Archive for the Writing Category
Charlatan Nation
I sit here, listening the Baptist outdoor church sing and sermonize in earnest a block away. Their voices thunder through the buildings and the hope is tangible. The sermons push hard for a better tomorrow, god willing, and a lighter heart in these hard times.
I am not religious. To the contrary, I hold dear the [...]
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Blog Action Day 2009
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 for Climate Change. With so much to do and so much to change, I’d like to make my post about sustainability, the Lifeline and positive action. I’ve been a part of the Lifeline project since May 2009 and its been lifeline changing, in many ways. I’ve always been an [...]
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Day 90 – Obama Doc Needs YOU!
Hi:
I have been shooting for the last several months, covering President Obama’s
first 90 days in office, for my documentary “From 0 to 90″. This entire
documentary is groundbreaking for several reasons:
1. EVERY interview has been sourced through social networks – Facebook,
Twitter, Friendster, Myspace, Hipster, Tribe, Tribe Hollywood, Massify,
dating sites, Craigs List, etc.
2. We are not focusing [...]
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XMAS 2008
So another year is over and what have you done? The wild, magic, lovely and insane year I’ve had in the city I love more than any man has put me through the crucible again, and I’m come through diamond bright and petal soft.
I’ve built and lost a studio. I’ve interviewed some of the most [...]
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Where’s My Money, Pimp?
Biz dudes are so shifty. They really love taking creatives – seems they don’t respect talent because they believe its intangible. But without talent, there’d be no design, entertainment, architecture, etc… Its cheap until they bid on it at Sotheby’s, doing rich boy art trading cards, with no appreciation beyond what they’ve [...]
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The Struggle
I’m burning, pushing back, hoping for the best but expecting the usual. Oh, my heart is heavy. I seem a bit lost now, sucker punched, or perhaps now just waking from a knock to the head, groggy and dull. Sapped. Back two steps. Tripped and falling.
Its been rough, wild, complicated and miscommunicated. Trust is so [...]
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“The Fall” in love…
I saw “The Fall” tonight, and fell in love with filmmaking all over again. The magic of storytelling and moving pictures is fully alive in this movie. I watched in awe and joy, the same way I watched movies as a child. I was in wonderment, thrilled, laughing, crying, charmed and wowed. [...]
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Announcing Online.tv Studios!
Our Reception Area
For the past six months, I’ve been working on the creation and launch of Online.tv:
Online.tv is a complete digital video solution provider for the web video era. Online.tv combines the world’s largest network of online specialty HD video channels, online third party video super-distribution, advanced scalable technology solutions for video and [...]
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Busy and Belize
On the Ocean…
I am crazy busy. In a once in a lifetime kind of way. So its spectacular, hard as hell, exhausting, complex, full of excitement, worry and love for what I am doing. And for the people who’ve made this happen and keep making it happen. I am blessed…
Conch Fisherman
I’m building [...]
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New Poems
Point your bow to the clouds and keep on til the morning star…
I’ve been hard at work on some amazing new projects, but in the meantime, to feed my soul, I scribbled these down:
We All Have A Little Envy In Us
she, confused
angry
unhinged
watches what she wants
walk away
her throat clenches
eyes water
teeth grit
shame and disappointment redden
her wet cheeks
she [...]
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The Killing of Georgie
The TOTP performance circa 1977
A discussion of the song, decades later
I remember my sister and I begging my brother to play “The Killing of Georgie” over and over. Little girls with big hearts, we would sing this at the top of our lungs and cry over the last lines – “Oh Georgie’s dead – don’t [...]
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Éireann go Brách!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I celebrate being a Celt on this day, my roots deep in green shamrocks. Its evident in my red hair and my innate storytelling brilliance. And my utter lack of modesty! Hahaha…
We Irish are fierce, and when we fight, its not to win, its to destroy. We have no fear and we [...]
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Buddha’s Head
For D:
Buddha’s head
Like my heart
Shattered
Scattered
Reckless handling
Mindless rambling
Explaining air
Over and over
No tap dance
No sliding out
I pin you
Caught in thought
Called for behavior
You scramble
Crab-ways
From my glare
Cold hard and disgusted
Buddha’s body
Disconnected
Disrespected
Accidental
Your act was not
Incidental
Your motives were
Monumental
Cruel to joy
Poorly chosen
The glass before you
Was never empty
Overflowing
Abundant
Accepting
You lost me
Throat dry?
Peace,
Melissa
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Happy Valentines Day 2008!
Happy V Day! Every day can be a loving, lovely love filled day if we choose it.
