January 2011
9 posts
Elephant Hunting chapter II, Part I
II
The razor picks up the cream as if it were a tractor on a spring harvest. My former bits of salt and pepper stubble are smoothly swiped off. I rest my head on hands, which I run through my graying hair. I stop when I’m looking eye-to-eye with myself. My brow looked rigid instead of its past fluid composition. Hair graying. Face getting longer with more wrinkles. Jesus Christ, only 46 and I look...
Top 15 Films of 2010
Took me a lot of time to finalize this and see all the movies necessary and no it was not a mistake to not include True Grit.
1. Black Swan- I’ve always been an Aronofsky guy but his most recent exploration into the rarely explored theme of perfection as a destroyer was his best film yet. Over the top symbolism to go along with subtle characterization made this a triumph. I rank it this...
My Poem That Barely Got Accepted Into Litmag.
Self explanatory title. I’ve had this since school started but wasn’t going to poast it until it got a litmag result in order to keep my anonymity. I thought this poem was mediocre as the editor read it aloud but once I heard the mummers of “What the hell was that about?” I considered the job well done. Got an average score of 33 out of the required 32. Barely making it....
