or representative
— quin·tes·sen·tial \ˌkwin-tə-ˈsen(t)-shəl\ adjective
— quin·tes·sen·tial·ly adverb


I use it mainly as in the second definition. Isn't the first definition beautiful though??????j NOw that I read the third version that is the most used definition today, The fifth essence of what?

Here is from an online encyclopedia. Alchemy: I had a feeling that is what is meant by fifth element. Distilled to it's purest form. Cutting to the core, incisive.


quintessence substance latent in all things, the extraction of which was one of the objects of alchemy XV; most essential part XVI. — F. quintessence, †quinte essence — medL. quinta essentia ‘fifth essence’, the fifth primary body besides the elements of earth, fire, air, and water.
Hence quintessential XVII.

"Great" interview with Amy Heckerling, director of Clueless about Brittany Murphy.

A must read and a must think about interview with Amy Heckerling talking about the tragedy of Brittany Murphy. This seems to be a topic well- hidden and not discussed in H-Wood, or in the popular media, until a tragic death like this occurs. Ms. Heckerling directed Brittany Murphy in her breakthrough role in Clueless.

Re: the photos here I have posted:
The picture of her with the bloated lips and skeletal sunken in eyes emciated face........really scary

the picture from Maxim with the oddly alien looking boobs and again skeletal body. Did men really lust over this photo? not sexy!!!

And the black dress photo---that stick thin emaciated body. How sad!

English vocabularly word of the week. Jocular

Shit I need the word of the week. How about jocular? just sprang into my head fully formed. Like Athena out of Zeus, I think is that right? Help me with my Greek Mythology everyone........Love to do this rambling high like this. It is fun. I love Tom Ford. I can't wait to see his film. I heard only a snippet of an interview with him on Terry Gross/Fresh Air. I want my own 5 questions segment with him. Ask him about his velvet jacket . The objectification of men along the lines of women's objectification. Ask him a bout Yves Saint Laurent, Sophie Dahl and her skin and her being a plus size model, and all the other stuff I know about him. Full frontal for men. He says he posed nude for an ad or a fashion shoot. I don't know if that is what the image is here, the one man looks like he could be Tom.

Anyway this nude male photo was labeled Tom Ford. The photo you are looking at. Yes, I just checked and the man on the left is indeed the very handsome and sexy Tom Ford. And he does indeed look quite jocular in this advertisement.

Main Entry: joc·u·lar
Pronunciation: \ˈjä-kyə-lər\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin jocularis, from joculus, diminutive of jocus
Date: 1626
1 : given to jesting : habitually jolly or jocund
2 : characterized by jesting : playful
synonyms see witty
— joc·u·lar·i·ty \ˌjä-kyə-ˈler-ə-tē, -ˈla-rə-\ noun
— joc·u·lar·ly \ˈjä-kyə-lər-lē\ adverb
Main Entry: jo·cund
Pronunciation: \ˈjä-kənd also ˈjō-(ˌ)kənd\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin jocundus, alteration of Latin jucundus, from juvare to help
Date: 14th century
: marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
synonyms see merry
— jo·cun·di·ty \jō-ˈkən-də-tē, jä-\ noun
— jo·cund·ly \ˈjä-kənd-lē, ˈjō-(ˌ)\ adverb


Main Entry: jo·cund
Pronunciation: \ˈjä-kənd also ˈjō-(ˌ)kənd\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin jocundus, alteration of Latin jucundus, from juvare to help
Date: 14th century
: marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
synonyms see merry
— jo·cun·di·ty \jō-ˈkən-də-tē, jä-\ noun
— jo·cund·ly \ˈjä-kənd-lē, ˈjō-(ˌ)\ adverb

