Enjoy “Messenger, I have chosen against the icons” in Aphelion’s free online webzine, published today:
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2015/05/MessengerAgainstTheIcons.html
Congratulations, DV!!
:-)
And thank you for the “likes” and the “shares.” It really does mean a lot.
“Lying Close,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Lying Close
Lying with her,
Lying close,
Lying while her past escapes in silver whispers.
Lying with her,
Lying close,
Lying while the unspoken
Is a rough coal in my own throat.
Her soft voice is as that
Of the single quail at dusk —
Easy and artless.
My silence fails to announce
The purposeful, leaning
Turn of the falcon’s arc.
Lying with her,
Lying close,
Lying by omission.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2013
First published by Dead Snakes, May 2013:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/05/eric-robert-nolan-two-poems.html
“Coturnix Novaezelandiae (New Zealand Quail),” Charles Joseph Hullmandel, “The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror,” 1844
A Quick Review of “The Interview” (2014)
“The Interview” (2014) was a pretty good comedy for much of its running length, but then lost its way — I’d give it a 7 out of 10.
James Franco is fantastic — he’s funny as hell, and I think I am on my way to becoming a Franco fan (Francophile?). Seth Rogan is a good straight man. And Randall Park is terrific in the role of Kim Jong Unpleasant.
The funniest parts of the movie happen early on, with celebrity interviews on the movie’s fictional entertainment news show. The cameo by Eminem was hilarious, thanks to Franco’s over-the-top reactions and the rapper’s surprisingly great deadpan delivery. The cameo by Joseph Gordon Levitt was funny even without a line of dialogue. I wish the whole movie was like that — a goofy, dialogue driven farce about the Fourth Estate, like “Anchorman” (2004) or the 1980s’ “Fletch” movies.
Sadly, Franco’s wit increasingly takes a back seat to potty humor and seemingly constant sex jokes. It’s not that I’m a Puritan or anything … these things just weren’t funny, and even started to feel like filler. Then the movie fails remarkably in its final act, with bizarre creative choices by the screenwriters — it turns into slapstick physical farce with (confusingly) a lot of violence, blood and gore. Finger horror? Borrowing a stomach-turning, brutal battle sequence from “Band of Brothers” (2001)? Miss Pyongyang? And … a bizarre emotional payoff regarding a rescued puppy? Huh?
Whatever. The film was still funny. And it makes me want to check out another James Franco movie. So it has that going for it.
You know how you know you’re a “Gladiator” fan?
When your friend is in a play and you tell her “Win the crowd!” instead of “Break a leg.”
sick B*STARDS!!!
Noooooo, not YOU people!! “sick B*STARDS” is the title of a new book by Matt Shaw, for which 4-LAN has written a great review over at his blog, “What I am Reading.”
It actually sounds like a really interesting, no-holds-barred, intense postapocalyptic horror novel — read the robot’s review right here:
http://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/what-i-am-reading-28
“Politics: A Haiku,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Politics: A Haiku
red rats, blue weasels —
opportunistic little
mammals dart at votes.
© Eric Robert Nolan 2013
First published by Dead Snakes, July 2013:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/07/eric-robert-nolan-three-poems.html
Image from “Die Gartenlaube,” 1870.
Scarlet Witch Had a Rough Childhood.
If you liked Elizabeth Olsen in “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” then check out “Silent House.” She hit it out of the park, and the movie is a cool horror-thriller that I think was unfairly panned.
This was my review.
“Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn’t let you into heaven for.”
BLADE RUNNER.
It’s only fun until someone loses their eyes.
“When I Meet The Devil,” by Eric Robert Nolan
When I Meet the Devil
When I meet the Devil
I’ll kill him.
Not for his endless treachery, richly expressed
In perfectly worded, erudite, platinum-bright aphorisms.
Not for the endless lies that spiral from his quick lips
Like fine red ethereal thread, spooling at our feet
Like bloodshot spider-web.
Not for the false
Compliments that slide off his baroque tongue
Like newly minted coins of fool’s gold.
When I meet the devil,
I’ll kill him
Because God made him.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2013
First published by Dead Snakes, May 2013:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/05/eric-robert-nolan-two-poems.html
Photo credit: “Der Heilige Michael,” Luca Giordano, 1663 (via Wikimedia Commons)
