Culture Sandwich
Caroline Hagood
- Location
- New York, New York,
- Birthday
- November 23
- Bio
- I'm a poet and writer living in New York City. I'm also a lover of offbeat humor and offbeat everything, really. My poetry and articles have appeared in various publications and I blog at the Huffington Post, Film Catcher, and Culture Sandwich (www.culturesandwich.com). If you'd like to get in touch regarding work, please contact caroline [underscore] hagood [at] yahoo [dot] com.
https://twitter.com/Caroline_Hagood
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Keep on truckin'.
rated.”
11:21PM - “It's a very loaded term
in a lot of ways, which is why
I
wanted to write
somethin…”
11:19PM - “It's great to
learn/relearn these wonderful
words.
rated.”
7:40PM - “I like how you
interweave Sarah Jessica
Parker's excavating
her past
with your ow…”
7:38PM - “Oh yes you were. And
very spirited at that.
rated.”
7:34PM
Caroline Hagood's Links
- New list
- Culture Sandwich Facebook Page
- My fellow FilmCatcher bloggers and I discuss indie film
- Word Pornography
- The Poetics of Garbage
- All About My Mother
- Portrait of the Poet as a Teenager
- Marilyn Monroe
- The Iliad of Archie
- Lolita
- Jazz
- Genius Uses the Back Door
- A Salute to the Struggling Open Salon Writer
- Confessions of a Word Junkie
- Letters to Myself: the Life of the Freelance Writer
- Follow me on Twitter
- Culture Sandwich
Bruno and Bromances: Modern Masculinity Goes to the Movies
Aside from the wins (Jeff Bridges: Best Actor; Kathryn Bigelow: Best Director; The Hurt Locker: Best Picture; Sandra Bullock: Best Actress; Mo'nique: Best Supporting Actress; and Christopher Waltz: Best Supporting Actor), these were the most memorable, or at least the/
… Read full post »A Writer's Misadventures in Writing (Open Call Facing Fears)
Photo taken in
Banksy Tunnel, London
I began trying to earn my keep as a writer about 9 months ago. Sure, sometimes it’s a many-splendored thing; but there are also the half-finished manifestos, the botched verbal symphonies, the sleepless nights staring at a computer
… Read full post »Crazy Love
Crazy Love: bizarre triumph of outlandish romance or appalling display of depraved humanity? You decide. This twisted documentary relates how Burt Pugach wined, dined, and then lyed Linda Riss.
In the 1950s, Burt was a successful lawyer who wowe… Read full post »
What John Banville's The Infinities Teaches Us About Living
For centuries, pious people have wondered where the gods go when they visit earth. In his newest book, Irish novelist John Banville has found the answer: to the Godleys’ creaky old country house that gurgles with memories and ancient piping. There, two families, one mortal—/… Read full post »
The Day She Lost Her Love
Photo taken in Banksy
Tunnel, London
She has nothing to say.
Every day,she wakes without a
tongue.
But she speaks all the time, without saying a word,
to the one she lost.
She brain-visits him.
Here, there are stars everywhere,
self-luminous celestial bodies&/
Writer-Director Tatia Rosenthal’s "$9.99," a work of stop-motion animation using silicone figures, took her ten years to make and it was well worth the wait. Like the stories by Etgar Keret that she worked from (she co-wrote the screenplay with him), Rosenthal’s vision… Read full post »
A Writer's Misadventures in Athleticism
Some might suggest that writers of the geeky ilk should limit their heavy lifting to stacks of paper, and their workouts to fingers moving over keys. In my case, some would be right.
Let me preface this by saying that I wish I could blame these stories on my lack
… Read full post »Things I Wish I Saw More Of
Amicable alien invaders
Antisocial mosquitos
Old school Nike Air Flytops
Brand spanking new Saddle Oxfords
Black wedding dresses
White Pigeons
Toupee collages
Photo homages to bald spots
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhoods
Chiquita Banana's fruit hats
Dogs named Spinach
Cats named Socks
Nonsense
Reasons to believe
Ode to Overthinking
Photo taken in
Banksy Tunnel, London
The incomplete halo of a
thought
is the closest I come to infinity
in all its circular bliss. I think often
because it changes me
into light unending.
