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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – The Tears of a Clown Double Feature: Renaldo and Clara and Les Enfants du Paradis
Good morning, comrades. Today – for your enjoyment – another chapter in our ongoing programming at The Sleepless Film Festival. Today’s pick will be Bob Dylan’s 1975 epic, Renaldo and Clara. More than just a concert film, Renaldo’ clocks in at nearly 4 hours and is packed with improvised scenes featuring Mr. Zimmerman as well [...]
Oh, My My! Oh, Hell Yes! – Observations on a Music City Marathon
I woke up this morning to the sound of thunderous applause. After a long, hard week of suffering with insufferable allergies to everything green and growing here in this spring in The Old South (as I type on my front porch this illumined screen is beginning to glow like deep sea algae as it is [...]
The Last Days of Pompeii
Hola, Amigos! If you have been enjoying these little stories I am writing here, encourage me with a comment If you hate these, I’ll understand. Just tell me to stop. THE OL’SARGE In all his days, he’d never seen nothin’ like this. The Sarge wiped his brow with a hard, dirty, tan forearm – the [...]
Romeo Has A Raygun
Bonjour, mes amis Happy Monday! Here’s to hopin’ you dreamed a little dream in the last 48. Had a quiet weekend myself. Watched the Spartans win a few basketball games. Watched my friend’s teams lose a few. I’ve enjoyed that a little bit too much The Silent Sounding Sea Chapter One – The Young Boy [...]
The King of May
Happy Monday! How about another old-school poem to set the ol’ steps in the right direction… The Straits of Magellan (by Joe Nolan) strange and true and green and huge and waiting beneath seven miles of ocean. reflecting blades of daybreak grass, breaking toward the break of day and breaking into the space of the [...]
May Day (In hope of Spring)
Gracias, muchachos. Another vintage verse vrooms from the vault. May Day (by Joe Nolan) The White Hand marks the countenance of the mind soldier. Digital rifle shoulders grim determination. Calls of EVACUATION! mark the midnight’s jaundiced malaise. Propagandography in the coding of the symbol. The bug chaser licks a leg razor and swallows his sallow [...]
Where Does True Freedom Lie – Consequence and Necessity
Ahoymatey! Welcome aboard the good ship gollywog! Morning in the Old South. You can smell the smell of people smelling for the smell of the the idea of magnolias in bloom. Not yet children. One should not be impatient with the Sun. PUCK 42 Thou speak’st aright; 43 I am that merry wanderer of the [...]
The First to Know
What up? Just a quick word and a promise-keeping on my last post. Here is the brand new short film The First to Know. Directed by Chris Rubin de la Borbolla, this enigmatic video stars Jen Rieger as Anna Karina as the Mystery Girl. Where is she going? What is she saying? Who is the [...]
Love You Deerly
God bless us every one, What, and What Up? Here we go again – up the down ramp, in the out door, showing our faces without an invite. Might as well pour a drink and hit the buffet, we’re here now… So I woke up from disturbing dreams last night. I had been wandering through [...]
