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Better Living Through Chemistry Part 2
February 9, 2011
The First Kiss launched a thousand clichés in the minds of the lovers. While apart, they incessantly turned thoughts of…
Better Living Through Chemistry
February 2, 2011
Here’s what happens when two people fall in love: cliché abounds, of an ominous nature. They don’t climb upward into…
Mobtown Microshow: Celebration
January 27, 2011
Story by Brett Yale of Bmore Musically Informed. Last Thursday’s Microshow was a spiritually intimate performance by Celebration, one of…
Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.
January 26, 2011
The Oscars are silly but I love them anyway, so here’s my contribution to the water cooler discourse. I would…
Let’s Mess With Texas
January 19, 2011
Many of the two-hundred-plus people gathered at MICA for the CreateBaltimore event on January 15 were hacker/ techies, so tons…
Comedy Noir
January 12, 2011
Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…
Bent Ear
January 9, 2011
In the Bent Ear, Baynard Woods follows the great writer Joseph Mitchell, in allowing Baltimore's quirkier citizens to bend his…
SCREEN PASS
January 5, 2011
Around this time of year I receive advance screening DVD’s of hopefully award-worthy movies. I get them because I’m in…
Lunatic
December 29, 2010
I am a bit of an eclipse nut. I have seen five total solar eclipses, including one in the Atacama Desert…
19 Degrees in the Shade
December 16, 2010
The winter solstice is coming, and Christmas. Pagan, Christian, Viking Yule, The Hopi Soyal, the Asian Dongzhi: all the northern…
Waldorf Hysteria
December 8, 2010
I can find all kinds of important things to do when I should be editing my film or writing. And…
Experi-mental Film
December 2, 2010
Digging around in the archives I found an experimental film I did at UCLA. I was there getting a master’s…
Migrating Memory
November 24, 2010
I’m a late adopter, by design, and so I am just getting around to messing with services like Vimeo. There’s…
The Renaissance Will Be Televised
November 17, 2010
In two days I had to start shooting the movie – a low budget indie, yes, but a complicated one…
Gimme Sex and Violence
November 10, 2010
Over time, many well-meaning people and institutions have reasonably argued, for the betterment of society and mankind, that the Bible…
Campus Television, Redefined
November 4, 2010
Motion pictures show us amazing places and events. Film, TV, digital video, time-based media—whatever we call it is unimportant. It’s…
Locus of Evil
October 20, 2010
It’s that time of year for spooks, monsters, witches, and gore: the mid-term elections. But in the meantime, we can…
Goody Two-Shoes and Chicken Feet
October 13, 2010
She was only a teenager. They called her Goody Two-shoes. But the pretty over-achiever snapped, and stabbed her neighbor to…
Their Vampires Are Hotter than Our Vampires
October 6, 2010
American movies seem to have lost their edge in originality, deviant sex, and general weirdness. The conglomeratization of Hollywood, with…
Genius Squared
September 29, 2010
Incidentally, to me, David Simon (Homicide, The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme) chose the film and hosted the screening. He did…
