Thursday, February 27, 2014

"Mornings" by Kerry A. Vill

"Mornings" 

Time to wake up
Get out the door
My eyes are angry slits on my face
Above my mouth, tight as a prune
Jaw muscles bunching
Teeth grinding
Shoulders somewhere near my ears
Rigid muscles down my back
Take a deep breathe
Breathe in peace
Breathe out release
This too shall pass
Clear your face
Turn around
Have a good rest of the day
You’re late, hurry
The door slams
Pull away
Crank up the music
Loud so the car shakes
Give me a beat
Breathe, breathe
Let the tension melt away
Dissolve into music notes
No more white knuckles on the steering wheel
Shake it out
Three hours after waking
Late to work

Again

by Kerry A. Vill aka 2/26/14

Friday, February 14, 2014

My Epic, Awesome Personal Dating Ad

me, duh
So it's Valentine's Day.  With that in mind, I have decided to post an "Epic, Awesome Personal Dating Ad".  I have no idea how to meet someone special, so I just started writing and this is what happened and I am tossing it out there to the universe.  Feel free to forward it.  Here we go…

 I seek a kind, generous and brave person with similar values, interests and background.  I seek someone who is creative, altruistic, intelligent, honest and complicated.  I am pansexual, which for me means that I am looking mostly for a brunette with blue-green-grey eyes who has the above-mentioned personal qualities.  Gender is irrelevant.  I currently live in Eugene, but I would be willing to relocate (eventually) to Portland or Ashland, Oregon, or relocate back to Los Angeles for the right person.

 If you have kids also, that’s great; I like kids of all ages.  I am the mom of a brilliant, challenging and exceptional special needs ten year old son.  I also live with a cat that I serve and obey.  It is essential that you genuinely like kids and family life for a relationship to work because that is a priority to me.

Words that describe me include idealistic, intelligent, compassionate, intense and complex. I have the ability to curse like a sailor as the need arises or if I just fucking feel like it.  I am spiritual and ethical, but not at all religious.  I have an incurable and insatiable drive to make the world a better place.  I am a great cook, a music lover, and an enthusiastic but neglectful gardener.  I read voraciously and love the theater, concerts and cultural events. I like sci-fi movies and action flicks, but I have a secret soft spot for romances like Sense & Sensibility, Notting Hill, the intro of Up and The Terminator.  I have a wicked sense of humor, but people seem to like it, or they run away and it’s not an issue.


this is NOT me
After college, I escaped to Hollywood where I fell unexpectedly in love with film and television production. I am incredibly proud of having worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: First Contact, and ellen (among many other shows and movies).  I currently work as a preschool teacher and at a non-profit that supports families with special needs children here in Eugene.  My mind insists that I am 35 years old but my birth certificate says I am 45.  I am 5’4”, curvy, solid and strong and am a brunette with brown eyes.   “Old enough to know better and young enough not to care” is definitely applicable. 

 I want to wake up next to my beloved and compare morning bed-head hair, make pancakes every Saturday for breakfast and create a home refuge where the laughter of happy children is a constant background noise.  I have enjoyed being single, but now want a down-to-earth romance with someone special for the rest of my life.  I am a bit scared to be doing this.  I am doing it anyway.  Synchronicity is afoot, and I must see where she leads.  


Email me at intrepid.infj@yahoo.com and let’s talk.  

So, there it is

Happy Birthday, Simon Pegg!

Happy Birthday to the amazingly talented Simon Pegg!  Hope you have a fantastic day!




Monday, February 3, 2014

Paul Walker and Reach Out Worldwide



I liked Paul Walker.  He was in one of my favorite movies, Timeline.  And I had no idea this was going on.  He started a charity organization called Reach Out Worldwide, which transports volunteers to areas affected by catastrophic disasters in order to provide assistance.  THIS is the power of celebrity used correctly.  Well done, sir.  RIP.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Kids Are Weird

Had my 15 minutes of fame this morning.



