So no more drunk driving at 140 mph. No picking up tourists on Miami Beach. No performing my school girl strip tease at sexy parties. (Orgies is an ugly word.) No peeing in my Uncle Robert's face. (OK, that was a fantasy.) Certainly no Navy Seal stuff, because that was a totally bad idea, as Just This Guy pointed out. (Me and military discipline? Right.) No more motorcycles, after having 2 friends wipe out badly (one dead and one crippled). And no more 14 year old girls. (I hope you're well, Ariel.) OK, I am doing Mistress Chandra for the "Beat me" set but while that's fun, it's not adrenalin thrills, so what's a girl to do for a rush?
Why jump out of airplanes at 12,000 feet and experience almost a minute of free fall! YEEHAHHH!!!
Jumping into space with Miami and Biscayne Bay for a view. Oh. My. God! It was incredible. I couldn't wait till I could go back up and do it again. This was so much more cool than going to classes today.
My SOL friend Christopher from London suggested I try this a long time ago but I finally got around to it. CHRIS!!! HOLY SHIT!!! IT WAS FANTASTIC. I'M STILL HIGH. WHAT A RUSH. I SAY, GOD DAMN, GOD DAMN!!
We return control of your senses to yourselves. You may resume reading the latest blog about the latest posting of chapter 216 of book 9, except it's being delayed because my editor is jerking off too much from Chandra's stories. (That's why we're here sweetie.)
Sky high, Chandra
I recently posted a blog about being interested in becoming a Navy SEAL. Honor, bravery, nobility, camaraderie, integrity, and fucking up the shit of our enemies. The Warrior culture. Real Samurai stuff. I even had a couple of talks with a Navy recruiter.
Just This Guy, one of the more popular and best known writers on SOL, reminded me that there's no way I could tolerate military discipline, taking orders from stupid people or being told to do things that don't make sense. He's right of course. I'm turned on by bravery, nobility, honor and integrity and yes, that whole Samurai warrior mythology. But being a Navy SEAL or military anything will have to remain my fantasy de jour. What the hell was I thinking?
In the meantime, back to life as I know it. Thanks for the reminder Guy. You saved me. My hero :)
Chandra
The warrior! The warrior! In some of us lay the seeds of the warrior. In me it is strong. I am Chandra. I am Samurai!
In the classroom. In sports. In business. Competition. I win all the time. It’s too easy. There's no honor. There's no risk. I need more. I want to be tested. I need to be tested. The score of athletic competition has no balls. When your life is on the line, along with that of your comrades. That has balls! When the blood runs red from your body. That's when you know you're alive.
The warrior. Brave. Noble. Honorable. Samurai means, “To serve”. To serve my country. To kill or be killed. To be tested against the enemy.
To hone my body and my mind and my soul. To taste the blood of our enemies from my knife.
To honor my country and serve with my brothers and sisters in covert operations in foreign countries, under hostile and lethal conditions. Adrenalin. To know you're alive!
To be Navy SEAL. Only then will I be tested. Only then will I be Warrior! To be Samurai!
Chandra!
First, a wink and a nod to my friend Jackie J. When it's 98d and 95% humidity here in south Florida, we are reminded why God invented beaches and offshore breezes. But don't ask people who live in Orlando. Eww.
Now, as a public service to my loyal readers of fun stroke stories and as a diversion from all that stroking, I've caught up on some really good movies recently and I thought I share my thoughts on them. They're all available on Blu Ray.
Alice In Wonderland: I was blown away. I've watched it over and over. Just spectacular. Rivaled Avatar in CGI/real film quality and imagination. Wonderful script, wonderfully acted. Couldn't figure out the White Queen, though. Something weird with her. Johnny Depp was a logical choice as the Mad Hatter and he didn't disappoint, being madder than ever. At first I thought Mia Wasikowska was a strange choice for Alice but the more I watched it, the more perfect she became. And she had quite a year last year, because she was also in
The Kids Are Alright: What a delightful, unusual relationship film. Annette Benning gave an emotional, nuanced performance as the lesbian head of her family. She's such a fine actress. Not many roles for good actresses who are getting older. Mark Ruffalo was spot on in his role as lonely dork looking for a family of his own, although he might have overplayed it just a little, as I could see through him from the 1st scene. Or maybe that was to his credit. Great facial expressions. What a resume he has. Totally a chick flick.
Inception: I love so many of Leonard DiCaprio's movies. But I'm not sure if it's him or if his best talent is in picking good projects. I've read they didn't use CGI for those effects. I'm going to have to get the DVD (I recorded it from TV) to find out how they did those scenes. Unbelievable. However, I have better things to do than spend hours in chat rooms discussing who was dreaming what dream and what it all meant. It was a fascinating, original sci fi take on the mind.
Last of the Mohicans: Adapted from the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper about the French an Indian War of 1757. I know this movie has been out for years but I just recently caught up with it. I can't imagine a film done any better. It was perfect. Incredibly dramatic and realistic. I winced with every musket bullet and tomahawk impact. Ouch! Daniel Day Lewis is the best actor currently working. Period. And that includes Meryl Streep, who I love dearly. And he is such a fucking hunk! Loved him in Gangs of New York, one of the most powerful performances of any kind I've ever seen, ever.
The Last Samurai: Another old film and I've seen it before and I love it and recently caught it in HD. OK, Tom Cruise isn't an actor...he's a movie star. But he's another one who picks good, crowd-pleasing projects. I'm a sucker for films about bravery and honor and the Samurai typify bravery and honor. OK, the plot is predictable and a little corny and it's manipulative and it gets a little sappy but like a lot of his films, I loved the way they did predictable, corny, manipulative and sappy. Ken Watanabe, who played Lord Katsumato, can play hide the Samurai with me any day. Rrrrrr.
Game of Thrones: Not a movie but in quality, acting, directing, writing, scope, sets, realism, imagination....the most spectacular TV series EVER! HBO raised the bar with Rome a few years ago and raised it again with Game of Thrones. It makes TV dramas like Lost or Mad Men look like interesting diversions. The 1st season is over but HBO will be showing reruns all year until season 2 next winter. If you haven't watched it, it has to be seen in sequence or you won't understand it. It took my breath away and often left me with my mouth hanging open in disbelief. The most amazing TV screen writing in maybe EVER. Unbelievably, and staying true to the RR Martin book, the hero and poster boy for the series, was killed off in the 9th episode. It's never happened in the history of television. What balls!
Anyway, hope y'all staying cool during this summer heat wave. Go to an air conditioned movie theater near you. Spend money. Your country needs you.
Chillin' on the beach,
Chandra
I've made what I think is an interesting observation about SOL, although I draw no conclusions herein. Even when I'm taking a break, I read a lot of the blogs. And when I read one I think is interesting, I've often sent the author some feedback, sometimes commiserating or sometimes not or sometimes in a humorous vein but always, I hope, thoughtful.
Now here's the observation: Porn writers have responded to my feedback nearly 100% of the time, while writers of more "mainstream" or "serious" work (you know: the books with 227 chapters, in their 14th series) have responded to my feedback perhaps only half the time. Quite a difference, I'm sure you'll agree. I don't know if other readers have had similar experiences, as I haven't taken a survey and my statistical universe is only 1.
But I'll leave it to the readers to make their own conclusions as to what this may or may not mean. As pj would put it: "I'm just sayin'."
Have a great day.
Chandra