hanging out with my fellow Canadian Steven Grayhm, writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving Sheepdog, a powerful portrayal of military PTSD, just as Killing Justice/Orphan Rising features a powerful portrayal of non-military PTSD, after last night's screening & Q&A at AMC The Grove

hanging out w/my film composer friend Esin Aydingoz at The Night Temple house concert , as she got my debut memoir Killing Justice, to see what inspiration she might find 4 a possible film score 4 the Killing Justice/Orphan Rising film project

hanging out with lawrenceshou , who co-stars with lucyliu in the powerful , deeply moving new film Rosemead , which, like Killing Justice, grapples with themes of mental health, the effects of stress on our health, and immigration, after last night's filmindependent screening at The London West Hollywood

R H Y T H M FROM                                                      TO Religiously Rigid                                    Spiritually Supple &                                                                   Artistically Agile Obedient Orphan                                     Cra zily Colo rful Brutalized by Bullies                              Rebelliously Rising Obscured Oddness                                  Emphasizing Ecc entr icity Terrorized by Tyrants...

Love this powerful, deeply moving film, now playing at the Lumiere Musical Hall Cinema, about a clash between indigenous ideals and AI, with a subplot about a mother/daughter relationship with some parallels to the mother/son relationship at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice...

hanging out with Tom Pelphrey who shines opposite Mark Ruffalo in the powerful, deeply moving show Task, & does an amazing job of humanizing Robbie, who commits some pretty brutal acts in the opening episode, but who then begins to slowly reveal his soul so that we come to care about his pain as deeply as that of Mark Ruffalo's character Tom, (just as I had to try to better understand my adoptive mom's wound in order to better understand my own in my debut memoir Killing Just

hanging out with renowned director Agnieszka Holland after a screening of her latest surreal masterpiece Franz, which features a father/son relationship which mirrors the mother/son relationship at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, at Soho House yesterday

hanging out with my new friend Stephen Nesmeth & my other new friend Idan Weiss, who does an extraordinary job playing Kafka in Agnieszka Holland's new surreal masterpiece Franz, which features a father/son  relationship which mirrors the mother/son relationship at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, at Soho House yesterda

hanging out with Sepideh Farsi, director of the urgent, heart-wrenching, and deeply personal Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, after last night's screening at the Laemmle Monica

hanging out with Andrew Abrahams, director of the powerful, deeply moving new documentary Complicated, about both medical & legal abuses of power encountered by families with children with a complicated medical condition...This is a film every medical, legal, and social service professional needs to see-and everyone else should too...& the legal abuses of power in the film reminded me of litany of legal abuses to be found in my debut memoir, Killing Justice...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this truly transcendent film about multigenerational trauma, as is my debut memoir Killing Justice...your humanity is your resistance!

H a u n t e d From                                                         To Shamefully Stripped Humiliatingly Handcuffed                         Guillotined by Grace  Abandoned Advocate MessedUp Miscreant                                 Opener of the Ostracized         Eviscerated by Evildoers                          Delivered by Dancers Humiliated Hero                                        Humanized by Humiliation Assassinated Anger                                  Anima

well-deserved nominations for this truly transcendent, ecstatic, euphoric masterpiece I got a chance to see in glorious 70mm at the Aero last night...which, even in its moments of imbalance, reinforces the powerful truth that one person's unwavering faith can, quite literally, shake the world, which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice...

T O L E R A N C E From                                                         To Bullied & Battered                                  Grateful for Grace-Givers                                                                   Orchestrator for Openness Adored Abusers                                       Openly Odd Damaged by Dead Souls                        Delivered by Dancers Trusted Traitors                                       Trusting Traumatically Overly Optimistic...

Hanging out with Gus Van Sant after last night's screening of his new gripping, darkly comic masterpiece "Dead Man's Wire", based on a true story...(just like my debut memoir, Killing Justice, is gripping & darkly comic & based on a true story, lol)...

Hanging out with Luca Castellani, actor in & producer for the powerful, deeply moving new short film America, after last night's Variety Screening at the London West Hollywood. From a story born out of truth and urgency to an Oscar®-qualified short, AMERICA stands as a testament to the power of empathy and human connection. This film was only possible thanks to the extraordinary vision of Aly Muritiba, the dedication of every artist involved, and the courage to tell a story t

hanging out with Catherine Gund, after a screening of "Paint Me a Road Out of Here", the powerful, inspiring documentary she directed, at the Getty last night, one of the themes of which is the power of art to liberate, which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice, which is now being adapted for the screen

THREADS From                                                         To Lost Lawyer                                               Found Family Obscured Oddness                                     Oddly Orchestral Obedient Orphan                                       Undisciplined Uplifter Suicidally Silent                                        Nasty when Necessary Entitled, yet Eviscerated                            Dancing Despite Daggers Traumatized & Terrorized           

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this truly transcendent show, which finds humanity in the bleakest of spaces here and while it doesn’t absolve its characters of their sins, it does offer them a bridge to understand each other and a chance – no matter how brief – for redemption, as does my debut memoir, Killing Justice, and as will its upcoming screen adaptation, the working title for which is Orphan Rising.

YAY! The 37th Amazon review for my memoir, Killing Justice, which I'm currently working with my Canadian filmmaker friend Bernard Gray to adapt for the screen...page-turner chaostocalm beautyoflife beautyofself perseverance perspective desperation acceptance awakening humanexperience celebration vulnerability forgiveness