I called in to a local radio station when they asked "how have you been injured by common items" after they related a story of a woman injured by a thrown french fry that lacerated her cornea.

Here's our story.

A few years ago, my son stuck a popcorn kernel into his ear.  Why?  I have no idea.  He stuck it in his "hearing" ear - he is functionally deaf in the other.  I was not able to pick it out (with tweezers, on an embarrassed, wiggly and uncooperative special needs 6 year old kid, probably a bad idea), so I had to take him (on Friday night, of course) to the nearest ER in McMinnville, Oregon, to get it out.  Three nurses had to hold down my screaming son, and the utterly inept ER doctor tried to get it out by scraping the ear canal with a little spoon-like tool, causing my son's ear to gush blood.  After a few attempts (looked like he was trying to scoop ice cream), he gave up and said, "Uh, sorry, I can't get it out and now there's too much blood to see it".  He then said we'd have to go to Portland to Doernbecher's Children's Hospital at OHSU to get it looked at.

So on Saturday, we drove the 2 hours up to Portland, OR.  The took one look at his mess of an ear and declared it was too swollen and bloody to do anything with it, and sent us home with instructions to come back on Monday.

On Monday, we again drove the 2 hours up to Portland and another 2 nurses and I had to restrain him in order for the doctor to try to remove the popcorn kernel.  No luck and my son was in hysterics.  They told us to go home and scheduled him for day surgery on Friday because he obviously wasn't going to cooperate.

On Friday, we drove back up to Portland, put my son under anesthesia for literally 2 minutes and dug the kernel out.  Doernbecher's was fantastic (http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/doernbecher/), but three ER visits and surgery was not what I thought would happen over a popcorn kernel!

Kids are weird.  The DJ thought the story was hilarious and so it was aired live.  Now half of Eugene knows what a goof my kid is :)

Thursday, January 16, 2014

What Chris Pine Did in 2013

Wrapping up my series on what each Star Trek cast member of every series did in 2013, we come to the last person, Chris Pine - and I saved him for last because 1) he's my favorite I admit, and 2) his movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit premiere was last night and it goes wide tomorrow (and timing is everything).  So many excellent pictures and media goodness to see and share!  Enjoy!





In 2013, Chris starred in Star Trek Into Darkness (as Captain James T. Kirk) and did a voice over for the Star Trek online video game.  He worked on several other movies made in 2013 for a 2014 release - Into the Woods (co-starring as Cinderella’s Prince), Stretch (co-starring as The Billionaire), and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (starring as Jack Ryan).  He is currently filming Horrible Bosses 2(co-starring role).  He was also featured in The Captains Up Close, a Canadian mini-series on the captains of Star Trek, hosted by William Shatnerhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2862034/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
He was in Paul McCartney’s music video for his song “Queenie Eye” – check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CfLUmVso30 and “The Making of Queenie Eye” here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAc7JNx2PA).  I am not sure who I’m more jealous of – Chris Pine or Paul McCartney.  Chris also was featured in another music video, “All I Want” for the band The Ivy Walls athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2C6L3bZ3jk.  He also voices several BMW ads - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icB50cs9AJA – and others here on the BMW USA YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWUSA/videos.
He had appearances on Vivir de cine, Alaska y Mario, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Entertainment Tonight, Weekend Ticket, Big Morning Buzz Live With Carrie Keagan, The Late Show With David Letterman, Chelsea Lately and The Graham Norton Show.  Chris was a presenter at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, and the 85th Academy Awards Show, and was featured in the Star Trek Into Darkness TV documentary.
Chris is in pre-production on Z for Zacharia, which is set to shoot in New Zealand, possibly as soon as late January 2014.
He has dozens upon dozens of interviews on YouTube, and many interviews online at various websites.  I have listed his magazine covers in another post - there are too many to list and they are nice to look at and I’ll get distracted.  
Chris does not participate in any social media (and has been outspoken in his disdain, which is a shame).  Personally I think that he should reconsider this stance and speak up; I like what he has to say and I know others do also.  The best fan made website for him is http://chris-pine.org/.
His movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit comes out in theaters tomorrow.  I hope it’s very successful and that Chris gets lots of kudos for it!  I can’t wait to see it this weekend (if I can find a babysitter, LOL).



