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ORIGINAL FICTION
FILMS & TV
ORIGINAL NONFICTION
NEOLOGISMS
SPOKEN WORD (BY VARIOUS FOLKS)
MUSIC (BY VARIOUS ARTISTS)
MIXED POEMS (I KNOW, I KNOW) (BY MIXED POETS)
WHAT DOESN’T FIT
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ORIGINAL NONFICTION
(You read it here first)
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: JAPAN’S RADICAL ERA (PART 1) (3,700 words) Japan’s rampaging students turned its campuses and cities into war zones.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: JAPAN’S RADICAL ERA (PART 2) (6,850 words) Then it all went haywire and homicidal.
AFRICANUS: JOHN CHILEMBWE‘S RACE-BASED REBELLION (2,800 words) The colonial African preacher thought a race-based rebellion would bring justice to his people.
THE COCONUT KING: AUGUST ENGELHARDT (1,670 words) The nude dude (1875-1919) and his attitude to food.
THE YAGHAN PEOPLE OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO & THEIR INSURMOUNTABLE LANGUAGE (1,900 words) These lowlanders spoke the Mount Everest of languages.
GRAFFITISTAN (800 words) Inconvenience raised to an art form.
THE KANNIBAL CLUB: HOW TO SURVIVE A GULAG ESCAPE (980 words) When you’re on the run in Siberia, what could be more convenient?
WHIPPED BY THREE FLAGS: THE KOREAN WHO KEPT GETTING CAUGHT (2,700 words) Two wars, three armies, three continents: more than enough for one man.
THE CITY OF HYPHENS (or THE DRUNKEN CORONER): TRIESTE (2,900 words) A lot of Italians weren’t even sure it was in Italy.
THE MEN WHO WEREN’T THERE: BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (6,900 words) Butch and Sundance are dead. No they ain’t. Yes they are. No they ain’t. Yes they are. No they ain’t. So, where are they?
ON CLOUD IX: THE MOTHER OF ALL NUMBERS (700 words) Neun. নয়. Neuf. 九. Nueve. девять. Nove. नौ. It’s the mother of all numbers.
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YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: JAPAN’S RADICAL ERA (Part 1)
(Japan’s radical protest movement turned its streets into war zones) (3,700 words)
NONFICTION
- SAY HELLO TO MY GEBABO
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: JAPAN’S RADICAL ERA (Part 2)
(Then it all went haywire and homicidal) (6,850 words)
NONFICTION
- WE WERE JUST GETTING STARTED
AFRICANUS: JOHN CHILEMBWE’S RACE-BASED REBELLION
(This obscure preacher in an obscure British colony figured a race-based rebellion would do the trick) (2,800 words)
NONFICTION
- HE’S A REBEL
THE COCONUT KING: AUGUST ENGELHARDT
(The nude dude [1875-1919] had an attitude to food) (1,670 words)
NONFICTION
- IT BECAME “THE DONE THING” TO HAVE YOUR PHOTO TAKEN WITH THE LOCAL NAKED LOONY
THE YAGHAN PEOPLE OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO & THEIR INSURMOUNTABLE LANGUAGE
(It’s a wonder the missionary’s brain didn’t explode) (1,900 words)
NONFICTION
GRAFFITISTAN
(Inconvenience raised to an art form) (800 words)
NONFICTION
- ALTHOUGH SOMETHING MIGHT BE OPEN…
THE KANNIBAL CLUB: HOW TO SURVIVE A GULAG ESCAPE
(This cuisine not only came pre-packaged but also transported itself across Siberia) (980 words)
NONFICTION
WHIPPED BY THREE FLAGS: THE KOREAN WHO KEPT GETTING CAUGHT
(Yang was now pitted against the enemy of his former enemy’s enemy) (2,700 words)
NONFICTION
- THEY ALL GOT A PIECE OF YANG
THE CITY OF HYPHENS (or THE DRUNKEN CORONER): TRIESTE
(The Italian city with more psychiatrists per capita than even Buenos Aires) (2,900 words)
NONFICTION
- A LOT OF TRIESTINI HAVE THE BLUES
THE MEN WHO WEREN’T THERE: BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
(Butch & Sundance are dead. No they ain’t. Yes they are. No they ain’t. Yes they are. No they ain’t. So where are they?) (6,900 words)
NONFICTION
- THIS IS THE PLAN: WE GO STRAIGHT TO ARGENTINA AND GO STRAIGHT
ON CLOUD IX: THE MOTHER OF ALL NUMBERS
(Number nine. Number nine. Number nine………) (700 words)
NONFICTION
- 九 NEUF NEUN
ASSORTED MUSIC SPOKEN WORD PIECES BY VARIOUS FOLKS
POEMS BY A MIX OF POETS FILMS & TV WHAT DOESN’T FIT
NEOLOGISMS:
NEWLY COINED WORDS FOR WHEN WE DON’T ALREADY HAVE WORDS.
