Afraid
I’m afraid. I’m afraid to be alone, I’m afraid not to be alone. I’m afraid of what I am, what I’m not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don’t want to stay at my job for the rest of my life but I’m afraid to leave. And I’m just tired, you … Continue reading Afraid
Sea of Love
“I feel like a fucking teenager.” Det. Frank Keller, Sea of Love Knocked silly, knocked flat, sideways downThese things they pick you up and turn you aroundSay your pieceSay you’re sweet for me REM, “Me In Honey” Teenage love and lust in all its messy and passionate glory is the ultimate love, right? I mean, … Continue reading Sea of Love
Birthing the Brood Takes Time
Thirty seconds after you’re born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it. Julianna Kelly (Nuala Fitzgerald), The Brood, 1979 It’s been almost two months since I last updated this space. Not for lack of trying, mind you, though lately there’s been less trying and more … Continue reading Birthing the Brood Takes Time
The Bat and the Cat
In The Brave and the Bold #197 (April 1983, DC Comics) Alan Brennert penned what I consider to be the definitive Batman/Bruce Wayne and Catwoman/Selina Kyle story. One of comics’ longest-running and most storied romances, the Bat and the Cat had already been flirting shamelessly and stealing kisses for more than four decades by the … Continue reading The Bat and the Cat
Oceans of Time
“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?” Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) is peak cinematic romantic-horror for many of us, replete with thematic concerns that resonate … Continue reading Oceans of Time
Woman
Darren Aronofsky’s allegorical assualt to the senses mother! (2017) recently popped up on my radar again, thanks to a social media challenge to name your four favorite films of the last ten years. Narrowing it down was dificult, but one choice was easy. When mother! opened, I wrote a review questioning why most audiences seemed … Continue reading Woman
Home Box Office
I’ve been feeling extremely nostalgic lately for movies that used to be in constant rotation on HBO in the early to mid 1980s. I was too young to be watching them but, you guessed it, I watched them anyway. Remember, I’m part of the last generation of latchkey kids that grew up with the freedom … Continue reading Home Box Office
Feeling Feelings
I had a really wonderful experience recently watching one of my favorite movies with someone who loves it just as much as I do. And, really, that’s rare, to know someone who loves a movie in the same sort of uncompromised, honest, passionate way that you do. That pure love. So you’ll never feel insecure … Continue reading Feeling Feelings
“She Dies in Life, I Live in Death”: Zoë Tamerlis Lund
Zoë Tamerlis Lund was born in New York City on this day in 1962. She was a musician, model, actress, political activist, producer, and screenwriter, among other things. She was already a gifted pianist when she made her acting debut as the Avenging Angel Thana in Abel Ferrara’s 1981 cult classic Ms. 45, long considered … Continue reading “She Dies in Life, I Live in Death”: Zoë Tamerlis Lund
We’ll Jump, and We’ll See
When did life get so hard? Oh wait, it’s always been hard. At certain points in time we just fool ourselves into thinking it’s all going smoothly. But in reality we’re always making scary decisions and jumping into the great unknown. Every day, all day, over and over, until we shuffle off this mortal coil. … Continue reading We’ll Jump, and We’ll See
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