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Day of Launch Announcement Facebook

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Hi Everyone! I am super excited about a new fictional book that I am launching to Amazon Kindle on October 15th titled Crayoned Skin, Artist Within. It tells the stories of 14 urban artists of various shades and ethnic backgrounds. Here is the link to my Face Book page for more information. If we are not friends, send me a request so that you can check out the fun stuff that is going on in honor of the book. https://www.facebook.com/julieIam.rivera?lst=55303080%3A55303080%3A1507397614 Peace and Love to all. Still mourning with the thousands trying to grapple with the evil and disaster of the last 3 weeks. Julie Ann
False Reality and Bad Feedback             The film Reality Bites opens with the blank blue screen from a VCR Camera Recorder with the words VCR PLAY on the screen while the following voiceover is pushed from speakers into an outdoor stadium: "And they wonder why those of us in our twenties refuse to work an 80 hour week, just so that we can afford to buy their BMW's; why we aren't interested in the countercultures that they invented, as if we did not see them disembowel their revolution for a pair of running shoes. But the question remains, what are we going to do now? How can we repair all the damage we inherited? The answer is...I don't know.   (Stiller 0:46-1:35) Billy Idol’s 1970’s band was named “Generation X” in the 1970’s. Later it became the title of a book about rebellious teens by Douglas Coupland. After that it was “picked up by the mainstream media and seeped into the consciousness of the...