Monday Motivation

The one and only Grace Jones is here to give you a dose of Monday Motivation!!!

I am team Grace on this I tend to be non-stagnant and open minded and posess a childlike wonder of the world around me. I'm very open as I am told.

As we grow older I believe it is important to never lose these qualities or we become jaded. "Yes" I know tend to be that too. But those who know me know I am also plenty of the other.

So heading into the week your assignment is to bend it like Grace & Myself.

Keep your mind and heart open, be fearless Minions!!!

Grace on the WWW -

https://www.gracejones.com/ 

When Pee Wee Met Grace

Grace Jones & Pee Wee Herman

Christmas time is a time for memories, I had a recollection dance in my head as I woke this morning of Grace Jones singing The Little Drummer Boy on Pee Wee Herman's Christmas Special! Yay! It sure beats a vision of sugar plumbs, for real!!!

Pee Wee's Christmas Special has always been one of my favorite things since it aired December 21, 1988 for a myriad of reasons. But Grace Jones putting her unique spin on the Drummer Boy will forever stand out to me.

Thus there you have it one of my fondest Christmas Time memories Minions. I'm sure you have some too, tis the season enjoy!

Catch the video of Grace singing Drummer Boy to Pee Wee after the jump - 

Christmas At Pee Wee's Playhouse on IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251640/     

Hump Day & Chill

Grace Jones

"I'm not perfect, but i'm perfect for you, Now i'm right on time, I'm not perfect, but i'm perfect for you, I feel right on time" - Grace Jones, I'm Not Perfect

"Yes" Minions we are gonna Hump Day & Chill to Auntie Grace Jones song I'm Not Perfect. This has been something I've been ruminating on of late. Life isn't perfect it's up to you to find your own bliss and not live by what is basically the perfect illusions you are given your whole life. 

"Just Let Go" of all of it find out who you are and what works for you. Because what makes you happy may not be conventional, but it doesn't have to be. 

Now without further hyperbole let's Hump Day & Chill to the amazing Grace Jones and I'm not perfect after the jump!!!

Happy May Day!

May Day
Grace Jones

1. May 1, celebrated in many countries as a traditional springtime festival or as an international day honoring workers.

Hello May and Happy May Day! As you can see there are two different ways to celebrate May 1st. Here in the US we lean more toward the "springtime festival" thing. 

At Entertain Me it is a Grace Jones thing. "Yes" Ms. Jones played one of the best James Bond villains ever in A View To A Kill named, May Day, naturally. Hell she was the best thing about that particularly not so good Bond Movie.

So Happy May Day and get your Grace Jones freak on!!!

Grace on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Jones  

Hump Day & Chill

Iconic
Grace Jones & Halle Berry

Today's Hump Day & Chill comes straight from Halle Berry. "Yes" it really did. She Tweeted this photo of herself and Grace Jones behind the scenes on the set of the 1992 Eddie Murphy rom-com Boomerang.

Making this a photo for the ages. What's that? Did I see Boomerang? Why yes I did in 1992 naturally.

Did I like it you ask? It was enjoyable with some very funny moments. One of them involves Ms. Grace Jones calling people out in a restaurant.

What about Halle? She was lovely as Eddie Murphy's good girl love interest. 

Well now nostalgia is setting in, isn't that special?! I'm am feeling the need to Hump Day & Chill to Boomerang, right here, right now....

Back at ya!

Boomerang on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_(1992_film)  

Sunday Sinema: Grace Jones "Vamp"

My Name Is "Kinky Katrina" I'll Be Your Bloodsucker Tonight
Grace Jones

Grace Jones as a vampire in Keith Haring make-up = awesome!!!

Vamp [Blu-ray] (October 4th)

THE FIRST KISS COULD BE YOUR LAST! 

Two fraternity pledges head to a seedy part of town to find some entertainment for their college friends but are faced with bloodthirsty vampires! Keith (Chris Makepeace, Meatballs) and AJ (Robert Rusler, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge) want to make the right impression at college and so they devise a plan to get them into the best frathouse on campus. They head to the After Dark Club where they want to find a stripper for a party their friends won't forget, instead they find themselves among vampires led by Kinky Katrina (Grace Jones, A View to a Kill)! 

Almost certainly an influence on From Dusk til Dawn, Vamp is superbly designed by many of Grace Jones' own award-winning collaborators and features stunning effects by four-time Oscar winner Greg Cannom (The Lost Boys, Bram Stoker's Dracula). Delivering laughs and scares in equal measure, with the added bonus of vampy sex appeal, Vamp is a comedy horror romp with real bite!

