Monday Motivation

No pretending anymore, it's time to take a risk and potentially embarrass yourself. 

Taking risks is one of the keys to life I have learned of late, not pretending is a road to happiness.

Monday Motivation indeed.

Bend it like Drew (and yours truly.)

Drew Barrymore on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/drewbarrymore/reels/?hl=en   

Wrong Answers Only

You know that thing that people do on Social Media to add some levity to your life, post a still from a movie asking what it is and imploring you to give wrong off the cuff, fun/funny answers?

Well today I thought we should take a crack at it here at Entertain Me, it is Sunday Funday after all...

Here's My Wrong Answer: Kramer v Kramer 

While I'm sure the majority of you know what film this really is, for those who don't, or for those who simply want to know more about it, the correct answer is at the Wikipedia link below.

Cheers!

Creature From The Black Lagoon on Wikipedia -

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

24th Street Blues

Tom Heyman

When speaking of San Francisco these days, it seems like it is stereotypically presented as either a city full of young tech nomads lining up for artisanal coffee, or as a blighted, urban hellscape of fentanyl zombies and street crime. But with his sixth solo album 24^th Street Blues, Tom Heyman sings of a more rank-and-file San Francisco, balancing the encroaching darkness of an overdeveloped cityscape with the fragile, abiding beauty of the Golden Gate City. 

 

“If you stay in one place long enough you really start to see it change.” He explains, “Around 2010, the city started to feel like a movie that was sped up, jerking and lurching forward at a dangerously fast, celluloid-shredding pace with market forces feeling like a locomotive bearing down on anything or anyone in its path.”

 

For over two decades, Heyman and his wife have lived in a sprawling, dilapidated, converted-storefront rental on 24^th Street – deep in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district. 24^th Street Blues details his observations and interactions from years of living and working in the neighborhood as it weathered the storms and the aftermath of plutocratic expansion. When listening to the hardscrabble sagas that thread these songs together, it doesn’t sound like Heyman deliberately sought to create a concept album so much as he inadvertently followed the Mark Twain credo, “Write what you know.”

 

Here, the characters of his songs strive to exist (and sometimes perish) under looming cranes that dot the city skyline. Heyman braids timeless sounding singer-songwriter narratives with Barbary Coastal Americana that at times recalls the rusty, boiler-room reverberations of The Basement Tapes or the smoldering boogie of JJ Cale. Other moments are reminiscent of Gordon Lightfoot’s beautifully sparse melodies and John Prine’s penchant for an economy of words. Over mostly acoustic tapestries, Heyman sings stories of displaced families, endangered bohemians, migrant workers, sidewalk hustlers, surviving musicians, juvenile delinquents, weathered barkeeps, junkie friends, unhoused encampments, cannabis farmers, and slumlord arsonists. 

 

24^th Street Blues arrives packaged with a 60-page songbook comprising lyrics and music charts accompanied by a gorgeous collection of paintings and drawings that were designed as companion pieces for each song. These were created by Heyman’s wife Deirdre F. White, an artist and educator acutely tuned into composing images of modern dystopian inequality and the housing/mobility challenges of the American West. 

                                                                                                            

In addition to his solo work, Heyman has spent many years as a sought-after journeyman guitarist and pedal steel player recording and touring with a varied array of artists including John Doe,  Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, Penelope Houston, Roy Loney, Hiss Golden Messenger, Sonny Smith and Kelley Stoltz . His pedal steel playing is one of the distinct sonic threads woven through many of the songs on 24^th Street Blues. The record was produced Mike Coykendall (M. Ward ) and mixed by Scott Hirsch (Hiss Golden Messenger). 

 

24^th Street Blues presents portraits of a San Francisco where dues are never paid in full, but flowers still bloom from the ashes of the digital goldrush. Like any good long-player, these songs work a deeper magic on the listener with repeated listens. His lyrics take residence in the periphery of your mind like the spectral passages of a Denis Johnson novel. Whether he’s darkening the doors of the city’s Victorians or sharing a drink with a veteran bartender, Heyman has haunted the enduring and evaporating pockets of San Francisco’s heyday long enough to become one of the living ghosts of his own songs.

 

www.tomheymanmusic.net

Remembering Marilyn Monroe

Today is the 61st anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's passing. To commemorate it here is a still from my favorite Marilyn movie The Misfits written by her then husband Arthur Miller and directed to the great John Houston.

Marilyn's portrayal of Roslyn Taber was simply one of her best. The photo is from my favorite scene in the film where Roslyn dances with abandon among the trees. I'm really not sure how else to describe it, other than the scene itself is mesmerizing.

