I’m an IslandChildWild™️🏝️ finding fresh water in the city. I hope you’ll visit my movies, albums & meditations, surf a while and maybe go home with some sand in your shoes and sea-water in your ears🌊🦋🐬🏄🏼♀️🏄🏾♀️🏄🏿♀️🌊
In publishing I’m Sharing Meditations “From The Cali Lili Indies ™️” my handbuilt, upcycled, sustainable, green studio in Venice Beach California, where we make my sustainable indie films & albums .
I’m working at the “Cutting Edge Of The Pacific ™️” – and Hollywood… as a “working class artist, “ along with my awesome crews and awesome-est partner, movie icon Wings Hauser.
I’ve posted essays elsewhere partly as attempt to manage emotions while surfing through the jaws of the “entertainment industry” as an actress with a Masters Degree earned at a very young age ( skipped grades, no high school diploma, no prom, scholarships etc).
My tiny island home is a “SurfShackLoFt™️” where I write movies and albums that deal with social justice & climate action themes to be produced with diverse crews.
My current release was made with an all female crew and an Oscar’s 2020 Contender ( not easy for my TinyMultiMedia™️ budgets ) .
I’m now working on upcoming projects TBA and as I surf life, I post meditations as a way to reach out to YOU, while managing my emotions when reacting to what are sickeningly referred to as “unprecedented events.” My work has intersected with my awakening to global events and reflect them from the perspective of a 21 st Century Authentically Independent Artist.
My work is
“HandMadeToMakeADifference™️”
As a 21st Century Indie Actress Director and Singer Songwriter, my foundations are – writing, performing & recording lyrics, poetry, shooting movies & surf-dancing oceans
“Currents
Leaps N’ LandingZ™️ 🌊🐬🦋🌊“
“MyWildLifeInTheCiti™️🌱🦋”
Find us
@ “Cali Lili Indies ™️
Pictures
Words
Music In Motion ™️
feMt0™️studi0
Cutting Edge Of The Pacific ™️
I hope you’ll visit, surf a while and maybe go home with some sand in your shoes and sea-water in your ears… hope to see you next time, next wave
I’m an IslandChildWild™️🏝️ finding fresh water in the city. I hope you’ll visit my movies, albums & meditations, surf a while and maybe go home with some sand in your shoes and sea-water in your ears🌊🦋🐬🏄🏼♀️🏄🏾♀️🏄🏿♀️🌊
In publishing I’m Sharing Meditations “From The Cali Lili Indies ™️” my handbuilt, upcycled, sustainable, green studio in Venice Beach California, where we make my sustainable indie films & albums .
I’m working at the “Cutting Edge Of The Pacific ™️” – and Hollywood… as a “working class artist, “ along with my awesome crews and awesome-est partner, movie icon Wings Hauser.
I’ve posted essays elsewhere partly as attempt to manage emotions while surfing through the jaws of the “entertainment industry” as an actress with a Masters Degree earned at a very young age ( skipped grades, no high school diploma, no prom, scholarships etc).
My tiny island home is a “SurfShackLoFt™️” where I write movies and albums that deal with social justice & climate action themes to be produced with diverse crews.
My current release was made with an all female crew and an Oscar’s 2020 Contender ( not easy for my TinyMultiMedia™️ budgets ) .
I’m now working on upcoming projects TBA and as I surf life, I post meditations as a way to reach out to YOU, while managing my emotions when reacting to what are sickeningly referred to as “unprecedented events.” My work has intersected with my awakening to global events and reflect them from the perspective of a 21 st Century Authentically Independent Artist.
My work is
“HandMadeToMakeADifference™️”
As a 21st Century Indie Actress Director and Singer Songwriter, my foundations are – writing, performing & recording lyrics, poetry, shooting movies & surf-dancing oceans
“Currents
Leaps N’ LandingZ™️ 🌊🐬🦋🌊“
“MyWildLifeInTheCiti™️🌱🦋”
Find us
@ “Cali Lili Indies ™️
Pictures
Words
Music In Motion ™️
feMt0™️studi0
Cutting Edge Of The Pacific ™️
I hope you’ll visit, surf a while and maybe go home with some sand in your shoes and sea-water in your ears… hope to see you next time, next wave
“ We raised and released 42 monarch butterflies last season and during this year’s cycle from the returning mommy monarch fluttering all around our faces, entrusting us with her eggs, to the fat caterpillar crawling into chrysalis then magic emerging newborn into flight, I marvel that every moment is a “time of useful consciousness.”
