Ah-ma-zing! I cannot wait to see the new Jurassic Park……………..but I have to. It is cruel and unusual punishment to flash details about the production on the film and then drop the bomb that it doesn’t come out until June 2015. From what I’ve read, the movie will center around the dinosaurs of the sea. Um………AMAZING! It’s like my two favorite movies (Jaws and Jurassic Park) had a baby in the form of an awesome movie that isn’t going to be a Saturday night Syfy original. Does anyone remember “Shartopus”? In other words, it’s going to be bitchin’ so I’m sure it will be worth the wait.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/18/exclusive-interview-with-the-director-of-jurassic-world

So today marks a beautiful moment in life…. I got to take my bike out for the first time in what seems like a decade. It was about fifty degrees and I got to resurrect my soul and faith in the universe. Oh, and speaking of resurrection, I watched the pilot episode for ABC‘s new show “Resurrection” and it was amazing! The show is centered around the idea of people who were believed to be long-since perished showing up without aging at all. Imagine that you lost a child when you were in your 20’s and that same child showed up thirty years later…. still an eight-year-old child. How would that unexplainable miracle affect your life? Would it be a blessing, as  you have your child back? Or would it be a burden as it would be too difficult to process? These questions and more are brought to the forefront of this compelling drama, underscored beautifully by the compositions of a Mr. Blake Neely. I’m excited to see the next episode which airs Sunday nights at 8/9 c on ABC. I highly recommend it. Oh, and I’m working on a BITCHIN’ sculpture of an insect right now. I love the 3-dimensional freedom gifted by the god of sculpture!

http://abc.go.com/shows/resurrection

I was watching Adele’s Live At Royal Albert Hall concert and I came across a song that really struck a nerve. Adele covered Bonnie Ray’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”, and to quote the Brit herself, “it’s fucking stunning.” It’s so moving and so well done. Now, I have an interesting relationship with music. Growing up I was never encouraged to cry or talk to my family or friends about anything deep. It was just shut your mouth and, “Oh well. Move on.” I soon discovered a companion in music because you were allowed and even encouraged to be vulnerable. There wasn’t the ever-looming certainty that you would be mocked or made fun of. As an adult I am learning that music is often an identifying factor of something I’ve been through. It’s the left over conversation from a long time friend that listens to me. It empathizes and agrees with me. It understands me. It unlocks me and takes away one story from a book of burden. It never lies to me or deceives me in any way. It never does me wrong. It is a constant comfort. Music and all it’s unrelenting kinship will never cease to amaze me.

So, the show has been pretty good so far. I just have to give two shout outs tonight. First is for the new Oscar winner for best original score. Steven Price took home my favorite trophy of the entire awards season for his work on the film Gravity. I’ve only sampled a few of the tracks, but it’s beautiful and it echos one of my favorite sounds ever: outer space. Ooh, I can’t wait to sit down, put on the headphones and be transported to the final frontier. The second shout out of the night goes to Pink for giving a flawless performance of the classic tune, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. It was so refined and the more I hear performers like Pink or Adele who give incredible performances without constant vocal acrobatics, the more I respect them. It’s not that I don’t love my Xtina and her finger-waving, but there is a lot of presence in the absence of nonsense. Oh! And Cate Blanchett is the most epically badass woman of all time. Just saying.

So, it’s been a long, draining, soul-murdering winter. It’s been hard to stay on the happy path, but music has been doing that for me. I recently fell head-over-heels in love with Katy Perry’s “Unconditionally”. I’m thinking I’m going to sing it for my audition for The Voice. That’s right….. I’m gonna do it! I just hope my girl Christina is back! Coming up this summer is a remake of Godzilla. This one looks way cooler than the 90’s Matthew Broderick version. (not that I hated that). This new version is more true to “Gojira” and the original vision for this fire-breathing giant. Also, Bryan Cranston is in it. That’s an automatic +10. Other motivational forces have been the treasure trove that is the SyFy channel……….. so good and so bad. I’ve always been a fan of the over-the-top, ridiculous, kindergarten quality special effects, obscenity original movies. I happen to think “Sharknado” wasn’t as earth-shattering as people thought. SyFy has been putting on the ritz for years. (“Sharktapus” anyone?) The channel does cater to some incredible competition shows, too. Face Off is always enjoyable in it’s production of creepsters and ghouls. There is an incredible show coming up that I have got to mention. It is “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge”. We are talking good old puppeteering and animatronics. Let me wipe the drool off my keyboard. This is my absolute favorite form of creature-making. Unfortunately, nowadays it is a field that doesn’t get a lot of credit because as a herd of conditioned movie watchers, we always assume that we are looking at CGI. Puppeteers don’t get the props that they deserve. So, here is a shout out to all the great puppeteers, animatronic, creature-making, life-renewing artists out there. You are the heart of this Ocian.

P.S., “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge” premiere’s on March 25th on SyFy. http://www.syfy.com/creatureshop

So I went to Steven’s Square Art Center today with some new friends and got to see the space my art was in. It was very cool to see the gallery and all of the other artist’s work. Upon further review, I think my self-portrait is still a work in progress. I don’t know what it needs, but it needs something. There’s a compositional longing. I saw some great sculpture and ceramics work from my teacher and was lucky enough to take home some ceramic soda cans. I make art with soda cans…….. and now have soda cans that were made as art. Awesome. I also got to meet an awesome photographer, japheth storlie, and experience his expertise first hand. He works with vintage cameras and shoots a lot of miniature scenes and it was pretty awesome to see his space. Great experience meeting with my kind of folks: genuine people with authentic vision……artists.

Okay, so first off……… KITCHEN NIGHTMARES IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!! Okay, now that I’ve done that, I’d like to formally welcome back Gordon Ramsay, my boo. Not only is he a master wordsmith, zinger-flinger, and all-around well groomed man of insults, he’s amazing at giving people the honest truth. So his first culinary bad dream is the worst we’ve ever encountered on our journey together. It was the only time he flat out left. Amy’s Bakery. This is run by two delusional individuals. One is a bug-eyed, irrational, stick-up-her-ass, blonde “chef” with the reasoning skills and maturity that God gave a used plunger. The other is a 75 year old Godfather wannabe from the middle east……… who threatened to have Ramsay killed. And, yes, these two are married. There truly is someone out there for everyone. Anyways, these two scream at their customers, don’t give their waiters tips, and all around have neither foot in reality. In other words, this is not a Kitchen Nightmare. It’s a Kitchen Funeral, and I’ll be wearing black and attending with popcorn and big foam finger saying “Ramsay”. Cannot wait.

http://perezhilton.com/fitperez/2014-02-04-kitchen-nightmares-amys-baking-company-part-two-season-6#sthash.t1Ze2snZ.dpbs