In The Waiting Room



Jess reads a classic Elizabeth Bishop poem.

12/28/14

Incident



Great classic poem.

12/26/14

Dan Schneider Video Interview #4: Gil Bruvel



Latest interview, with artist Gil Bruvel.

12/19/14

12/18/14

Dan Schneider Video Interview #3: The Loren Eiseley Society- Pt 2



Part 2 of a great interview on a great writer and man.

Dan Schneider Video Interview #3: The Loren Eiseley Society- Pt 1



Part 1 of a great interview on a great writer and man.

12/12/14

Holy Sonnet 5



Video sonnet.

12/11/14

The Invisible Island



Jess reads Eiseley.

12/9/14

The Judgment Of The Birds



A prose excerpt from a Loren Eiseley essay.

12/7/14

Triceratops Herd Running



New poem video.

Leda Genomica



A classic sonnet on Classical Mythology.

12/1/14

Kiss



A killer sonnet.

11/30/14

Death Of A Spider



Another sonnet.

11/29/14

Gibson And Koufax



Another classic sonnet!

11/27/14

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry



Happy Thanksgiving!

11/24/14

11/22/14

The Moon And The Yew Tree



Jess & Sylvia, yet again.

11/20/14

The Barber



Another classic

Tallulah Bankhead To Death



The bitch is back!

Moth Lost In A Laboratory



A Jess villanelle.

In Love



Another classic.

The Rape Of Mary



A Schneider classic.

11/18/14

Another Woman



Jess poem video.

Chaplinesque



The Hartster.

Say Hey Psalm



First poem video with video in it.

For A Farmer



Classic poem by James Emanuel.

Carol For The Rock



A classic poem.

11/10/14

Among The Narcissi



Jess & Sylvia: together again!

11/9/14

Dan Schneider Video Interview #2: Vic Mignogna



My 2nd Video Interview with a man keeping Star Trek alive.

11/8/14

Yellow Afternoon



A Wallace Stevens poem.

Yellow Afternoon (Alex Sheremet)



Alex Sheremet does Wallace Stevens.

11/7/14

The Mothman



A classic.

11/6/14

The Passings



A sonnet from me.

Weldon Kees For My Daughter



Weldon Kees sonnet.

11/5/14

Those Winter Sundays



Robert Hayden poem.

The House-Dog's Grave



Jeffers rocked.

'Poetry Itself'



Latest poem video.

11/3/14

The Ball Poem



Classic poem by John Berryman.

11/2/14

Harakiri (Seppuku) - Masaki Kobayashi - 1962


Holy Moly. Someone uploaded the entire Harakiri. Great fuckin' film. Watch if you have a brain.

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening



First classic poem reading.

10/31/14

From The Box Of The Zoo Fox



Latest poem video from Jess.

10/29/14

Una, Instead



Jess's 1st poem video re-edited w louder audio, as loud as it can go w/o distortion.

10/28/14

Scenes From A City #29



A prose video. Jeez, John Gotti looked eerily like my dad toward the end of his life.

The Animals Lay Time



2nd poem video by Jess.

Una, Instead



Jess's first poem video.

10/27/14

Over A Hydrox: Shit, Chips, & Cookies



My first prose excerpt, from A Norwegian In The Family.

10/26/14

Viva Brontosaurus!



2nd video- with only 1 photo! Windows Movie Maker, again. Tried Picasa, to no avail- may try a few others.

Stevens On Safari



My first poetry video, text of which is here: http://www.cosmoetica.com/Sonnets.htm#STEVENS%20ON%20SAFARI

Dan Schneider Video Interview #1: Alex Sheremet- Pt 1

A new era on Cosmoetica begins. The first Dan Schneider Video Interview, with Alex Sheremet on the career of Woody Allen and his new book, Woody Allen: Reel To Real. This is Part 1.

9/17/14

DANGER MAN [1960-1961]



1960's opening to Season 1 of Danger Man, with Patrick McGoohan- the precursor series to The Prisoner. Great theme song that's better than the later seasons' versions, and way better than the American version's opening of Secret Agent.

Terrific thriller.


8/13/14

Pinocchio - Original 1940 Trailer (Walt Disney)



Solid film, but nothing near as good as the book by Collodi.

7/14/14

A Constant Forge- John Cassavetes Documentary



Taken from the Cassavetes Criterion Boxed set- a great doc- watch all the parts in order from this first one!

5/13/14

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