"Trance Sequence Experiment" [mp3 removed]
Honestly don't remember doing this. Found it on my hard drive from about two years ago and went--"huh." It's like this recurring dream I have where I find a cache of intriguing (usually expressionist) paintings I don't recall making.
Air Force One, 1997 (Harrison Ford as US President dukes it out with post-Soviet commie hardliners on presidential plane)
fiction/reality compare and contrast
Prescient line spoken by Russian communist (a scenery-eating Gary Oldman): "You who murdered a hundred thousand Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas are going to lecture me on the rules of war? Well DON'T."
Secretary of Defense: "We don't negotiate with terrorists."
Except when selling them arms to finance revolutions in other countries.
President stays on plane to help his family and colleagues instead of bailing out in "escape pod."
President keeps flying west after attacks on Washington and NY are over.
Secretary of Defense and Vice President clash over whether President is incapacitated and must be overruled.
Secretary of Defense and Vice President run goverment.
Air Force One is hijacked by Russian commandos spraying machine gun fire.
Four US planes hijacked by jihadis with box cutters (or at least no guns so far as we know).
President is a pilot who flew helicopter missions in Vietnam.
President skipped out on the latter part of his air national guard service during Vietnam era.
President personally flies jet to the ground and safety after routing hijackers.
President fails to stop hijacking and rides shotgun for photo op aircraft carrier landing.
From Of a Fire on the Moon, 1970:
All the while we had been composing our songs to the moon and driving the Indian on to the reservation, had we also been getting ready to go to the moon out of some deep recognition that we had already killed the nerve which gave life to the earth? Yet the moon by every appearance knew more about disease and the emanations of disease than the oldest leper on earth. "Of what can you dream?" said the moon. "I am battered beyond belief and you think to violate me now?"
An editioned resin sculpture. Look closely and you see two monkeys embracing; fur covers their bodies and joins them together and merges with the base, like some horrible Telepod accident from The Fly. But sensuous too--D'Alvia's careful carving of the strands of fur in the original wax (or clay?) model makes the work ecstatic rather than merely grotesque.
