Tonight
We were saved by a serendipitous exit.
Must be the holy ghost
or Albert Ayler,
why else would I suddenly need incense?
I had to Anne Frank it
I had to send silent signals
But I didn’t hold back any sneaky laughter
(my finicky hands can keep a secret)
and the Idol Man can be quizzed until the moon collapses
until Alabama dims into [...]

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2009
A short play

Earl - A Spider Crab
Percy - A Second Spider Crab

Setting:
Decaying carcass of a sperm whale on the bottom of a depthless ocean.

Darkness. Spotlight on PERCY entering a landscape of decay. He pecks at
the carcass selectively, examining before eating. Percy begins to feel the
rhythm of his pecking and chewing. He begins a beat that [...]

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Right now, American political discourse is enjoying some sort of metaphysical afterlife along with God and Punk. It’s been dead for quite some time now, but only in this current election has the stench become so obvious. Much can be said about how mass media (I won’t say bourgeois media) has transformed (I won’t [...]

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Many visitors liken São Paulo to an organism, with its cinder and cement follicles and thick avenues pumping grit, labor and oil. They call it a city of indigestion. But I disagree with that metaphor, for its notion of specificity, of traceable limits. São Paulo is more like a metaphysical trick, a cinematic trick, in which all its images are strikingly similar and unmistakably unique.

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“That’s not change, that’s just calling some of the same something different. But you know, you can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.”
- Democratic Presidential Nominee, Barack Obama

These comments by the Illinois Senator set liberals a’clappin and the McCain Campaign a’cryin “Sexism”, “Sarah Palin ain’t no piggie!”.

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“You know what they say is the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
- Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin

This unscripted quip by the Alaska Gov’ner and VP Nom drew cheers at the RNC and punning headlines all throughout the media. Not that I’m one to take anything a politician says seriously, but [...]

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There is much talk within film scholarship about the complicit passivity of audiences… Complicit in that the audience’s eyes aligns with the camera’s gaze, and passive in that the alignment (the images on the screen) and its direction doesn’t at all care for the audience’s agency. In a sense, watching a film is like stepping [...]

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…
sitting by the shore,
a generic fisherman
craves a cigarette
..
three splashing children
reinvent themselves as shapes
they once saw on screen
..
a mother, reading
paperback, anticipates
the next rendezvous
..
a boy, eyes grinning,
unwraps a milky way bar
- first time shoplifting
..
watching other kids
play, a lone girl swears to guard
the secret of eels
..
lovers in the shade
make up names for babies
they would never have
..
“What democracy?”
a man [...]

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Everyone just loves the new Batman movie. After only two weekends in theaters, The Dark Knight is the #1 movie of all time according to imdb members. Critics have been gushing with glowing reviews (though the New Yorker or A.O. Scott beg to differ). The movie’s success is evident, it is the fastest to gross [...]

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Fassbinder’s fabulous 1981 film “Lola“, tells the story of a small town singer/hooker (Fassbinder lifted the premise from “The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich), who goes after a reserved and untainted building commissioner after a corrupt contractor (and lover) remarks that the new commissioner is “no man for her”. By seducing the commissioner, Lola is [...]

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