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Life and Death in New Jersey ● a Video-Novel ●  DVD 72 minutes
--The mutability of a surreal life--
"It was December, I think, --I watched television endlessly...and thought about my Dad..."
The narrator watches parts of his life amid the offerings of television. Work, war and the
memory of his father compete with an obscure romantic obsession. The television programming
within the work adds a 'back-story' in which early mythology and literature are sometimes
inhabited by modern persons. This back story represents the narrator’s view of the history of
civilization as cobbled together from idiosyncratic TV documentaries. Some viewers will want
to see this one again. Original songs by the derelicts and Fire Axe brothers. Some nudity.
CHAPTERS:
1. The Beginning of Beginnings
2. Then there was Di
3. Melissa, the voice of reality and compromise
4. The wanderings of one's life
5. The greatest compromise: Work
6. The possibilities of Di are never far away
7. Life's journeys go from the sedentary to the existential or vice versa
8. Heroics are always in the details
9. Coming to terms with that which has no terms: What really may have happened
This is an example of visual and conversational poetry laced with  
whimsical comedy inside a world constructed of dream-logic.
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1. The Beginning of Beginnings 2. Then there was Di 3. Melissa, the voice of reality and compromise 4. The wanderings of one's life 5. The greatest compromise: Work
6. The possibilities of Di are never far away 7. Life's journeys go from the sedentary to the existential or vice versa 8. Heroics are always in the details 9. Coming to terms with that which has no terms: What really may have happened.
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