SOMETHING BLUE trailer now online

SPREAD THE WORD: The movie trailer is now available for download at
SOMETHING BLUE
with Mary Catlett as the Wedding Singer
Keep in mind, I'm supposed to be bad!

http://www.somethingbluefilm.com/
Stay tuned for more info. Tentatively, I am hearing a premiere in Des Moines at the Fleur Cinema, then on to film festivals/contests and DVD.

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Alum creates video drama 'Something Blue' 4/23/07
Sean Gannon (AS '91) just finished making a video drama filmed right here in Iowa. "I was the director, executive producer, writer, cinematographer and editor for the film," Gannon said. Gannon, originally from Bondurant, Iowa, grew up on a farm and graduated from Drake with a major in theater and a minor in radio/TV....

Drake connections

Big dreams, big lights, small town 3/2/07
Buena Vista University features graduate Scott Murphy who plays "Edward"

American Idol: Resurrection of Elvis

4/25/07 Anyone watching "American Idol" who belongs to their target demographic must have been a little confused at seeing "the new guy."

I know they hyped this incredible "duet" without hinting at who it would be. I was hoping for a Streisand/Manilow pairing but figured that was unlikely, so I know I was surprised.

And he looked good. 3-D even!

I don't know how they did it but it looked great and I hope there are at least a few suitably confused and on the hunt for the next album by the hot new singer in white who was crooning alongside Celine Dion tonight.

For now I'll just turn up the Vegas opening theme song when he sings another resurrected number "A Little Less Conversation" by Mac Davis....I gotta get some of his music in my life again!

Stephen King on Va Tech murders: Dude was crazy...

Novelist and horrormeister Stephen King shared his thoughts of the Virginia Tech murders and the links between the creative process and violence with Entertainment Weekly (where he is also contributing editor)

"I've thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called "Cain Rose Up" and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls' legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?.

...For most creative people, the imagination serves as an excretory channel for violence: We visualize what we will never actually do (James Patterson, for instance, a nice man who has all too often worked the street that my old friend George used to work). Cho doesn't strike me as in the least creative, however. Dude was crazy...."

Beware: Beer

According to this source there is a dangerous new date rape drug called....

....beer

That's right.

There's another new date rape drug called....

...."please."

Understanding the caregiver's mindset

This is one of the best articles I've read in a long time.
The author intimately understands the caregiver, the caregiver's experience, and explains what it is like.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I am a recovering caregiver and I can't believe there are those who dealt with it before me and have been dealing with it since I was able to escape. So many have suffered so much more, and yet I know what a number it did on me for just a finite time. Of course, when you are inside and dealing with it all, you don't know how long it will last. I still measure my life as before, during and after the caregiving, and can minutely detail the experiences of Year One and Year Two/first six months, Year Two/final six months....and have I told you about when he was, as I call it, "actively dying."

And yes, in some ways, as suddenly as it all began...
it all ends.

I'm Fine, Thanks
by Pat D’Andria