Tag Archives: Silver Screen Fiend

Just a Thought

Posted on March 26, 2020 by GirlZoot

Sprocket fiend is the name I have for the subterranean dimension to my film addiction. The subtle, beneath-the-sound-track sound of the clattering projector in those old rep theaters, especially in the New Beverly. The defiant, twenty-four-frames-per-second mechanical heartbeat that says, … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on March 25, 2020 by GirlZoot

His friend, ex-accountant turned Tahitian layabout artist Paul Gauguin, suggested something radical. Why not paint something … from memory? Just once, instead of painting what you’re actually looking at, render an artwork through the prism of recollection. What newer, emotional … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 1, 2018 by GirlZoot

I’m a boxing glove with a horseshoe inside of it, conversationally. I speak at you. I speak through you. You’ve got the queasy feeling you might not even need to be here right now, and I’d still spit Facts About … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on December 31, 2015 by GirlZoot

I loved this book. It feels like a great one-sided conversation from your funniest friend. It made me feel less alone in the precious hours I read it. But now it’s gone and I have nothing. —Amy Schumer/review of Silver … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on December 25, 2015 by GirlZoot

Vincent Van Gogh was a “tormented genius” the way Jimi Hendrix was a “guitar player.” I remember, reading Stephen King’s On Writing, when he said something about how “your art needs to be a function of your life, not the … Continue reading →

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