WISDOM OF THE SAGES
EPISODE IV: SPRING 2021
Hello People of the World;
Here are again at the end of another month. Spring has sprung and while the world once again ignores good advice, I stay sequestered in my abode for fear of the F*CKIN’ fourth wave that is currently happening.
Anyways, the world turns and the wind and rains lash, and we complain like we can control the weather. I mean, this happens every year with out fail. I mean, the wind and rain, but also the complaining too. As stated before, the slow turn of the earth is too fast for some folk.
As always: Stay safe. Stay home.
All right, let’s get going:
1:[ This virus really showed how equal we all really are: we still scream that somehow, the world must reset to what our version of “normal” was. Yet, we found that we cannot all survive in that old system. In fact, during the quarantine, the old system still showed us how much it stands firm by killing a bunch of people….
2:[ I am preparing for the First Nations Film and Video Festival’s spring edition and have had to encounter some non-Native directors getting mad because a bunch of brown people told them ‘No’. That is what they are really mad about. Not that their films are the “only hope these people” have. Sheesh. It’s 2021, when is this going to stop? It seems that everyone except Native Americans are allowed to speak up for themselves….
3:[ I have a Letterbxd account where I keep track of the movie I watch and watched. It’s a weird thing to see how many movies I actually watch in the course of a month despite all of my other duties. I still wish I could go to a movie theater again. Speaking of, a bunch of nearby hangouts closed recently due to this quarantine last year. A Barnes and Noble store where I would go to sit and write and hang out with my little girl, and the nearby movie theater where we would go to catch movies. I know I will miss these once the world opens again….
4:[ I am planning to make a short Batman film. Yes, I will build a makeshift costume and play the part myself despite my girth right now. I want to make it an exercise in using light and shadow and silhouette to convey a story. It will be a script concept teaser for the screenplay I am writing. I am still working on a bunch of creative projects. The quarantine was sort of my ideal space for living – away from people, able to do my work remotely and able to work on creative things….
5:[ Speaking of creative things: I produced a one-hundred episode web series about my bookshelf. I started with my Criterion Collection and then moved on to my books. All told, I produced about 164 (at the time of this writing) episodes! I completed a full-length novel manuscript and self-published it. I completed a full-length screenplay for a western. I shot and edited a short film in about 8-hours. Soon, I will be producing a new short documentary series “10 in 10” which will be ten, ten-minute documentaries about various topics I find interesting. The first is on jazz critic of the 30’s through 60’s, Paul Eduard Miller. That starts in late May. Check it out if you can….
6:[ We cannot go back to “Normal” all after this: people playing political theater and the continued killing of black and brown people. We thought things would change but I the last president was just “the wrong kind of monster….”
7:[ Yeah, I’m never watching “The Snyder Cut”. I don’t like letting bullies win….
That is it for this month.
As always, I invite you to comment, correct, or contradict anything I write here. I am open to a critical debate. Thanks for taking the time to check out what I write here and I will see you in a month.
Until next time, remember “I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control everything really are.”
2020 Ernest M Whiteman III
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