Bonus Materials
- High Definition digital transfer
- Original mono audio
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- One of those Nights: The Making of Vamp - a brand new documentary featuring interviews with director Richard Wenk, stars Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe
- Behind-the-scenes rehearsals
- Blooper Reel
- Image gallery
- Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979) - Richard Wenk's celebrated short film
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil
- First pressing only: Booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Cullen Gallagher

Pre-order at the MVD SHOP or on Amazon 

Don't Bother Me I'm Voting

Today is the California primary, and since I live in CA, Los Angeles,to be exact I will be casting my vote for the candidate of my choosing this morning.

Having moved recently I have not had time to get my change of address in to obtain an absentee ballot so I could vote my preferred way by mail.

Who am I voting for? That does not really matter, the point is you should exercise the fact that you have a vote.

Let's kick off the primary on a high note, literally with the song Election Day by Arcadia featuring the one and only Grace Jones. 

Have fun, be careful and whatever you do, Dump Trump!

Find Your Polling Place at: 
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/find-your-polling-place/

Election Day: Embrace Your Power

Art By: Patrick Martinez

Los Angeles Artists & Creative Organizers Launch

Embrace Your Power, Embrace Our Communities 
Neon Sign & Photo Essay
Call to Action Initiative

To Encourage Voting In Los Angeles
In the November 4, 2014 General Election

Hey people it's November 4th, you know, Election Day, embrace your power, do it and do it now...!

Creative Organizer, Visual Street Artist & Fashion Photographer

Join Forces to Bring Attention to Importance of Voting

Local creative organizer Wyatt Closs, visual street artist Patrick Martinez, and fashion photographer Colin Young-Wolff have joined forces in an artful call to action, Embrace Your Power, Embrace Our Communities, to promote voting in Los Angeles.  Particularly aimed at young people and disaffected communities who are apathetic about voting, the campaign centers on a neon artwork with text that urges passersby to “Embrace Your Power” (see image above). The sign, a whimsical play on neon palm reader signage, was positioned and documented in diverse communities around Los Angeles; the resulting images and videos are being distributed online through a variety of social media platforms to serve as a catalyst for political action. For additional information, please see http://bigbowlofideas.com/embrace.

“The goal of the Embrace Your Power, Embrace Our Communities sign project is to encourage community members to register and vote,” says Wyatt Closs, producer of the photo project, “Our strategy is to catch attention through dynamic visuals, something that is not traditionally seen in political communications. There’s no preaching at you or red, white, and blue.”

                                                                 "Election Day" 
                                                    Arcadia Featuring Grace Jones

Embrace Your Power Student Action –
Closs, Martinez, and Young-Wolff are collaborating on behalf of a cluster of non-profit and community-based organizations as part of a larger Embrace Your Power campaign, spearheaded by youth activists in the Los Angeles area who are frustrated by immigration reform and hoping to effect change. Participants, some of whom have fasted for as long as a week, are calling attention to the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Alarmed by reactions they saw to the Central American ‘border children’ fleeing violence, a group of students in Los Angeles took matters into their own hands. They decided to do a very public fasting to bring attention to the plight of the border children and to get the message out that children should be valued over politics. In addition to the fast, their actions also included a canned food and clothing drive for goods to be delivered to shelters and centers currently housing border children.

Many of the student activists are affiliated with the “Children Over Politics” video project, which encourages individuals to create videos in support of the cause, organized by the Service Employees International Union. Additional Embrace Your Power collaborators include United Long Term Care Workers, United Service Workers West, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Carwash Workers Organizing Campaign, Councilman Gilbert Cedillo, CLUE LA, Headcount.org, and #GoVote. 

Embrace Your Power, Embrace Our Communities Neon Sign & Photo Essay – 
The neon sign and corresponding photo essay are designed to support the ongoing Embrace Your Powerstudent-led effort to get more young people to affect social change through political engagement. The art breaks with traditional forms of appeal used in politics to get people to vote while showing the beauty of Los Angeles’ ‘sleeping giant’ communities. In the photo essay images, the sign is juxtaposed against locations that represent the diverse communities of Los Angeles as well as the issues impacting those communities, such as clinics, schools and libraries, which require political engagement in order to thrive. The photo essay image and video assets are being shared online through a variety of social media platforms, in collaboration with participating non-profit and community-based organizations, through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram. The project’s hope is that the campaign imagery will go viral in order to serve as a catalyst for political action.

“In a subtle, streetwise form, the message behind the entire Embrace Your Power campaign is: Make your own future by voting,” says Closs.

Links – 

• Embrace Your Power, Embrace Our Communities Site – http://bigbowlofideas.com/embrace
• Embrace Your Power YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/EmbraceYourPower

• Children Over Politics – http://fastingforchildren.org/embrace
• Fasting For Children – http://fastingforchildren.org/category/fasters
• SEIU CA Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/SEIUCalifornia