Sleeping Beauty (2011) Old Man Summarizing "The Thirtieth Year," by Ingeborg Bachmann.

"All things corporeal."

Andrew Bird - "A Nervous Tic Motion..." - Live at Bonnaroo

Gregory Alan Isakov - Before the Sun (Official Lyric Video)

Gregory Alan Isakov - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Elle King ft. Sierra Ferrell "White Lightning" | THE TOMBOY SESSIONS

Milly Raccoon - Marijuana in the Morning

A Portended Vision of a Violent Collision - Pond and the Hamblen County, Tennesee School Board Being Made to Awaken

I envision the entire Hamblen County School Board having their eyelids pulled back like Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange and made to watch this for hours. https://1drv.ms/w/c/5701497d61acfce0/Ee0nDPwFhmxAtbS1IY1Og0IBCJZ105usuc_gWiLLZFlzcg?e=cgWv75

The Red Shoes

Embedded in this, one of the best films ever, is the Red Shoes Ballet, and should truly be appreciated when filtered through psilocybic contact lenses and tempanic membranes on a wide screen with Dolby.

The Night of the Hunter (1955) - A Brilliant Film Classic

The screeplay was written by none-other than Knoxville's James Agee. This thing should be mandatory viewing for all divinity students, wannabe preachers, and church congregants. While this is loosely based upon the crimes of Harry Powers, "a Dutch-born serial killer," who lured women through "lonley hearts club" advertisements from the early 20th century, progenetors of sites like Match.com and eharmony. Powers would then murder them for their money. James Agee'smuted screenplay from these events, formed the basis for the film, directed by Charles Laughton. At the time I was watching this, bearing in mind that I live in Appalachia where preachers are rarely second-guessed by their ignorant congregants, I thought that this was the best film I've ever seen. I still do. The Night of the Hunter is absolutely dark, Gothic, honest, and purely wonderful.

Thelonious Monk - Underground (1968) (Full Album)

Cliff Cash - How I Found Joy Becoming Spiritually Un-f*ckwithable

Rocks

Malformed Deformed Daffodils, Spring 2025

I've seen several of these malformed daffodils, all wadded up in perversion of form this Spring in the field behind my home. There's something worrysome about this. See, I know these flowers. The subterranian bulbs squeeze up these flowers every Spring in roughly the same form and in the same spots in the field. Heretofore the daffodils have been traditional every single year, for decades. So these are alarming in some respects, yet might have a reasonable scientific etiology. A house used to sit, many decades ago, on this piece of land.

Introducing Cliff Cash, Zen Comedian

Vernal Equinox 2025 in Occupied Amerika

In occupied Amerika the clocks strike Springtime to the early morning spit of Thursday's scattered showers. This is the inaugural, first official Spring in occupied Amerika. Cherry blossoms fail to hide the devils in D.C.

Hancock County, Tennessee - On my way to work

How to Know You Are In A Cult (1953)

Police Tactique

Police officers have deadly weapons placed just north of their kidneys, called adrenal glands which, when triggered, engage all others. Two globules, each containing the triggering seeds of rage, bent uncontrollable and vicious, prepared at all times to put upon that which alarms the ill will of the pissed off ultra violent chimpanzees within all men.

DEI has a Downside, Called Greg Abbot

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others masterfully explores the intersection of form infecting art, and art infecting a single Stazi human form. Authoritarianism and the arts. Easily one of the greatest artforms ever created. The Lives of Others.

Sonic Youth - Incinerate

Porno for Pyros - Pets

Me Floating Bad Branch Kentucky and Gregory Alan Isakov - San Luis (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

An act of letting go.  Ironic that it took addiction and its evisceration of self-control for me to act like I was letting go, like a dog slipping its lead.  Today there's no need to act like I'm letting go with silly antics like this.  Today, I don't have as much to prove.  This news is almost all good.

Daggers

Pairs of glaring, bare bodkin eyes from each of the victim's parents and a heartbreaking admission from the boy's mother that refuses to dispense from me despite my many efforts: "I failed to protect my child." This all, while they glare sad daggers from the gallery at the clever man in the carefully selected jet black suit that he'll one night wear while descending into hell.