TOO MANY TO LIST HERE. JUST CLICK NEOLOGISMS AND IT’S AN EASY SCROLL.
(Examples: WHAT IS THE WORD FOR “LAUGHING AT YOUR OWN JOKES“?
OR “SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE THE VICTIM OF MULTIPLE ALIEN ABDUCTIONS“?
OR “SOMEONE WHO’S MORE THAN AN ACQUAINTANCE BUT LESS THAN A FRIEND“? )
GO TO: ORIGINAL NONFICTION NEOLOGISMS
MUSIC OF MANY KINDS BY MANY ARTISTS SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES BY A MIX OF PERFORMERS
FILMS & TV MIXED POEMS BY MIXED POETS WHAT DOESN’T FIT
ORIGINAL FICTION
(You read it here first):
MASCULINE PLURAL (4,930 words) Care to double your DNA, chéri?
BEYOND THEM CHINESE BONES (3,970 words) Maggie had the man and she had the plan. But did she have the luck?
SO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL THRU TIME (2,000 words) The do do’s and do-not-do’s of time travel for profit.
THE KISS OF ’96 (850 words) The Devil must surely approve of Mr. Edison’s contraption.
WHAT THE EYES BEHOLD (900 words) It’s the thief of time.
THE MAFIA ON THE MOON (650 words) Did it really have to be NASA?
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MASCULINE PLURAL
Three can be a bit of a crowd in the clone zone. So what’s the solution? (4,930 words)
(FICTION)
- ZANDER JUST HAD TO SAY OUI
BEYOND THEM CHINESE BONES
Now that he and Maggie were in cahoots, he wondered if this might afford him special privileges (3,970 words)
(FICTION)
- A WOMAN, A MAN AND A CRIMINAL PLAN IN POST-BELLUM TEXAS
SO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL THRU TIME
Hey there to the max! Thats our future your playing with lol. Dont forget! (2,000 words)
(FICTION)
- ITS THE YEAR 2118 (TWENTY-ONE 8EEN) ALREADY LOL & THERES BIG MONEY IN TIME TRAVEL LOL
Everyone knows I haven’t a prudish bone in my body (850 words)
(FICTION)
- MR. EDISON’S INVENTION WILL SURELY LEAD US TO PERDITION!
WHAT THE EYES BEHOLD
“…And now doth time waste me.” (Don’t let this happen to you!) (900 words)
(FICTION)
- A DOUBLE CAPPUCCINO AND THEN REALLY KNUCKLE DOWN
THE MAFIA ON THE MOON
He’d drink the first martini and smoke the first cigarette in space because who needs NASA? (650 words)
(FICTION)
- A $100 BILL IN EVERY POCKET MEANS NOBODY SAW NOTHIN’!
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ORIGINAL FICTION POEMS BY ASSORTED POETS TV & FILM
MUSIC OF VARIOUS GENRES BY A MIX OF ARTISTS WHAT DOESN’T FIT
SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES (BY VARIOUS PERFORMERS):
THE LADY OR THE TIGER? performed by Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
He understood her nature
- THE CLASSIC TALE PERFORMED BY TOYAH WILLCOX AND ROBERT FRIPP
TO PROVE A VILLAIN performed by Daniel Pellisier
Since I cannot prove a lover…
- DANIEL PELISSIER’S WITTY RENDITION OF THE FAMOUS SHAKESPEARE BIT
THE TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMINGS written & read by William S. Burroughs
Perhaps the appendix is already out, doctor
- WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS INTRODUCES DR. BENWAY
THE DO-RIGHTS written & read by William S. Burroughs
Get there firstest with the brownest nose!
