hanging out with jt mollner , screenwriter for The Long Walk, which he adapted from a Stephen King novel he wrote when he was just 19 years old, and which goes beyond being a good adaptation : it's an emotional journey that blends physical horror with poetic sensitivity , with its central theme of generational trauma parallelling that central theme in my debut memoir killing justice

hanging out with Tarik Saleh, after Tuesday's 11 am screening of his darkly comic thriller about the role of the artist in authoritarian times, (which is also a theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice), Eagles of The Republic, Sweden's Oscar submission for best international feature, at Soho House West Hollywood

D A T E S From                                                        To Naively Needy                                        Humbly Hopeful Ecstatically Enmeshed                          Entwined Ecstatically Escaping Emptiness                               Acknowledging Abandonments                                                                   Listening Lovingly Deliverer of the Damaged                     Tenderly Truthful                                               

hanging out with my fellow Canadian AliReza Khatami , writer/director of the raw, provocative, visionary, Lynchian truly transcendent masterpiece The Things You Kill, which opens THIS WEDNESDAY, 11/19, in LA...GO SEE IT!!!...as it's a darkly comic, haunting psychological thriller involving generational trauma, as is my debut memoir & upcoming film Killing Justice/Orphan Rising... here's a link to the official trailer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71FXSFggs0 Alireza

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

Q&A with producer/star Jennifer Lawrence & producer Justine Ciarrocchi of the strange, haunting, real & confrontational Die My Love after last night's Film Independent screening at The London West Hollywood)/Lynne Ramsay does an amazing job of externalizing the source material, which is almost entirely internal, just as we hope to in adapting my debut memoir Killing Justice for the screen

Date is next week's (11/18/25) topic for AIM4TheHeArt Heart Sessions urban poetry workshop. Hope u can join us ! Every Tuesday Night, 7-9 pm at Homeland Cultural Center/Manazar Gamboa Community Theater, 1323 Gundry Avenue, Long Beach. CA 90813.

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

poster for Hamnet, Chloe Zhao's truly transcendent masterpiece, which reveals that Shakespeare, like Kafka, also had an abusive father, much like my adoptive mom, but which also shines a spotlight on the healing power of art, as does my debut memoir Killing Justice

hanging out with Bishara Haroni, the amazing Palestinian pianist featured, along with his musical partner the amazing Israeli pianist, Yaron Kohlberg, (who couldn't make it to the event as his wife is having a baby), in the award-winning, inspiring short film Amal/Hope, after yesterday's screening & performance by Bishara at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Pasadena..."make music not war"... https://mubi.com/en/films/amal-hope/trailer

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...

hanging out with Kim Magnusson, producer of "Snipped", a wonderful short film about coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, (& a perfect companion film to both Nuremberg & All That's Left of You, both of which are about unhealed trauma, (as is my debut memoir Killing Justice), & both of which I'd just seen Wednesday), after Thursday night's screening at CAA

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