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Portrait of My Father - 3/08
2008-04-29 08:56:00
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Fate
2008-04-26 10:24:00
"When the Gods wish to punish you, they answer your prayers..."~African Proverb née Isak Dineson (attributed)
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San Gabriel Foothills - January, 2004
2008-04-25 19:44:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } San Gabriel Foothills - January , 2004, originally uploaded by levari.

Matisse - The Piano Lesson
2008-04-24 06:53:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Matisse - The Piano Lesson , originally uploaded by levari. My favorite painting...ever.

The Wind Storm - 3/08
2008-04-22 09:23:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Wind Storm - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere 2008
2008-04-21 23:04:00
The good people over at Blogging Poet were kind enough to nominate me for the Poet Laureate of the Internet award they give out every year. I'm very honored, however I can only say this: PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR ME.There are so many other poets, men and women who live, die and eat poetry every day as teachers, as writers, as readers and they are far more deserving of this award then I could ever be. The past winners, Ron Silliman, Jilly Dybka and Amy King are poets in the finest and realest sense of the word who have devoted their life to the art and the craft of poetry, and all that this devotion means. They live it every day.Fortunately, I do many, many things for work and pleasure, and I've been able to make a living as a film writer for the last couple years. I can't tell you how grateful I am that I have been lucky enough to do this. When I was younger, no, but as I get older I see how truly rare it is to be able to work in a craft whose possibilities, given the right ci...
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The Golden Gun
2008-04-20 11:51:00
"Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire."~Helmut Newton
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The Neo Gilded Age - Biltmore Hotel - 3/08
2008-04-17 13:41:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Neo Gilded Age - Biltmore Hotel - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Versailles
2008-04-16 08:57:00
Waking mind refusing to let its guard down.Clenched body lying here, following its own orders.All the things you did not do today.All the gestures thought about but never made.All the whispers you thought you heard, but could never quite make out.Dreams of untwisted lands twisted.Then the real desires comeas if they were never lost and never could be:family,life into old age,the forest after rain...grasstreesabookahouseawarmbedmygra ndfatherwrappedinaredwoolblanketfishingth eriverandunhookingthesunniesformetothrowb ackin...Finally, the sun peaks up and through the curtainsto see if I'm all right.Then it tells me:You are,so go to sleep now.Hollywood - 1/07
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Tera - 10/07 -The Short Stop, Silver Lake
2008-04-15 21:57:00
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These Days
2008-04-14 03:41:00
"Both in and out ofthe game, and watching and wonderingat it..."~Walt Whitman
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The Sun Bathers - 3/08
2008-04-10 07:19:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Sun Bathers - 3/08, originally uploaded by levari.

The Battle
2008-04-09 08:55:00
my conscious wants the vegetarians to conquer the world (for once.)my subconscious only wants a bloody piece of raw meat;most of the time it's all reversed(...to be continued...)Philadelphia, PA - 2/08
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Surveillance - 2/08
2008-04-07 10:35:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Surveillance - 2/08, originally uploaded by levari.

