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::: Monday, August 01, 2005

You can be flip like Fred Astaire such that moves are all right. This is the curt mood you should feel when you read Christopher Mulrooney. His “solo” work is notebook and sheaves apart from his work in mag’s and journals like Combo, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Janus Head, Savoy, Renditions, Retort, etc.

I want to say that his Christopher’s lowercase style and humor is a bit more accessible than e.e. cummings—and when your read ‘accessible’ don’t drop in the phrase “dumbed down.” Think of the indifference to being left out of an inside joke from a lofty intellectual and that’s what Cummings obtains with me. Christopher Mulrooney, his work, is here because he does not.

::: Vladimir Orlov: We shall wear orange scarves

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VLADIMIR ORLOV APOLOGIZES for not sending his submission to kintespace.com through the paper mail: “Snail mail submissions are impossible due to high postage costs and handling problems, as they often either reach editors almost torn to pieces or simply disappear. Moreover, Russian and Western living standards differ drastically, whatever conclusions you might draw from media reports about Mr. Abramovich buying Chelsea and all that kind of stuff. People who work hard but live outside of Moscow or do not belong to corrupt bureaucracy usually make less than $200 a month, with inflation pressures building up and food and gasoline prices nearing Western levels. Average pensions now reach $75 a month, so poverty appears striking under such record high oil prices, with state bureaucracy and big business eating up all the national resources.” No apology is necessary.

In spite of these challenges he has managed to reach and publish in over 150 literary magazines since 1992. And his offering looks back on the days before “free markets” without any nostalgia or settling down with a supposed lesser of evils.

::: rasx() Screenshots: Freestyle—The Art of Rhyme

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Freestyle—The Art of Rhyme directed by Kevin Fitzgerald is another professionally made ‘home’ movie from my big African family, spreading from the enclaves of Los Angeles throughout the world. It is one of the few hip-hop “culture” films that pays serious respect to the West coast outside of the context of “gangsta rap.” It’s focus on the freestyle form of flow renews the symbolism the “wild” West represents to many an escaped slave who does not want to play cowboy. Since I was born and raised in Los Angeles and was involved personally with many of the subjects shown in the film, I am more than motivated to bring DVD extras to this feature.

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