Sun parts the bodies of the trees
and summer is ending.
My eyes are wide
and I’ve gone ponde
… Read full post »Photographer Christopher Zedano's Lush Visuals
Peruvian photographer Christopher Zedano has been sharing his particular vision with New York City since 2002. He recently completed a series of images called The Staple Street Project and has begun working on a collection called Intimat… Read full post »
David Lynch's Eraserhead as Birth Control?
An exercise in alienation, David Lynch’s film school project, Eraserhead (1977), is chockablock full of negative messaging about parenthood. When Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) gets to know Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) biblically, all kinds of reproductive hells break lo/… Read full post »
The True Test of a Good Movie
This is the only real test of a mind-blowing movie: if you are watching, have to pee, and consider for a split second just doing it on the couch. You know you've been there. These films are the ones that cause you to forego meals, zone out those in
… Read full post »Jersey Shore's F'ed Up Brand of Feminism
You’ve probably heard about MTV’s self-proclaimed “Guido” and “Guidette” octet by now. Together, Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick, Jenni "JWoww" Farley, Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Paul "DJ Pauly D" Delvecchio, Ronnie… Read full post »
David Lynch's New Video
Ostensibly, what we're seeing here is Lynch directing Afghan-American Ariana Delawari's folk-pop stylings. Yet, watching Lynch's filmed lyrical insights always feels like spying on his psyche.
Here, as in his other directorial efforts that contain music, we retu… Read full post »
Writing Late at Night
photo taken in Banksy Tunnel, London
Sitting alone late at night is not the same as sitting alone not late at night. Some mixture of silence and darkness always makes me look out the window to check that the world's still there.
I sit here type… Read full post »
Word Painting of a Psychiatrist
When I first saw
you,
curled in toadstool of mind’s eye,
I wanted to learn how to paint
so that I could explain colorly
the conversation of your skin tones,
the shock talk of hues that was your body.
I wanted to convey the pickled awe
at the inside of my throat as I/
Why Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" Should Win the Oscar
Caution: Contains Spoilers:
Director Kathryn Bigelow may just be the perfect hybrid of gender stereotypes. She has found a way to blend the qualities that are usually, albeit incorrectly, labeled masculine and feminine in a filmmaker.
As a result, she has a knack for more
… Read full post »The Writer as Liar
I was quite the
liar as a child. The stuff I invented seems pretty stunning now,
devastating or dazzling depending on my mood. I am still struggling
to decipher whether these untruths were portents of the budding
scribe or merely run-of-the-mill infantile whoppers.
There was the time in lower school w… Read full post »
My Fellow FilmCatcher Bloggers and I Talk About Indie Film
Zoophilia: Counterculture or Cruelty?
Although often used interchangeably with bestiality, zoophilia is a love of animals that can be platonic or sexual in nature. Directed by Robinson Devor, Zoo (2007) documents the details surrounding Kenneth Pinyan’s (referred to in the film solely by his/
… Read full post »Gwendolyn Glover and Caroline Hagood on the Body
A Portrait of the Body as a Young Woman
SHAME
When I think about shame, I think about the joy I had when I knew
that I was as fast as the boys during recess. I wasn’t a
loser. I would win races. I was good at Capture the/… Read full post »
Love Letter to the Lizard King (per Robin Sneed's request)
Lizard king, what are
you?
all shimmering dust breath
and diamond eyes.
It was you that brought the dawn,
slanted regions warm and filled with touch.
You are just that kind of creature.
A strange system of wires brought you to me
and I thank your other world
daily
for letting me/… Read full post »
A purveyor of both the visual and libidinal arts, when it comes to genre, Bruce LaBruce is something of a riddle. Who is LaBruce exactly? Punk Zine Publisher? Reluctant Pornographer? Underground Filmmaker? Writer and Photographer? Granted, he has written and photographed for publi… Read full post »
Tim Burton in Fashionland
Over the years, the potent cinematic potion that is a Tim Burton movie has telegraphed Tim’s darkly decadent visual sensibility to the outside world, and particularly to the world of art and fashion. As Kate Mulleavy (of the Rodarte design duo) observes, &ld/
… Read full post »
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