the bodyguard & edm

Getting a facial is labor intensive – you have to wait before you get seated or laid to bed ( for that matter). You also need to find a time for it - say on a rest day and spend at least an hour and a half it is like a part time job, not to mention the pain it involves especially the pricking part. But the vain shall endure as they say. On the upside it is also a time you can relax and think of nothing else, sleep if you may. While at the facial center the other day, the music piping from the FM station is all by Whitney Huoston. I was relaxed and at the borders of the rapid eye movement sleep ( not really) which transported me back to memories of the 15 year old self. I remember me and my childhood bestfriend the one i grew up with from my hometown, Cherrylyn. We would watch " The Bodyguard " from their vhs or betamax, I barely remember anymore. Che's mother work in the US and they would have the most "hi tech" and updated stuff at the time ergo they would have the latest movies and shows in vhs. We don’t have a lot of movie houses like in the malls we have now and so kids don’t really have that much freedom to watch a movie in movie houses back then and we would only watch thru betamax or vhs . We watched "Wizard of Oz " over and over again, all the Mr. Bean series and once an “R rate” movie. We would giggle and blush however making sure her father is not home for fear we would be caught- watching this vhs kept on the farthermost corner of the closet. Maybe out of curiosity and that juvenile streak of the 14 and 15 year olds . I must admit that I already read some Harold Robins ( in secret of course- owned by my older cousin I would stole from her room, I would see the dictionary for words I wouldn’t understand) aside from the usual Sweet Valley High teen reading in the summer but there’s nothing better in fulfilling the curiosity than watching and not just reading. In 1992, "The Bodyguard " came out and our belief became solid that Whitney Huoston was the biggest movie star and singer, Kevin Costner was the ultimate leading man and actor and "I will always love you" was the best song and soundtrack ever. Che and I decided that it was our favorite movie. Like all bestfriends, we would talk almost daily, sans phone or text messaging back then, we would have sleepovers, have our crushes and boy problems, studies to think about and dreamed about the future. It was Che, who thought she would marry a foreigner and she did. She was once married to her college bf and eventually married a jewish lawyer guy she met in Philadelphia. I was momentarily transported back to the present when I felt the pain when my facialist pricked a pimple. I thought of all the artists and performers today who can compare to Whitney Huoston during that time. Could it be Rihanna who is a pop diva, a concert maven with the same strings of controversy? She still however have to star in movie as big as The Bodyguard. Since the biz landscape of being a celebrity has change - one's popularity and success now is measured by how much followers you have in the internet, not just your album sales off line but also how much downloads your music has over Itunes and other sites. Musicians have become muses of designers, they have collaborations with djs and other artists and most have their own fashion lines. It could be Taylor Swift who is the number 1 pop star who capitalizes in her song writing skills and whose songs were based on her bad breakups with guys from the same industry . So is it Miley Cyrus then who has stepped up way higher from her disney's Hannah Montana persona? She has a movie once with this hot aussie guy who became her fiancé who is also a hot movie idol for being in the hunger games franchise) eventually broken up with. Twerking is the number 1 new word in 2013 it has become synonymous with Miley. When the song “All at once” played I was feeling bittersweet knowing that idol is no longer with us - tainted with a lot of controversy involving her drug abuse, losing her career, an abusive husband, eventually passing away in 2012. So it’s true what they say that when you become a slave to drugs you will beg borrow steal maybe even prostitute yourself for it that even Whitney in spite of her wealth and popularity lost most of it because of all her troubles. Kevin Costner along with other big wigs gave a speech in her interment. In spite of it all our 14 year old memory will be of the diva who fell in love with that hunky bodyguard and would never forget that kiss on the ending scene with her song as the soundtrack and the last song on the credit of that movie. In our book she will always be that diva with amazing voice. My bestfriend, Che has been a constant in my life until a few years back. We didn’t lost touch when she went to the States shortly after college - we kept in touch thru letters eventually thru phone calls and once in a while she would take vacays back home . I was even planning to go to the states for her wedding. But as they say friendship and love for that matter, involves some physics - that is time, distance or space is a factor. The pressure of life has taken its toll - maybe because of her marriage or career. Alas, the letters came few and far between. Rekindling that friendship only when her father passed away when she came back for the burial and wake . I stayed by her side and we long reconnected and proved that we never lost that friendship after all. Today, we have technology to thank for the world has become smaller as they say. I may have formed new friendships yes, and so has she but always I will treasure the ones we have - carefree and undesigning - where the only problem we had was - if her dad would approve for her to go out of town for camping or sleepovers. Those were also times where dreams were made of- the places we want to see , the ideal partners we want in the future and the jobs we want to take as adults. I wonder if my 15 year old self would be proud of me now or perhaps, she would be saying “just continue pushing thru those dreams or goals” which are also changing through times because indeed nothing is constant except change. I thought of those simple and laidback happy go lucky girls who believed Whitney Houston is the greatest artist ever. I opened my eyes I was already in the last phase of my facial when Whitney was singing “Greatest love of al”l in her usual top of the lungs but still amazing voice and in my mind i was singing along . I was tempted to actually sing only have to stop myself seeing all the other people closing their eyes getting a facial…crap! To cancel the LSS, as soon as i got home i opened my ipad and played all the edm on soundcloud and in honor of the "robots "who won at the Grammys - Daft Punk best album - for random access memories I played my quintessential favorite - get lucky.. (the French duo are just so popular now they even have their own condoms - get lucky from durex) and also danced to Zedd new mix -Find You...and i said - well maybe – djs, you are the future! and life is just great ( ok this is the pick me upper ever!)