Inertia (Lightning Rod), Poetry by James R Adams II

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Genre: Rhyme, Relationship, Society

Motionless as I arise
Controlled and yet carried away
Lukewarm I’m caught up in the fray
Which language shall I speak today?

I’m not quite sure what meets the eye
Kindly be my alibi
And dwell on love
Or things that I despise?

Shallow Truths or Swells of Lies?
We’ll plunge out as the waves arrive
We’ll breathe in deep and close our eyes
As waters spiral to the skies.

Does anything I say make sense?
Is logic lost in language dense?
I watch my thoughts and say
That they aren’t me.

And to myself the thoughts reply;
A mirrored house of lies.
Loud voices pose as me
In deep disguise.

And all the while the vortex spins
And all the while the tides pull out
Conducive waters fill my mouth
A bolt strikes down the waterspout.

Motionless and unaffected
On new shores and disinfected
Dive…

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Happy Birthday: Anne Hathaway

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annehathaway.jpgAnne Hathaway

Born: November 12, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Married to:
Adam Shulman (29 September 2012 – present) (1 child)

I really don’t drink, I don’t do drugs. I feel like right now I’ve been given so many opportunities I don’t want to mess it up with those things … I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. – On avoiding the hard partying young-star life style.

She is just divine. As a human being, she has basically accomplished everything that I want to do … It’s not that she just gets inside the character, she’s just absolutely at the center of all of her choices, of the truth of the character – On working with Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada…

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Happy Birthday: Ryan Gosling

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ryangosling.jpgRyan Gosling

Born: November 12, 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada

It’s nice to be around people that have a sense of the world around them, that are, in general, more conscious and conscientious. It was important for me to get an outside look at America even though I grew up in Canada, it’s an incredible country and I love it, but it’s so close. It’s like being too close to a Monet or something. You have to move back. Going to New Zealand helped me to get a read on this place that the whole world was obsessed with.

Murder by Numbers
2002
dir. Barbet Schroeder
Starring
Sandra Bullock
Ben Chaplin
All Good ThingsAll Good Things
dir. Andrew Jarecki
Stars:
Ryan Gosling
Kirsten Dunst
The Notebook
2004
dir. Nick Cassavetes
starring
McAdams
Ryan Gosling
Blue ValentineBlue Valentine
dir. Derek Cianfrance
Stars:
Ryan Gosling
Michelle Williams
LARS AND THE REAL GIRLLars and the Real Girl
2007
dir. Craig…

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Happy Birthday: Ashley Williams

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ashleywilliamsAshley Williams

Born: November 12, 1978 in Westchester County, New York, USA

Married to:
Neal Dodson (29 May 2011 – present) (1 child)

[After reading the Good Morning, Miami (2002) pilot script and researching her “Dylan” character] This is SO not me!

In an online poll, her character, Victoria was voted the best love interest of Ted (Josh Radnor) on How I Met Your Mother (2005), with 45.25% of the votes. Beating out even the show’s main character, Robin (Cobie Smulders), who took second with 30.36% of the votes.

 

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Happy Birthday: Megan Mullally

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meganmullally.jpgMegan Mullally

Born: November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Nick Offerman (20 September 2003 – present)

I didn’t get Will & Grace (1998) until I was almost 40. Had I listened to everybody else who kept saying, ‘Oh, there’s too much competition, you’ll never get an agent, you’ll never get a part, 90 percent of actors are out of work,” if I’d listened to that, if everybody listened to that, then nobody would leave the house and the world would come to a crashing halt.

When I went up there and accepted the [second] Emmy, I remembered that when I was about 20, a psychic told me I was going to win two Emmys that were going to be like bookends for playing a secretary on a sitcom. And I said, ‘I’m not going to do sitcoms. I’m a great actress and I’m going to change…

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Happy Birthday: Cote de Pablo

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cotedepablo.jpgCote de Pablo

Born: November 12, 1979 in Santiago, Chile

Coming from the theater I love the adrenalin rush from working on NCIS. You get home and you’re exhausted, but you feel like you’ve really worked. It’s such a masochistic thing. In one episode we were shooting boxed in a container from 7 in the morning to 12 at night. There’s gunfire in the container…We had to pretend the truck was moving so we had to keep ourselves moving the whole time. I remember my knees were all bruised up because I had to fall so many times. That was taxing on the body. – on doing stunts in NCIS.

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Happy Birthday: Grace Kelly (1929–1982)

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gracekelly.jpgGrace Kelly (1929–1982)

Born: November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: September 14, 1982 (age 52) in Monaco

Married to:
Prince Rainier of Monaco (18 April 1956 – 14 September 1982) (her death) (3 children)

Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations there were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

(On Gary Cooper) He’s the one who taught me to relax during a scene and let the camera do some of the work. On the stage you have to emote not only for the front rows, but for the balcony too, and I’m afraid I overdid it. He taught me the camera is always in front row, and how to take it easy…

HIGH NOONHigh Noon
1952
dir. Fred Zinnemann
Starring
Gary Cooper
Kelly
Dial M for MurderDial M For Murder
1954

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Happy Birthday: Radha Mitchell

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radhamitchell.jpgRadha Mitchell

Born: November 12, 1973 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I went through a phase of not wanting to watch any movies at all, and lately I’ve got back into watching films, I think because I meet people that make them all the time, and I feel like if I’ve seen their movie I know more about them, and it’s a better discussion to have. And in doing that I rekindled my love of movies.

MOVIE POSTERSILENT HILL 3D
2012
dir. Michael J. Bassett
Stars:
Adelaide Clemens
Sean Bean
The Crazies Movie PosterThe Crazies
dir. Breck Eisner
Stars
Radha Mitchell
Timothy Olyphant
Silent Hill
2006
dir. Christophe Gans
Starring
Sean Bean
Radha Mitchell
MAN ON FIREMan on Fire
2004
dir. Tony Scott
Starring
Washington
Dakota Fanning
MAN ON FIREMan on Fire
2004
dir. Tony Scott
Starring
Washington
Dakota Fanning
MOVIE POSTEROLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
2013
dir. Antoine Fuqua
Stars:
Gerard Butler
Angela Bassett

SURROGATESSurrogates
dir. Jonathan Mostow
Starring
Bruce Willis

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Happy Birthday: Wallace Shawn

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wallaceshawnWallace Shawn

Born: November 12, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA

[in 2008, on working with André the Giant in The Princess Bride (1987)] Well, that, I did very much enjoy. He was marvelous. But there was something painful about his situation, because he already had lost some of his strength. Of course it was well-known that he could not live terribly long, because no one with his condition did. So it was all a bit poignant. But he was always very, very intelligent, and he was very kind to me, because I was quite afraid of certain things we had to do, and he was very, very nice to me. He was a fascinating person, because he had come from a small village in France and wanted to travel. And he quite consciously decided that in order to travel, his best option was to try to become…

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Happy Birthday: Neil Young

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neilyoung.jpgNeil Young

Born: November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(when asked who’s the greatest musician of all time) Bob Dylan, I’ll never be Bob Dylan. He’s the master. If I’d like to be anyone, it’s him. And he’s a great writer, true to his music and done what he feels is the right thing to do for years and years and years. He’s great. He’s the one I look to. I’m always interested in what he’s doing now, or did last, or did a long time ago that I didn’t find out about. The guy has written some of the greatest poetry and put it to music in a way that it touched me, and other people have done that, but not so consistently or as intensely. Like me, he waits around and keeps going, and he knows that he doesn’t have the muse all the time, but he…

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