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Movies, mindfulness, and musings. With a sarcastic tone.

• Poem of the Week: Dream Song 384 by John Berryman

  By Vegan Cinephile on March 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Dream Song 384 The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done, I stand above my father’s grave with rage, often, often before I’ve made this awful pilgrimage to one who cannot visit me, who tore his page out: I come back… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Tulips by Sylvia Plath

  By Vegan Cinephile on February 28, 2014 • ( 2 )

  Tulips The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Fishing in Winter by Ralph Burns

  By Vegan Cinephile on February 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Fishing in Winter A man staring at a small lake sees His father cast light line out over The willows. He’s forgotten his Father has been dead for two years And the lake is where a blue fog Rolls, and… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Barfly by Charles Bukowski

  By Vegan Cinephile on February 14, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Barfly Jane, who has been dead for 31 years, never could have imagined that I would write a screenplay of our drinking days together and that it would be made into a movie and that a beautiful movie star would… Read More ›

• Downton Abbey: Pigs in a Blanket

  By Vegan Cinephile on February 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Spoilers included Well, it’s official. While I’ve held off judgement until this point, it’s become quite obvious. Downton Abbey is a soap opera. This week’s episode just went way over to the deep end in terms of soap-opera tone.  Now the… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Looking, Walking, Being by Denise Levertov

  By Vegan Cinephile on February 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Looking, Walking, Being “The World is not something to look at, it is something to be in.” Mark Rudman I look and look. Looking’s a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: A Desolation by Allen Ginsberg

  By Vegan Cinephile on January 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  A Desolation Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my eyes in the trees? So I will build:  wife, family, and seek for neighbors…. Read More ›

• Penguin Cheerleaders: Why I Won’t Be Watching Puppy Bowl X

  By Vegan Cinephile on January 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Historically, the Puppy Bowl has been somewhat like, well, a puppy.  So cute, so sweet – you can’t possible resist it, let alone hate it.  Only serial killers hate puppies! This annual televised event started ten years ago and was… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Midnight Feeding by Daisy Fried

  By Vegan Cinephile on January 17, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Midnight Feeding The open shed on the lawn’s far side stinks of gas from the hateful mower that pulls me where it wants when I mow, which is seldom. I rip up grass. Humid night’s moon’s nothing-halo; the lawn pretends… Read More ›

• Paranormal Activity, The Marked Ones : Hi, My Name is Simon…(Spoilers)

  By Vegan Cinephile on January 15, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  I think the best part of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is the fact that it made me excited for Paranormal Activity 5 – the next in the series which will be released this October.  The other film sequels sort… Read More ›