Sometimes we need a second face in order to deal with the world.
I Regret Finishing High School
July 12, 2012 By 8 Comments
Noah Brand’s eccentric mother offered an alternative to his senior year in public high school. He regrets turning her down.
The Monster at the End of This Post
June 20, 2012 By 8 Comments
The first rule of monsters is learning who is a monster.
Caine’s Arcade: Not Just a Viral Video, but a Story of a Father and Son
April 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
While there is a lot of talk in this story about the viral nature of videos, entrepreneurship, and instant fame, little is discussed of the very awesome relationship between father and son that is the connective thread throughout this story.
First Look: KINO, by Jürgen Fauth
April 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
They’d been back for three days now and the marriage was off to a rocky start. The reception had been a disaster, the honeymoon was ruined, and Mina was beginning to resent the long hours at the hospital. This was not how she had envisioned her new life.
Dialogue for Video No. 2, Which I Haven’t Made Yet, Probably an Irreverent, Biased-Like-the-Washington-Post and Immature Take on a Sunday in the Life of Relevant Customers With Their Relevant 3 Year Olds in the Local Relevant Coffee Shop
April 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear Myra Francophile – Your writing, an effective (or is it “affective”?) novel incarnation—veritable prose Haiku—is extra, extra extraordinary. I like your repetitive and apparently habitual and unconscionable use of the words “epidermis” and “epidermal” during your descriptions of human, mammalian, unconscionable, beast-with-two-backs sexual intercourse. Your words are more libidoesque, societally offensive and tasteless than [...]
Spiffy Dialogue for My First Video. Video Films a 20-Story Hilton Building Across the Street From My Spiffy 14th-Story Apartment. Camera Shoots Upside Down, Panning Left, Right, Up, Down–Uncontrollably and Irrationally, of Course.
April 12, 2012 By 2 Comments
Me: “My errant psychology began at birth. Doctor, insensitive Chinaman, yanked and yanked, then grabbed, like a homicidal maniac in Sing-Sing, my sensitive ankles. Hanged me upside down like a rooster on a farm 15 miles outside Paris. Slapped me on the ass. I reached for a bottle of vodka. Couldn’t find no vodka, [...]
Bully: The Movie That Dares You to Look Tormented Children in the Eye
March 30, 2012 By 6 Comments
Youth activists rally to remove the R rating from a documentary about bullied teens.
Bike Thieves, iPods, and Text-Walking: Can a Short Film Make Change?
March 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
Evelyn Pentikis applauds OpDoc filmmaker Casey Neistat for his entertaining short films that attempt to make the world a little better.
This Is No “Artist.” It Is “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.”
February 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
A movie about a son who loses his father, and what he goes on to find.
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.