About Me

Words, Love, and Revolution

I am a writer of screenplays, stageplays, poems, lyrics, books, novels, essays, encyclopedia entries, and academic articles. I am a professor of education and cultural studies at UCLA. I also own the Desert Highway Entertainment Company that deals with music (Desert Highway Music) and film production company (Desert Highway Films). I am also an advocate for social justice and equality. Mostly, I am just me, a person in love with words and life. Someone who lives to create and creates to live.

Although I wear many hats, this site is solely dedicated to the words that I have written or am in the process of writing. Stay tuned for more coming very soon!

I would love to meet other novelists, poets, screenwriters, filmmakers, and artists in general that are in the Los Angeles area or all over the world. I get to see and do a lot in life and those who have the courage to create are definitely my favorite people.

My Screenplays

check out my screenplays on my personal website ernestmorrell.com

By the Sea A married mother of two retires for a day to drink by the sea with friends.
The Summer of Chris Chris Washington takes a summer vacation from his real life and decides never to return. For the first time in his life he has found kindred spirits and the courage to chase his dreams.
Friends and Lovers See what happens when friends who swear off love break their oaths; one falls blindly for the devil and the other, well she falls in love with her friend.
Franky's Garage Band After a twenty year hiatus, former members of a high school garage band seek refuge from their mundane lives in each other, and their music.
Kincaid's Three hard-drinking, fun-loving college graduates discover the true meaning of friendship when they become teachers in one of the toughest school districts in the country
Livingston Parish Chronicles the wild adventures of three siblings in one of Louisiana's first all black settlements (circa 1910).Tillman, Mary Susan, and John will do anything to help their father hold onto his land. That is anything, but behave.

My Plays

Though Lions Roam A do-good son searches for courage and an exit strategy from his perfect life
Flow An angry schoolteacher almost incites a worldwide revolution
By The Sea Friends and Lovers

My Poetry

http://www.ernestmorrell.com/poet.html
I have written three volumes of poetry:
Implosions at the Festival of Self (1993-2002)
On Love and Revolution (2006)
Rock and Roll Poet (TBD-2007)

Out and About in LA

Hard at Work

But, is Anybody Listening?

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My Interests

My Books

My Digital Photography

Avenida Quinta, Evening

Life Through Margarita Goggles

Friends

I'd like to meet:

Elam McKnight Jams at SXSW 2007!

Music:

Desert Highway Music Company

The new music company. Part record label, part music publishing, part artists management. All about the indie revolution. HEY FILMMAKERS, we have some great songwriters on the label so if you need music for your next picture, give me a hollar!

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lost in Translation, Fellini's 8 1/2, Apocalypse Now, Godfather I, II, and III, Do The Right Thing, Bachelor Party, most Hitchcock Films especially North By Northwest, Dial M for Murder, 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and Notorious. Easy Rider, the Woodstock documentary, Dr. Strangelove, Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Mulholland Drive, Run Lola Run, Blade Runner, V is for Vendetta, Tout Va Bien, I am Curious, El Mariachi,

Television:

Twin Peaks and Monday Night Football.

Books:

Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy
John Paul Sartre's Road to Freedom Trilogy
Simone de Beauvoir's "Prime of Life"
James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Frantz Fanon's "A Dying Colonialism"
Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
Che's "Motorcycle Diaries" and "Otra Vez" Michel Foucault's "Archaeology of Knowledge" Marshall McLuhan's "The Media is the Massage" Alan Lomax "The Land Where the Blues Began"

Heroes:

I would be obliged to someone who could remove the calories from Fat Tire beer without removing the taste. If meatlover's pizza could be decalorized that would be great too!

My mother and father, my grandmother, all of my students

All of the writers who have had the courage to live and write on their own terms. Sartre, Neruda, de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, James Joyce.

Righteous revolutionaries like Che, Fanon, King, Paulo Freire, and Angela Davis

My Blog

I Dream of a World After AIDS

Its not a sonnet, but its sonnet-like. Something that I have been thinking about since I started training for the AIDS Marathon. I think we sometimes need to give ourselves license to dream; and then ...
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:12:00 PST

My Interview on ScriptSlinger.com

Hey, check out my 15 Questions on ScriptSlinger.com. Click below to access their website:ScriptSlinger.com
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:25:00 PST

The New Script

Just handed in book #3 to the editors. Hooray! And summer is coming (not that I shouldn't be writing non-stop) so I am devoting full energy to my next play that chronicles one day in the life of three...
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

I AM RUNNING THE AIDS MARATHON-PLEASE DONATE

I AM RUNNING THE AIDS MARATHON IN FLORENCE!TO DONATE CLICK BELOW:I am training for the 2007 Florence Marathon, which will take place on November 25, 2007. From From May until November, I'll be logging...
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:12:00 PST

Jay Gatsby's Turn--My Birthday Poem

Here is my birthday poem. Its becoming a tradition. The irony is that Jay Gatsby didn't live to see the turn; and it is easier to judge than to empathize with one of the most authentic characters of A...
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST

Resolve and Inspiration

Its been one of those days. Maybe it is the weather, maybe it is the age. But here's to all of my friends that are going through it today; this poem is for you! EMResolve and InspirationAt this age th...
Posted by Ernest Morrell, Words on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:50:00 PST