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Trapped in a Jean-Luc Godard film

About Me

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My Interests

[HISTORY] The African-American Mosaic Exhibition , "The American 1950s" , Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 , The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 , Internet Modern History Sourcebook , La Cucaracha - The Spanish Civil War Site , Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party , Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews

[NEWS] AltWeeklies.com , BBC NEWS , BlackAgendaReport.com , The Black Commentator , The Christian Science Monitor , Common Dreams , CounterPunch , granma.cu - Granma International English Edition , Guardian Unlimited , L'Humanité in English , In These Times , Le Monde diplomatique - English edition , MotherJones.com , NewPages.com , The New York Times , People's Weekly World , Political Affairs Magazine , International - SPIEGEL ONLINE , village voice

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is a complete individual who strives to make their creative dreams a reality.

I'm asking that all those wanting to join the Noir Artist salon to please raise their hands up high.

Looking for starving artists, writers, painters, photographers, intellectuals, activists, filmmakers, poets, griots , bloggers, zinesters, actors, playwrights, musicians, models, and beautiful dreamers.

No real expectations. My only thoughts are of the endless possibilities that can result from random close/distant encounters. Connections will be made. Projects will be discussed. Lives (hopefully) will be changed.

Music:

Bebop (Jazz) , Nation Conscious Rap , Flamenco , Seal, The Animals, Beatles - "Come Together" , Cranberries - "No Need To Argue", Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues" , "Mercy Mercy Me" , "What's Going On" , Miles Davis - "Birth of the Cool", Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out", Dizzy Gillespie, the Pharcyde - "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde", "The Rubber Song" , De La Soul - "Me Myself and I" , Velvet Underground, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Otis Redding, Amelie - soundtrack, Stevie Wonder - "Misrepresented People" , Sam Cooke - "Change Is Gonna Come" , Vince Guaraldi - "Oh Good Grief!", Jackson 5, Public Enemy - "Burn Hollywood Burn" , "Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos" , Nas - "World Is Yours" , Common - "The Bitch In Yoo" , KRS-One, Boogie Down Productions - "My Philosophy" , Thelonious Monk, Ace of Base - "The Sign", Cecil Taylor - "Unit Structures", Gang Starr - "Just To Get A Rep" , Queen Latifah - "U-N-I-T-Y" , Beastie Boys -"To The 5 Buroughs", Rage Against the Machine - "Killing In the Name" , "No Shelter" , Goodie Mob - "Cell Therapy" , Ghostface Killah - "All That I Got is You" , Scarface - "A Minute to Pray..." , Mobb Deep - "Peer Pressure" , Sly & the Family Stone, Living Colour - "Cult of Personality" , Robert Palmer, Amandla! soundtrack, Bob Marley - "War" , GiGi, Zydeco, Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy, Freestyle Fellowship -"Inner City Boundaries" , Kam - "Peace Treaty" , Stop the Violence All-Stars - "Self Destruction" , West Coast Rap All-Stars - "We're all in the same gang" ...

Movies:

The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola , e-Cahiers du Cinema , Criterion Forum.org , FESPACO , Film Forum | New York , Film-Philosophy , Film Society of Lincoln Center , GreenCine Daily , Film | Guardian Unlimited , A Huey P. Newton Story , Independent Lens , IMDB: 1976 , IMDB: Cuba , IMDB: Soviet Union , The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) , iofilm - inside out film , Like Anna Karina's Sweater , Link TV: Cinemondo , markertext.com : Chris Marker - image = text , MovieMartyr.com , Movie Poster Awards - All the Latest Movie Posters , MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine , NFB - National Film Board of Canada , The New York Film Annex , The Rushmore Academy • The World of Wes Anderson , Sankofa :: Mypheduh Films , Strictly Film School , Vertigo Magazine - for Worldwide Independent Film

Television:

Democracy Now! , Free Speech TV , LINK TV , PBS , PTTV

Books:

AddALL: book search and price comparison , Bartleby.com , bookstores wiki / Manhattan , FetchBook.info , George Orwell - Eric Arthur Blair. Novels. Essays. Articles , Google Book Search , Literature @ SunSITE , Page By Page Books , Project Gutenberg , Shakespeare & Co Bookshop | Paris, France , Wikisource

Heroes:

Langston Hughes , Noam Chomsky , Harriet Tubman , Malcolm X , Jean-Luc Godard , Spike Lee ...

My Blog

Cinema: best of 2006

The best of the 40+ films I've seen on the big screen this year. Just new films are listed - with a few stragglers from previous years which never made it to the theaters here in Philly until 2006.The...
Posted by Noir Artist on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:27:00 PST

"Golly Mr. Gore, I Really Liked Your Movie...

and thanks for signing my book!"Ok, I didn't actually greet Gore with golly, nor did I refer to him as Mr. Gore, but I did tell him that I enjoyed his film. Possibly I even shook his hand (everything ...
Posted by Noir Artist on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:39:00 PST

[[Have(had) A (un)Happy Fourth]]

I celebrated the USA birthday by eating two hot dogs and a whole pan of politically incorrect Oriental Fried Rice (You would think that they would consider changing the name. As if the Uncle Ben's bra...
Posted by Noir Artist on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:48:00 PST

[World Cup 2006]

For myself the World Cup produces many mixed emotions. I love the artistry of the sport, but hate the nationalism it produces. Even artistry is too rare in this current Cup. Alas, this is the 4-5-1 to...
Posted by Noir Artist on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:40:00 PST

[My Take On Waking Life (2001)]

The film Waking Life was once a favorite of mine, and one of the few films I've paid more than once to view on the big screen. But now I dislike much of the ideas presented in the film. At one time I ...
Posted by Noir Artist on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:38:00 PST

[Laugh at Charlie Chaplin]

I've recently started to watch Chaplin films. This is all part of my hopeless quest to experience cinema in all its many forms. Silent films have always been an important part of my viewing agenda, bu...
Posted by Noir Artist on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:32:00 PST

[My Day At MOMA]

Yesterday I made a trip to MOMA (the Museum Of Modern Art)I've included 30+ pics from my visit in my Photo Gallery. Along with viewing the art exhibits I took in a film at MOMA's cinema. Showing was a...
Posted by Noir Artist on Tue, 30 May 2006 06:38:00 PST

[2006 Cannes Film Festival / May 17 - 28]

The premiere film event of the year is just out of my personal reach (by a small fortune in dollars & social contacts), but the Internet helps bridge the gap. Be on the lookout for the following films...
Posted by Noir Artist on Wed, 24 May 2006 09:08:00 PST

[Jobless/Frustrated/French/Intellectuals]

A person will devote their life to raising themselves out of the mental melee only to find that much of the knowledge they've cultivated is without any practical value. This is the intellectual dilemm...
Posted by Noir Artist on Sat, 20 May 2006 02:05:00 PST

Poetic Spam...

Perhaps I just need more rest, but I'm starting to notice some serious surrealist poetry within the subject lines of the spam in my inbox:Cheerios Lower You.../Boots Energy /Do bereave andromac /Healt...
Posted by Noir Artist on Mon, 15 May 2006 09:11:00 PST