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Doobie Bros. - Another Park Another Sunday

Steely Dan - King Of The World

The abolute masterwork from a band named after a dildo.

sjowgren - seventeen

Beirut - Elephant Gun (Official Video)

Pearl Jam - Thin Air

I Am The Walrus (Remastered 2009)

The Haunting Paintings of Ken Currie

Steely Dan - Dirty Work

Mister Organ - Official Trailer

A intriguing documentary that draws attention to one of many millions of horribles.

Bodhisattva - Steely Dan's Masterpiece

Play en route to pay the creamator.

Anora

I struggled to watch this, not because it was emotionally difficult, but because, as it turned out, there are three parts to this film, which, using a graphic metaphor, started out with spray paint on the side of a discarded dumpster, transitioning to colored comedic sharpies on drawing pads, to a master stroke of oil on an expensive canvas. I was at first disgusted, then entertained (slightly) with the comic relief, and emotionally punched by the last scene. But, all that work to get to that brief interlude was not worth it. At all. On the other hand, Yuriy Borisove's taciturn performance was deeply beautiful. He didn't have to say a word to express his perfect love for Anora. You could feel the love. The Academy Award for Best Actor in a Taciturn Role.

The Theory of STUPIDITY | Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My Appalachian Catchment, Ray Peek and Professor Bill Woods, Esquires.

I have dear friends and clients, past and present, alive, dead, and dying, for whom I care deeply, who reside in spots with names like Owl Hole Gap, Poor Valley, Tate Springs, Rock Haven, Ni**er Hollow, Wildcat Hollow, Joppa Mountain, Washburn, Treadway, Thorn Hill, Chinqupin, Yellow Branch, Spruce Pine, Pressman's Home, Hogg Lot, Cloud Creek, Cloud Creek Hollow, Mulberry Gap, Duck Creek, Snake Hollow, Newman's Ridge, Vardy, Clinch, War Creek, Stoney Fork, Cool Branch, Short Mountain, Stone Mountain, Devil's Nose, Treadway, Thorn Hill, Round Mountain, Grassy Fork, Kyle's Ford, Viking Mountain, Blackwater, Turkey Creek, Stubblefield Creek, Morristown Mountain, and Gravel Hill, where I live. These people make mistakes, requiring at times help, not punishment because punishment don't help. From a distance the mountains and hollows seem idyllic, but it's not so. In fact, ignorance permeates the rise and fall of my catchment and its topography. I'll only be able to change things one family at a time, introducing the ideas of neither killing nor consuming animals, mutual aid, community, and secularism. Unfortunately, upon learning that there are people who think differently, their faces blanken as if there's nothing going on. But, in the words of my Torts professor, Hon. Bill Woods, "it ain't necessarily so." Fading memories from attending the pure brutality of four years of law school discharged at night, after work, include my buddy, Ray McAlexander Peek, and red faced Professor Woods, who, at mid lecture, always broke the neo-Socratic torture chamber with a monotone, "time to take a little break," to take another drink. Thank God. Ray approached me during one of those little pauses and posited: "I know how we're going to be able to endure this hell on earth for four years, Paul" "How?," I says. He winked: "two beers."

Short Mountain in Mooresburg, Tennessee

Albert Einstein's Highly Relevant Observation on the Rise of Fascism with a Contemporary Adjustment

"The present state of affairs in Germany is a state of psychic distemper in the masses. Hitler picked up human flotsam in the streets and in the towns and organized them around himself." Contempoary Translation: The present state of affairs in America is a state of psychic distempter. Trump picked up human flotsam from the provinces, hills, and hollers, and organized them around himself.

Mountaintop Destruction in Mooresburg, Tennessee

Holler branches feed the creeks that churn the rivers. Somebody needs to tell these mother-fuckers.

Daniel Johnston "Held The Hand"

Resisting Pouring Hemlock Into One's Own Ear - Eckhart Tolle on Transforming Suffering into Awakening

An Atheist Every Other Day

God keeps some of us unlucky and long living because deep down she knows that a long and painful life is way worse than a slow bedded death, the goddamn bitch.

Neutral Milk Hotel - The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1

Horrible People - "Madness in Greatness Shall Not Unwatched Go." Shakespeare