The Naked Truth - DORITOS 'Crash the Superbowl' Commercial Contest Entry by Perpombellar Productions.

The Dude ponders the bare necessities of life.

If we win, this commercial will play during the 2010 Superbowl.
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/video/3167

Video also on YouTube:

Oklahoma

The sallow cowboy
asks you to dance so you
put the limes down &
accept. Flat in his
arms, tracing the
baseboards, faces leering
around you with beer
bottle noses & hands
made of foam. The room
queers quickly, blending,
then spirals, & the cowboy’s
hand on your back is a knob,
a way to open you up, & out.
Blinking, you focus on
the deep lines on his face,
ravines you could walk into,
dry up in. He wears a
plaid shirt & he’s sweaty
& other men look at him
with an uptilt to their eyes
so you tilt your eyes up too.
You suddenly know
you’ll go in his mint green
Ford & let his thumbs
circle your blue-veined
nipples & as he’s
closing his eyes against
yours all you’ll think of
is the hole in the fence
outside your bedroom
window, what’s coming
through, how it’s
scratching.

Keep It Pristine

Evil speaks.  Whoa.  Down boy. 
The judging of people slips in,
it’s hard to lose. 
But whoever said it would be easy
to infuse love into all that you do 
You and I know that love is strong enough 
But we’re not sure we want to
give up all the hassle
The activity. 
This ache, this yearning
Somehow it amuses
Her back to me,
the sleek strength and softness,
the sensuous knobs of her vertebrae.
Her skin. 

— September 20, 2009

From the movie YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, the full fire performance from the talented Andrew Arrasmith. Music is "Oh Ahh Oh" by Emmie Beretta and Goodbye Donovan. Film by Perpombellar Productions.

Perpombellar Productions entered Savannah's 2009 48 Hour Film Project. We pulled the genre "Mockumentary," and this is what we came up with. RENFIELD'S SYNDROME will go on to the national contest in Vegas after winning Best Acting, Best Writing, Best Directing, and Best Movie here in Savannah! This version is very slightly modified from the original. We fixed the credits and added a few more shots. THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE INVOLVED!

www.perpombellar.com

"Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet." - Huston Smith

“Is that the devil in your sky?” she asks. “Is that what’s glowing in your eyes?”

If I don’t say the thought right, I might destroy it.

Here's another take on Shaw McBride, a guy who wants to give away his $159 Million Dollar Lottery Winnings... there's a strangeness about him, like he's talking love but saying something else, if you look on his Facebook page. But who knows, maybe he's inspired?

Drifter GIVING AWAY 100 million lottery prize -- ANY TAKERS?

Have you seen this news clip somebody posted on YouTube? This guy Shaw McBride wins over $150 million in the Georgia Lottery and he's giving it away!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbpmeaeVTrI

I'd like to shoot something one day in the spirit of this, all in one shot. It reminds me of the dance scene from Bande à part/Band of Outsiders in a way, in its pure expression of dance and movement.

Soaring visions and haunted deeps, strange and ancient mysticisms, daemons invisible and inscrutable, hermetic secrets, alchemical transformations, incomprehensible beings who navigate the waves of ether between the stars, ghost ships and wandering Jews, tales of gothic horror and folk stories of "wise men" who know what charms will undo a malicious enchantment, an odd series of strange dreams and reveries that echo each other mysteriously across five centuries, travelers in peril from enticing voices and unearthly music at the edge of trackless deserts or from mysterious hypnotic lights in the dark (the original Jack o Lanterns), underground rivers and hidden seas, exotic kingdoms at the sources of the Nile or in the inaccessible heart of Asia, trackless jungles flowering with wild and dangerous profusion, the colors - intense or subtle - of icy northern seas, and Henry Hudson's crew describing in sober and convincing detail the beauty of a mermaid sighting.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

- Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)

Is this a good thing?

I discovered today one of the better photos taken during Transformus 2008 that show the Bamboozler effigy and the YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL letters behind this dancing man. Thank you, Zee Gizmo, for catching this glimpse in your camera.

"Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself."

She turns her head and all I am left with is the glimpse of her eyes. Somehow they are still there, the last thing I see.

I inhaled life! I flirted with the quick heartbeat of death. I danced.

Every stone is light, slowed down, tied in a knot, and light is every stone's dream.

"There's no such thing as a war on terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. It's advertising, which is the only art form we've invented and developed. It's lies."

-- Essayist Gore Vidal