news from kintespace.com ::: 5/21/2009

Folasayo, a multifaceted artist is the author of a 1989 British Council Prize winning play The Woman With a Past (Heinemann Books, Nigeria). Here we present four streaming audio selections as a companion to her 2000 collection of poems Conversations With The Soul At 3:00A.M.: “If You Must Say Goodbye,” “Marketplace,” “Song of the Prodigal Soul” and “Stranger.”

::: Johann Christoph Arnold: After the Parades and Picnics

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Everybody loves a long weekend. But this year’s Memorial Day ought to be a lot more meaningful to all of us. We need to see it as a chance to pray for lasting peace and for our President, that he may lead our country to a new vision. Otherwise, our future will be marked by continuous open-ended global warfare, and we will have many more deaths to commemorate with each passing Memorial Day.

::: rasx() on film: 2008

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Including the two flicks mentioned in “rasx() Screenshots: Shots out at Sci-Fi Slavery,” my film writing count of the year 2008 is 18. That’s less than my films for 2007 and the ones written in 2000 through 2006. I’m betting on a 20-movie cap for my pen per year going forward…

My 2008 journeys allowed me to visit James Spooner, Ava DuVernay, Issac Klotz, William Gibson, Samuel Beckett, Avery Brooks, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Marlon Brando, Paul Justman, Jean-Claude La Marre (and Ananda Lewis), Rutger Hauer, Lawrence Fishburne, Alfonso Cuarón (and Clare-Hope Ashitey), Mark Brian Smith, Charles Burnett (and David Lynch), Sotigui Kouyaté (not Morgan Freeman), Peter Brook, Janet Jackson, James Toback, Jim Brown, Francis Ford Coppola (and Mircea Eliade), Lou Ye and many more!

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