- THEY SAID HE HAD THE WRONG ATTITUDE
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SPOKEN WORD PIECES BY VARIOUS PERFORMERS FILMS & TV
ASSORTED MUSIC BY ASSORTED MUSICIANS
MIXED POEMS (BY MIXED POETS):
I KNOW. I KNOW.
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE AMUSING. AND ALL ARE SHORT.
(THE “POEMS” LIST IS ALSO SHORT. IT’S AN EASY SCROLL.)
A POEM IN THE STYLE OF JOHN WILMOT, 2nd EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)
- THE MOVIE THE LIBERTINE WAS BASED ON HIS LIFE
- IT’S A YUGE HONOR, I HAVE TO BE HONEST.
- BREVITY SOUL WIT
- WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
A POST-STRUCTURALIST LAY DYING
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SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES BY A MIX OF PEOPLE
MUSIC TRACKS OF ASSORTED GENRES BY VARIOUS ARTISTS:
Brian Eno The Fall Van Morrison and Hozier Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin James Arcade Fire Dean & Britta and Laurie Anderson Sir Richard Bishop Mississippi Fred McDowell and Howlin’ Wolf
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“AN ENDING (ASCENT)” (OR 4′ 31″ OF ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT) BY BRIAN ENO
Brian Eno‘s cosmic calm. Play this in a dark room on full screen at a comfortable volume and see if your perspective isn’t altered.
THRICE FALLEN: SONGS BY THE FALL
Three (?) songs by The (mighty) Fall
- “THEY REALLY (WERE) QUITE MAGNIFICENT, YOU KNOW.”
VAN MORRISON & LUC BOONEN … HOZIER
Van Morrison‘s Purple Heather (photos by Luc Boonen) followed by Hozier‘s version of Morrison’s Sweet Thing
THIS IS WHY THE FRENCH DON’T SUCK
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (late 1960’s)…
- …PERFORMING Je T’aime,…Mois non plus (LATE 1960’S)
by James (U.K.) 1993: a boppy little track, this
by Arcade Fire (Montreal). A track from the soundtrack of the Spike Jonze film Her (2013)
THE SONG BOB DYLAN WROTE & THEN VIRTUALLY FORGOT and IT TANGO
Dean & Britta‘s version of the long lost Bob Dylan song I’ll Keep It With Mine and Laurie Anderson‘s It Tango
- IT TAKES 1 TO KNOW 1
MAHAVIDYA BY SIR RICHARD BISHOP
by Sir Richard Bishop (A solo guitar track)
- “ARISE, SIR RICHARD”
“I DON’T PLAY NO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!” written & performed by Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi Fred McDowell’s Shake ‘Em On Down followed by Howlin’ Wolf‘s unforgettable Smokestack Lightnin’
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SPOKEN WORD PIECES BY A MIX OF FOLKS
MUSIC OF VARIOUS GENRES BY VARIOUS MUSICIANS
KEY SCENES FROM KEY MOVIES (AND A LITTLE TV):
(THE UNDERLYING QUESTION IS ALWAYS: WHY AREN’T SOME OF THESE FILMS BETTER KNOWN?)
QUINTESSENCE OF DUST: final scene from Withnail & I (1987 comedy-drama)
“THE WRONG POOR SON OF A BITCH“: early scene from The Hospital (1971 satire)
THE FUTURE KING OF COMEDY? : He’s a funny guy, right? Right?
BAGS OF HANGUPS: sex, lies and videotape (1989)
BURN!: a neglected film from Marlon Brando’s middle period
CALL-WHAT’S-HIS-NAME-AND-ASK-HIM-ABOUT-HIS-HOUSE: early scene from Withnail & I (1987)
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE!”: pivotal scene from Network (1976)
“I SAID, ‘EVERYBODY LIVES WITH LIES’!”: pivotal scene from The Hospital (1971)
THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN PLAYS AT BASE #1: classic comedy routine from 1953
LOVING AND DYING: subjectively objective scene from Love and Death (1975)
HE HAS THEM……: the pinnacle of stand up comedy
DEEP IN THE RUSSIAN SOUL: more from Love and Death
THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL LOVEMAKING: and Love and Death again
“THE MUSIC OF MEN’S LIVES”: scene from Mark Rylance’s acclaimed stage performance in Richard II
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QUINTESSENCE OF DUST (extract from “WITHNAIL & I”)
The scene from Withnail and I (1987 comedy-drama) where Withnail and “I” part company for the last time
- WELL, OLD BOY, THIS IS IT
“THE WRONG POOR SON OF A BITCH” (scene from THE HOSPITAL [1971])
The scene from The Hospital (1971 satire) where they find a dead doctor in a patient’s bed
- YOU AND I HAD BETTER HAVE A LITTLE CHAT
THE FUTURE KING OF COMEDY? Liam Neeson ventures into comedy
From the TV series Life is Too Short (Ep 1)
- I’M A FUNNY GUY, RIGHT?
BAGS OF HANGUPS: sex, lies and videotape in its entirety
The 1989 drama sex, lies and videotape in its entirety
- THIS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
One of Marlon Brando‘s lesser known films, languishing in undeserved obscurity since 1968
- WORTH A LOOK EVEN JUST FOR THE OPENING CREDITS
CALL-WHAT’S-HIS-NAME-AND-ASK-HIM-ABOUT-HIS-HOUSE (More from “WITHNAIL & I”)
A narrow escape for Withnail and “I” when someone takes exception to the perfume “I” accidentally spilled on his shoes (Withnail and I, 1987)
- AND NOW I’M CALLING YOU ONE!
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE!” (Scene from “NETWORK” [1976])
The scene from the satire Network (1976) in which the immutable by-laws of business are made clear
- “…AND I WON’T HAVE IT!”
“I SAID, ‘EVERYBODY LIVES WITH LIES’!” (Scene from “THE HOSPITAL” [1971])
The famous “impotence monologue” from the satire The Hospital (1971)
- “THE ONLY THING I’VE EVER TRULY LOVED”
THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN PLAYS AT BASE #1 (Abbot & Costello)
Classic comedy skit from 1953. FF to 0′ 50″
- Q: WHO GETS THE MONEY? A: EVERY DOLLAR OF IT.
LOVING AND DYING (From Woody Allen’s “LOVE AND DEATH” [1975])
Early scene from the comedy Love and Death (1975)
- BUT OBJECTIVITY IS SUBJECTIVE
…eating out of the palm of his hand.
A Rodney Dangerfield stand up routine.
- SHE USED TO BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. THEN SHE SAW ME NAKED. NOW SHE’S AFRAID OF THE LIGHT.
DEEP IN THE RUSSIAN SOUL (from Woody Allen’s “LOVE AND DEATH”[1975])
More from Woody Allen‘s Love and Death (1975)
- IT’S A VERY COMPLICATED SITUATION, COUSIN SONYA
THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL LOVEMAKING (From Woody Allen’s “LOVE AND DEATH” [1975])
And more from Love and Death
- YOU’RE DISGUSTING. BUT I LOVE YOU.
THE MUSIC OF MEN’S LIVES (Scene from “RICHARD II”)
A scene from Act V of Richard II in which the Anglo-American actor-director Mark Rylance‘s performance won wide acclaim. This was staged at the Globe Theatre in London.
- “I WAS UNKING’D BY BOLINGBROKE”
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ORIGINAL FICTION MUSIC OF MANY GENRES BY MANY PERFORMERS
POEMS BY A MIX OF POETS SPOKEN WORD PIECES BY A MIX OF FOLKS FILMS & TV NEOLOGISMS
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VARIOUS OTHER THINGS WHICH DEFY CLASSIFICATION:
WHAT DOESN’T FIT:
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