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Paste: A Short Film by Cecelia Chapman and Jeff Crouch
Nine Paintings by Mario Robert
Winterstate: Five Paintings by David Nakabayashi
When You Come Again, You will Never Go: A Poetry Chapbook by Andreas Morgner
State of the Union: A Sardine on Vacation, Episode Fifty-Six
The Ekonomics of Fantasyland by Jim Chaffee
Garda Ghista on the exploitation of the European worker
Yacov Ben Efrat on the Gaza blockade
Golden Opportunity: Short Fiction by Eric Sentell
Fine Dead: Short Fiction by Ryan Meany
Empty Orchestra: Short Fiction by Ben Nardolilli
The One: Short Fiction by Natasha Grinberg
Emily Spence on Peak Oil and social collapse
Nicholas C. Arguimbau explains what the deal with Peak Oil is, exactly
Assaf Adiv on Israel's entry into the OECD
David Boyajian on Turkey, Armenia, and the Woodrow Wilson Center
Joel Lewis on discovering Dan Burros, American-Jewish Nazi
Gabriel Ricard reviews Ghost & Ganga: A Jazz Odyssey and interviews the author, Kirpal Gordon
Two Poems by Changming Yuan
Three Poems by Linda Ravenswood
Three Poems by Dennis Mahagin
Three Poems by Reuben Nash Dendinger
Three Poems by Robin Scofield
Three Poems by Holly Day
Three Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Three Poems by Alan Britt
Three Poems by M.P. Powers
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Paste
by Cecelia Chapman and Jeff Crouch, July 2010
Cecelia Chapman lives in Northern California. Her work examines the way we think and live, the human hunger for adventure, mystery and illusion. Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been on the internet.

Todo Esta Siempre Bien and then It Ain't
by León De la Rosa, May 2010
Spoken word artist León De la Rosa and videographer Gabriela Duran recorded Todo Esta Siempre Bien and then It Ain't on three occasions at three locations—The 2010 Humanities Education and Research Association Conference, The Gun Gallery in Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and The Rubin Center at the University of Texas in El Paso. They then took the three recordings and mixed them together to produce this, the definitive published version of this videorant.

maxima propositio
by Roger Humes, April 2010
"For a number of years I have also worked with computer graphic art. This led me to explore using video with my poetry, resulting in the maxima propositio piece. The text is the same used in the e-book, only with a fractal background and soundtrack added to words scrolling from various positions in different colors and fonts."

American Tea Parties 2010
by Belinda Subraman and Joseph Penton Rose, April 2010
"On Tax Day, April 15, 2010, Belinda Subraman of El Paso, Texas and Joseph Penton Rose of Atlanta, Georgia 'infiltrated' their local Tea Parties, with the hopes of better understanding this sudden organization. We present their observations in video, photographs, and an audio conversation."

When You Come Again, You will Never Go
poems by Andreas Morgner, with a video by Belinda Subraman, April 2010
"Children play. Each move tentative. The desire for fun struggling with a wary glance
Over the shoulder. A mother hovers close in case feet need wings. The guns love
Children the most. Each a potential recruit for others' wars."

Such Lofty Encounters (Rarely Forgotten)
by Hydropods, with animation by Cyril Victor, March 2010
"They were prudes then, and they were prudes when they died."

Voices from the Palace of Illusions
by Grace Andreacchi, February 2010
The author reads this stand-alone piece of madness in multiple voices from her longer work, Poetry and Fear.

Disintegration
by Ginnetta Correli, January 2010
Some of Ginnetta Correli's work can be found in print and online. She's been published in Ink Sweat and Tears, Diet Soap, The Bannister Review, Sein Und Werden, Poesy Planet, Insolent Rudder, Bicycle Review and Omega 7. Ginnetta Correli is also the author of a depressing novel called The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli and just released an album about the novel: Nurse Lucy. Presently, Ginnetta is making films.

Deceptive Deceptions
by Dan Meth, December 2009
Returning to Unlikely 2.0 for the first time since our June 2004 debut, Dan Meth presents his Truthumentary about the Freemasons, Tupac, and John Candy.

Horizons and Intersections III
by Derek von Essen and Don Pyle, November 2009
The third installment in the moving collage returns to Unlikely.

The Politics of Murder
a video poetryrant by León De La Rosa, September 2009
"A shotgun is all I have to offer, but a shotgun is all you'll ever need."

Visual Poetry by and an Interview with Vernon Frazer
September 2009
Presenting a seven pages from Vernon Frazer's newest manuscript of visual poetry, Any Moment, along with a filmed interview in which Frazer details how he made the transition from "writer" to "visual poet."

An Interview with Vernon Frazer
by Gabriel Ricard, with video interviews by Jonathan Penton and C. M. Penton, September 2009
"Much of my writing over the past ten or eleven years has come entirely from instinct. My decades of reading and writing experience allow me to trust that my instincts will lead me where I need to go. Once I'm into the work, flying by the seat of my pants, I'm conscious of what I'm doing, what I've done and what I will need to do to make the piece work. It's definitely a different use of instinct from what I used in my earlier, more pre-determined work."

