When Odis and I met the second time, I found out his mom had a baby that only lived 24 hours! At 30, I didn't realize how that would affect me in my 70s. Rereading his letters, the story of him being thrown from a horse at 8 or 9 years old, and being in a coma for several days, gave me now mature understanding insight I didn't have earlier!
Monday, October 19, 2020
Why I Am ProLife
Thursday, October 15, 2020
A Military Tribute to a Great Soldier, Christian, Father, Great Grandfather, and Husband!
Odis' birthday is in a week! I met him after his Army days but was very proud of his service to our country! As an Army Veteran, they honored him with a military funeral! Thank you to our grandson, Seth Tyler for videoing this. I was pretty out of it so it's a significant memory to have and look back on now!
A Special life for a Unique girl!
Don't you love those questions "How many states have you lived in?"
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
#Apocalypse and Mark of the Beast
Apocalypse and Mark of the Beast
Among the most searched words on google and search engines are apocalypse and Mark of the Beast! It seems to be the most interesting subject on social media!
I agree the rapture will precede the mark of the beast because it was the way my daddy believed! However, I am aware there are others who believe mid-trib and post-trib! I’ve heard their argument but don’t agree! I believe the world is being conditioned to accept the mark and it started in the sixties when Six Flags began stamping your hand with an invisible mark visible only under ultraviolet light! We have a tendency to associate a stamp on the hand with entertaining or something good.
So, when it comes a time when the mark of the beast becomes available to the world, they will be like little zombies and put out their hand. Here I am, I’ll go first! Those raised with that mentality and left behind will think nothing of putting their hand out to take a mark unless they know the truth! My sister told her boys if left behind, DO NOT take the mark!!
Help us, Lord, to get the message out!!
#Apocalypse, #MarkoftheBeast, #Revelation, #Rapture
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Podcasting
Today,
everybody is podcasting. But in 2004, it was a beginning phenomenon and my first experience with the term!
My daughter, Karmyn, had recorded an album, and we premiered it at
the historic Texarkana Perot Theater in November! I was looking for
outlets to promote it and stumbled on the early podcast of Adam Curry, the
PodFather, as they called him! I didn't know about having the right to play
music, so I submitted the song Summertime from the album! As I listened to his
show, he played her song and, at the conclusion, said, "Who is this
girl?" Well, I was elated.
Karmyn was walking down the hall and heard his voice and said,
"That's Adam Curry!" I said, "How do you know him!"
She told me he was a VJ on MTV. I didn't know what a VJ was but
more interested in her knowing about MTV because it was off-limits to watch in
our household! The show played wild rock music that I didn't allow her to
listen to! Wow! What kids do when they are away from you. LOL. I had been
hearing his podcast for several weeks, so when I found out who he was, I
thought, "He is a nice guy, so it is okay!"
When I discovered that he really shouldn't have played her song because it was a cover tune, I thought, "Oops." Podcasts could only play original music! Something to do with royalties, I found out! We became friends, and he encouraged me to have Karmyn write her own music and thus was born the song Drifting!
https://www.amazon.com/Drifting-Karmyn-Tyler/dp/B073DH2837
When Karmyn was living in L.A., they held a podcasting convention in Ontario, California. We attended and I met a lot of the podcasters who were podcasting at that time. Karmyn has maintained her friendship with Adam and is a faithful listener to his podcast, No Agenda.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Childhood Memories
Big Brother is Watching You
Now, don't you be gossiping about me!
My 'Extra' Experience
I have always been a 'behind the scenes' person. I did not want to be out front in anything, even when I played the piano. I was a "fade into the background" person. When Karmyn got in to the entertainment business as an actress and singer, I wanted to learn everything I could about the industry so I could promote her. I even worked for her agent in Dallas at different times and learned a lot about the talent agency process. Thank you, Ivett Stone, for showing me the ropes!
After Karmyn moved to LA, I stayed friends with a lot of the industry people in Dallas and one casting director friend called me about being an extra in a new pilot Jerry Bruckheimer was filming in Dallas. She said, "This will be one you would love to see being filmed and being an extra, you can see it up close and personal and get paid. Sounded good to me.
A few years before, I would have said no. I remember the first time Karmyn was on the set of Walker, Texas Ranger, I went with her. I was hanging out in the holding room with all the extras while Karmyn was on set and the casting director came in and said, "Would you let us use your car in a scene? We will pay you." Well, I had visions of Dukes of Hazzard car scenes and Odis had just bought me a new car. I said, "No, if my car gets a scratch on it, my husband will kill me." She promised that would not happen and asked me three additional times, but I kept saying no. I also didn't want to be an extra because cameras have a tendency to make you look larger than you are and I was already fatter than I wanted to be and sure didn't want my bod plastered on some TV screen. As I learned more about the business, I found out, you do not see extras. They usually are blurred and you never know who they are. So now, with that knowledge, I told my friend, "Sure."
I got up early that morning and drove to Dallas for an early morning call time. We did the scene in the West End. I was a vendor and when they discovered there was a bomb in the marketplace; they rushed all of us out. Jesse Metcalfe, a cutie patooty, was a star for the pilot. They placed me in a scene where he had to move me along to get me out of danger and he said, "Mam, you must hurry," and touched my arm to help me go faster. There were 3 or 4 young girls who had oohed and ahhed over him and said, "No fair. Why do you get to be the one he touches?" I laughed and said, "Old age has its perks." The director knew I would stay "in character," an industry term I had learned, and not have a meltdown being close to him.
After they finished filming the scene came the big blow-up. Jerry Bruckheimer paid 4 of us extras 3 hours overtime so we could watch the pyrotechnics of blowing up the scene. It was amazing. It looked like they blew it to smithereens, but when the smoke cleared, it had thrown only a few apples and oranges on the dirt floor. In my next life, I want to be on the crew for these kinds of movies. It was fun and the experience of a lifetime. That is the extent of my short-lived movie career, and now you know the rest of the story! lol
Copyright ©2020 Suzie Tyler
#Blow-up #JerryBruckheimer #WestEnd #Dallas
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
The Age Old Question!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
AGAINST ALL ODDS We Found The Perfect Love Book to the Publisher
Friday, May 29, 2020
You Gotta Watch Old People
Yesterday I was at my local COSTCO buying a gigantic bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.