** "Godard is one of the major cinematic influences on my life. But he also was a very peculiar, in the best sense, human being - pushing out the poetic possibilities of cinematic language in a different way."

Poe, Nazis In Norway, Baudelaire, Memories Of Middle America, Godard, Timelessness And Endless Wars: A Conversation With Rob Tregenza. The Kansas born filmmaker on The Fishing Place. his WWII Norway Nazis revisited reverie; the enormous impact on his work derived from his mentor and collaborator, Godard - and deciphering on screen the perpetual mysteries surrounding 'The Sad And Lonely Death Of Edgar Allan Poe.'

** "Let me just say, I don't see much difference between humans now and the Crusades - except they got cell phones..."

Trump Plays 3D Chess. Pacifica Host Garland Nixon scratches his head as to the way things are right now in this country. Referencing warring tribes, bamboozled humans, Garland's birth certificate, sledgehammers, political cults - and 'what I try to do when it comes to politics, I try to pretend as though I'm an alien dropped on this earth..."

** "I've been removed from nature and life...I had resigned myself to death inside a windowless concrete box, I'm already dead inside the 'shoe' - how do you fight that...what do you have to lose..."

The Strike: Filmmakers Joebill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey investigate how the idea of a hunger strike began as a whisper inside solitary confinement - then spreading to 30,000 imprisoned away...

** "He must have felt some of the uselessness of the character in his novel..."

Bro On The Global Literary Beat. The Journey Of Simon McKeever - The Albert Maltz Page To Screen Novel That Never Happened. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the blacklisted screenwriter's production killed by Fox back then - potentially to star Walter Huston, Spencer Tracey and Henry Fonda. And a working class King Lear on the highway odyssey - a riding the rails journey across Red Scare America...

Plus...'This is not a poem but a nightmare' - an uncompromising, illuminating garden of jazz poetry with saxophone...