Met Taimak

Who's Taimak?

Probably nobody of huge interest to the wide world of hollywood, but I've been following him since high school. Decided to jump at the chance to meet him at today's Urban Action Festival in Times Square.

It was a great experience for me. Not only to get out the house and socialize which was kinda overwhelming, I'm simply not used to being out in the world much. Especially Manhattan etc. Felt like I was just awkwardly flopping around out there today not belonging to the environment. I'm so used to being in this bed, at this computer, the world's too big, too crazy to manage for me. I'm not that kind of person to embrace crowds of people that's for sure...

But man, did seeing the last Dragon on the big screen for the first time in my life feel great. It was a totally different film on the big screen. The sound was nuts, guys. I never knew what the flying hell I was missing. And it's truly a lost relic that film, it's really never going to ever get made again a movie like that. A dark, serious, playful, black centric martial arts silly movie. You will never get that shit again.

So the whole deal with the Urban Action Festival is to showcase and highlight blacks in action films.

Holy SHIT was it educational shit. Just saying.

I mean I never cared about black culture since I grew up bathed in white culture all my life, but it's real, it's a thing. It just has an art to it, black culture, black life, black struggle. It's something that I didn't know my soul felt disconnected from until I went to this place and was surrounded by black culture and people again. You can't deny it once you feel connected to it and watch movies about black life and black complexity in white America.

It's a subject that I think would be interesting to explore, that we simply don't get many movies exploring these days. In fact, that's why this festival exist. There are no black centric films and stuff at comic con etc.

This basically makes up for that absence and it's very welcome. I met the actual stars of the movies. Goddamnit, huge millionare stars of old black films. I was like, holy crap today... You don't know these people are out there, but they are, but like you don't see them get exposure at comic cons much...

Hell, that's really sad. Blacks not getting much going in film, comics, or tv. So sad. The movies I watched today were BETTER and more interesting than the thousand film about a white person with problems. It's just the way I feel about it. I think if Hollywood dared to step a toe outside the white safety zone in film making, they'd see huge profits, just saying. I like seeing people like me on screen from time to time, just saying...

Anyway, Yeah felt like I was back at my old elementary school today surrounded by bunch of black people. But that's a good thing. I never knew I missed it honestly. Don't do that to your kids, make them be the only black person in the room, not good for them. And it's history, it's culture, you can't abandon that stuff. I sure feel more complete after what I did today.