Women Are Made From Strength And Grace. Stand Together.

Women are made from strength and grace. Stand together.

“Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet… and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some… some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.”

— Death (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)

“Twice in my life, I have been lucky enough to meet the love of my life, and both of those times I’ve married that love. And I knew I was lucky to be able to do that. But I didn’t know how lucky until I had to drive over the state line to come here to officiate the weddings of these two loving couples.”

June 26, 2015 - US Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. Love wins.

In February 1997, James Cameron sent composer James Horner 36 hours of Titanic raw footage and told him, “Steep yourself in the footage and write Jack, write Rose, write the Titanic–however you want to break down the melodies in your mind. And when you have those, you’ll have done 90% of the work.”  Three weeks later Horner was ready to demo for the director. He invited Cameron out to his studio and with no preamble launched into the Titanic theme on his piano. Cameron’s eyes were tearing up by the time Horner finished. The composer had two more melodies. One, more bittersweet, with a deep, melancholy underpinning, would be linked with Rose’s sadder moments and Jack’s death. By the time Horner finished, Cameron was crying. The music was everything he had hoped and prayed it would be, gliding from intimacy to grandeur to heart-wringing sadness. Effortlessly, the music seemed to bridge the 85 years between then and now.

“I kept being told [the soundtrack] had gone gold, the song had gone platinum and the album had gone platinum then I started to know these terms but I’d never known them before and what the Billboard charts meant. The fact that a movie album could be a number one album of the year, not just in the movie genre but a number one album, it was the first time I sort of realized the dent that Titanic had made. A lot of people did say how inspired they were by the film, the music, by the whole emotional experience. People wanted to write music, they wanted to write songs, film scores, they wanted to get into music based on Titanic and I was very flattered.” – James Horner                                     R.I.P. James Roy Horner                                             (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015)

Chicago Walkout!! For anyone who lives in Chicago there is going to be a walk out on Wednesday December 9th at 12 PM. Chicagoans from across the city will walk out of work and school and converge on Daley plaza. This is to demand the resignation of the Mayor Rahm Emanuel and he states attorney Anita Alverez. This is due to the refusal to accept what happened to Laquan McDonald. WALK OUT Please spread the word!

Hey, I'd love to help, but I don't live in Chicago. I'll repost to spread the word though. Good luck with the protest!

For the first time in 70 years, all Musical acting awards went to people of color!