Time Capsule - Purple Vanity

2007 - 2011 seems so distant now, but looking back through an older blog of mine, I was intrigued by the content and want to bring Purple Vanity to your attention!!

Here's some snapshots:

The Dance of Innocent Spirit

My view on GAY

Delete Poverty

a little more human

This Garden

Enjoy Purple Vanity's blog posts on a variety of topics including: sexuality, friendship, God, Jesus, homelessness, addictions, street gangs, gardening, old men fighting, Starbucks, space ships, poverty, poetry and a whole lot more...

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day & Selma...

To honor Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday, we watched Selma.

Oscar clean-up last year, is likely a movie you watched 12 months or longer ago. But this movie is worth a second viewing. I simply love this man; his devotion; his depth, his passion, his strength and his faith. What a great man of God and what a great human-being.

It is always a tough reminder to see the various struggles the then called, Negroes, went through to earn simple everyday rights which we as North Americans, now, so frequently take for granted. So much bloodshed and determination which fought for these rights.

Plan B, Cloud Eight, Celador, Pathe and Harpo Films – hat goes off to each of you. What a stunningly wonderful movie.

I realize this film's greatness is older news now, but in light of the holiday yesterday, I felt it was certainly worth a mention. An absolutely fabulous film. Worth another watch!!

Now here is John Legend and Common singing GLORY, behind some amazing clips from the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIozPJWTPM

Happy belated birthday, Martin and continued rest in peace.

The Leftovers - A Must SEE!!

Shocking, stunning, outrageous, stupendous: This show is inside of my head. 

If you haven't seen The Leftovers yet, you absolutely NEED to watch this television show!!

I just got off a first season binge and HOLY CRAP, this post-rapture-ish drama is blowing my mind. This is a serious MUST see; and if you already are on board, well, I’m so glad to have joined in. (Thank you Trevor Noah, for your interview with Regina King, November 5^th, to tip me off about the program. Now, I am hooked.

Warning, not child friendly, so be ready for some

really over the top perspectives on a potential reality for the planet (mankind) which has been considered as possible for millennia. Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, creators of this mysterious and exhilarating series drama, depict precisely what the world could be like in the event of a Sudden Departure…again, this will blow your mind!!

This certainly will become a thought-provoking cult classic, to be watched over and again.

Tune in to HBO or net streams for The Leftovers. You will never be the same…

Seth Rogen, pot, not...

Just for the record Seth Rogen’s spin on Vancouver’s weed culture – is warp>>>!! As in: No Way, mofo.

I love you Seth, but not even close. 9suckit0

ie: Vancouver potheads are not successful filmmakers, or successful anything, really... Seth Rogen is an exception and likely doesn't smoke quite the amount of weed that he suggests he does...
 

PS:  I love you, Seth Rogen! especially in The End of The World... (best funny movie ever... [2013] - review to follow soon.

xo

tag: weed vancouver seth rogen not quite.

Hot Celebs on Strombo!

LOOK WHO’S IN THE RED CHAIR:

I’ve spent the last few days catching up on George Stroumboulopoulos: The Hour from CBC. This has to be the best Canadian Broadcasting material I’ve seen to date!! Kudos to Toronto and Canada for this show.

Over the last five years George has interviewed politicians, activists, environmentalists, celebrities, actors and musicians and his interviews are the most well-researched I’ve seen since Barbara Walters! His line of questioning is fast and furious, but funny, intimate and surprizing. The shows I watched over the last two days were with celebrities, actors and a few musicians. I highly recommend you travel to the YouTube site: Hot Celebs on Strombo! and check it out.

Watching back over the last six years allowed me to see the same people interviewed once or a few times, which provided a cool evolution of the person’s career, personal life topics and then and now current projects. Among those I watched were Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Matthew McConaughey, Gene Simmons, Edward Norton, Matt Damon, Pink, Slash, Will Ferrell, David Spade, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Hugh Jackman, Anil Kapoor, Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Gyllenhaal, Giovanni Ribisi, Jodi Foster, Marisa Tomei, Anna Kendrick, Ted Danson, John Cusack, Sebastian Bach, Gerard Butler, Mark Wahlberg, Zach Galifianakis, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Cruise and Woody Harrelson!

What a line-up of great interviews with interesting people. Thanks George – you nailed it…I love watching everybody in the Red Chair. Check out the the Top 49 on my site – Hot Celebs on Strombo!

One warning – after watching this, I really don’t like David Spade or Sebastian Bach anymore…Sorry guys, you sorta suck.

