I came upon a mailbox 317, but for some reason I reversed it upside down and read it first as LIE.
Read moreat the swimming hole
The old man, white and topheavy, moving at a measured stagger into green water. His clamshell white legs still told of ridged socks removed within the hour, his terry-cloth robe, his sad dugs, his grimace and gritting refusal to take a hand. His final launch into the pool, like a glacier calving, irrevocable, and the…
Read moreact her way out of a paper bag
A twist on that, where an actress is forced contractually to take on a role that she really objects to playing. So she goes through it resolving to do a kamikase protest–does the most outrageous performing she can imagine–doing emotive nonsense readings of the words, monotone, atonal, screechy, sheer buffoonery. And of course she steals…
Read moreIrish Tunes at Champlain Valley Festival
only two of note I remember: McFadden’s Handsome Daughter (Reel) Dwyer’s (or O’Dwyers?) Hornpipe
Read moreprotean beauty
Beauty in art is an evolving value for each of us, despite its being reified by us as a people and anointed absolute. Our individual conciousnesses are forever charting new ground with our lives, during which the vantage on beauty is ever-changing, tied to the flow of time and our experience. This is the basis…
Read moreDempsey’s Session
The Ash Plant Banish Misfortune Geese in the Bog Christmas Eve Kitty’s Wedding Jackie Coleman Lark in the Morning Drowsy Maggie
Read moresedimental
I’ve had to deal with such humorless people. I feel like saying to them, why not just lie down on the ground now and become sediment? Why wait? In 50 or so years you’ll be blending back in the earth in some fashion. Your lack of humor displays your unblinking sobriety before that fact. If…
Read moreconcert in Rutland, VT–main street park
Spread our blanket and ate wraps and sesame noodles, Sevi visited a tanned alcoholic in a lawn chair with a large blue parrot named Savannah, aged 10. “Just a baby,” said the man with sharp blue eyes, slack and tan. “They live to be 125, longest of any animal.” What does she eat? “Just about…
Read moreCrave
explore every shade of meaning of that word in a film. The genesis: the buddhist citing as release from craving as the only true freedom. One at odds with the notion of freedom as predominantly understood in this country
Read morethe glitter odyssey
follow the life of a speck of glitter, a LA RONDE structured movie. Start with a girl applying it before heading to a nightclub-via about 12 others–end up on the forearm of a southeast asian farmer 3 days later
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