Glenn's Ruminations

Posted by Glenn Shadix at 11:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I just bought a brand new Toyota Scion today.  It looks like a cool and stylish box.  I just love this car!  It will be transporting me west in late June.  By the way, to all friends and interested parties, I will be staying with my business manager when I arrive in LA.  I will be looking for either a studio or one bedroom apartment to rent.  I’m open, and any suggestions are welcome. I hope to buy a home within a year, but for the first 6 months to a year, I want to rent a place that’s handy, either in Hollywood or the San Fernando Valley.  Smoke, drug and alcohol free is a must.  Put the word out, folks.  Email Glenn at ninemooncorp@aol.com

Posted by Glenn Shadix at 11:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Should I twitter? I am about to have ankle surgery April 7. I have four email addresses, two myspace locations ( I only made one but somebody else put up another. I use neither.  I did see the fun in facebook after being invited by a friend and finding a huge group from all over the world of folks I know and love.  I have this blog and the website where it rests somewhat sluggishly at the moment. Do I dare go twitter?  Just the fact that Billy Bush is a twitterer ought to be enough to keep me off but I AM going to be in bed with a laptop for six weeks.  I have not even been to its homepage for fear of being engulfed by the Trendy Monster.  I will go take a peek after my nap but I do have some trepidations.....

  Deep, heartfelt love and sympathy goes out to all of Natasha Richardson's family.  It truly is an amazing family and she was so loved and had so much more to give.  Her death strikes hard for many reasons--her two young sons, her great artistic potential, her youth.  It just somehow, in all its peculiar circumstances, pulls back the curtain again on how fragile is existence.  It should have been just the bump on the bunny trail she joked about.  Instead it was the end and hundreds of people are in deep mourning, thousands very saddened and millions made aware how random are our lives and deaths. I have, as an actor, been aware of her and her family most of my life.  I have seen her mother on stage many times in the West End and in countless films.  I know Vanessa Redgrave is experiencing one of life's cruelest twists: the death of one's child.  Having seen her work and having been so interested in her as an artist, I know that this extremely sensitive and intelligent woman is experiencing a pain I will never know. I single out her grief only because I feel closer to her.  I pray for Vanessa and Liam and those young boys as well as Natasha's brother Michael.  There is incredible strength and power in that bloodline and they will hold together with great dignity.  I feel awkward making a "celebrity" death seem more or worst than the constant circle of life and death that goes on all around us everyday.  It's just that her death brings into such sharp focus how vulnerable we all are.

   I will be, I am told by my surgeon Dr.Angus McBryde at SPORTS MEDICINE, that I will be travel worthy by late June. Now seems as good a time as any to say that my sabbatical is coming to an end.  I will be purchasing a new vehicle in the weeks ahead and around June 25th I will be returning to California.  It has been a very eventful three years but I am ready to come home and am already shopping for real estate. Life is quite an adventure and I am ready for the next chapter!

Posted by Glenn Shadix at 02:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Oh, now, its not as bad as its sounds----especially after this morning's x-rays showed major improvement, but what a drag!  Last week I took a nasty cough to my doctor and found I had pneumonia in my right lung, thus there was obviously no ankle surgery today. Just a visit back to my doc to see if the antibiotics had begun to fight the war.  Good report.  X-Rays looked remarkably better and now the surgery date is April 17th.  A real drag to have another long month of waiting before my ankle can be corrected..  Been blue as Bessie Smith all this past week, but knowing I am on the mend cheered me up.  Still have to take it easy but I'm told I can get back to swimming in a week. They obviously caught this virus early and hit it with all the torpedoes.  Another month of waiting for surgery is A REAL drag but the positive report from my doctor has cheered me up enough to pop out a blog...

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