 

Tom Cruise with George Stroumboulopoulos

Hilarious

Just for laughs...

Afghanistan

http://youtu.be/u0phY-XgB2Y

Afghanistan - an original song I wrote a few years back, which I think will touch the hearts of everyone listening! Including veterans, soldiers and patriots.

The song was inspired by the Winter Olympics hosted in Vancouver in 2010 where I was privileged to see every nation and country of our planet gather together in solidarity for a peaceful purpose - sporting events. It was fabulous to see people from worlds away who previously or even currently were otherwise at war with each other - coming together with a peaceful and common goal. Sporting events! I felt suddenly (again) like the world at war simply made so little sense, when clearly our entire planet would come together like this so peaceably.

My love for this occurrence inspired great hope, but also made me again question the insanity of war. My song, Afghanistan is inspired by these thoughts and moments.

Warning: The guitar I borrowed that afternoon was a little out of tune, so please bear with me - and also the amateur video is a little shaky - it was recorded last summer on an iPod, by my beautiful 10-year old daughter : )... Voice and venue acoustics sound good though!!! Enjoy & please add comments!!

 

 Visit: http://youtu.be/u0phY-XgB2Y

Euphoria and Devastation

An amazing collection of photographs that truly depict the devastation and euphoria of the human experience... my comment: "wow"

Photo credit: Vera 

Take a look at all 29... :

http://www.beautyexists.net/humanity/devastation-and-euphoria-29-photos-that-document-the-human-experience/

Christmas Eve, peace, words

What if Christmas is gluttony and my generosity doesn't matter; guilt and Christmas are a little hand in hand; and then...

-- we're all waiting for Santa Claus to come or for little ones to fall asleep so that santa claus can come - and the family swishes around us like the ones we are glad we can see and the unknown ones still to follow.

Christmas is candles that fill rooms with the scent of vanilla melting. And food in the moments of coming in from outside back into the air where a roasted bird with a chest sewn full of seasoned bread melts into the vanilla melting like a burst of Christmas. And the little ones, so anxious for santa, or rather, the gifts under that tree. Ha. I love Christmas.

Peace and blessings to you all. 2014 approaches... bang it out . -- Loud.
Seasons Greetings. As in, Merry Christmas, yo.

~Hazel

12 Years a Slave

12 Years A Slave

Breathtaking, shocking stunning, amazing, horrifying, brilliant, riveting, how do you say? … Oscars, Oscars, Oscars!!!

Wow. Among other dazzlers on the cast set, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s  startling, yet not unexpectedly phenomenal performance as Solomon Northup  complements the high tide of talent including pristine producers, writer - John Ridley for screenplay and director – Steve McQueen.  Well done and Amen to, likely, the best picture of the year.

Knowing Plan B, Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner were involved in the film production of 12 Years a Slave, but NOT knowing Brad Pitt was on the cast, I was deliciously surprised and thrilled when he appeared as Bass with heroic, highly risky, anti-slavery talk of equality for all colors of skin. I am certain everyone watching this show applauded his bold human approach to the scenarios at hand.

Well done Brad and everyone who contributed to this outstanding film. Five out of five thumbs up.

Check out the Trailer: 

http://pro.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2027857945/

And then GO to THIS MOVIE!!!!

The Audience of a Digital Format, by Hazel Hoyle

The world is changing.   Technology has a device in the hands of every person aged 9 through 79 and we as a people depend on our devices to check the time and weather, to communicate with friends and business associates via telephone, text messaging, email, or social media; we access the internet, play video games, fiddle with endlessly available app after app, we check how far it is to the moon, we Google answers for our crossword puzzles, we follow our devices one metre or three feet at a time toward the red/green dot leading our GPS to the address we are searching for; we use our devices to book  a flight to Toronto, New York, Spain or Africa; we pay our bills and do our banking; we dance to YouTube, we watch movies, we watch television, we  listen to our ever-growing digital music libraries and among many, many more things, we use our devices to read a book.     About Phoenix Star is available for electronic use on Kindle and whichever e-book medium you prefer... But also in paperback for the people who, like myself, still enjoy the turning of a page: the portability of literature without a battery required, radiation, or the distractions from all those bleeping lights reminding us to check our email, text messages, voice mail, social media, etc, etc, etc...    With the quickly-changing and ever wanting something new, NOW! society we have become, a new format to enjoy storytellers’ crafts is in demand... READ MORE CLICK HERE Or visit www.scriptsinprint.com.

Black Friday madness at its finest...

Black Friday madness at its finest...