mscosmiccat Videos
The Ghost in the Blue Velvet Dress
Anna Sophia is visited by the ghost of her mother. This is a semi-autobiographical story about my relationship with my mother.
Tags: Mother/Daughter Relationship Ghosts Metaphysics Life and Death
Animated Godot
Excerpts from Act One of Beckett's "Waiting For Godot". I used xtranormal's text to voice animation program for this video and was amazed to see how the dialogue between the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, when performed by the robotic- like voices and body language of the animated characters, takes on a whole new meaning, especially when removed from the context of the whole body of the play and without the famous lone tree. You can read the entire play by clicking on this link ...
Tags: Samuel Beckett; Waiting For Godot; Somewhere Over The Rainbow; xtranormal
First Day of School: as Related by Anna Sophia
Anna Sophia tells the story of her harrowing first day of school. This is an autobiographical account of my own first experience with society. The music is "Daughter" by Pearljam, and this particular version is a tribute to Kurt Cobain (I'm not sure why) and was performed on SNL. It was a September morning in 1948 and mother was dressing me for my first day of school. In advance of this momentous occasion she had purchased all the items I would need to be a first grade student at the public ...
Tags: First Day of School Daughter Pearljam xtranormal separation anxiety
Out There
Anna Sophia performs "Out There", a poem by CT Cannon which describes what it's like to be an out-sider, or, in other words, a person on the Autism Spectrum.
Bum Sunday - Part One
This is a short work of fiction by CT Cannon. The story begins when Mr. Jay Walker delivers the preface and Marble-Nose T. Jack the introduction to Lillian's documentary coffee table book. Lillian offers a brief autobiographical monologue. Background Music: Burden In My Hand by Sound Garden Written by Chris Cornell Follow me into the desert As thirsty as you are Crack a smile and cut your mouth And drown in alcohol cause down below the truth is lying Beneath the riverbed So quench yourself ...
Ulysses - faugh a ballagh
Agatha St. Clair performs a selection from Joyce's Ulysses Ba. What is that flying about? Swallow? Bat probably. Thinks Im a tree, so blind. Have birds no smell? Metempsychosis. They believed you could be changed into a tree from grief. Weeping willow. Ba. There he goes. Funny little beggar. Wonder where he lives. Belfry up there. Very likely. Hanging by his heels in the odour of sanctity. Bell scared him out, I suppose. Mass seems to be over. Could hear them all at it. Pray for us. And pray ...
Tags: xtranormal Ulysses English Literature Classic Literature James Joyce
Pussins - Ulysses
Lydia Lane performs an excerpt from Joyce's Ulysses (Beginning of chapter II; (paragraphs 1-18) Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soupm, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. Kidney's were in his mind as he moved about the kitchen softly, righting her breakfast things ...
Ulysses
Nigel Pennington IV performs an excerpt from Joyce's "Ulysses" "Mild fire of wine kindled his veins. I wanted that badly. Felt so off colour. His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws. All the odd things people pick up for food. Out of shells, periwinkiles with a in, off trees, snails out of the ground the French eat, out of the sea with bait on a hook. silly fish learn nothing in a thousand years. If you didn't know risky putting anything into your mouth ...
Tags: xtranormal
