Basically I’m just a Writer at large! I can’t NOT write–I have to let it out.
I play in the imagination and then share it all with you!
Я встретил Кремль на этой фотографии. (At the Kremlin). This was shortly before Putin took over as President and ruined things. Dark days were ahead. Of course, he had been PM for the previous three months. But who knew, really, how things would turn out? Suspicions were there, but . . .
And then FREEDOM was gone, as though it had been no more than a puff of smoke that lingered for only a brief minute above Moscow before drifting across the Steppes and all of Russia and then dissipating completely. All gone. All an illusion!
And now the U.S. is spiraling downward into the same dark hole. Autocracy, Plutocracy. God help us!
Anyway . . . so I write to escape the growing darkness. I used to really love to go there, to venture into the zone of the imaginary world. It’s all fun and games there, and I can bring you along for the ride. This is becoming more and more difficult, however. I still go, just less often. Why? Well, I can’t help wondering if the real world will still be here when I get back.
What used to be reality is now a sort of nightmarish Alice in Wonderland. The rabbit hole surrounds us. People choose to believe in propaganda and lies. They seem to want to live in this fake “Reality” TV show type of existence instead of a fact based world. They take in misinformation and spread it, knowingly. Or not. People I once knew to be sane and have common sense have become foreign entities. They are now like aliens, beings from another world. No facts can break through the delusional state. It’s radicalization on a grand scale. Where oh where is sanity?
OK. Sorry . . . Let me claw my way back from the ledge, from the edge of darkness.
The following is what I had had up when I first set up the site. I’m leaving it up. And who would have thought that film noir would be considered lighter fare than the reality of the day, Huh? LOL.
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Let’s see, what else? Oh, yeah, I’m a big fan of film noir. Thinking about starting up another blog/webpage devoted to it. Not that I don’t already have too many irons in the fire. One of the older noir films I watched recently: Blonde Ice. Too many older ones to name. Laura comes to mind, right off the bat, and so many, many more . . . And lately I’ve re-watched some of my ’90s and early 2000s favorites (which a lot of people might not even realize are noir films): China Moon (Benicio del Toro was so young, early 20s), Jennifer 8 (love this one for some reason), A Kiss Before Dying (a remake, but the original was good too, of course). And what I’m going to re-watch tonight is . . . The Killer Inside Me (came out in 2010), based on the pulp fiction classic by Jim Thompson. Thompson is very, very dark, however. If you’ve never watched or read him, be prepared.
So yes, I’m a big fan of pulp fiction works that inspired the movies, and the cover art was always fantastic. Authors like Jim Thompson, Charles Williams, who authored The Hot Spot, also a movie of the ’90s with Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, and Virginia Madsen. I believe Dennis Hopper directed it. It might also be a remake, not sure. Too many authors and works to name.
Appears as though I’m getting started on my new blog/webpage here–or at least a post!