In little or large amounts, love is precious. Savor what comes your way today and every day!
Peace and much love,
Melissa
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Scientology Gets A Message…
THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely [...]
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The Ever Expanding Nature of Love
We are each of us angels with one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
- Liciano de Crescenzo
Love of all levels comes naturally to very young children – they laugh, smile, fully express awe and wonder at the world around them. Kids will eagerly embrace any person who comes close enough, touching [...]
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And So It Is…
Blower’s Daughter – Damien Rice
É Isso Ai – Ana Carolina E Seu Jorge
I love this song – so achingly loving, full of gorgeous longing. And yet in Portuguese, (such a lovely language), it sounds strong and passionate. Both version stir something in my soul – one sad and reaching, one alive and [...]
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My Art…
Oh so very very true…
Love is elemental, necessary, important even, but art, oh my god. Art is like that crazy boyfriend – hot, then cold, volatile, withholding, abundant, bitchy even. As much as he drove you nuts, you craved, needed, lusted for him.
Art mirrors sexuality – first we start tentatively, gingerly attempting what we long [...]
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Blazing
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Harold R. McAlindon
My life has been a study in blazing. Sometimes I scorch as I blaze. Sometimes I barely glow, dimmed and alone and wondering where the darkness is leading. The way before [...]
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Gratitude & Perspective
Gratitude 12 2 2007 – M. Ulto
Grateful…
I am grateful
Grated, crushed, reborn
Full of light, love, purpose
Struggle has polished me
Not diamond hard but
Soft like old jeans
Sweet smelling and lovely
Deep as down
Lightly substantial
Loosely connected
To all things, I’m understood
I am peaceful
Though storms tore me
Lies rend me still
Hate has been bile
Expelled by the Universe’s hand
Thumping my back
Each whack a lesson
Each [...]
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To The WGA, From An Independent
Does this strike include a call to independents?
Dear WGA:
As a freelance writer, who has been so for years, but not a member of your organization, I sympathize deeply with your members. We in the independent world, particularly in internet content producing, work more with corporate bodies who have little experience in production, and little understanding [...]
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I am The Playstation
So I took a test on Facebook today. Yah, I know…online tests are bunk. But I found it pretty interesting, and um, well…rather accurate…hahaha…read on, intrepid visitor…
The Playstation
Random Gentle Sex Master (RGSM)
Easy to turn on. Hard to beat. You are The Playstation.
You’re a nice girl, and you have lots of sex. It’s therefore [...]
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The Art of Living
Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm… an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-Saul Bellow
I had an interesting weekend. Lots of art, lots of struggle, lots of seeking that silence to create, despite [...]
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Reconfiguration Of Modern Life – Plan2Evolve.tv
We are reconfiguring our view of modern life, and that means re-framing how we look at ourselves and our impact on our environment – both the physical and metaphysical. Part of that re-framing is looking at the underlying conflicts in our lifestyles and how we are triggered on them, to the point of mass [...]
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These Words…To You, Wherever You Are…
Rock and Roll Love Search – M. Ulto 2007
Yah, dating…um…yah…
What can I say? Its never easy for anyone. And I have less patience and time to spare than most. I skim deep dialectics in minutes, absorbing and comprehending meaning instantly. Yet men – can’t read them or figure them out at [...]
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Binary Does Analog aka Online Dating
By Fotofrog on Flickr
I’ve started dating again. My last relationship fizzled in and out, off and on, for a few years. Whether it was convenience or fear, I kept going back to the Well. He was a mighty fine Well, but our hearts are pointing in different directions. So recently, we [...]
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Notes On Father’s Day
ICE T @ Hip Hop Odyssey Festival Awards – M. Ulto
Last night, I went to the Hip Hip Odyssey Awards with my collaborators on “The Art of Love & Struggle” – Director Jessica Habie, Performer/Writer Bobbi Williams and Composer Spiritchild.
It was where Hip Hop lives – the real culture, not the parody of it in [...]
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Bubbling Up
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditation lately has yielded a vibrant connection to the universe. My mandala art reflects this inner bubbling up of joy. Prayer is more dialogue than passive smoothing out of mind. [...]
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The Pink of Me
The Pink of Me Mandala – M. Ulto
Somehow you are crawling in on long, sweeping thoughts
My white hot wound suddenly sweet, rich and pink with you
The sky bloomed bright instantly to my unfinished why
Trust, faith, dream and let love unfold
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A Spring Heart
Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
What keeps an artist going is the joy at being able to express with great faculty their thoughts. To create tangible expressions of their inner world is a great [...]
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