This symbolizes the perfect metaphor for what is wrong with my life right now

I was all set to use my tape recorder this morning because I have 7 observations on the Tiger Woods situation. When I saw that my tape recorder wasn't there, I was shocked as I felt certain I knew had put it there, next to my Mac, ready for transcribing my scintillating ideas. I quickly became frustrated with the larger picture of the disarray and disorganization of my life. I felt very very upset because all kinds of great stuff was on it screenplay dialog scene outlines, comparison of Sam Wagstaff, Andy Warhol, Charles Phoenix and ME! I got a hit in my mind that it might be where Jett was playing with a castle set. If I do find it here", I said to myself, "that tells me my gut reactions , intuition, deeper sense perception is certainly something I can rely on. My eye happened to catch the tape under Ben's bed. When I looked closer I could see the tape all pulled out, the tape recorder laying close by. That is what this is a picture of.
I know it is not literally true, but it is metaphorically true, and a perfect symbol of: Jett and my having the 4th child is sabotaging my last gasp last grasp at a meaningful creative passionate life.

Serendipity: great English Language word of the week

Another gem from the English language. To find something fortunate, when you have been looking for something else. Any works of literature or movies that you care to send in, which illustrate the definition of our word of the week, is greatly appreciated! And here is a FAB photo of Joan Crawford for you. Sorry no credit on it--but she used to pose for hours in MGM costumes for a photographer, whose work of her became famous. He took thousands of photos of her. I read a book about it with all the glorious photos, and MGM dresses and beautiful young ambitious Joanie. I could probably find out the name of the book if I go digging around at Amazon. I know I checked it out at Columbine.

The following definition is taken from Wikipedia:

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally stumbles upon something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.[1] However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate; Spanish serendipia).

film about a MA female going crazy---in the great tradition of such

well O fucking K. Who wants to write a screenplay with me about a WOMAN'S middle age crisis??? And make it funny, not funny HA HA necessarily but poignant funny. Keep the hand on it light anyway. I think humour goes a long way in getting your message across. And yes I know it can't be obvious like Samuel Goldwyn said, I think it was him--" If you want to send a message go to Western Union.

Protagonist/main character: female 45, has had kids and was a SAHM for a long time. She has recently is re entered the workforce after a tumultuous year or two going through a divorce after the kids were older. When the kids were young,she was a "devoted SAHM until she began having depression, esp. at the holidays, and now she is at a mediocre "shitty" job. At this point she has had the mediocre job for about one year and her life has settled into a routine. She starts the symptoms of depression. Crying for no reason, and being triggered into a sobbing jag after seeing the young girl and after seeing a beautiful couple in love. It is because of the realization of her life passing her by, her youth gone, opportunities wasted, loss of young vibrant appeal to men., never got the change to be made love to well by a wonderful lover.

They say character is plot. Right. Character is plot. We want to show a woman cracking up, developing a neurosis where she feels herself making out with men she encounters or she just goes off into a daydream with it, and the consequences get worse and worse. culminating in a kitchen fire which could have burned down the house. That is a huge warning bell to her so she seeks help. then what? what is the ending? how is her problem resolved? I just can't seem to get a MDQ over it. Any collaborators out there? What should be the best MDQ for the protagonist of this film?

I have many different ways this story could go and about three different characters of the protagonists so how to combine them into one----is the predicament.

Trajectory is a great word.

I need a different trajectory. ha, I love that word. Scintillating last week and Trajectory this week. Love it. Aitch's new word of the week. It is a "vocab." word and it is a beautiful and interesting and nuanced word in the English language. I need a trajectory in my life besides writing about R and K,;ra·jec·to·ry (trə-jěk'tə-rē)
n. pl. tra·jec·to·ries
The path of a projectile or other moving body through space.

A chosen or taken course: "What died with [the assassinated leaders] was a moral trajectory, a style of aspiration" (Lance Morrow).

Mathematics A curve that cuts all of a given family of curves or surfaces at the same angle.

