Blog Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
