"I'll show you."

Do you ever feel like you don't have a strong support system? I do. And it has been a reoccurring thought and while I used to get so upset about it, I now look at it as a blessing in disguise. This lack of support makes a fighter out of me. It makes me want to prove to everyone just how wrong they are because everything they doubt I can do, I can do and I can do it even better than I thought.

Today, I came across a quote from Jennifer Lawerence (congrats on the Golden Globe!!!) that really exemplified this feeling.

“When I first got to New York, my feet hit the sidewalk and you’d have thought I was born and raised there. I took over that town. None of my friends took me seriously. I came home and announced, ‘I’m going to move to New York,’ and they were like ‘OK.’ Then when I did, they kept waiting for me to fail and come back. But I knew I wouldn’t. I was like, ‘I’ll show you.’” - Jennifer Lawrence


Don't you just love her?

Silver Linings Playbook.

I drove close to an hour today just to see SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. And the almost two hour drive was completely worth it. In fact, I suggest taking a long drive after for some clarity and quality time with you and your singing voice.

Have you seen SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK yet? If not, you should be looking up local times while you read this. I don't even know how to write a review on it.The film is so witty, funny, and yes dramatic but not in an over-bearing sense. The film engrossed every part of me. It felt so good to watch a film where there is so much humanity in it.Patrick (Bradley Cooper) and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence) absolutely blew me away that I wanted to shoot up from my seat and do an air kick for them.

**Kind of a spoiler alert (but not really) below:

The montage of Patrick and Tiffany practicing their dance moves to Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash's, Girl From The North Country, will forever have a cabinet in my mind.

You have to see this movie.I have never felt so positive in my life.

excelsior. 

Hello I Must Be Going.

Whenever the road gets rough, I indulge my life into movies that have characters just as distraught as me. Last night I looked to Oscilloscope's, HELLO I MUST BE GOING, to even out my blues. HELLO I MUST BE GOING was selected as the opening film for Sundance back in 2012 and it is not a mystery as to why.

The film follows Amy (Melanie Lynskey), who has fallen into a depression after a divorce from her husband. She wears the same t-shirt as she feels sorry for herself around her parents house. Then, she meets 19-year-old Jeremy (Christopher Abbott) and the two of them have a very hot love affair as he helps her become the woman she once was. The plot line is simple but the talent of Lynskey, Abbot, and the cast make the film memorable. Right from the beginning of the film, I kind of wanted to be Amy. Then again who wouldn't want to be if she gets to make out in cars with a boy like Jeremy.

I highly recommend this quirky comedy.

Doesn't that picture just make your heart fill up with desperation to be with someone and watch a projector?

New Year, New Slate.

Happy New Year to you. New Years is such a perfect holiday because it offers the perfect starting point for change and I love change.I have started 2013 with a clean slate by getting rid of baggage, leaving the past behind and having resolutions that focus on bettering myself. 2012 has taught me that sometimes I put so much into something that just is not going to work out and exhaust myself until finally it ends, I do not give myself enough credit, don't give the right people a chance, and worry too much about silly things. But this year that is not happening.This year, I am going to have the confidence to not indulge into bad people, bad habits, bad situations, etc. This year I will succeed at what I put my mind to and not fill my head with silly thoughts or waste my time. I have started 2013 with a clean slate and I am going to paint it to MY perfection.This is the year of Shannon Kelly and damn is it going to be an outstanding year.

What will you do for yourself this year?