Conversations with Keefy

TRUE BLOOD returns to HBO tonight and you can color me excited! I recognize we are all hitting the high time where supernatural TV shows with themes of vampires, zombies, mutants, aliens and everybody else is due to suffer a cultural burnout any day now. As for me and the other “Truebees” I think we will survive just fine. Tonight kicks off Season 4 and while I won’t give away too many secret plot points (Witches? Check! Do Sookie and Eric hookup finally? Yup!) I’ll just say I’m psyched to see where the show is going next. Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse. Based on the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries series of book by Author Charlaine Harris, TRUE BLOOD hit the scene like a lightning bolt in 2008 and has grown in popularity exponentially ever since. Since Executive Producer and show creator Alan Ball optioned the show following his run on SIX FEET UNDER he has vastly improved over the stories in the books to create a mature, sexy show full of exciting plot turns an...

"if  I can't have everything  then  just  give me a  taste" Tall as the trees and twice as graceful. You danced like a feather trying not to catch fire. Entranced by you. Eyes, lips, arms and hips write a silent plea in the air. Telling tales of a secret pact. Everyone captivated by a dazzling display of symmetry. A narcotic has less traction on the soul. A narcissist to the very last drop. Only one saw the soft underbelly. Past the desperate longing and through to the pain. When we met I was a child. You were the learner. Another was the master. The mentor to your mission gave encouragement and accolades. But not the love you needed. Spurned, yet sanctified. Your pursuit doubled in effort. Already a slave to unrequited passions. They threatened to engulf you. Caught up in the moment a declaration is made. A vow hangs in the air unanswered and now you can’t take it back. A promise made is a promise dead when a promise wasn’t required in the first place....

Fixated. I can't control it. Blinding rage. Speaking to me from within. A spark in the darkness of chaos. Irrepressible emotional noise. One way to own it. You are the thing I must possess. I covet what is inside. I wish I could forget. What has been done. Just like the rest. Shunned by society. It makes no difference now. Watching your every move. Biding my time. Nothing is chance. Guided by fate. Others will do in the meantime. Placeholder replicants. Disposable clones. I consume them like breathing. The hunt is just a game to me. Proof of my superior intellect. I am the most cunning warrior. While you are less than nothing. Until it's time to strike. Briefest moment possible. You will  be special to me. Be patient and take my time. You will go quietly. I will take a trophy. To honor and remember this. And you will not know peace. Even as you beg for it. Just a means to an end. What I do is feed the beast. To keep it at bay. To satiate the hunger. But you already knew tha...

Directed by J.J. Abrams (Bad Robot Productions/Amblin Entertainment Paramount) In sleepy Lillian Ohio in 1979, the town is upended by mysterious events that send all of its inhabitants on a collision course with destiny and perhaps the end of the world as they know it. One little boy holds the key and knows too much. The movie opens with the wake for Elizabeth Lamb, killed in a terrible accident at the local steel mill where most of the town is employed. Left behind to pick up the pieces are the Sheriff’s deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) and his monster movie obsessed early-teen son Joe. Joe (Joel Courtney) and his best friends Charles, Carey, Preston and Martin spend all their time working on Charles’s zombie horror movie with a Super 8 camera. They hope to enter it into a prestigious teen film contest and it is a campy and fun effort by the teens. Normally shy, Joe is very talented at horror makeup and model making. The kids sneak out at night to film scenes unbeknownst to the...

Directed by Ken Branagh (Marvel Studios) Marvel Studios has done it yet again by producing the exceptional THOR movie. Bringing to life the “God of Thunder” may be the most difficult superhero movie of all to make, but the results are impressive. In some ways this is the hardest movie of the genre to pull off because you are asking movie goers to accept a race of gods are heroes and villains as opposed to those based on real life.  The Destroyer shows up in the film. Drawing the heavily from the original Marvel  Comics run character as seen in the “Journey Into Mystery” comics in the 1960's, first 180 issues of “The Mighty Thor” created by legendary team Stan Lee (he has a cameo, of course), his brother Larry Lieber and the iconic artist Jack Kirby as well as the modern vision of Brian Michael Bendis (who along with Joe Quesada was a consultant on the film). Blending the classic Norse Mythology, the comic book character's origin and a little modern creative license the f...

Redux Here I am crying a single tear for you again. As if you ever really cared. Every now and then I slip once more back to the moment before I tried to forget. A dream that still goes unfulfilled. Holding on to you that night was a feeling I wanted to save forever. Now what I cling to instead is the loss of something I never had in the first place. Or did I? "Just one more wishbone." Be like water. A storm rages outside, but it's nothing compared to the one in my heart. Rain beats a furious pattern on my windowpane, but is silenced next to the bass drum in my head. Tempestuous emotions overtake me and I cannot still these raging pools. Memories flooding in again and again. Disarming my senses and drowning all hope. Add caption Middle Child. Where did you go to? Why did you leave? How cruel is fate? Why do I still mourn? These and many other riddles gnaw at my soul. I wish the two hands of logic and reason could shake this dullness out of me. So I could kn...