“Time of Useful Consciousness is an aviation term defined in Wikipedia:
“the amount of time an individual is able to function effectively (e.g. perform flying duties) in an environment of inadequate oxygen supply.[1] It is the period of time from the interruption of the oxygen supply or exposure to an oxygen-poor environment to the time when useful function is lost, and the individual is no longer capable of taking proper corrective and protective action. At the higher altitudes, the TUC becomes very short; considering this danger, the emphasis is on prevention rather than cure.”
Like many young Americans aware of gaps in my education I know enough to understand these midterm elections 2022 are indeed a “time of useful consciousness” for the ideas we cherish, for humans being, wildlife, sea-life, America, global democracy, the survival of our mothership, this blue planet and the multiverse in which we float, hurtling toward our future past in a time-space continuum which barely recognizes us.
“Losing consciousness” would mean losing democracy and sinking into the warm bath before the ice cold fascism shuts down humanity by legally assassinating the constitution from within, using our own petard as hoist.
We’ve managed to avoid asteroids and now, we know how to billiard them away from impact with our cool-AF NASA pool cue. Now we must build ourselves a different kind of pool cue to tip away impending “asteroids” hurled at us by the 21st century American iteration of that smelly old cult of authoritarians, that deadliest plague on humanity, fascism.
Break down the word “fascism” for demystification in the word “fascia” a thin casing of connective tissue binding together the internal structure of a body.
Our choices in life, including a girls’ right to make her own decisions, will be subject to the will of the state, which will always usurp the will of every individual.
Not just HER choice.
YOUR choice too.
Every individual would serve the state. Not just the unfortunate 10-year-old rape victim in some news story.
You.
You will serve the fascist state.
You down to clown?
The “us and them” mentality serves fascism. Are you REALLY “US” ? Or are you really THEM?
Are you a member of the LGBTQ community?
A feminist?
Are you Jewish?
Muslim?
Non-supremacist Christian?
Are you a person of color?
An “environmentalist”?
A vegan ?
“Are you … or have you ever been … ”
It’s been said that antisemitism is the oldest hatred and while those old tropes live on in conservative ideologies,
I’ve posited in my movie “Eve N’ God This Female Is Not Yet Rated “ with original soundtrack album “this female is not yet rated“ that the “independent female” characters known as “Eve” and “Lillith” from the Bible story, who represented “female freedom,” were the original “scapegoats” illustrating that older hatred against : the independent female.
Anyone feminine, including those in the LGBTQ community, any femme creature who is vulnerable, wild – and free, including wildlife, sea life and nature was and is demonized and targeted for control.
The power of the independent female, which I suggest, thrives in the souls of all living beings thinking freely, yearning for an independent free existence on this beautiful blue planet, was and is – so scary to the patriarchal “state” of mind, SHE in all her wildness, beauty and freedom, needed to be “tamed, “held back, lest she “learn” too much from that “tree of knowledge” and choose to leave Eden for a new kind of paradise.
In my movie, I’m suggesting that the “original sin” was and is, in fact, the sin against our sisters. “eVe” tells about the added disgrace of Nazi Germany, along with the dehumanizing of Jewish persons labeled by “yellow triangles” and that of homosexuals by “pink triangles,” women with “choice” who opted for birth control and lesbians were labeled with “black triangles.”
“they were called workshy”
My movie posits that the supremacist societal ideals expressed by the psychotic Nazi slogan “work makes free” be countered by a 21st Century humanist ideal :
“Play Makes Free”
The hatreds function like a roaming virus seeking entry points at weakened gateways of the body politic. As if some cosmic surgeon left behind a scalpel for an opportune infection moment. That moment when a culture sleeps through her “time of useful consciousness,” relaxes into the simmering bath, if only just to rest from the incessant drone of propaganda garbage pails spilling over into the street, courts, congress, the connective tissue.
You know that moment when your dentist, doctor, veterinarian, or lawyer delegates the bill for their services because this highly paid “professional” needs to look away from you and your dog or cat, like so many look away from a homeless person?
High paid “professionals” benefit from American “Liberal Arts” education, yet some denigrate the word “liberal.” American culture has been poisoned. Some of us chose to defend our liberal arts, while others just cashed in at the ATM. We need these professionals to stand up with us, the people, if only at the ballot box.
