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Ed, I’m glad that the government shutdown has ended, and I’m relieved that we didn’t default on our debt. But I want to be clear: I am NOT celebrating tonight. Yes, we prevented an economic catastrophe that would have put a huge hole in our fragile economic recovery. But the reason we were in thisContinue reading “Post. 16 Oct 2013.”

Rock on Mr Cash, rock on.

This is an old Marshall 2×12 cab that I’d loaded with a vintage Celestion 30 and 25 speakers. I hadn’t played through it in 10 years and actually hated the sound at the time. Fast forward. It really sounds incredible. I think the difference is — at the time I was very much into PRSContinue reading “Marshall 2×12. 14 Oct 2013.”

Over dale. This camera really has been on the dusty trail. I suspect the one coming in from Kenya will be in the same mode. It’s good to have the optionality of modes.

Shark 2013, William Vaughan Conte Crayon on paper, 40″x40″. (For Damien Hirst & TTIF Screenplay) These are a series of drawings that arose out of a screenplay that I’m currently working on. They seem to have dovetailed nicely into the mishmash frames that that will go into a gallery show in San Francisco late nextContinue reading “Shark. 12 Oct 2012.”

If a screenwriter fails to move us with the purity of a dramatized scene, he cannot, like a novelist in authorial voice, or the playwright in soliloquy, hide behind his words. He cannot smooth a coating of explanatory or emotive language over cracks in logic, blotchy motivation, or colorless emotion and simply tell us whatContinue reading “RM. 10 Oct 2013.”

“There is a place beyond space, time, and thought, but it is very expensive.”

Everyone wants to rap, unrap. How in the HELL is anyone getting ANYTHING done? I ask you that… Maroon end into guitar… Sheesh.