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Arts Express
Wed, Apr 22, 2026 9:00 PM
JOSHUA CLOSE TALKS GUNS, ENDLESS WARS, PTSD
** "Forget this US 'constitutional democracy' - this is basically a corporation..."
Pacifica Host Garland Nixon pulls away the mask. Referencing the dysfunction of the US empire, Garland's deep throats up on the Hill, Trump double crossing everybody, Michael Jackson, gas prices, war hawks in the Senate, Cambodia, Chile, Vietnam, Gaza genocide; nazi style war of aggression against Iran - and 'the US overthrowing governments, murdering their leaders, and stealing their stuff...'
** "Yeah, I feel like we've romanticized masculinity in art and life. And I love that they used Gary Cooper because he's, you know - Gary Cooper! And I get it..."
American Solitaire: A Conversation With Joshua Close. The actor featured as well in the ecological doomsday thriller The Day The Earth Stood Still, Killers Of The Flower Moon, and in Kill The Messenger as investigative reporter Rich Klein in connection with the CIA assassination of whistleblower Gary Webb, talks guns, US wars and PTSD in his latest film.
And what it all has to do with the solo journey of his emotionally broken soldier, John Wayne, the Panthers, Emmett Till, Vietnam - and the release of this war movie right in the midst of the endless US wars offscreen as we speak.
** "The case of Lucifer - the painting that terrified a government..."
Speaking Of Lucifer: An Art Spirito Excursion. Related to the unsettling gaze, rebellion, moral boundaries, the darker side of nature 'encoded in metaphor, mood and spiritual tension' - and while 'the most dangerous form of darkness is the one that wears beauty as its mask...'
Plus...Politics and shame...Trump's underground bunker...
