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“The Darkling Thrush,” Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The ...
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2010 Year in Review Recommendations
This past year audiences saw a new wave of great stories and plotlines from either adapted or original screenplays play on the big screen. Thus to celebrate 2010’s passing, here is a list of movies, which in my opinion, have brilliantly shined out of the darkness of 2010′s economic hardship and equally devastating environmental disasters. ...
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Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Doré had an artistic career I envy. He was a child prodigy, and subsequently ended up being asked to do illustrations for the works of Milton, Byron, Dante, Coleridge, Tennyson..yeah, you can see how I’d be jealous, right? He’s pretty well known for paintings but I love his engravings and woodcuts a lot ...
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. – Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad I recently finished ...
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“Caught a Lite Sneeze”, Tori Amos
Musical Mondays: Caught a Lite Sneeze by Tori Amos Didn’t know our love was so small Couldn’t stand at all Mr. St. John, just bring your son. A reflection on female sexuality with an undertone of the frustrations of love; all in all, Tori Amos at her best. Please assist us in becoming a non-profit ...
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Palindrome
But when I’d been twenty and drinking every day, late for classes, absent for weeks, he had been my only friend at school. I’d sit on the couch in his office with the naked female mannequin and wall-sized collage of models from magazines, and be calmed. He was fond of me like a troubled character ...
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“A Visit from St. Nicholas,” Clement Clark Moore (or Mjr. Henry Livingston, Jr.)
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And ...
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So You’ve Written Something….Now What?
The most logical thing to do is get an agent- but that’s easier said than done. Agents won’t represent you unless you have “credit”, which is either prior experience from working on short films or a feature film, a reference from someone in higher power, or obtained from winning either one, or a couple, of ...
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Annie Wu!
Annie Wu is stylish as hell. Love, love, love her linework.
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Prose Tuesdays: American Rust
That is a gift, he decided, to only see the good parts. Because we’re the first ones to grow up with it like this. The new generation. All we know. But things are improving in different ways. – Philipp Meyer, American Rust Philipp Meyer’s American Rust was the last novel I had to read in ...
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“Scherdryk,” Mykola Leontovitch
This song, “Scherdryk” is originally Ukrainian (so sorry, I just really liked this version even if it is Russian). It’s always been one of my favorite holiday songs, but I didn’t know until I researched it that it originally has nothing to do with the holiday and more to do with the New Year. In ...
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Interview with Hilary Thayer Hamann
Hilary Thayer Hamann is the author Anthropology of an American Girl, published this past May by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House. The novel was originally self-published under the printing press owned by Hamann and her then husband, and enjoyed some success and developed something of a cult following. I have not read the ...