I understand another trophy awards show aired last Monday night, and they started at the same time as another paranormal episode of "The X-Files." During commercial breaks, I checked a Facebook friend's timely and sometimes snarky one-liners on his page. I instantly laughed or I thought about the comment. Now that's trophy worthy.
I mostly rent my movies from the Red Box and I use a promotional code where I receive movies to view for rent on and receive one free. Or receive 50-cents off. I have received movies free or for cents-on the dollar plus tax. I have recently viewed the films: “Woodland” and “War Room.” Both have inspired. Both made me cry. I will make a War Room. I rented “Straight Outta of Compton” this past Friday night. The language turned me off yet it told a societal story and gave me a piece of history. So did “Bridge of Spies:” This piece of dialogue has stayed in my head since I rented it from the Red Box:
James Donovan: Aren't you worried?
Rudolf Abel: Would it help?
It would not help me to worry about being trophy worthy or not. I would like to have the cost of the $200,000 gift bags. How could I help the homeless that were asleep in my neighborhood last night as I took my evening walk?
I would watch the Academy Awards in black and white and look at the gray space. Instead I see in living color, the realties like in the photo from in the darkness last night.
Look at the 78th Academy Awards. “Crash” won for Best Picture, and It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow." The best Academy Awards was this one in 2006.
I remember the first time I watched Michael Jackson with the Jackson 5 on television as a child. It was as easy A-B-C. I was color blind. I was proud of Michael Jackson and hisbrotherson "The Ed Sullivan Show" because they were from Indiana, and dreams were possible.
Michael Jackson wrote the song. “They Don't Care About Us,” which was the fourth single from his album released on March 31, 1996: "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I." "The song remains one of the most controversial pieces Jackson ever composed.”
Jackson also wrote: Man in the Mirror.
“I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Make a change. Or as Gandhi said and as he lived, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
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