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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Grindhouse Lotus Venoms: A Shaw Brothers Double Feature

Hola bueno. Ok, so, It is SPRINGTIME in The Old South. This means I am strolling through a wonderland of tulips and other flowers I don’t know the names of. There are these sorta droopy ones that come in both yellow and purple. They are also pretty – however – they lack the stately architecture [...]

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Heroes in the Seaweed

Ciao lovelies, I am drinking a bit of the blood and bleeding a bit of the luminous ink in this here fine hour of the evening. I am posting this as I watch the video of the Isle of Wight festival. This 1970 fest was the biggest – and last – of its kind. Wight [...]

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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents an Academy Awards Special – A Drink with Mickey Rourke: An Evening at the Shamrock Social Club, Part II

Avast! Welcome to the Persian immersion! Please find a space on the rug and sit facing East. The wine has only just started to pour. Cold Southern mornings are marked by a damp cataract the blurs the air and makes your bones feel wet. Then again, your bones are already pretty wet, what with all [...]

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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Children of the Night: The Films of Tod Browning

Just in time for Halloween, this edition of the Sleepless Film Festival highlights two feature films by horror master Tod Browning! Pull the shades, turn down the lights, and prepare to watch The Mark of Dracula followed by the masterpiece Freaks. As a special bonus, we are also including a fascinating biography on Browning’s greatest [...]

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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Tea and Oranges: Leonard Cohen on Film

To most readers of this blog, Leonard Cohen is no exotic commodity. An award-winning poet, recognized as a national hero in his native Canada, Cohen was a young man with the world on a string when he decided to return to his original love and try his hand at music. On his way to Nashville, [...]

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The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Once Upon a Time: The Films of Jean Cocteau

The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Once Upon a Time: The Films of Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau was a poet, novelist, visual artist, screenwriter, actor and film maker. An early pioneer of surrealist film, Cocteau’s work as a writer/director left an indelible impression on cinema, and continues to confound and inspire film makers and audiences [...]

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Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Close Your Eyes: The William S. Burroughs Film Archive Part I

Hustlers of the world,there is one Mark you cannot beat:the Mark inside. -William S. Burroughs Hola Chicas y Muchachos, I have always enjoyed being able to include photos and other images in this blog. Along with hyper-links, these features take this publication passed the limits of cyber-doc to multi-media sinsation (not misspelled >:) ). In [...]

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