“Leave the heroes and villains behind. Leave the romantic myths behind. Capture a reality that doesn’t have good or bad, angels or devils. Depict a world that isn’t organized around swoony-moony Hollywood love and heroism, but that does not leave you disillusioned and despairing by that fact. Move your work beyond both idealism and cynicism. That is the place of truth. The challenge of art is no different from the challenge of life: to embrace the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” – Ray Carney

“Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are… In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger… My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21… The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain” – John Cassavetes

There are occasions
when it is necessary to keep silent
to be able to listen to music
through the noise of the rain
excuse me

the aftermath

sometimes
when you’re high
you write things down
and when you read them
later
they make you giggle
like you were high again
the name
Elk Whitengale
for example