brainscape

Rotting in a cheap grave waiting to be saved by a kiss or a penis or an ironic sonnet my brainscape is assaulted by Lionel Richie songs and vampiric ballerinas.

Wrong Nail Polish Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011

[T] he bit with the half-submerged houses I was inking when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans-this image was no doubt planted in my brainscape from having lived in New Orleans for five years previous to the storm, and hearing about the likelihood of such a scenario every time a large storm rolled through town.

The Groovy Age of Horror 2009

In yesterday's post, I talked about how, in my brainscape, making a decision is a whole lot like quantum physics.

Solo Mother 2009

At the point where Joe drifts off, the lights go down and the Open Fist stage space is plunged into darkness, as apt and spare a representation of Joe's benumbed brainscape as anything set designers Franco and Charlie Otte (himself another producer) could have likely conjured.

Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule 2008

In the logic of dreams, it makes perfect sense that the boy and blonde girl would share their first kiss in the fantasy space of this "underwater kingdom"--but there's a subtly haunting edge to the image as well, which Simmons articulates in the PW interview:The bit with the half-submerged houses I was inking when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans—this image was no doubt planted in my brainscape from having lived in New Orleans for five years previous to the storm, and hearing about the likelihood of such a scenario every time a large storm rolled through town.

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