Monday Motivation

R.I.P. Douglas Fairbanks
Hollywood Forever

With temperatures at record breaking 100 degree plus highs in Los Angeles this weekend. My sleep pattern has been whacked and my physical activity stunted. 

Thus today I need a mighty dose of Monday Motivation as I plan on partaking in yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 8 am this morning before it gets hotter than Hell (today's high is supposed to clock in 110 degrees!!!)

Class is being held by the Douglas Fairbanks Memorial pictured above. Personally I think yoga held in a cemetery is a great idea. It certainly will be quite peaceful there and with the water and surrounding greenery, hey, I feel some motivation kicking in already.

Now if I can figure out where I left my keys...Happy Labor Day Minions!

Hollywood Forever on the WWW -

https://hollywoodforever.com/  

The Long Hot Summer

Feel The Heat
Kristin Cavallari & Justin Anderson

Typically Labor Day Weekend is the last hurrah of Summer. Well since no one is really on any sort of schedule resembling typical this year and there is record heat happening everywhere let's just call this the long hot Summer, shall we? We shall!!!

Nothing truly says long, hot and Summer quite like this photo of Kristin Cavallari and her BFF Justin Anderson. Kristin posted this picture on her Instagram page with a caption reading: "Longest relationship of my life" - presumably meant to throw shade at the man formerly known as her husband Jay Cutler. Shade is a good thing during a long hot Summer after all...

Whether it was shade thrown or simply a testament to her and Justin's long standing friendship, or perhaps both. This photo makes temperatures rise and suddenly Summer got even hotter today.

Mic Drop!

Kristin on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/kristincavallari/?hl=en  

It's Not Easy Being Green

Cool Hue
Vanessa Hudgens

Green is an odd color, it's present and abundant in the landscape of our daily lives. One might say it is the prominent hue in nature, actually I believe it most likely is.

This being stated, Green is something that is not really a color of choice for me to wear, or most people really. It's a color that very few can pull off and look good in.Thus it is not easy being Green.

However Vanessa Hudgens with her Green summer dress and matching mask are a completely different story. 

See Vanessa wear the obtuse fashion color out and about in West Hollywood and pulling it off. One might even say she makes Green look good, like anybody could wear it, but we all know the truth.

Well I am going to seize the day and put on something that says cool, my color of choice? Something we all look good in, black!

Vanessa on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/vanessahudgens/?hl=en  

Film Buff Friday: Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway

What do you get when you cross Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema, along with a hefty dose of Lynchian surrealism? The answer: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, the second feature by Miguel Llansó (Crumbs) and one of the most striking and original films you'll see all year. The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late. Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
• New audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anton Bitel
• From Talinn with Love, a new visual essay by critic Will Webb exploring the influence of exploitation cinema on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
• Exclusive audio interview with director Miguel Llansó, conducted by critic Josh Hurtado
• Crumbs (2015), Miguel Llansó’s feature directorial debut and spiritual predecessor to Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Limited Edition Exclusive)
• Chigger Ale (2013) and Night in the Wild Garden (2015), two short films by Miguel Llansó
• Original proof-of-concept trailer
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Austin Hinderliter
• Double-sided fold-out poster
• Limited Edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Barry Forshaw and Crumbs by Anton Bitel
• Limited Edition of 2000 copies

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Michael's Musings

Current Mood
Michael Shinafelt

This week I am recovering from cataract surgery, thus the use of a throwback photo of yours truly instead of some new one. Because in case you didn't get the memo, like me, your eye when healing from it looks red and bloody. Aside from that I can see quite clear which I could not before. Oh and it's my left eye in case you were wondering which way I swing...

I love a Cheating Cheeto who encourages their cult following to commit voter fraud, I also love a whole bag of jellybeans shoved up my booty, yeah right!!!

Bitches be trippin' - OK maybe I pushed a few 

Just flew in on a plane full of thugs, it was delightful 

Sometimes your hair is performance art 

Thinking about Chadwick Boseman what an amazing, uplifting human being

Black Mirror really outdid themselves. We are experiencing season six, rather than watching it on Netflix

Leave your bubble, it's too crowded

It takes a pandemic in Los Angeles to make people monogamous 

Woman Crush of the Week - Tilda Swinton because who doesn't love a hand held butterfly mask?

Joe Biden could pass a drug test, just saying...

If you want people to stop protesting bad things, stop doing bad things

Rather die than wear a mask? Feel free to do so

Ever kick back and think: WTF is happening?!

Take time to laugh today, I mean it!!!

Laugh with me here:

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Hump Day & Chill

The Gilmore Boy
Ben Gilmore

Another Wednesday another Hump Day & Chill Pandemic style. Actually this one is so very Pandemic as the photo shoot of today's Hump Day & Chill subject, actor Ben Gilmore was shot in May.

Every wonder why an actor takes it all off for photographs? There are many angles and reasons and Tye Briggs chat with Ben for his Favorite Hunks & Other Things blog is here to shed light on those reasons, at least Ben's.

I always like it when Tye gets to the meat of things, so to speak. What's that, will Ben place a Hump Day & Chill in your, uh, you know what?

Well he does mine, and I'm pretty sure many of you will concur. 

So another day in the Pandemic USA, let's live our best lives and Hump Day & Chill to Ben at the link below.

Don't forget to wash your hands before and especially after!

https://favoritehunks.blogspot.com/2020/08/creative-radiance-ben-gilmore-by-gordon.html 

"I Was Wearing Face Shields Before It Was A Thing"

The Look
Lady Gaga

This past Sunday the MTV Video Music Awards happened. "No" I didn't watch, from the looks of things perhaps I should have. At least they acknowledged the Pandemic (unlike a certain orange piece of fecal matter I can think of) - and looks like they put on a great show in spite of it (it's amazing how restrictions can trigger creativity) 

Giving birth to the quote "I Was Wearing Face Shields Before It Was A Thing" that was uttered by the star of the evening Lady Gaga. Gaga made her entrance paying homage to iconic VMA Statue and proceeded to make masks fashion and fun throughout the rest of the affair.

Thus I am leaving you with Lady Gaga giving us mask fashion realness and providing levity during the Pandemic that is still afoot. You're Welcome 😎

Gaga on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/ladygaga/?hl=en