— A HUGE shoutout to Mark, for upgrading Movable Type for me. I owe you big-time. My trackback function works again – as well as my “activity log”. Thank you!!
— The heat wave broke. Thank God. I feel like a human being again.
— Re-read Bridge to Terabithia in a day this week. Cried all over again. What a wonderful book. The part where the father – who has been kind of cold and grumpy throughout – picks his boy up in his arms like a small baby … Okay, I’m crying now just typing this.
— I’m in 2 musical phases right now: Eartha Kitt and Metallica. (Metallica is usually a constant – so that’s not really a “phase” – but regardless, my lack of desire to listen to anybody other than Eartha Kitt (what??) and Metallica has become so strong that I have made a playlist of only alternating Eartha and Metallica songs. It has to be the weirdest playlist in history.)
— I’m gonna be working all day today and playing all night.
— This gesture of Dean Stockwell’s below. Sort of cupping his chin with his hand, one finger up over his face, smushing in the skin, a deep in thought gesture … It shows up in pretty much any picture he’s made. Gesture consistency throughout decades of life. Makes me wonder if I have any gesture that has not changed, that I have been doing since I was 7. He does it still (only now he usually has a cigar in the right hand).
Age 11, Gentlemans Agreement
Age 50-something, Quantum Leap
Maybe the hairline is different, maybe he has wrinkles now – but he pretty much looks exactly the same, as far as I’m concerned. Some people change drastically from their childhood face – you can barely tell it is them. Maybe cause he wasn’t a precocious actor-y mannered little kid – you know those little actor kids who seem like mini grownups and somehow unreal? Or like obnoxious little show-offs? He didn’t have that ever. He always seemed real, like a real little boy.
But still – his face itself hasn’t changed. He is recognizably Dean Stockwell in that shot.
I am OCD about Stockwell right now. I am not embarrassed.
Whoa! How DID you catch that gesture!? Forget OCD, how about a sixth sense or something?
I don’t know if I’ve retained any particular gesture over the years myself, but my mom observed that I’ve been concluding many a conversation with a sigh and “I don’t get it” since I was 3. It must be significant b/c I’m the middle child and God knows middle children have that “being ignored” thing.
perfect..Eartha and Metallica!…for me.. it’s Lena Horne and Nirvana…we are space twins..i miss you.
We are totally space twins! I always knew it!!
Sheila — Enjoying the site.
BTW, here’s “The Boy With Green Hair”, apparently a freebie …
http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=831&format=movie&theme=guide
A.S.
I’m just getting out of a Louis Prima / Pablo Cruise / Barry White phase — but I don’t think that’s any match for an Eartha Kitt and Metallica phase. Please allow me to ask which happened first? Was there any connection? Or did the cosmic jukebox just freakin’ happen on you one day?
I’m just getting out of a Louis Prima / Pablo Cruise / Barry White phase — but I don’t think that’s any match for an Eartha Kitt and Metallica phase. Please allow me to ask which happened first? Was there any connection? Or did the cosmic jukebox just freakin’ happen on you one day?
It has to do with sex.
I’m sorry I asked — happy for you — but sorry I asked.
I LOVE that you caught him in mid Gesture. You’re the best Sheila.
And just so ya know, we’re Viewpointing “Midsummer” right now, and I asked the cast to bring in music to help flesh out the world. Chrisanne is bringing Garland, Metallica, and Eartha….just to name a few.
We are freaks.
Alex – no way!!!
Is Chrisanne my lost twin or something?
And about Stockwell’s gesture, I found about 10 other examples, but I figured: Sheila. Calm down. 2 is enough.
Also, we have to catch up. Where are you doing Midsummer?
Woo hoo on the upgrade! Moveable Type kinda makes me go “Ow.”
Muppets? Thursday? Yes?
Quantum Leap: Season 1, Ep. 3: “The Right Hand of God”
Okay. I am determined to keep this going. Tommy, I’m sorry I dropped the ball on our project! The past autumn was seriously a rough time for me. Couldn’t do shit. But I really want to keep going with our…