Monthly Archives: February 2025

OCTOBER CROW In LA On Sunset Boulevard

Producer and director Jack Haven is debuting OCTOBER CROW in LA at Whammy Media 2514 W Sunset Boulevard. The 2024 film by Scab Production marks the directorial debut of Jack Haven aka Brigette Lundy-Paine creating the tale of Bella ( Alex McVickers ) fleeing Kentucky to the Last Babylon to be befriended by James (Peter […]

Sadness Of The Sober

A woman reacted to this quote online. She – This man was really a sad lunatic. To go through life and seeing all that misery and ugliness, which I don’t deny, but not seeing the beauty of a first day of spring , blossoming of flowers , or the jubilant sound of the laughter of […]

Born Into This 2003

Born Into This 2003 Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’, ‘Love Is a Dog from Hell’, and the autobiographical novels, ‘Women’, ‘Hollywood’, and ‘Post Office’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Z1_pw0HeY

Classic Poetic Dysleixa

Edgar Allen Poe, Hart Crane, Willam Yeats 1916 Frank O’Hara, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Omar Khayyam Ezra Pound, Emily Dickenson, Sylvia Plath, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Every one of them considered mad to write poetry. My madness find me on the George Washington Bridge Resisting the urge to fly Hart Crane On USS Orizaba His supposed last words […]

When Insults Had Class -2012

These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.” and he said, “If you were my wife, I’d […]