Deuandra is the Ghost Who Haunts The Painting.

I like to think about her hanging out at her Mom's house staring at this 80's print that's been a fixture of the hallway near the bathroom for 24 years; a lady in long gloves concealing her face behind a wide brimmed hat - half way to salon art, soft Patrick Nagel energy. I can see her dreaming up her own supernatural stendhal syndrome horror scenario with herself as the mysterious salon…

15 years ago I read this book I found at Barnes and Noble called "Showgirls Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies" - that doesn't seem like that long ago but the internet was still kind of a wild frontier. I had to get information on the movies I was interested in from blogs, bootleg websites, books/magazines and word of mouth. Back then people were still throwing around the term "bad movies" at anything left of center. "Showgirls" is in the title…

I've seen this movie many times but not until this most recent viewing did I realize that Sarah Michelle Gellar is a beam of light, like a sunflower, an angel, a Precious Moment. A perfume counter girl with high-waisted denim shorts and cigarette affixed silver fingernails. Her chase scene is poetry in motion. The death of a beauty queen, tragic like an Opera. She runs and she runs. She breaks glass, she crawls out of a car window belly down,…

I watched this twice today. Wallace Shawn speaks from a place of familiar futility. He's the voice of the audience. Upon first viewing, I somewhat disliked Andre. He has the luxury of purchased hipster reality. He participates in quack cult-like retreats in foreign countries as away to reconnect with his humanity. Wally struggles to pay his bills and is content with the simple details of life, but in turn never bothers to ask important questions or take any risks.

Having…