a haze of light brown smoke
I live in a lithograph
the other night, while I was putting maggie to bed
in the morning the four of us
my father was a writer
shut everything out
Open the windows and close the blinds
what scientists call the space-time continuum
In Praise of Listening to Music Loudly
I brought two small sheets
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Is The Ebenezer Scrooge of Holiday Songs
EssayJim BurlingameDo They Know It's Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, The Boomtown Rats, Woody Guthrie, I Don't Like Mondays, Elvis Costello, Pink Floyd, The Wall, My Favorite Murder, Roger Waters, Band Aid, Duran Duran, David Bowie, the Eurythmics, INXS, Michael Hutchence, We Are the World, Phil Collins, Bono, Simon Le Bon, Sting, LIVE 105, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Smiths, R.E.M., Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Ultravox, John Lennon, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Ode to Joy, Simple Minds, Don't You (Forget About Me), Alive and Kicking, Jim Kerr, Lady Gaga, The Killers, Brandon Flowers
burning house
Magic and Capitalism [Excerpt]
EssayJim BurlingameCapitalism, The American Dream, Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, Carol Lee Flinders, The Values of Belonging, Bronislaw Malinowski, Magic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, William McKinley, L. Frank Baum, Harry Houdini, William Jennings Bryan, Gilded Age, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Matilda Gage, Bruno Bettelheim, John Gottman
The Feminine in Terrence Malick's Films
EssayJim BurlingameTerrence Malick, The Tree of Life, American Transcendentalist, masculine, feminine, Badlands, Wittgenstein, Susan Bordo, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, The Thin Red Line, The New World, Days of Heaven, Joseph Campbell, the Tao, Hans Zimmer
one summer evening
a puddle that looks like it's coated in plastic
I hear a quick shriek
across the table
last night, talking about the bicycle thief
a star