"FROM MY HEAD TO YOURS!"
by Judy Jones


painting I did of Laura called "Angel of Music"

I called my friend Laura to see if she would like to be an extra in a movie. Since I had accepted the part and had another important engagement come up, I wanted to fill my spot for the director.

Laura said yes and thanked me for putting her onto the gig and told me they would be shooting in a strip club. She was a little upset because they told her she has to wear certain colors, etc. and she said she hates for anyone to tell her how to dress. But she added, because it's a movie and she had never been an extra before, she would do it.

Last night, Laura called to say she is taking acting lessons because of the extra part she had. She loved it and wants to get more roles. She said it was hard to dress in the clothes the director gave her during her scene in the strip club, but the rest of it really turned her on.

Since she is a 'hardhat' ironworker by day, and a singer/composer at night, she is used to diversity. Laura wandered if she might be able to use her music in upcoming roles.


David another friend and I are making a CD. He is putting his original songs on it and I am putting some of my poems as my part, no music. He said not to worry, that we would finish our project even though it is taking a long time. David lives in Florida and I live in San Francisco and we have never met in person, only online.

Tomorrow I am going to a music studio to record my part. This will be my third try. The first one didn't work because you can hear me moving papers in the background, and the second recording session was a 'no-go' because there was little expression in my voice. Since this is my first experience ever recording, I guess it takes time to get everything just right. Realized how important having a good director is.

Last week we had a mix up with the money for the music studio. David said he didn't understand what happened, and was sorry, but the check arrived and all is fine now. So tomorrow is my third time to record. Bruce, his music producer, told me to practice lots before the session and it would be fine. After I finish recording my part, I send the CD to David in Florida to put his music on. Confusing to a novice.

I am looking for a 'regular job' even though my passion is painting/sculpting/music and writing. Well, I could be a 'female Van Gogh' and just paint until I drop dead. Forget bills, where and how I live, and paint. Onetime a friend asked me what kept me from going 100%. Maybe I like to eat and have a place to live, things like that I told him. But on the other hand, if I go 100% it might turn out I would have plenty of food, a nice place to sleep and not be like Van Gogh, living in the worst conditions. His self portraits don't appear happy.

Last weekend, I volunteered as an usher to get in free to see the entertainer, 'CHARO!' I was assigned to the boxseats and got to sit right on the stage, very close to Charo during the performance. Incredible entertainer. She brought the house down and everyone got up and danced in the aisles. Charo played her guitar and I cried. It was beautiful. Her passion is 'unearthly'. She gave so much love to everyone in the audience, singing, dancing and telling jokes, we all left smiling, having tasted a bit of heaven on earth.

Charo told the audience to 'live long and healthy', 'make a lot of cucha chucha coo with our lovers' and to have a good accountant. She also said to remember, "Uncle Sam is not your uncle'.

After seeing Charo, I decided I wanted to be a performer just like her. Wear glitzy costumes, make love to the audience and then I realized. I am not a singer or dancer. That depressed me and I thought maybe I can take singing lessons, learn an instrument and dress up in glamorous costumes and just try it. So what if the audience laughed and booed me off stage, I'm tough and can take it. I always think I can do anything for some odd reason. Somewhere I missed people telling me 'No you can't' or maybe the word no means yes to me.

Another friend of mine, Kathy a composer/singer, who has throat cancer, sent me more copies of her CD. She has only made one and may never get to make another. But she says she is very happy with her life and is really excited I love her songs. I do. She volunteered at the Peace Pilgrim center for years and is a magical person. I would like to share her music with everyone on earth. She said she is singing again but her voice gives out quickly yet she keeps on singing since it lifts her spirits.

Why do I always want to share share share everything with everyone on earth. Haven't a clue why. Maybe I didn't have enough brothers and sisters so I decided that every person on earth was my family and of course we want to share with our families, right?

Adrielle, an artist friend who wears fairy wings has a brain tumor. But she says not to worry. She just made herself bigger wings to wear around town and went dancing the other night.
I told Adrielle I would like to go to Sausalito and paint with her in front of a beautiful fountain she used to play around as a child, since she was born in Marin. She sounded hesitant but then said, 'OK'.

She is taking driving lessons but her vision is being affected by the tumor. Adrielle said she thinks her eyes are getting better because the other day when she woke up, the light on her bedroom ceiling looked like one light instead of four as it had been. Her father, a lawyer is in Afghanistan helping them write a new constitution and doesn't get to see her much but they talk on the phone.

We had an artshow together in Ojai, California. Adrielle got more attention because of her fairy wings. I was jealous and am pretty sure she knew it.

But we have been friends on and off ever since. She always encourages me to get money for my paintings and I need that. Her mother was a painter and her art is now housed in the Ventura Art Museum. Adrielle told me she was stifled as a child by her mother in her art and thinks that's why she is sick.

I like her and am grateful we are still friends after five years. Maybe we will have an artshow together in San Francisco. I'll go jogging first and will be very calm with a 'who cares attitude' and won't mind if Adrielle gets more attention.

These are the thoughts I have today.

Love and Light!
Judy Jones


My Previous Blogs
http://judyjonesblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/thru-eyes-of-judy-by-judy-jones-soul.html

Judy's Websites
http://www.ontheroadwithjudy.com
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and remember;
without the windstorms you would never know the beauty of the canyons carvings
by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross