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About Me


This is my newest short film . On Halloween, the world of spirits interrupts a couple's evening. Shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii. 8 mins. 2007.


This is my first short film , well more of a music video I suppose. Shot on location in Hawaii. Starring artist and musician Andy Lee. Though much goes on around him, a young man is haunted by something just over his shoulder.

These are a few of my indie folk songs. make me the host , zaireeka , this much , whatever happens

This is a description of my novel. In New Orleans, a handicapped woman cannot have children. She visits a fortune teller who promises to help her, if the woman will first find the fortune teller's missing daughter.

This is an excerpt: At the party Snoz found himself drawing Emily away from the group, and he found she wanted to be drawn. The absent owner was an artist employed by the university, one rather well known, but who had the misfortune of sharing a name with one of the world's great trumpet players. The house was a delight, filled with hand-crafted objets d'art from nations the world over, all arranged by the eye of an artistic eccentric: a mobile suspended from the ceiling caught the light of a candle chandelier in its butterfly-wing apertures, clay-colored wooden blocks guarded a Viennese curio cabinet, and a papier mache green dragon snaked from the sitting room up the short steps to the landing with the baby grand. It was the type of home that could have changed admission in the East Village. And Snoz, fueled by amphetamines, danced through the rooms like a beatnik Fred Astaire. When the evening gave into night fireworks lit the sky with the deliberate anticlimax of a postmodern thriller, and they sat out on the deck in a semi-circle around the beer keg in a reverie expectant of a thrill the day failed to provide. But this was the prevailing attitude of the group, not that of the couple at the heart of our story who, soon after the explosions ceased, excused themselves from the party, this time together.

This novel is 196 pages in 27 short chapters for $10 US. Click the cover to order or to read a longer excerpt.

My Interests

literature, foreign film, french culture, playing music, singing, bicycling, the outdoors

I'd like to meet:

Umberto Eco, Jose Saramago, JM Coetzee, Steven Pinker, Andrew Wyeth, Harold Bloom, Doris Lessing, any scientists on the cutting edge of their field, strangers

Movies:

* Baisers volés
* Les Deux anglaises et le continent
* Sommarnattens leende
* Viskningar och rop
* Manhattan
* Love and Death
* The Big Lebowski
* The Beatles Anthology
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* La Strada
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
* Rashomon
* Hiroshima mon amour
* Hable con ella
* Orphée
* Before Sunrise
* Trois couleurs: Rouge
* Krótki film o miloSci
* Dekalog 1
* Life of Brian
* My Own Private Idaho
* Wild at Heart
* La Voie Lactée

Books:

# Cat's Cradle
# God Bless You Mr Rosewater
# Memorial do Convento
# To Kill a Mockingbird
# Les Mandarins
# Ficciones
# Disgrace
# The Crying of Lot 49
# Murphy
# Malone meurt
# The Colossus of Maroussi
# Beloved
# La Peste
# Madame Bovary
# As I Lay Dying
# A Farewell to Arms
# Long Day's Journey into Night
# Macbeth
# A New Life
# The Fifth Child
among the current
# Leviathan (Auster)
# Hey Nostradamus!

Heroes:

In lieu of heroes, some videos.

My Blog

a travel advisory

blogs could be sparse this month. in the long term i will be able to get a book out of the trip but first i must focus on its doing. santé.
Posted by barrens lit on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:27:00 PST

mar 25

[cont’d]In the garden, every sense on short-breath alert, the queen began calling for her daughter. She heard footsteps, unearthly moans, and the snarl of picture-book beasts, but she did not he...
Posted by barrens lit on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:00 PST

mar 21

[cont’d]When the first rays of morning light fell upon the wildflower lake the queen stirred and found herself alone. She stretched and scratched her head and, finding something was not right, s...
Posted by barrens lit on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:37:00 PST

mar 17

[cont’d]And so the queen set out to ensnare the prince of the fair. She visited the royal clothier. For an untold sum he made the queen a wig of silken gold, a gown of azure as deep as slumber, ...
Posted by barrens lit on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:19:00 PST

mar 14

[cont’d from 3.10]The king, his wife, and the prince retired outside to the wildflower lake. Inside the ambitious queen paced among the council."This matter is not at an end," she declared.The e...
Posted by barrens lit on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:26:00 PST

mar 10

[cont'd from 3.7]She stood in the morning rain on the royal glen and she yelled, "Hear me, royal council of the fair! We, the royal council of the waking world, have need of you. Heed my call! Come!"T...
Posted by barrens lit on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:33:00 PST

mar 7

[cont'd from 3.4]"I was a gift to your father the king, given by my people in exchange for lands near the Western Mountains he once held.""You told him of the future.""I advised him when he asked," sa...
Posted by barrens lit on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:15:00 PST

mar 4

[cont'd from 2.29]One day several years after the birth of her daughter the queen sat by the statue. She was thinking of the riches she had received for the princess and with the serenity brought by g...
Posted by barrens lit on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:41:00 PST

feb 29

It came to pass in a far-off forest land that a queen gave birth to a princess. From her earliest infancy it was clear the princess would grow into the smartest, most beautiful woman the world had see...
Posted by barrens lit on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:33:00 PST

feb 25

My bootprints made a trail of arrows pointing in the dust to where I stood confused and wild. I was in the shadow of a building, wood, stained like an old pack of playing cards, cheerless, with hinged...
Posted by barrens lit on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:39:00 PST