Sometimes Love Can’t Shut Up
Sometimes love can’t shut up. It’s a bad habit that love can’t seem to break… not that it ever tried. Love always seems to talk at the worst possible times. Like when other much more deserving emotions wish to say their peace, and walk away. I swear there are times that love, if it was [...]
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July, 2005 (1:42 a.m.)… Lot 7 is quiet. The cue of black Towne Cars that once lined the far wall has been replaced by a shiny strew of Smarte Carts, empty and tossed at odd angles, abandoned. Each one is a lingering reminder of the last cheap, black suit who used it — a three [...]
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The Screenplay Diary: “Between Love and Orgasms”… Taking a Turn for the Words
February 26, 2012 12 Comments
My favorite story (out of many) about the bringing of story to screen is the story of the 2005 Academy Award nominated film Sideways. The film was an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by a relative failure by Hollywood standards (author Rex Pickett), ironically about a man who is a failure as [...]
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Photo: Paul Cole (2006) Today is for counting my wasted yesterdays Each one neatly lined up, row on dusty row Every year the same… Today is for remembering your unborn tomorrows And the time I sit, because walking is too slow There is no blame… Today is for pretending to make sense of the [...]
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It’s gone… rooting and digging through the dust encrusted piles of pressed paper, like a shaking addict’s fingers through his own vomit, hoping to find one last undigested pill. It’s lost… pretty, flowing words. A last living connection with dead memories, buried [...]
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Epiphany in my time of greatest need that the shit on which I feed no longer satisfies my empty beggars gut as it once did I am whole within myself and no sorry-ass opinion of my well-chronicled condition matters now or in the future as it once did like before I’m telling all from [...]
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Carnival Mirror A new direction for Friday On Friday… a song. (verse) Carnival mirror smile In a world that’s upside down Impossible to reconcile Reality in a frown A face to love like any other Always the last one to see From stupid words you could recover Overjoyed reality (chorus) It’s you It’s true I’m [...]
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I wouldn’t choose you today if I had to. Out of a crowd, or all alone. this makes me want to die Maybe only to save you from some something. Not for the old, not for the new if I had to. this teaches me to lie It’s sad and it’s true. Good for a [...]
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