Book Tour Virgin is Will Clarke.com

At The Commissary in Memphis

The famous ribs place

Beale Street at twilight

In Memphis on Beale Street tonight

I was visited by two ducks this morning. There's something poetic about that in a Tony Soprano sort of way

The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children Illustration

This is the illustration for my forthcoming short story, The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children, rendered by the illustrious illustrator, Chris Burnam.

Cool Raconteurs pic

The Raconteurs are totally bionic in Dallas tonight. *throwing devil horns*

Who Can Save Us Now? Wii Contest

Bestsellerlicious

The Caffiene Test

Created by OnePlusYou

Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

Texas Monthly's Texquisite Corpse

Click here to hear me
read my leg of the corpse
in the May issue, the one
with Willie on the cover.

Hmmm. More UFOs in Phoenix

The LSU Deke House Video is Back

Yet another reason to love Dallas: the garden at The Garden Cafe on Junius

The crowd of poetic rebel rousers at The Garden Cafe last Thursday

The night I shared the stage with Harry Hunsicker, Melanie Wells & Trish Murphy at The Garden Cafe

The big ass arena at that I and the illustrious Sarah Bird and Dixie Cash Sisters will speak at today

If there is any question on how much this Thursday Night will rock, Trish Murphy will knock it right out of you.

Garden Cafe Wing Ding This Thursday Night April 17th, 6PM

 

I'll be joining local authors Harry Hunsicker and Melanie Wells and singer-songwriter Trish Murphy this Thursday, April 17 at 6 p.m. at the Garden Café, 5310 Junius St., for a night of songs and stories. Should be a real wing ding. Please tell your friends and join us if you can. Rumor is there will be free wine. 

 

That's Melanie and Trish as seen on their blog thelmaandlouisegrabthekeys.com

Dave and Colleen at work

A Stroke of Insight. Literally.

Easing into Monday with a little Mark Kozelek

Cat Power sings us into the weekend

The Dallas Morning News Features David Gordon Green and his new film Snow Angels

The Dallas Morning News today reports that David Gordon Green has come a long way since 2000 when he released George Washington. The way the DMN spins it in their article, DGG is just now coming onto the scene as a revered filmmaker.

Dude, homeboy has been the scene for anyone who knows anything about film since George Washington came out. Green's All the Real Girls and Undertow have had that Ebert guy thumbing up, way up for years.

Actually, it's a very favorable article, but let's not underestimate DGG's cannon of work thus far. He was a serious film maker from the get-go. And while every artist grows with each project, it's hard to deny that Dave was a bad ass from the beginning.

Dickey's downtown Dallas

Once Upon A School

Utter Brilliance

Just in case you don't know what the above is spoofing. Here's the original.

eNotes.com launched their book club with a certain author

Click here to read more about enotes.com and their new book club featuring, LVLH.

Jesus, Don't Cry. It's Wilco Wednesday

Lance Larson & David Norman Premiere "Bloom" at the AFI Dallas

Shreveport Homeboy, Jeffery Goodman, blows it up at the AFI Dallas Film Festival

Jefffery Goodman (a friend of my little brother's from high school) takes the AFI Dallas Film Festival by storm. The buzz on this film is tremendous. I'm going to the screening on April 4th thanks to Jeffery's largesse.

Aside from being a bad-ass filmmaker, what I love is Jeffery's DYI ethos.
Dude ended up raising all the money for Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made.

"With Lullaby, I wanted to do certain things that weren't necessarily in fashion.  I wanted to make a slow, quiet genre piece that was sincere (rather than ironic) and very human.  And, in many ways, I wanted to make it in the naturalistic style that I associated with some of my favorite American films from the seventies." Check out his film's website by clicking here.

A little Andrew Bird to get you through the week

Hasta Mexico

Beirut's "Postcards from Italy" in celebration of my impending weekend nuptials

David Gordon Green's Snow Angels

How you see it depends on how you think

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

 

                                         

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can "get it" (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

 

What I stare at when I can't think of what to write

It's a Vampire Weekend: Happy St. Patty's Day and Beware The Ides Of March