hmmmm....finding out how many people in this world experience sleep paralysis
You know what I'm really interested in? The people I see on my train doing the same routine every morning...i always want to know who these extras in my life are, but I never want to speak to them cuz it would spoil the mystery. And if an extra interacts with the star, they're bumped up to feature, and you have to pay them more.
Music
I'm the only person i know who loves Radio. I love all music!!! Well, almost all of it. And if a song comes on that i Don't like, i just change the channel.
Check out my friends music group AZ ONE. Hot shit!!!
this is a bit of them performing in Chicago.
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Movies
My favorite thing to do is to rent an awful movie, by accident of course, but then to watch the whole thing and then to watch the worst parts while listening to the director's commentary. it's hilarious. and it's torture
Television
i used to think that the stuff you learn from watching an entire episode of a program could be applied to my life. when i was a kid, i'd learn my morals from television. People say entertainment is entertainment, but it's also an imitation of life. And children have a hard time separating real life from fantasy.
Books
I read so much, i like any book that is well written. I don't really care about the subject matter, if the author can bring me into the world, i'm there. Favorite Authors- H.G.Wells, C.S. Lewis, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison.
books read in 2007- Pursuit of Happiness(because i was pregnant), The Measure of a Man (because i've read a book by Sydney Poitier before and it was great, but this one was not as interesting, it actually made me sad because he has some of the same frustration i have and he hasn't figured it out even at his age).Don Rickles book (i love reading about the lives of performers, but in his tell all of nothing book i didn't find out anything but that he didn't realize that Frank Sinatra pimped him). Lessons in Becoming Myself( a very good book about Ellen Burstyn. I love her spiritual journey, even though she's so into herself. Confessions of an Economic Hitman(politics are new territory for me).A Confederacy of Dunces(gift from a friend). Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and Racso and the Rats of NIMH ( had a childhood flashback). I started writing this, but i can't remember, oh yeah i re read comic insights(Harris's, but he never gave me my Anne Rice Memnoch book back) I am about to re read the bible. But a friend of mine just gave me a book called, i think, the seven principles of buddhism, which i'm very interested in. I wanna learn how to meditate, to find a still and mellow place without using Jesus Juice. I meant wine, but getting drunk on religion may be an appropriate metaphor.
Heroes
My hero is definitely my Mom. I don't think that needs explanation.
My favorite man in the world is Max Kellerman.
My Favorite Comedians are Andy Kaufman, Dave Chappelle, and Billy Burr
When you start trying to see the truth in things, you find holes in most everything you've been taught.
I want to find the truth. I want to know what the real story is behind the story book. I'm starting to question everything that is put before me. There are a lot of illusions. And I'm overwhelmed by my own ignorance.-Calise Hawkins (September 8, 2006).
"Hell is a state of mind....And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind-is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains." -C.S. Lewis (The Great Divorce)
"Why do I have to play a part that depends on color? Why can't I play something where the fact that I'm a Negro has no bearing on the script in any way? Why must a special part be written for a Negro? Really integrated theater will be when an actor-colored or white- is hired to play a part. Period. Not when a Negro actor is hired to play the part of a Negro who's in the story strictly as a Negro.....Have you any idea how jarring it must be for about five million colored kids who sit in front of a television set hour after hour and they almost never see anybody who looks like them? It's like they and their families and their friends just plain don't exist." -Sammy Davis, Jr. (Yes I Can, 1965)
Who I'd like to meet: I've met everyone I'd like to have met in my lifetime. I wanted to meet Bill Cosby. Done. He came right up to me one night and we had a conversation. Does it matter that I was working the coatcheck at an event he was speaking at and he came up to me to check his coat and that the conversation was about him tucking his scarf in his sleeve? I met him. That's what counts.
I don't want to meet any more celebrities, i can pick up a magazine and know what kind of toilet paper they use. I'm more interested in meeting eccentric people doing human things. The people who forgot to buy toilet paper, so they're using the nearest rag, even though it's their room-mate's because hey, nobody's going to be taking any pictures and you can rinse it off before he gets home.
THIRD PLACE out of FIFTEEN QUALITY COMICS CERTAINLY AIN'T BAD!!!!!!
Congrats on your excellent performance on:
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last night!
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