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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents: Pirate Radio USA
Hello friends. This weekend I discovered an entertaining and eye-opening pirate radio documentary online – Priate Radio USA. Given the post-Clinton legalization of media monopolies, the subject of pirate radio has once again become a hot-button topic. Pirate radio broadcasters use homemade technologies to take over radio frequencies , broadcasting without licences, beyond the reach [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival's Labor Day Special: The Wobblies
Good day, Comrades! Today we celebrate Labor Day in America with this screening of The Wobblies. This 1979 documentary tells the story of the Industrial Workers of the World through interviews with the people who were there during it’s American heyday. Here’s what the Fulvue Drive-In has to say about the film: “…they changed the [...]
Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die
Bonjour mes amis, I went on a Hunter S. Thompson binge recently. No good reason, just got a little carried away. I read a couple of biographies and discovered a lot of great videos in the process. Although this is not an official Sleepless Film Festival post, I wanted to share this video. The Crazy [...]
Sleepless Book Club Selection: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Psychomagic
Welcome back, Today, I’m pleased to announce the first entry in our new Sleepless Book Club. Sleepless Book Club posts will feature reviews of books by diverse authors that write on the subjects of art/culture/music/the occult/the unexplained/sub-cultural history/drugs/cutting-edge science and consciousness. We like poetic fiction. We like musical poetry. We can’t wait to discuss all [...]
Ex-Quiz-It-Corpse
Bless you, As our our post-title implies, this entry will be an “exquisite corpse”. The Wiki-Wik has a pretty good take on this process: Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in [...]
Pod Monk No Zero
Greetings all and more again. Just a quick one this time. Thanks to everyone who has been messaging me regarding the Disinformation World News Podcast and The Wicked – the new CD I am in the middle of recording with Jean Paul Lilliston. A new Podcast should be up in a few weeks so go [...]
The "I's" in Activism: A Chat with Nate C (Part 3)
Hola amigos. For this latest episode of Insomnia we are revisiting our discussion about anarchism, activism, revolution, evolution and possible solutions with Nate C. Nate was a great addition to Nashville’s activist community before relocating to the West. Our discussion began as a dialog about the unrest in Greece following the police shooting of a [...]
The "I's" in Activism: A Chat with Nate C (Part 2)
Ca vas, Comrades I have been in touch with Nate again after a lull in our conversation due to his being preoccupied with a recent move to a City in the Sky. A few how-you-dos and a couple restaurant recommendations later and we are back up to speed with our ongoing discussion. For the uninitiated, [...]
The "I's" in Activism: A Chat with Nate C (Part 1)
Hello my people, Welcome back. Haven’t had a chance to catch up here in awhile, so I thought it would be a good time to do something special. In the early spring I found myself at a birthday party for a friend of mine at Nashville’s Little Hamilton space. “Little Hamilton” is the name most [...]
Love and Might
Love and Might She walked through the kitchen on bare feet in the middle of the night searching for the knife in the dark. She touched the blade of the chef’s knife and slid it back down into the block. She touched the blade of the bread knife and pulled it all the way out. [...]
