Wonder Woman @ MindSay

Okay, today I heard Beyoncé is campaigning for the role of Wonder Woman in the highly anticipated Wonder Woman movie.  I for one will be ticked off if she gets the role.  Don't get me wrong, I am all for casting against type, but in order for someone to pull it off, they have to be a phenomenal actor! I mean imagine Angela Bassett as Jaime Sommers, the Bionic Woman.  She would be cast against type, but she could pull it off because she can act her ass off.  Nell Carter played the Genie in the Broadway version of Aladdin and she was great! Beyoncé as Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman?  NEVER!

Wonder Woman means a lot to me.  As corny as it sounds, she was my hero when I was a kid. I admired the fact that she was a strong female who was the main character in a comic book series.  When the television show came out, I never missed an episode.  Even though Linda Carter's Wonder Woman came across as warmer than the comic book character, somehow I didn't mind.

The strange thing is that I can't really think of an actress who I think would make a good Wonder Woman.  At first I was thinking Eliza Dushku, but I think she could come off too soft.  Lucy Lawless?  Maybe five to ten years ago, but I could totally see her playing Queen Hippolyta, Diana Prince's mother. Gina Torres? Maybe.  It would certainly make the husband happy.  Rebecca Romijn?  I just know I don't want some scrawny, petite actress portraying someone who's supposed to be a six foot tall Amazon. 

Today I went to the College of Sociology to talk to the advisor about getting a second bachelors in Sociology instead of doing all this Post Bac work. I was kinda nervous about it for some odd reason. I guess it was because I was hoping there wouldn't be a mountain of red tape to cut through. I'm just not in the mood to deal with any more bureaucratic nonsense from the University of Houston! 

 

Anyway, before I left the house I decided to change shirts. I was wearing a Happy Bunny shirt, but I didn't like the way it looked with the pants I was wearing so I changed into the Wonder Woman shirt "the husband" bought me:

 

 

When I finally found the academic advisor's office, I was stunned to see posters of Wonder Woman all over his office! Not only were there posters all over the office, he had a dozen or so action figures of Wonder Woman and various DC comic book heroines. He even had the Wonder Woman Barbie! (I must have that Barbie!) He was very nice, helpful and odd in that way that some people who have sociology degrees can be. (Social Science and Liberal Art majors know what I'm talking about...Yes, I know that I could be talking about myself!) He said he had the same shirt, but he only wears it on weekends.

 

My sister thinks it was some sort of sign telling me I was going in the right direction. I won't discount that notion! :P

I am going on vacation in a couple of months. August 25th to be exact...and depending on how I am feeling I may just decide to stay there. Candace and I are not together and ll the progress that I thought I was making was all for nothing. She doesn't believe me when I tell her she's beautiful or when I tell her I love her. She says I only think that I do...Michelle, you can tell, can't you? You can tell how much I love her, and how much I care about her...You've been there since day 1 talking to me about it, and she is the only thing that I have ever been 100 percent sure of. Back on to my original topic....I may just stay there because I don't want to have to see her ecspecially when and if she starts another relationship with some other guy. I feel like that I am a wreck now...Idk how I would react if I saw her with someone else, maybe the way I did when Randy was in the picture...maybe worse...I haven't shaved in a month, I can't eat, I can't sleep...All I can do is think about her from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep and then all I do after that is dream about her. I don't understand...she is everything that I have ever wanted in a woman...She is the first to make so emotional that I break into tears, she is the only woman to make me feel nervous, or have butterflies in my stomach just being around her. She says she wants to be friends, and I kinda like  that but then again there is that part of me that is scared to be her friend because I love her and I know I am always going to want more...I remember a week before I met her I saw a woman like her and I asked God to bring me a woman like that, and a week later I met her. I had a major crush on her from the moment I met her. It was like a light shining on her...and it hit me. It was a blinding realization like pure truth, and I was head over heels for her. Then I realized a few weeks later that she had a boyfriend, his name was mike...a few weeks later she caught up with me in the back stock room and told me that she and mike had broke up, and we had lunch that day and we started hanging out. One night I asked her to a movie and we went to go see the 4 year old virgin. we had a great time... I had my arm around her, we were throwin the popcorn at each other and she rested her head on my shoulder. After the movie I walked her home...When we got to her front door she was complaining about a headache and how she needed sleep cuz she had to wake up in the morning, but she stayed out there with me letting me hold her in my arms...I went for the kiss but she wasnt ready and I respected that. We went out a few more times and we also spent time at her place watchin movies and what not and then Randy showed up...That God forsaken marine. Her friend as she called him, we weren't exclusive yet so I didn't care, but I was just gettin my hopes up because he soon went from friend to boyfriend after they went to the marine corps. ball together. I soon faded from her sight, and then bam as soon as he was heading out she'd come spend time with me again...I still felt strongly about her, and thats where I made the first final stand...heheheheh. I asked her to marry me...I was desperate, it was a shot in the dark, but in the end I ended up talking to Randy getting them back together. Randy then gets transferred to Colorado Candace stays...."for the time being" She is supposed to be with him on the first of the year. Until then she's spending time with me hangin out, chillin. Going to the movies having dinner whatever. Then her moving date kept getting pushed back....Fast Forward to a few months later. Randy calls Candace and tells her he isn't ready to take care of himself let alone another, and the first person she calls....yup u guessed it...me! I was the first person other than her mother to know that he had broken up with her. We spent a bunch of time together once again, and now u have been updated on the entire story, and if I have been talking to you u now know everything....Two years I have been feeling this for her and over that time my heart has grown from just a crush to love....I am in love with her. Yes, thats right I said it...I am in love with her....call me a fool I don't care

Today, I sat quietly while I let a woman rip the hairs out of my face by the roots and inhaled the pungent mix of acetane, butyl acetate, acrylic and formaldehyde.  Man, I feel like a woman!

 

 

I un-earthed this sketch of Wonder Woman from my 2000 portfolio:

I no longer own this artwork.  I sold it for $50 to a HUGE fan, a police woman, who already had a pretty extensive collection of Wonder Woman artefacts and just HAD to add my drawing to it.  I originally entered this drawing into a contest for designing the newest costume for the new Wonder Woman movie due out sometime in 2007-8 (?). I focused on her look as an ancient Greek amazon in formal wear. This would be before she comes to the world of men. I didn't win the contest, but I did get a lot of strange responses on my choice of costume. For instance, many people thought that, although this looks like WW, they just couldn't picture her wearing THAT.  All the other contestants were guys, and most of them drew WW in skimpy lil' outfits that made her appear very Anime, so go figure. I'm glad I found this, however, because it shows off how I do a pencil/charcoal rendered drawing.  Since that contest, there have been other directors and cast changes to the Wonder Woman movie, and winners of the contest just got mentioned in the comic books at DC.  I'm pleased to hear that Joss Whedon will be directing and writing the script.

 

Maybe if he had seen this drawing, I would have the honor of designing one of Wonder Woman's big screen looks?  Oh, I can only dream... Til then, ciao.