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  3. Youtube

    in Cultural Arts Archive

    Posted · Edited by Sky

    My 11 year old sons, with the help of their dad, have made a bunch of short movies that are really very funny...

    p.s. In truth, he has them write the scripts and do most all the work...... so some positive comments if you decide to watch, would tickle them big time. They find it amazing people watch their vids.

  5. An Atheiest Pov On Religion

    in Freethought, Secularism, No Religion

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    He definitely is eloquent. And I have to admit a few of his lines made me smile, even chuckle. The "nothing in common" line made me out right laugh. And he sure is not afraid to speak his mind.... wow. Food for thought... Although I may not agree with everything he says, I respect that he at least appears to have done his homework before he rants. That's saying a lot in this time of more and more people becoming sheeple. (just my 2 cents)

  12. Lyrics

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    Sky,

    A friend of mine who lives in Westminster sold a song a couple of years ago. She said she posted the lyrics on some website for writers and a song producer bought it from that website. I can get the information if you're interested, or I can put you in touch with her.

    I would love to pick her brain about some of the details or find the site... thank you big time!

  13. Lyrics

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    That's interesting. Maybe it's different in different parts of the country. I have been in the music business for over 10 years, owned a professional recording studio, a record label (small Indy) and managed bands. I have several friends in the music biz on a much larger scale, both in LA and NY. I have also had meetings with several A&R reps from major labels (discussing local bands they were interested in) But had never heard of a "Staff" lyricist.. cool. I'll check it out.

  14. Lyrics

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    Not spoken word.... Lyrics are sold all the time. Sometimes with music, sometimes with out. Even BMI and ASCAP have membership categories for lyricists. Copy right law has specific language for lyrics only versus lyrics tied to music, etc..

    I'm just looking for anyone who has had personal experience doing so.

  17. A Time For Healing

    in Stories & Texts Archive

    Posted · Edited by Sky

    I see it a bit differently than most, although I think Crzyme has said it very well. To be honest, I was faced with virtually the identical situation about 2 years ago. My father passed and my family fits the dysfunction description perfectly.

    I have trouble with the word "should." I find it amazing how often that word, and a few others like can't and have to, define our choices regardless of whether it is healthy for us or not.

    I choose not to go to my father’s funeral. My grieving process was/is personal. My presence there would have poured fuel on the fire as you suggested yours would and I choose NOT to perpetuate pain, theirs or mine.

    There is not a whole lot I can do to change the situation, and believe me; I spent most of my youth and much of my young adult life trying. For their own reasons my family “chooses” to stay in the dysfunction and I don’t. I also don’t want that same pain and poison to touch my children either so I don’t take them around the family of my youth anymore either.

    My father knows my feelings, good and bad, without having to attend a rather hypocritical funeral. (Hold your own personal one if you truly desire a memorial. NO ONE says there can only be one.) If a situation is unhealthy for you and or your family, there really is no reason to stay in it except that dreaded word “should.”

    I have no regrets that I am not in touch with my family or that my kids don’t have relationships with their aunts and uncles because they are mean spirited people. We have a warm caring extended family here that would walk on broken glass or give up a kidney faster than any blood relative I have would, so we are just fine… In fact we are better than fine because we have broken that cycle of dysfunction.

    So my advice is for you to do what is right for you and your family, not what others tell you that you “should” do.

  20. Secret

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    There is a movie out called "Secret" by Prime Time Productions. I just watched it this morning. Personally, I think it's well worth watching. It is a philosophical non fiction about the law of attraction. To be honest, nothing I haven't read/heard/figured out before, but it is presented in a easy to digest thought provoking sort of way...

    I would love to hear what others whom have seen it thought.

  22. Experts To Fact Check 'the Da Vinci Code'

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    I think some people cannot seperate the fiction from the non-fiction, especially when it comes to religion. Brown, at the beginning of his books, indicates which things are true, and confirms that everything else is his imagination or hypothesis.

    From Browns website:

    The Da Vinci Code is a novel and therefore a work of fiction. While the book's characters and their actions are obviously not real, the artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals depicted in this novel all exist (for example, Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings, the Gnostic Gospels, Hieros Gamos, etc.). These real elements are interpreted and debated by fictional characters. While it is my belief that some of the theories discussed by these characters may have merit, each individual reader must explore these characters' viewpoints and come to his or her own interpretations. My hope in writing this novel was that the story would serve as a catalyst and a springboard for people to discuss the important topics of faith, religion, and history.

    Forgot about that.. he even has a disclaimer in the beginning...

  23. Experts To Fact Check 'the Da Vinci Code'

    in Cultural Arts Archive

    Posted · Edited by Sky

    Main Entry: fic·tion

    Pronunciation: 'fik-sh&n

    Function: noun

    Etymology: Middle English ficcioun, from Middle French fiction, from Latin fiction-, fictio act of fashioning, fiction, from fingere to shape, fashion, feign -- more at DOUGH

    1 a : something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story b : fictitious literature (as novels or short stories) c : a work of fiction; especially : NOVEL

    2 a : an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth <a legal fiction> b : a useful illusion or pretense

    3 : the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination

    From

    Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

    I added the Bold... Dan Brown wrote a pretty darn good work of Fiction and now hopefully it will be a good movie.... I don't get why so many are up in arms.. he never represented anything as truth...