How about your blog, also learn the camera. Get a project like the boys picture. A filmed version of the blog. Interview people.
Also, will post a new picture of the week for the hell of it and it looks good. I should be more pithy I guess in some of my posts. I don't want to be manic. Maybe I do?!
It was very much a macho or male oriented scene in the Beat Scene with Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and Neal Cassaday. When I discovered Kerouac on a PBS documentary I was taken with the group of literaries and cultural players and another fascinating American art scene. taken with Kerouac, he had such good looks when he was young before alcoholism ravaged him.
And what is weird or interesting is Allen Ginsburg's connection to Andy and Edie. And then his to Bob Dylan also. Allan Ginsburg is a great American character!!! On the cultural zeitgeist. The Beats, On Callie Angels Screen Test. Callie Angels Screen tests is a Must for AW scholars and films history scholars. Ginsberg is in it and all the people who are in it is fascinating. DAnny Fields? His doc.
My original thought was the macho-ness of the Beats, and the lack of female participation,( REading about it in John Leland history of HIp) The women were the help mates and the women who would of been literary talent but they could not get away with as much as the boys. Because they were and women don't get away with that behavior much. That is one lesson from that Boulder murder victim of the 1950s. Who was that I just erased it? Damn it.
. It's what I've always been saying about Ken Kesey. Where was Mrs. Kesey when Ken went riding around the bus with Neil Cassady???? who was tripping his ass off during the 1960s. Neal adjusted well to the hippie era. so as I have been saying for a long time. you could have been 14 in the 1960s or you could have been Neal Cassady in the 1960s, quite a wide age span encompassed the Hippie Movement. And he would have been a fucking celebrity to all the younger hippies. I think he die by a RR track. How and where
I would ask Steve Watson about Danny Fields and that doc., The Beats, allan Ginsburg, If he waas aware of the content of the screen tests and if he studied Callie Angel's book. Andy being misjudged for his indifference to the drggies around him going really downhilll, like he didn't give as-hit the way he came across to Danny Fields Mother. And there Andrea Feldman, Edie Sedgwick, and he wished he could have filmed Freddie Herko as he leapt out the window to his suicide. That controversial attitude.

http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/alec-baldwin-i-intend-to-have-plastic-surgery-1525160.story?gt1=28135

I would love to interview Alec Baldwin. Esp. recently when I have been remembering and forgetting how beautiful Alec Baldwin was whenhe was young. What film was he in ?The Shadow? He was touted as the next big heartthrob. And It never happended . Alec---there was article And it tanked. But he survived and now is fully "comeback"even more than when he got a second, third chance, like James CAan.And I thought eh not bad. he has certainly surpassed that. But look up the article about him from the writer on the Bear movie and he was at anall time ass moment of his life. I would ask him about that.


The ask him about what attracted him to KimBasinger What, beyond the obvious, attracted you to her.

do you remember about the writer who accounted his experiences VF or something and he had a bad impression of you. and you were blown up like a big grizzly bear.

I would applaud him for being in the love triangle movie with someone his one age--Meryl Streep.

Scintillating is such a great word.

I think my writing on message boards is scintillating. I am a scintillating person. But I may as well be writing anonymously as I am here on my Personal Blog. Because no one ever responds to me. Occasionally they do. But not often, it is rare. This makes me feel like a meaningless, insignificant, anonymous blob. I am Queen of the universe to my sons. And that was enough for a while. But alas, I now need some kind of wordly recognition. Which seems to be very hard to come by for me. I have felt that way my whole life and I continue to feel this way as middle age creeps in and I enter the world of the internet. Maybe it is a script I have bought into. Maybe I am buying into my own worn out low self-worth script even as I am shocked to see that others don't find my scintillating personality scorching across the computer screen. I guess I should just post for my own self, my own need to improve my writing skills and become even more scintillating writer. Just do it for myself, not others approval.

I think he has a cinematic face

Robert Pattinson
Originally uploaded by rrobertpattinson

Robert Pattinson looks so much like a movie star, he will probably be a movie star, wether he can act or not. Since he is British I will give him the benefit of the doubt.