I don’t do these often anymore for lack of time, and perhaps this one has no need of my take. However, Nope could easily be Jordan Peele’s best film yet. It was well acted, excellently scored and just as cinematically thrilling as Get Out. And if not, then more so.… Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve dropped a post, and it’s been a wild couple of years. I finally made my way to publishing my first and likely only poetry book. I finished writing my third novel last year, and spent the time since then editing as I sort out… Continue reading
A series of short essays reflecting on a few of the early points of the following interview from the YouTube channel Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (& Peter J. Glinos); particularly those relating to religion and consciousness: 0:32 Chomsky’s views on consciousness and free will (and marijuana) I have… Continue reading
All my romantic encounters build me as a romantic object. As they break my heart into pieces I come back with a bigger, stronger, more efficient heart beat. I pulse and reverberate the sounds of absence, placed against itself then back in reverse. Am I dangerously approaching another abyss or… Continue reading
Already started working on “Inferno” (working title for the next part of the MvWC), a tale of melancholy, personal identity and the oppressive dimension of hell. In that spirit, a few thoughts on language in relation to identity and mental anguish: Language is probably the greatest gift bestowed on the… Continue reading
If He is nothing, can’t something come from Him? – The pure dialectical genius of Stephan Colbert. It brings to mind St. Augustine’s provocation that the Church should accept the persuasive conclusions of science, a conception Galileo appealed to in vein while up against Papal censure: Continue reading
Corthustra: I’m doing okay atm, in general not so great. Earlier tonight I was doubting I would make it for the long haul. Lulu: Long haul? You working an overnight? Corthustra: Nah, life Lulu: Huh whatcu mean? Corthustra: Knowledge is really the void of knowledge Lulu: Codified or uncodified? Corthustra:… Continue reading
A little lesson on surrealism in literature: http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-surrealism-definition-artists.html For me the lineage of surrealism can be traced all the way back to Artistotle’s Poetics and the counter-critique he makes of Plato’s critique of poetry in “The Republic”. Aristotle’s critique lays a foundation for the anti-formal with the establishment of formalism itself. He… Continue reading
