Martin Scorsese: an inspiration (PM)

I totally agree with this formula for a lifetime of achievement, but I think longevity should be added to the equation, just so there is more lifetime to pack achievements in to. Not that anyone plans for a short life or anything, but it can't hurt to acknowledge this.

And to you, Martin Scorsese, I say congratulations on your lifetime of achievements! J (and BAFTA) are right, you are really rad. You have made a bunch of my favourite movies and totally had an influence on my life. For example, I can't look at a clove of garlic without thinking about that scene in Goodfellas where they are making pasta in prison and one of the guys is slicing the garlic super thin. You are also most definitely the reason I love Robert De Niro. And not just as an actor, if you catch my drift Martin Scorsese. I also think that you have something to do with the reason I love canoli so much, though I can't put my finger on how exactly how you have influenced that particular predilection.
Way to go for being so awesome and inspirational.

Love from K.

Martin Scorsese: an inspiration (AM)

Last night on the news there was a story about the BAFTAs that mentioned that Martin Scorsese had received an award for 'a lifetime of acheivement'. You don't hear that expression really do you? They always say 'lifetime achievement award', which, when you think about it, doesn't really mean much.

Martin Scorsese really has done some awesome stuff. Taxi Driver! The Last Waltz! Goodfellas! My Voyage to Italy! And that is just four from his entire lifetime of achievement, there's so many heaps more.

It's really true. Scorsese has had a lifetime full of achievement. I want that!

I mean, I don't expect that I can do what MS did, I'm not delusional. But just doing some awesome stuff throughout your life would be really, really great.

By the time Scorsese was my age he had made Mean Streets. By the time I was my age I had co-founded this blog.

If I was Scorsese, in the next few years I would make Taxi Driver. Now, I guess we all know that I am not going to make Taxi Driver. But I think I see a pattern. If you just do one great thing after another you have a lifetime of achievement.

PROJECT!