The Greatest Poem Ever Transcribed
2008-04-05 08:59:00
"It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said,...to rot in the earthis a loathsome end, but to roar up in flame---besides, I am used to it,I have flamed with love or fury so often in my life,no wonder my body is tired, no wonder it is dying.We had great joy of my body. Scatter the ashes."~Robinson Jeffers
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The Passion 1/15/08
2008-04-04 12:01:00
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First Page
2008-04-04 04:02:00
In this momentalong the beheadedpath of timeso begins the bookof your lifewhose words youwill conjurewithout asking permission,andwithout ever learning the rules.You will make them upwhile turning these coiled,cocked,ruined pagesand transcribe into themthe infinite whitenessof the desperate night,and this morning'smourningthat tiptoes between thesecondsof you.~New York - 9/19/01
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The Valet - 2/08
2008-04-01 11:25:00
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Meet The Press
2008-03-31 10:30:00
To maintain theories of renovating the human race through systems...is about the same thing as to maintain that man grows milder with civilization. Logically, perhaps, this is so; yet he is so prone to Systems and abstract deductions that he is forever ready to mutilate the truth, to be blind to what he sees or deaf to what he hears, so long as he can succeed in vindicating his logic...civilization develops in man nothing but an added capacity to receive impressions-that is all. And the growth of that capacity increases his tendency to seek pleasure in spilling blood. You may have noticed that some of the most enthusiastic blood-letters are almost always the most "civilized" of people.~Nietzche"Western Civilization? Yes, I think that would be a good idea."~Ghandi"You have to be something of a butchering murderer to be a politician."~Henry Miller
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Golden Bars
2008-03-28 23:43:00
What were you always waiting for?All this "getting through..."What are you waiting for?All this so-called knowledgebefore you begin.One last book,one last sentence,one last word,one last film,one last theory,one last conversationthat will finally end all this,let it begin.One last piece that will finallyallow you to say goodbye,goodnight,I'm selling everything off,I'm burning everything down,going straight out of business,and it's about time.Maybe stand on you own,speak your own,hear your ownjust this once.And just when you believethere's nothing left,andit is finally time to beginthere is always one more...One more question,one more curiosity,one more mistake,one more experience,one more overgrown pathstretching before you.So you take the step,start chopping away,dive in,believing this is the lastand afterwardslife will begin, you always promise this.Los Angeles - 4/26/06
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The Dance - 1/08
2008-03-24 09:18:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Dance - 1/08, originally uploaded by levari.

Lady in Blue - 8/05
2008-03-19 11:31:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lady in Blue - 8/05, originally uploaded by levari.

14:12
2008-03-17 07:54:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 14:12, originally uploaded by levari. "...as fate followed in our wakelike a madmanbrandishing a razor."~Zerkalo

La Brea, Los Angeles - dawn
2008-03-14 10:27:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } La Brea , Los Angeles - 4:14 am, originally uploaded by levari.
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fragments for a song never sung
2008-03-12 22:00:00
up in flameswe're up in flamesno painwe're up in flames.lost the gameno one to blame numb the painour method by any means. up in flameswe always goup in flamesso take your picture have a ballit really doesn't matter at all,you and mewe just went up in flames11/06with no shame
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cinema=JLG=cinema
2008-03-10 11:23:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } , originally uploaded by levari. "First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we are entering the age of the ass!"~Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot Le Fou
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Bus Stop, Echo Park - 3/5/08
2008-03-08 02:43:00
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Let It Come Down
2008-03-06 09:45:00
"Do not fill your life with gaps, but fill your gaps with life."~Paul Bowles

Poets and Pornographers
2008-03-05 03:58:00
The poets and the pornographersmeet in the same placeevery nightafter the city has emptied out.Not the touristsnor the policecan tell the poets and pornographersapart.In fact,the poets and pornographerscan barely telleach other apart,let alone noticethe absurdityof the situationsthat has brought them to thisstateof comraderie.The pornographersprovide the cognac,the poets bringthe cigars;it's been like this for longer than eithercan remember.Anything that happensbetween the hoursof midnight and dawnhas noprecedentand is decided ona case by casebasis.The poets and the pornographerslaugh at each other's foibles, ticks, indiosynchrocies;they admire the same women and men;they mix freely,judge each other solelyon moral grounds,and enjoy the missinghollows of each;sometimes they evencrawl in.The poets and the pornographersoften pair up, make love,spend days, weeks, even yearsonlyto split apart and recombinewithout wisdom or madness;it is only the pornographersthat truly lament the passi...
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Morning Correspondance
2008-03-03 03:03:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Morning Correspondance, originally uploaded by levari. Morning Lee,Are you working away on that screenplay that has this Friday's deadline?I am happy to tell you I am feeling much better today...Two nights ago I had quite a horrible dream that today I have come to understand has everything to do with what I have been going through, may I tell you about it?In this dream, I am 4 months pregnant, and I am starting to have heavy contractions. I am in one of the country hospitals where I was shooting the births during my Vietnam trip a couple months ago. Anyway, in this hospital the nurses tell me that I am in labor. I am so confused and scared and am wondering how I could possibly have the baby at such an early stage, and I am terrified that once the baby comes out it is going to be too premature to live.Then ...