Tag Archives: Death

Dead Man: Death, Poetry, and Music in the old west.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by randomyriad

Jim Jarmusch’s movie Dead Man is a blending of surreal scenes, beautifully understated acting, and the haunting music of Neil Young’s solo guitar, and it tells the story of William Blake, an accountant from Ohio, who comes to the edge … Continue reading →

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Irrigation Canal Codex by Luis Alberto Urrea

Posted on August 24, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Y los muchachos cling to the cantina’s jukebox heart, sing: we never go nowhere we never see nothing but work: these fingers bleed every daylong day, aching from la joda of the harvest– y la…

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Pieces of my date book journal experiment of last summer. June 2012 I have no idea how to write in this small space, but I am sure something will occur to me.   I talked with a man today about … Continue reading →

Posted on March 3, 2013 by randomyriad | Leave a comment

Storytellers Inside the Story: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Crossing”

Posted on September 18, 2010 by randomyriad

I have been listening to a fine reading (by Alexander Adams) of Cormac McCarthy‘s  “The Crossing.” In it the Author uses different voices to comment on the nature of storytelling, good and evil, life and death, the value of art … Continue reading →

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The Dead Do Not Weep

Posted on April 8, 2010 by randomyriad

The sounds of sorrow, pain and horror; sighs, moans, shrieks, and howls, can be the sounds of joy, rapture and ecstasy. Laughter can be an expression of happy surprise or vicious derision Light can be enlightenment or the harsh glare … Continue reading →

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