“Cue the Scary Music.” Growing up in LA, Halloween was always a little different for my siblings and me. There were the usual Halloween decorations on houses in our neighborhood. But there was one house that needed no decoration. It was known as “The Witch’s House.” Since it was just around the block from where […]
Police State Site Dinesh D’Souza 10/23/23 (Columbus, Ohio) Alice Coltrane / Jagadishwar from Translinear Light __________________________ John Fraim For years, an important film genre has been documentary films. Unlike the fiction genres of film, only documentaries had an ultimate aim of being non-fiction. If Hollywood films were the fictional stories about life, the documentary films […]
Trepidation / John Lang (For Walt. You were the best in the world! John) ______________________ “If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines that spirit (Geist) is the monopoly of […]
Much can be said about the intersection of the two videos above. But perhaps the most evident one to me is the contrast between innocence and maturity. The top video is so much about innocence. So much that when the camera stays on the drummer of U-2 he becomes shy. The band’s first recording in […]
John Lang “Trepidation” (2023) This song is such a gorgeous song to me. It possesses elegance and is connected to great theme music of the American experience like the music of Aaron Copland. By bass player John Lang’s group. From his current album Earotica, released September of 2023. This song is such a transcendent American […]
The Backward Step / Nicholas Payton & Christie Dasheill _______________________________ I love to ride bikes but I’m not part of the bike group that buys expensive bikes and takes 30 mile rides down the two-lane roads into the country. Rather, I’ve got a comfort bike and found – through a number of rides – it […]
_____________________________________ Sometimes one find important things through simply coincidence rather than extended search. Such was the case the other day while reading the 10/16/23 blog from my (free) subscription to Ted Gioia’s substack, The Honest Broker. I’ve been avidly reading his blog for a month now since a friend introduced me to it. Gioia is […]
AI Family Concepts His Questions / My Answers John & Alex Fraim Alice Coltrane / Translinear Light ___________________________________________ Introduction John Fraim The use of artificial intelligence for specific purposes of answering the most important questions it is asked. These are the questions from those data clusters of questions that AI has received. The AI system […]
My favorite hotel in the world is The Elizabeth in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I was amazed to find a small Elizabeth in the small farm town of Versailles in western Ohio. It truly deserves the description as “Ohio’s hidden gem.” (A written review is underway and will soon be posted)
The Creator Two Opposite Symbols of What Films Can Be/Are Today Canadian Sunset / Gene Ammons ___________________________ John Fraim I somehow convinced my wife Stephanie to attend the first screening in Columbus of the new visually spectacular The Creator. Made by an indie filmmaker, it achieves the look of a film that someone has dropped […]
