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Self-Love Supreme
A true valentine crafted by Derek Walcott, titled “Love After Love” The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged derek walcott, heartsong, love after love, poem, Poetry, self-love, truth, valentine
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Bag o’ Rags Resurrected
On the next-to-last day of our campaign, we are proud to present an exclusive musical introduction to Adam Swanson playing the 1912 tune, “Bag o’ Rags” (composed by W.C. McKanlass), which was the theme song of the Keystone Kops. Troy … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged adam swanson, Bag o Rags, ballad of the cuckoos, Cinema, durango, indie film, John Biscello, Keystone Kops, ragtime piano, sheet music, troy paff, vintage
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The Dance
Our actors, Clint Murphy and Rita O’ Connell, received choice tutelage from choreographer, dancer and director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Miss Amber Vasquez. If you are someone who is interested in and engaged by process, and watching moving … Continue reading
Way Out West
We are thrilled to announce that Adam Swanson, one of the world’s foremost vintage performers of American popular music, including ragtime and early jazz, will be contributing his musical talents to our film, Ballad of the Cuckoos. Adam, who is … Continue reading
Cuckoos in Toyland
When you’ve grown up, my dears, And are as old as I, You’ll often ponder on the years That roll so swiftly by, my dears, That roll so swiftly by. And all the many lands You will have journeyed through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cinema, photography, Press, Prose, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged ballad of the cuckoos, childhood's land, film, island of misfit toys, John Biscello, laurel and hardy, scavenger hunt, toyland, toys
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Love Is
I miss you already, the sun-kissed daisy whispered to the migrant flake of snow, which clung like a hopeful bead to the daisy’s delicate petal before dying a lover’s death and melting.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged flowerbeds, it's a love thing, John Biscello, Poetry, seasons, snowflake's fancy, spring kisses winter
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This Side of Burlesque
And then came the day when he realized he was free, always had been to enjoy the abstracted stage-play of his thoughts and their formations, something of an idiot’s delight, same as the scabbed-glass opera of the world without, its … Continue reading
The Jackdaw and The Doll
A work in progress street scene from “The Jackdaw and the Doll,” a fable I wrote inspired by a story about Franz Kafka. The book is being illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama, as her artistry interprets and realizes a world of … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged children's book, fable, franz kafka, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, mood piece, prague, Prose, storytelling
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Welcome to the Dollhouse
Ballad of the Cuckoos is offering an intimate sneak-peek into “the room” in which our protagonists find themselves trapped. This small-scale model of the “Cuckoos Nest,” was created by my daughter, Sierra-Lindsey Biscello, who has been buiding custom-made dollhouses from … Continue reading
Fool’s Play
To marvel dumbly, and trespass, with a sense of the infinite backlighting a wink– this, the way of the Fool, or sacred is as sacred does, when trusting the air in its holy relationship to plunge.
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Tagged fool, in air we trust, John Biscello, poem, sacred clowning, taking the leap, the plunge, the reign of naivete
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