IN THREE WORDS

In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all each week, 

and you tell me in only three words what comes to mind.

In Three Words...

Rudolf Nureyev

A DIFFERENT MAN

When we got our first snow two weeks ago, I spent the day watching movies. One of which was A Different Man. I love Sebastian Stan, and he has had quite the year with movies. Following his portrayal, eerily accurate of the Orange Orge, where he said he had many sleepless nights acting as the Dump...and now this movie. he nailed both beautifully. Have you seen this film yet? It was one of the darkest satires I've seen in some time. Sebastian Stan plays Edward, who has a troubled life, not only because of his deeply disfigured face, but also due to the way he carries himself. When he participates in an experimental drug trial that drastically changes his appearance, he finally starts to live the life he's always wanted, with his sexy body and handsome face, although the peeling face thing was a bit unnerving. This dream life quickly turns into a nightmare when a play his neighbor writes and produces, sparks Edward's desires to change and he becomes obsessed with trying to reclaim what he once was and lost.

From the very start of the movie, I knew that I was witnessing a totally unique artistic vision. Director Aaron Schimberg has a tight control of every frame, the high-quality production value of this film is undeniable. At the beginning of the movies, before Edward's transformation, feel very different than what follows. His life is riddled with anxiety, and the audience feels every bit of it. You also feel the discomfort that Edward has because he looks different. Which I might add, Stans make up is some of the best that will come all year I suspect. I actually questioned the make-up, if there were two different actors playing Edward in the beginning of the film. Sebastian Stan gives a performance I was unaware he was capable of, especially on a physical level. And the scenes with Peason are gold.

The supporting cast were excellent too. Reante Reinve and Adam Pearson who is a British actor, presenter and campaigner, who has neurofibromatosis in real life, are also very good in this. Pearson, who plays Oswald has the life that Edward wants and can't understand how Oswald is so outgoing and fears nothing, enjoys life to the fullest, even with the disfiguring disease, yet Edward, who is cured of his disfigurement, isn't happy, and still doesn't have the life he wants. And Reinsve feels like she is giving two different performances from where we first meet her and where her arc ends up. Ingrid is an incredibly flawed person whose morals are never known and Reinsve makes every scene she's in a fascinating watch. The scene where she tells Edwards to go put the disfigured mask on during sex was quite something. I don't want to give the whole plot away. And Pearson is incredibly charismatic and a pure scene stealer for sure. Overall, A Different Man is an original achievement that I absolutely adored. It is certainly not for everyone, what with some of the disturbing imagery, but I was always immensely entertained. And nothing wrong with catching a glimpse of a very naked and revealing Bucky Barnes!!!! 

I may have to watch again. My next movie I want to watch is the Substance. Adore Demi Moore.

COULDN'T RESIST

 

When the honeymoon is over!!!!

If you were here for the Monday Moments and saw the evil queen gif, and your familiar with the Game of Thrones and the scene with the Lady Olena played by the fabulous Diana Rigg...it is a dream of mine to relive it my way. " I'd hate to die like trump. Clawing at my neck, foam and bile spilling from my mouth, eyes blood red, skin purple and orange. Must have been a horrible scene for the republican party and his family. It was horrible enough for me, a shocking scene. Not at all what I intended. You see, I'd never played with or seen the poison work before. Tell the Party, I want them to know it was me."

A boy can dream.

MEANWHILE....

 ....at the Casa du Borghese....

What with ice and the evil puppy killer whore, Kristin Noem in New York City.... The Casa du Borghese is quickly becoming a sanctuary city for Latina and South American men! Raids happening everywhere.

On a side note and jokes aside, the Clans  good friend Lorenzo, who just happens to be a South American go-go boy, and is halfway through his citizenship process has already been told he may be deported. I've already told him he can come to the Casa du Borghese if need be. I just may end up becoming the Harriet Tubman of the South American GoGo boy Underground Railroad. The sad part is he told us many of his friends are in the same boat, halfway through their process, or just beginning ,yet are nervous they're going to be sent back. More than half the staff's of bars...lounges and clubs are are in Lorenzo's boat If they already begun the process how is this fair?

Not to mention what will this do to New York City nightlife? These fine folk are the heart of nightlife and become good friends. I mean nothing against white boys, but South American go go boys are so much more fun, and take the job more seriously.

MOOD BOARD

What a weekend! It rushed by again! But I'm paying no mind this Monday....I'm sleeping in as I had an event at the showroom Saturday, and it required me to take a day off in the week. I'm no fool...Monday was a no brainer. And what a week. Still coming to terms with the direction the US took. Once the great buffoon got sworn in, even though we saw it coming, it was like hearing he'd won all over again. I'm trying hard to not watch any news. I mean one week in already, and I could have high blood pressure. Dark times indeed.

Don't worry about me getting through the next four years. If it's darkness they want..... I am taking up new talents in the arts.

KENYAN SUSPECTS

It's so hard to choose just a few shots of amazing bird suspects from Kenya... but here is a small carousel of suspects we saw from the amazing trip. A real bird aviary. Our guide from the lodge told us that many of his clients and guest sometimes don't give a second glance at birds, but focusing on the bigger animals. I told him while I loved watching and seeing the big cats, elephants and giraffe and others, I'm a secret birder, and very visual, so I take everything in... any part of nature is rewarding for me. He seemed to like and share my view. Some folks miss out on a lot of beautiful creatures, even in our own backyards. I hope these birds bring some tiny piece of joy to you.  And I can't take credit of these...Warbucks was the recorder of the bird snaps!

Blue Guinea hen fowl

Kenyan Starling

Crested Crane

Egyptian Geese

Horned Bill

Yellow Billed stork