depression

Ambition

Drawing
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Ambition is a verb.

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Inland Empire

Film
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“It was non­sense…” a phrase we often use to dis­par­age a film we’ve had to sit through for one rea­son or anoth­er. We spit out the words vin­dic­tive­ly, and with great rel­ish, to berate the work in a vain attempt to dis­tance our­selves from it, to some­how brush off the expe­ri­ence like some humil­i­at­ing dan­druff. It was nonsense. […]

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Freedom

Istanbul
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Dear Janis Joplin and Kris Kristofferson.

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Flabbergasting Discoveries

Writing
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Good morn­ing and wel­come to our show. Today I have the dubi­ous hon­or of being your host for this tele­vi­sion project. This being non-nar­ra­tive, i.e. non-fic­tion, any­thing that I say here should be tak­en as the Truth, with a cap­i­tal T, and not some rel­a­tivis­tic, post­mod­ern half-assed ver­sion thereof.

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Can’t Sleep

Writing
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You know that feel­ing you get when you for­get where you parked your car at the mall?

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When Love and Pride Collide

Los Angeles
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Love is to hold a per­son in the high­est pos­si­ble regard. It is an unstop­pable force. Pride is to hold one­self in the high­est pos­si­ble regard. It is an immov­able object. That is all good and well, until the first col­lides with the sec­ond. So the ques­tion is: What hap­pens when an unstop­pable force col­lides with an immov­able object?

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