Here are some of Chris' magazine covers in 2013 - http://startrekintorelevance.tumblr.com/post/73516414877/chris-pine-magazine-covers-in-2013-my-two and http://startrekintorelevance.tumblr.com/post/73516355678/chris-pine-magazine-covers-2013-2-of-4-posts and http://startrekintorelevance.tumblr.com/post/73516282145/chris-pine-magazine-covers-2013-3-of-4-posts and http://startrekintorelevance.tumblr.com/post/73516209798/chris-pine-magazine-covers-2013-4-of-4-posts.

[If you are interested in the Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Los Angeles premiere pictures, I published the best pictures of it at http://startrekintorelevance.tumblr.com/ and quite a few more at http://klinfield.tumblr.com/ (my other two blogs), even though it's 2014 stuff.]

Have fun!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

What Zachary Quinto Did in 2013

Here is what the amazingly talented and all-around-wonderful Zachary Quinto did in 2013.  I sure hope I got it right, or close to it, because I greatly admire this guy!  All omissions and mistakes are mine and the photo is not.

Sean Gallup, Getty Images
In 2013, Zach co-starred in Star Trek Into Darkness (as Spock), co-starred as a recurring character in four episodes of American Horror Story television series episodes, did the voice of Spock on the Star Trek video game, co-starred in the movie We’ll Never Have Paris (for a 2014 release) and was featured in the television documentary Star Trek Into Darkness Special.   In addition, he and Leonard Nimoy made a commercial for Audi together spiffing on their Spock and Spock relationship – here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs.  Zach also participated in the Galway (Ireland) Film Festival, where he did a Q & A for Star Trek Into Darkness and the movie that he Executive Produced in 2012 titled Margin Call.  (http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/).  ZQ has dozens of interviews on YouTube.
Zach is currently starring on Broadway in the The Glass Menagerie (as Tom), with an extended run into next year.  The play is getting excellent reviews - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/theater/reviews/the-glass-menagerie-stars-cherry-jones-and-zachary-quinto.html?_r=0, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/glass-menagerie-theater-review-article-1.1467392, and http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/glass-menagerie-theater-review-637472.  If you live in NYC and haven’t seen this play (and Waiting for Godot with Sir Patrick Stewart & Sir Ian McKellen), I’d like to give your butt a swift kick, because I’d LOVE a chance to see these plays and am envious of anyone who has been able to go!
Zach served as Executive Producer on two films that came out in 2013, All Is Lost (starring Robert Redford, and which is getting very good reviews - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/movies/all-is-lost-with-robert-redford-at-sea.html?_r=0 and http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-is-lost-2013.  He also executive produced the horror flick Banshee Chapter, all with his Before the Door production company.  He also served as Executive Producer on film shorts Lil Women and Big City Bright Lights, and as Producer on Breakup at a Wedding.  Before the Door’s website is http://www.beforethedoor.com/.
Zach was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and was a presenter at the 67th Annual Tony Awards and at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards.
He made appearances on Charlie Rose, Live with Kelly & Michael, Alaska Y Mario, Conan, Chelsea Lately, Conan, Entertainment Tonight, Weekend Ticket, Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagan, Real Time with Bill Maher, Late Night with Jimmy  Fallon, Watch What Happens Live and The Jonathan Ross Show.
Zach currently lives in New York City while performing on Broadway.  He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZacharyQuinto, his official Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/zacharyquintoofficial and he is on Instagram as zacharyquinto (where he is prolific and fun to follow!).  His official website is http://www.zacharyquinto.com and is currently a work-in-progress.  I look forward to years of quality entertainment from the incredibly talented ZQ, both as an actor and producer.