I'm Acting

I'm acting like small town
in the biggest little small town
in the scope of hope
inspired
retired
I'm tired
of working for expired
old men
then ten
more teens
directing the world
unseen
the machine
touching my va-geen
letting you in
just to let you out
drought
no rain it's a problem
no water
can't drink
won't think
my brain
is a solid hole
sink
then drown
get a gasp
come to surface

Quoggy

A Mitchell Palmer

Clarence Darrow Charles

Allowed Time At The Dinner Table

Less people clap because they have a smartphone in their hands

Rose Marie Pangborn

Kicked in the head with the glib hateful things you can say

Flicker Flit Glow

touch tongues, mind fuck, tingling electricity, warm rolling earthquakes on a deeply swelling sea, soft slobbering sensuality bulging eyeballs and smooth, soft skin rolling weight laying meaningfully on the breast tweaked nipples and gently straining muscles flexing in harmony

Drug of Silence

He used his penis to pound morse code messages into my vagina.
I realized too late that I could have saved his life.

Film Notes

The word "image" has two conjoined meanings: an image is an optical pattern, it is also a mental experience "multistable figure"

whatever education our ears undergo in order to perceive reality is sufficient to perceive recorded sound

"saccades"
boveated vision

read images

physiologically

ethnographically

psychologically

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semiology
the study of systems of signs


poetry - signifiers/signifieds

the dance between sound and meaning

"A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand"

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what if you made an object that wasn't necessarily what it appeared to be but treated it as what it appeared to be

circumscribed

the process of intellection

a single frame is not the smallest unit of meaning

a shot contains as much information as we want to read in it

What I Would Say to the Martians

Haiku #510: Fresh Flesh

ice-cream labia
flesh banana split her thighs
offering oxen

The Hell Of It

Humour as a condition
Part of a conditioning process
As Pavlov would have
Flipping through memories

Good for a laugh
It annoyed the piss
out of them
other behaviors in another

My wonderment begins
I became this person or that
With some little success
to invoke or stimulate

Acquired a persona
fit for a beautiful lady
It would have been unnecessary
to pursue other baser titles

"Clown" or what have you
And so it is my suspicion
I have been conditioned
to take on strange behaviors

Certainty Compulsion Corpses

I'd like to shed the strictures of adulthood and make maturity an optional result of a freely lived and human life, not the necessary path to power and success, lorded over by the depressed, overweight, unimaginative masses

Parting the Waters

Tom Watson
George Wallace
Julian Bond (SNCC)
Hosea Williams
John Lewis
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy (SCLC)
Andrew Young

Lawrence Guyot (?)
Hartman Turnbow ("a man who covered all the ground he stood on")
Amzie Moore
Fannie Lou Hamer

Roy Harris
John Patterson

Lonnie King
Ben Allen
Glenn V. Evans
Jonathan Daniels
Sheyann Webb


James Farmer > (FOR); Salt March, "War Without Violence" -- investigation, negotiation, publicity, demonstration
"wade-ins" at public beaches

Fred Shuttlesworth
Ted Jemison
C.K. Steele
Sam Williams
Rev. A.L. Davis
C.G. Gomillion

Franklin McCain
Ezell Blair Jr.
David Richmond
Joseph McNeil

"Paul's Letter to American Christians"

James Lawson

James Forman -- "Black Manifesto"
Bob Mosea
Amzie Moore
Pat Waters "Down to Now..."

Boynton Case - Supreme Court Ruling
Simeon Booker
William Harbour

BIRMINGHAM: THE BATTLEGROUND STATE

Filmic Premises

she likes to go to g-rated movies without any panties on

The Brothers Rico
Calcutta
Cape Fear
Caught
"Any man who goes to a party like that has just one idea. And that's one idea too many for me."
Casablanca
Christmas Holiday
City Across the River
Clash by Night
Crack Up
Criss Cross
Crossfire
Cry Danger

Listen, darling, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early.

The way this guy holds onto a dollar, you'd think they weren't printing them anymore

Anything else?
Yeah. BUrn that tent you're wearing and get yourself a suit.

If I make you feel necessary, I'm making a mistake.

I was just getting ready to take my tie off wondering if I should hang myself with it.

Be smart, Charlie. Act dumb.

It was his story against mine, but of course I told my story better.

I always heard you had some kind of talent.
That was last year. This year I'm trying to make a living.