I could quote Emerson, Thoreau, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Studs Terkel, Leonard Cohen, Tupac – many “liberal” cultural icons warning us against cultural poison.
I’ll just sample Thomas Paine:
“ ‘Had we a place to stand upon, we might raise the world ‘ The revolution of America presented in politics what was only a theory and mechanics. So deeply rooted for all of us, governments of the old world,and so effectually had the tyranny, and the antiquity of habit established itself over the mind that no beginning could be made in Asia, Africa, or Europe , to reform the political condition of man, freedom has been hunted around the globe, reason was considered as rebellion and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.”
We never dealt with what happened during that other “time of useful consciousness” : the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. So now, let’s use it wisely.
Let’s bind together our connective tissue : all decent Americans, all women , persons of color, LGBTQIA, anyone who cares about wildlife, sealife, nature, climate change, natural disasters, clean air , clean water, ocean life … Mother Earth – let’s all of us , together, finally use this “time of useful consciousness” to form “the more perfect union. “
Let’s beat the fascists at their own game, “binding” together, so we don’t fall for anything, and everything, anymore. “
Actress-Director & Singer-Songwriter Cali Lili was skipped several grades (having been tested as reading at college level in grade school) took her first college course in the entire works of Shakespeare, at age 13, never graduated high-school, never even went to a prom, was swooped up, by NYU, then earned her Masters’ Degree on full scholarship with awards / stellar reviews for early works.
The Cali Lili ™ Band recorded Cali’s original Debut Album: “ this female is not yet rated ™️“which forms the core of the soundtrack for her debut Oscars 2020 Contender feature film 🎬 eVe N’god this female is not yet rated ™️“ 🎬 available on iTunes movies 🍎 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube movies & Vimeo worldwide. Album available on Apple Music 🍎 etc
Most Recently Cali was hired by award-winning producers to sing one of her songs on camera as the title track for an upcoming documentary .
That on camera recording session was filmed at the legendary “Nightbird Studios” housed in the equally legendary Rock N’ Roll hotel the “Sunset Marquis” in Hollywood. There was thunder and lightning in Hollywood that night. ‘Nuff said.
Stay tuned for the release of that new single, lyrics uploads and more upcoming movies & music by Cali Lili from her sustainable upcycled SustainableStudio™️ a SurfShackLoFt™️ green space in Venice Beach Los Angeles where Cali composes and releases sustainable movies & music.
Read more at Calililiindies.com and online @CaliLiliIndies ™️
“I’m still that teenage runaway with a scholarship…”
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Movie Review:
Times Square Chronicles , New York City :
Cali Lili ‘s Eve N’ God This Female Is Not Yet Rated
From the soundtrack to Oscars 2020 Contender “eVe N’god this female is not yet rated ™️”
Cali Lili ‘s Oscars 2020 Contender “eVe N’god this female is not yet rated” Now streaming on 🍎🎬Apple TV, iTunes Movies, Google Play Movies, Roku, Vimeo etc … with original soundtrack available on 🍎🎧Apple Music, Youtube, Tidal music, etc …
From the soundtrack to Oscars 2020 Contender “eVe N’god this female is not yet rated ™️”
Cali Lili ‘s Oscars 2020 Contender “eVe N’god this female is not yet rated” Now streaming on 🍎🎬Apple TV, iTunes Movies, Google Play Movies, Roku, Vimeo etc … with original soundtrack available on 🍎🎧Apple Music, Youtube, Tidal music, etc …
+ sometimes unwittingly, like the air we breathe, by OSMOSIS :
If You Love Movies + Music : Please ReadTheIndieLabel™ + Ask : WhatsInYourIndie™
If you love your basic democratic freedoms : please support authentic journalism, journalists, a free press + ASK QUESTIONS – like – who’s lobbying in your legislature, and who benefits from legislation?
We Consume Culture + a sometimes it’s OSMOSIS.
As an indie artist – I ask movie + music lovers to SupportTheARTSustainTheARTisT ™
CureAteFoYoSelf™ so many “curators” are working with big money sources of content to make their “picks” that it’s pointless to consider it “curating” especially when we are living in a far more diverse 21st Century – where – so-called “curating” amounts to gate-keeping – when we CAN + SHOULD discover on our own – it’s SO MUCH MORE FUN!
Reading ‘the indie label’ is not unlike reading a nutrition label.
