ODE to another NEW THING
It’s pretty simple. I am addicted to trash magazines and if there is ever going to be a change I have to DO SOMETHING NEW AND and see if there are OTHER magazines I might be able to read that might be better for my life.This is a NEW discovery that might be good for everyone. It’s a Magazine called ODE. It talks about how to fight poverty, alternative medicines,GREEN solutions, fundraising,…..etc. Basically how to make the world a better place.
They say this magazine is for “Intelligent Optimists” That’s me! I am smart. I am Positive. I’m even positive that I am smart! I never even knew there were magazines that talked about what we can do to help, how we can be inspired by incredible people and their stories, as well as just plain make you feel good about the world. This is positive news for a change. The world seems to focus on fear based stories, yet there are so many people out there doing incredible, uplifting things…..and this is what I believe we need to fill our minds with. (although this does not mean I won’t have the latest info on Tiger Woods…) Order a subscription today! Here is the link- odemagazine.com
Oh, and press play to see my endorsement…..
I really appreciated your impulse and reasoning behind this one–and, the performance of you and your partners in crime in the video. There is probably something in every issue of ODE, from the look of it, for someone.
In sum: a nice, resonant use of one day on your calendar.
Not at my best today. Just wanted to send some encouragement.
L, PM
And, with Sundance in mind:
I keep a running list, in my mind, of the 10 greatest films I have ever seen. All are on
DVD and available at libraries, let alone high-end video stores.
A lot of criteria go into what ten films are on the list. The list changes from time to time. And it’s changed completely and radically over the last ten years.
About six months ago, a film showed up for my inspection, I watched it, and, the next day,
put it on the list as…
Number one.
It’s the only film I’ve ever seen that changed me, that made me aware of changes it was
producing in me, as I was watching it.
So: my suggestion for one of your “new things”: get and watch…
“Symbiopsychotaxioplasm.”
The Criterion Collection put it out into the market a while back. So the DVD package on it
includes a must-see documentary on its director, too–and a sense of the story behind the
film, which lay unseen and unknown for years before its unearthing.
And then it finally got shown at Sundance. And people like Steve Buscemi and Steven Soderbergh
got involved with helping it.
And there’s your story.
I not only still put it at number one in my lifetime, but I also called the filmmaker a few
days after I saw the film, and told him, in a voicemail I thought was pretty eloquent, how
much his art meant to me.
So there you have it. Be there or be square.
Love, and always right with you in appreciating the value of new experiences,
PM
Like I said, I am not at my best today.
To which some might say, “What else is new?”
Anyway: hence this PS.
Seeing “Symbiosociotaxioplasm” is something very, very few people will ever experience. Our
culture just isn’t set up to lead that many people to films like it.
Not that there are any films like it.
So, I especially urge you to see it and make what you experience the subject of one day’s
post–because seeing it will not only be a “new thing” for you, but for anyone else who reads what you have to say about it and takes the plunge, too.
Okay. I’m satisfied, now, that I have clearly communicated.
L, PM
And if you go to the library in LA to get your copy, it won’t cost you anything, you can
probably keep it for a week, and you can even do another day’s posting called “New Thing #112:
Going to the Library.”
Newily,
PM