http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/though i'll be writing on mainstream arts and entertainment as well, my objective here is to cover up and coming, or overlooked, artists in every genre. i've had the pleasure of meeting many talented and creative individuals recently, and feel they deserve more recognition. i'm sincerely hoping there are people in this community who are interested in finding the "undiscovered" artists among us.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/294109Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me Dont cha, dont cha Now, why the hell can't I get away with saying something like that, huh? Guess it's because I'm not a Pussycat Doll. Never heard of the all-girl, bumping grinding dancing, former...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/292126Two years ago, after a drunken evening of karaoking (yea yea, refrain from the jokes) I went home in search for the faster, pop version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time after Time" I sang earlier that night. Thinking I found the right version, I instead downloaded the late Eva Cassidy, and from the first...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/291552I was recently invited by a "cyber friend" to submit an entry to the Slamdance Film Festival, where untapped writers of film, television, short films are given a chance to display the writing abilities. This is just another wonderful opportunity for serious writers out there who don't have the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/291372I realize it's still August, and in California -- where it rarely gets too cold even in winter -- it's been pretty damn hot the past few days. So rainy days is the last thing on my mind right now (except in wishful thinking), but on this late evening wide awake again I found myself listening to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/291257Outsider Art: the work of artists who are self-taught, unschooled, and disregardful of most traditional art forms. Another term, coined by French artist Jean Dubufett, art brut can be used to describe this same type of art. Translated literally, it means: raw art. I confess I'm not a trained art...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/caelia/291015[not so much a book review, since what I wrote was an e-mail response to my friend's recommendation that I read "My Friend Leonard."] Me: Your book recommendation came at a good time. I'd just finished "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (recommended), and was itching for another book to read....