” A Sacred Space :
SupportTheARTSustainTheARTisT™
Neighborhoods built from scratch by dedicated, caring, working people, are – like great relationships and also like great works of art / craft made by artisans in communion with culture – a ‘sacred space’ – which must not be violated by the pale glow of so-called ‘progress’ fueled by the zero-sum games of bottom-line parasitical leeches : cultural imposters – bottom-feeders + 1%er top-slurpers .
The 21st century dedicated working class indie artist – like 21st century – middle-class/working class humanity –
It’s not solved with Publicity Stunts + gimmicks – the kinds of ‘ charity / charities employed mainly to bestow grace on the Charity-Giver and to absolve them of their quiet Economic Sins –
When ” citizens united” was passed by the ” scotus corporate subsidiary” they opened the door for future elimination of individual human innovation – to be gentrified by corporate-owned “Artificial Intelligence” –
If successful – this would amount to a full scale attack on free-thinking, free-living individual human “genius” (for lack of a better term) – in favor of a “wholly owned subsidiary / subsidized ” form of “genius” – only allowed to see “daylight” once fully patented by the corporation who ultimately “owned” it outright through astronomical – financially – subsidized legal means. Corporate welfare – seeking to eliminate human welfare (unless it serves the corporation).
are the silent marauders sowing seeds, like harmful weeds + even more harmful pesticides, like both – virus and it’s over prescribed antibiotic – culminating in the overgrowth and dissemination of an antibiotic-resistant ‘strain’ of an ongoing economic discrimination virus –
– a virus fueled by it’s De-Nihil-ISM™ siblings – racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism , climate denial – where money doesn’t just ‘talk’ – it screams obscenities – and destroys culture + more importantly – it destroys the living artist.
What’s worse is that some of these Intruders – dare to Don themselves, Cloak themselves in the mantle of ‘artist’ – twice insulting the artist + the culture she serves, the culture she weaves, the culture with which she is interdependent.
Sometimes well-meaning, often self-serving “entertainment reporters” / “curators” ( pronounced cure-haters at our studio) who sometimes come in the form of what is often referred to as ‘ arts + culture journalists’ whether they work for high-brow or low-brow publications / media – are often entitled dilettantes / trust-fund babies themselves – who contribute to the so called “curator class” and either detest us because they can’t make art themselves – or simply do NOT understand or care about the real – flesh and blood and guts – and life of an artist –
These “culture-vultures are virulent enablers of this GentrificationOfCulture ™ – and are literally destroying the Culture – and more importantly – the living breathing artist who needs the Culture as much as we need oxygen. Guys – you don’t get it – and I’ll continue to try – to explain.
De-Nihil-ISM™ + GentrificationOfCulture™ ColonializationOfCulture™ – are cure-ated in a healing medicinal born of RESPECT + self-determination –
It’s about sharing not only the wealth but also the opportunity –
#WhatsInYourIndie™ :
It’s something Audiences – cinephiles and audiophiles alike – can be aware of when ever we purchase movies + music —
The term “indie” is much appropriated and it’s not a matter of race or gender- it’s about – asking the same questions we ask of our nutrition – who made it?
Did some Corporate entity swoop in and find a malleable “candidate” ( as is done in politics) to mold and shape into the “image” of “what they tell us – we the people – want”?
and together we would pushback AGAINST the Corporate dominance over us ALL – because we are in the same boat.
We need to support the professional artist in media, movies , music, books – in their daily dedication —
getting a fair shot but ALSO what’s getting discarded in many industries and economies : the waning respect and growing indifference to the so called “middle class” which IS the so called “working class.”It’s about respect due – for merit as well as professionalism and dedication of one’s life to either a craft — or just as worthy – any profession – any job done well.
The Professional Artist who is an Authentic Independent Artist – is quite discernible by anyone paying attention to the “nutrition label” – it’s often someone who’s – not ‘signed’ – not ‘owned’ – not ‘in the club’ – or simply – unwilling to follow club-rules but also unwilling to sacrifice the wellness of her Culture for personal gain or ego. She’s – a crafts-person – and viewers + listeners should consider supporting the Authentic Indie Artist —
while corporate middle-persons should support + respecting those who’ve dedicated years to that craft –
not stand ‘in the middle’ of an artist’s relationship with her listeners + viewers – with your hand out, nor your tongue – slurping off the top –
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