Rest In Power 

Marilyn on Wikipedia -

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

Michael's Musings

Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold,
Who's Hungry???
Michael Shinafelt

This photo of me with a shiner appeared in my Facebook memories today. I don't recall exactly what it was I did, what I do remember is I did it accidentally to myself. 

All I can think is that I must have really been in full on Raging Bull mode that day, or simply just clumsy which happens from time to time. Whichever it was I need to remind myself not to mess with me! No more self inflicted shiners damn it!!!

Keep Calm And Be A Barbie 

Saw Oppenheimer yesterday. My take is while it was a little slow in places it's a great film and makes one Hell of an impact

Thank you for not breeding, discuss...

Plump, sweet and begging for cream, the more you know

Currently Binging: The original Gossip Girl series, never saw it initially. xoxo Gossip Girl. 

I hope all the Rumors aren't true that Lizzo is 100% that bitch

Drunk, naked and looking for my wallet on the floor of Applebee's, and since no one I know, including myself would ever eat there, give it a name

Adam & Eve were never kids so imagine their horror when their kids teeth started falling out for no reason

Woman Crush of the Week - Florence Pugh for her intriguing, enigmatic portrayal of Jean Tatlock in Oppenheimer 

You are good enough. Actually you're probably overqualified but let's start the day off humble

Rewatched some of the OG Sex and the City recently. Carrie Bradshaw is a selfish, judgmental person not to mention a bad friend. Fight Me!

This has been the week of catching up on things I have not seen, finally saw the horror movie Smile. Yep, it was as good as I heard it was, smile! 

Random Thought: Malcom McDowell in Caligula, that's all

Today is a me day, guess which me I'm going to be?

Where's Michael? Follow me here -

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

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt  

Hump Day & Chill

Today I am going to Hump Day & Chill by seeing Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer at the world famous Chinese theater in Hollywood, CA.

Oppenheimer is being shown in IMAX there the way it is intended by Nolan to be seen thus I am gonna watch it in all it's resplendent glory.

For those not in the know at one point they shut the historic theater down and revamped it to show movies in IMAX so far I have seen only one movie in the format there that being The Batman. After today it will be two.

Anyway if you wanna know where I'm gonna Hump Day & Chill for three hours today it's with me, myself and Oppenheimer at the Chinese in Hollywood. 

Cheers to air conditioning!

The Chinese Theater on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grauman%27s_Chinese_Theatre 

Weird Science

THEY WENT FROM ZEROES TO HEROES IN ONE FANTASTIC WEEKEND. If you can't get a date... make one! After proving himself the king of heartfelt teen flicks with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, writer-director John Hughes infused the genre with a hefty dose of wacked-out sci-fi comedy in Weird Science, a film where every teenage boy's wildest fantasies come to life. Perennially picked-on high school nerds Gary (Anthony Michael Hall, Sixteen Candles) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are sick of their status at the bottom of the social food chain. Using Wyatt's computer, the two hatch a plan to create their dream woman - and following a massive power surge, that woman unexpectedly appears in the form of Lisa (Kelly LeBrock). Gorgeous, intelligent, and blessed with limitless magic powers, Lisa makes the boys' dreams come true... but what about Wyatt's gun-toting psycho older brother Chet (Bill Paxton), and the two bullies (Robert Downey Jr and Vamp's Robert Rusler) determined to put them back in their place? Inspired by EC Comics and boosted by a killer soundtrack (including the classic title theme by Oingo Boingo), Weird Science has never looked better than in this new 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray edition, including an extended version of the film and hours of bonus content.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• New restoration by Arrow Films from a 4K scan of the original negative
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the original Theatrical Version of the film (94 mins), plus seamlessly-branched Extended Version (97 mins), featuring two additional scenes
• Original lossless stereo audio, plus 5.1 DTS-HD MA surround option (theatrical version only)
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Edited-for-TV version of the film (SD only, 94 mins), plus comparison featurette highlighting the alternate dubs and edits
• Option to watch additional scenes from the Extended Version separately
• Casting ‘Weird Science’, an interview with casting director Jackie Burch
• Dino The Greek, an interview with supporting actor John Kapelos
• Chet Happens, an interview with special makeup creator Craig Reardon
• Fantasy and Microchips, an interview with editor Chris Lebenzon
• Ira Newborn Makes The Score, an interview with the composer
• It’s Alive! Resurrecting Weird Science, an archive documentary featuring interviews with cast, crew and admirers, including star Anthony Michael Hall
• Theatrical trailers, TV spots and radio spots
• Image galleries
• Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring writing on the film by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Amanda Reyes
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tracie Ching
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tracie Ching

Order Here -

https://mvdb2b.com/b2b/s/AV521