For all you ‘likers’ and ‘followers’

This is the best I can say it:  Follow your dream and ‘keep going’.

I first held an old Kodak bellows camera, and shot, at 4 and a half years old.  I am, in a bit over two months, turning 66 years old.  And, yes, I have almost always had a still camera or a video camera in my hands, if I wasn’t holding a paint brush or a can of spray paint…or making movies cuz I was ‘On a Mission from God’.

I only painted in that mall four days…others worked several months to make it ready for the shoot.  BTW, in case you don’t believe…I was Stand-by Sign Writer here in Chicago on “The Blues Brothers”, sent down by IATSE Local 18 in Milwaukee, because I was good, very good at my art AND craft.  When you see Toys r Us and Geoffrey the Giraffe, I painted that, and the stripes that appear later, among other false fronts.

I’ve made it this far, and still, I keep going!  You all must, too.

I was told the best way to lead is by example.  Liberal or Conservative…take that and RUN with it!

Time for a little music from an old friend

To close this night…

…a little Ray Charles, in “The Blues Brothers”, with a lot of my signage.  Wasn’t he great?

And for all you Florida voters out there:  THINK! You better THINK FREEDOM, before you vote!

After all, isn’t FREEDOM what the USA is all about?

FREEDOM from tyrannical leaders, third-world-type despots like Mr. Soebarkah, who had to audacity to NOT honor a subpeona by the State of Georgia last week?

For a new friend

I first met the great John Lee Hooker back in 1979, here in Chicago, when I was Stand-by Signwriter on the film “The Blues Brothers”.  I really enjoy listening to John Lee and his Chicago blues.

A new friend told me today she really likes Bonnie Raitt.

Sooooo, I put 2 and 2 together and found this:

Here’s to you, Kristen…hope you enjoy?

For those of you who may know…or so you think

IF…I applied for a job today, here in Chicago…I would have to present EVIDENCE of my birth (which occurred back in the
City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin).

UNLESS, apparently, I changed my name to:  BARACK OBAMA, which was NEVER my name in the first place!

I have already had to do this…butt, my  own name is, apparently. “white” or  too Jewish (sorry, can’t be BOTH!)…

It’s interesting how BOSSES, even as simple-minded as my last (Vivian Davis)  boss at a local display/design company, fired me because I had more experience, and was a better painter/artist that she could ever be.

You see…I thought after I had made such a SPLASH as Stand-by Signwriter in (The Blues Brothers-in the summer of 1979),  I stupidly figured, after paying ALL the pc’s to the union (Studio Mechanics Local 476) , that I would be remembered.

I was asked to SNITCH…and I did not…because I could not.  I was there, working…for an afternoon…with this amazing man hovering over me whom my mother taught me about–CAB CALLOWAY!  As I worked, he talked…could it get any better?

So here I live…now…and I find I cannot care less about any film, or movie, working  to be made here, in Chicago.  Except this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqxzT4vXc1k

Miss you and love you, Cab!