Consume Perpetual Sea

we're down
like deep sea
like flying saucers
landing
underwater
we don't get around
much anywhere
up where they
still breathe the air

we swim
still equally
spread over the surface of
all things wet
we don't care of the sky anymore
we're blue
and down deep inside
we've got a watery fortress
and strange powers
and old books with
no pages staged like
spoken pinter
plays in
witty 1960s London
we'll go
dressed in white
and cordoba black
silver clouds
names changed into nouns
here comes no one
have some flowers
it all goes black
the sea is never slack
death remembers
to go back
everything dry and of
the land goes back
the last whip of the film ending swings
like Townsend's arm in
a perpetual future dream.
sell it all
tickets for the
lost carousel
wooden laughing
horses rising and singing
your name
before the flames
consume.

Face Fading On the Western Ridge

a hundred new feet
without a name
clear but different
not connected
in no books
not the same
turned away
no named
with such strains happy
the man he says
happier than a whisper.

Come On Pilgrim

In the back seat of your car / the view from the books in your school / is blinding

DVD LIST (A-Z) 2012 Update

list of dvds

A Single Man
The Abyss
Adventures of Ichabod Crane/Wind In the Willows
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Alice in Wonderland
Air Force One
Alien
Aliens
Aliens vs Predator
Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem
Alive
Arachnophobia
Army of Darkness
Avatar
Aviator
Backdraft
Back to the Future 1,2 & 3
Batman Returns
Bats
Bauhaus : Gotham
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
Beetlejuice
The Birds
Bladerunner: Director's Cut
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
Boys n The Hood
Brave Little Toaster
Brazil:Box Set
Breakfast Club
The Bridge
John Cale / Fragments For A Rainy Season
Candyman
Casino Royale
Chicken Run
Chip & Dale
Clash of The Titans(2009)
Close Encounter of The Third Kind
Cloverfield
Commando
Anton Corbin Videos
Corpse Bride
Crazies, The
Chris Cunningham Videos
Dark Crystal
Dawn of The Dead
The Day After Tomorrow
Dark Knight, the
Day of The Dead
Daybreakers
Dead Ringers
Dead Snow
Dead Zone
Deep Impact
The Departed
Die Hard
District 9
The Doom Generation
The Doors
Dracula
Dune
Edward II
Edward Scissorhands
Eraserhead
Erasure Videos
Escape From New York
Evil Dead II
Existenz
Fantasia 1,2 & Legacy(boxset)
Fantastic Four:Rise of the silver surfer
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Finding Nemo
Neil Finn: Seven World Collide
Firestarter
The Fearless Freaks:the flaming lips
Flatliners
Fright Night
From Hell
Fourth Kind, the
Fog
The Fountain
Fugitive, the
Gamer
Gladiator
Goodfellas
Goonies
Gothika
Gremlins
Best Of Phil Hartman(SNL)
Haunting
Harold and Maude
Hellraiser
History of The World Part I(Mel Brooks)
Robin Hitchcock: Gotta Let This Hen Out
Robin Hitchcock Storefront Hitchcock
Robin Hitchcock: Sex, Bugs, Food and Insects
Hollow Man
Hunt For Red October
Inception
Incredibles, the
Independence Day
I, Robot
Indiana Jones (box set)
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Iron Giant
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Jacob's Ladder
James and The Giant Peach
Jaws
Joy Division: Here Are The Young Men
Jurassic Park (box set)
Jurassic Park: The Lost World
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park: Making Of DVD
Kraftwerk: Minimum / Maximum
Kung Fu Panda
Ladyhawk
Labyrinth
Land of the Dead
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Lord of The Rings:Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of The Rings:Two Towers
Lord of The Rings:Return Of The King
Lost Boys
Love & Rockets: Haunted Fishtank
Love Is The Devil
Madonna: Videos
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revelations
Mary Poppins
Meaning of Life
Medicine Man
Michael, George: Ladies and Gentlemen Videos
Milk
Mirrors
Mommy Dearest
Morriseey: Oye Esteban
Morrissey: Who put the M in Manchester
Mysterious Skin
New Jack City
Night of The Comet
Nightmare on Elm Street
Nightmare Before Christmas
Night of the Living Dead
9
Nomi Song
101 Dalmatians
Pandorum
Paris is Burning
Patriot Games
Pi
Pet Shop Boys videos
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Point Break
Poltergeist
Polar Express
Prince of Darkness
Prestige
Predator
Public Enemies
Purple Rain
Quarantine
REM Videos
Requiem For A Dream
Return of The Living Dead
Return of The Living Dead II
Robocop
Romancing The Stone
Saving Private Ryan
Secret of Nihm
Sherlock Holmes
Sick and Twisted Animation Festival
Sick and Twisted Animation Festival 2
Silence of The Lambs
Simpson's Series I
Simpson's Series II
Simpson's Series III
Simpson's Series IV
Simpson's Series V
Simpson's Series VI
Simpson's Series VII
Simpson's Series IX
Simpson's Series X
Simpson's Series XI
Simpson's Series XII
Simpson's Series XIII
Simpsons Movie
Sleeping Beauty
Slither
Smiths Videos
Snow White & The Seven Dwarves
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source Code
Speed
Spider
Spiderman
Spiderman 2
Spiderman 3
Splendor
Star Wars I, II & III(box set)
Sweeney Todd
Terminator
T2
Terminator: Salvation
Thelma and Louise
Thing, the
300
Time Bandits
Tony
Total Recall
Toy Story I + 2(box set)
Toy Story 3
Tron
Tron Legacy
12 Monkeys
24 Hour Party People
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
2010
2012
Twister
U2 Videos
Up
Warriors
Watchmen
Watership Down
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Witches of Eastwick
Wolfman
X-Men
X2(X-men 2)
X-men 3:Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Young Frankenstein
Zodiac
ZombieLand

