racing with river

How long have you loved River?

First, I love your blog soooooooooo much!!! I've seen Stand by Me, My Own Private Idaho, Running on Empty, The Mosquito Coast, Dogfight, The Thing Called Love, and Explorers. What movie should I watch next? I think there are some I don't even know about, after looking on ur blog.

Hi! Do you know where I can download I Love You To Death?

One of the things that was introduced to me at an early stage in life was to try to make stuff happen. But nothing ever worked that way for me. What I learned on my own was that to try and play God with your life will wrack your brain and your nervous system, and mess up your natural direction in the course that’s already there…But look-I just don’t want to read about me being made into a basket case because of my work. It’s self-pity that I hate. I mean, it comes with the territory. An actor with any conviction goes the extra mile- but of course you’re gonna suffer damage to your brain. You gotta just be as neutral as possible so that only the work is what you read. Otherwise you can see it in certain grade actors’ performances - it might be a great performance, but you can actually see the on-set tension in their work, and that, to me, is like fool’s gold. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but you have to trust time and space as it is, with or without you. Then you give everything what it deserves, and there’s no pressure.

River. Antimacho, quietly intense, physically gifted, politically correct, garage-band jamming, animal-rights activist, child of flower children, herbal-tea drinking River Phoenix.

OHMYGOD! I thought I was the only one who felt extremely bad/depressed after learning so much about him and his death. It just makes me so upset when people go off about him being a junkie, I think that he just needed to escape from the world and to just not think about anything and just breathe for a while. I honestly think that he was the most amazing human being to walk on earth. I wish that he was alive so badly, or that I was born earlier so that I could meet him. *sigh* I'm so upset right now :( On a happier note; I love your blog by the way :) x

“Keanu Reeves - Um, who knows? I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet. River Phoenix - I’ll be Juliet.”