The Valley Girl Show is a great program to spread awareness of entrepreneurship by interviewing successful entrepreneurs. It is meant to inspire people to chase their own business dreams.

It is hosted by Jesse Draper, daughter of Venture Capitalist Tim Draper, who himself is the son and grandson of two other famous and successful venture capitalists. In short, this family is well connected, which in part explains how Draper gets interviews with Ted Turner, MC Hammer, and Eric Schmidt to name a few.

The show is fun, light-hearted, inspiring, and warm. I love it, even though the content is not always thought provoking or meaningful, it is fun. Jesse Draper who has acted professionally on Nickelodeon hit shows and movies, plays a stereotyped "ditsy valley girl". Of course, the name is also a play on the Silicon Valley, which rather attracts a lot of great entrepreneurs and startups, and you can see Jesse's greater intelligence shining through.

Give the show a try, I suggest starting with the Ted Turner interview.

And of course, one day Jesse should interview me with my great web business: HealthAliciousNess.com
:D

Declarative sentences - so-called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true
as opposed to other things which were, like, not -
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don't think I'm uncool just because I've noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It's like what I've heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?
I'm just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?

What has happened to our conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been, like, chopped down
with the rest of the rain forest?
Or do we have, like, nothing to say?
Has society become so, like, totally . . .
I mean absolutely . . . You know?
That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . .
whatever!

And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness
is just a clever sort of . . . thing
to disguise the fact that we've become
the most aggressively inarticulate generation
to come along since . . .
you know, a long, long time ago!

I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too.

See it on vimeo.

Lyrics from their site:

There isn't much that I feel I need:
a solid soul and the blood I bleed.
But with a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a pressured race.
But to provide for them when they ask
I will, with heart, on my father's grave

On my father's grave
I don't mean
To seem like I care about material things,
Like our social status,

I just want
Four walls and adobe slabs
For my girls

The movie limelight was written, directed, and produced by Chaplin, and like other movies where one person reigns in full control it was beautiful, poignant, and somewhat ego-centric.

The movie itself seems autobiographical of Chaplin. A person who once enjoyed fame finds himself suddenly in a different time. He is not the it thing anymore, no one wants to work with him, association with his name is death.

The Chaplin character in the movie (Calvero) finds solice from his new life status by helping another struggling artist Terry. (Played by Clair Bloom) Terry is a ballerina, failing, suicidal, and psychosomatically paralyzed. (How else?)

Thus Calvero comes to the rescue, full of inspiration to heal and help the young artist. Through the process Calvero himself finds new life again, he sheds all past notions of fame and returns to the street, to keep it real and be happy.

I think one of the most interesting parts of the film is when Calvero gives a comeback performance and lets the segment run in silence while he performs some classic Chaplin. It is painful to sit through the two minutes of silence and it seems like Chaplin is giving us all a nod to how much times have moved on and how he got left behind.

Buy from Amazon if you wantbut I give this film a 50-50. It is a good film, but probably one better caught on T.V. or borrowed from a friend. Leave a comment and I might just mail you my copy. ;)

Here she is preforming a version of la demeure d'un ciel using nothing but her voice and a loop pedal. An amazing performance!

Buy her album from Amazon