The Fog Remade/Reviewed

Generally one remakes a film because they feel there is something missing, something that can be improved on or done better. Sometimes they are updated to make them more relevant to 'today's audience' which is usually code for 'younger/more familiar actors', 'needs more gore' or someone has a career they are trying to promote, depending on the whim of the director. This film has all three, including introducing a needless love story angle which just fizzles based on the way the characters are presented. Instead of a creepy soundtrack, I'm expected to be terrorized by a bunch of pop songs? Hardly menacing in any way and worse, serving to immediately date the film.

The movie is shot well-its not hard to look at and the people you are supposed to sympathize with are all very pretty/sexy. I was thinking with a little money and some newer actors and the available technology/effects they would at least do something daring with the film. Instead it was one endless nu horror cliche after another with CW/television level acting. In addition, the characters were just so unsympathetic. The main character is cheating on the girlfriend with the DJ which is explained away because the girlfriend just "Up and left town for 6 months" without saying where she was. Huh? So essentially, she is missing for half a year? When he happens to pick her up on the main road into town, ala Jamie Lee Curtis' character in the original, they just go on like "hey no big deal, glad you're home! lets have sex!" Her mom acts like some cold cardboard Ice Storm extra, the priest is either totally drunk or totally sober depending on what scene and "Stevie Wayne" the heroine of the original is acted by Blair like some house cat who dialed in what is probably one of the worst performances in the film though not the only one.

While the effects in the original film are simply done and creepy due to looking 'natural' (i.e. its really 'fog' they created in much of the first film) whereas every sequence where the CGI is used feels forced-I'm thinking particularly of the scene with the aunt burning up but the fog itself it too digitized to be creepy). Really the only sequence that was interesting to watch were with the Elizabeth Dane, where the make up seemed good, the effects natural looking and the acting believable. Sadly, I cannot say the same for the rest of the film.

The only person I felt sorry for was the old man with his dogs but his story arc seems unexplainable and meaningless, other than showing cruelty towards him and his dogs. In the original film, this doesn't even matter. Dogs are shown barking, not being left as a steaming corpse on a dock or worse yelping in pain in the darkness. What would the dead even care about the dogs anyway since the plots revenge angle is about the people? You can tell a lot of this was created to please a very specific demographic (I'm thinking people who watch the Buffy,  or those who feel the Final Destination films are rife with pathos) but if you wanted to see a reasonably scary horror film, this isn't the one.

This film has so many plot holes that, rather than the viewer being able to ignore them, the film collapses into them. I am not sure why Carpenter was even involved other than writing and directing the original. This isn't the worst film I have ever seen, but I really felt like it didn't do the main thing a horror film should do which was to scare me or at least keep me entertained and it did neither.

From A Hill Over The River

a hill
from underneath
is invisible
still flowers
growing through
point swaying towards the sun
like any golden ray would
tell it on to lock
the beating polyrhythms
create aural light cascades
as though ridden
farther away
to face winds
blown down crippling corridors
the dark ends of the street
quiet for nothing but
alibis clinging
together like cold
hands rippling
leathery parchments
creased in
the basement
of mercy street

Old Cynicism For the New Year

jagged rays of moon
lay dead and fallen
fallow and callous
in the light
of all seasons
as they go by,
as Persephone sings her song
and is dragged down
along with her seeds
and her frown
to harvest a new
tomorrow.