Know Where to Go Crazy
by M. D. Friedman, August 2009
M. D. Friedman is a poet, teacher, musician, photographer, digital artist and web master from Lafayette, Colorado. His fourth book of poetry, Where We Reach, was recently released and combines his poetry with his original photographs and artwork.

The Psychology of Scriptwriting
by Jack Feldstein, July 2009
Jack Feldstein brings us another neon film, a 15-minute piece on the assorted delusions and hallucinations that lead one to attempt to write film.

Enter At Your Own Risk
A Spoken Word Video by "MrDaMan" and Luis Medina, June 2009
Virgil Hall a.k.a. "MrDaMan," a poet in San Diego, and Luis Medina, a musician in New York City, have never met in real life. They met online and collaborate to create poetry, music and visual media as a hobby. They do this stuff for fun and try to live/create under the mantra: "If you're having fun you must be doing something right."

Cry Crisis
A Music Video by Hogeye Bill, June 2009
'"Don't tread on me" hangs menacingly in the background as Bill puts his passions and obsessions into the better of the two songs available on his site. His opinion is clear and relentless, but he manages what so few folk artists seem to be capable of. He possesses the ability to throw down a very decisive view while keeping the music steady, right under the point. All the while, the song never loses sight of the necessity to craft compelling, black comedy lyrics.'

Life of a Poet
by Dean Omori, May 2009
Presenting a haunting music video by award-winning filmmaker and composer Dean Omori.

Private SNAFU in Spies
reprinted April 2009
Spies is one of twenty-six Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps of World War II, and since released into the public domain. Spies was directed in 1943 by Chuck Jones, written by Theodor Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, voiced by Mel Blanc, and featuring original music by Carl Stalling.

Heroesetal
by León De La Rosa, March 2009
This Englishish-language twenty-minute poetry video was simultaneously filmed and screened before a studio audence in the Gun Gallery in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Lassie's Mother
by Matthew Hahn, February 2009
Oh, sure, collies are smart enough, but what are you supposed to do with a smart dog, anyway? Teach it to knit? Maybe she dug all those stupid wells Timmy fell down, did you ever think of that? Lassie's Mother was a finalist in the recent Third Screen Film Festival in Hollywood, California.

Cinematic Excerpts from Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights
by Belinda Subraman and César Ivan, February 2009
As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina to assist him in his passage.

Audio and Cinematic Poetry by Rick Lupert
February 2009
Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California. Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major internet resource for poets.

:the game:
by Nicklaus Liow, December 2008
Presenting :the game:, in which you can explore the full futility of action through interactivity.

Kill Jim Liebowitz
by Olde English, November 2008
This film is a work of satirical fiction. Any resemblance to any actual politicians, industries, or human behavioral patterns is purely the fault of somebody else.

My Disease
by Norman Ball and Paul Millington, October 2008
This creepy segue into a predatory madness features mashed-up horror visuals and original music by Norman Ball and Paul Millington.

The Wicked Witch Gets Her Wish
by Cecelia Chapman and Jeff Crouch, September 2008
Cecelia Chapman is an artist who lives in Northern California where she produces video, original art and stories. She is particularly intrigued in all her work with the human hunger for adventure, mystery and illusion. Check out her website at www.CeceliaChapman.com.
Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, TX. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been on the internet.

910 Noise, featuring The Pony Gropers
September 2008
...noise art can be compared to birth. An ugly little thing violently squirming in its own filthy ooze, noise art often emerges as a complex orchestra of aural neurotransmitters, body mass, and bloody tissue. In other words, noise takes on shape. 910 Noise is a collective of artists who sculpt with noise and performance. The use of traditional instruments in radically untraditional ways often produces their unique visions of sight and sound.

A Reading from Lemur
by Tom Bradley, August 2008
Tom Bradley reads, with the miracle of video Interweb technologies, Chapter Two of Lemur, his novel of would-be serial killer Spencer Sproul.

Tilting at Windmills
by Tim Barrus and Cinematheque Films, August 2008
Cinematheque Films is a student organization in Paris, France. On a trip to North Carolina to create a film based on the poetry of Carl Sandburg, they made this, instead.

Selections from ¡Presente!
by Leigh Herrick and Branko Gulin, July 2008
¡Presente! is a live show featuring Leigh Herrick playing conga and reading her poetry as Branko Gulin creates a spontaneous painting. We present five of these paintings and three of these poems, along with video selections taken from the show's five-day run in May 2008, which took place in the Chapel at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, in Minneapolis.

Maybe
by Cecelia Chapman, June 2008
Featuring music and art by Jeff Crouch and music by Grat Bodkin, Maybe aims to examine our modes of perception in less than a minute.

Sick Men
by Michael Medaglia, April 2008
Now that Americans have all "voted" in the Democratic and Republican primaries by drunkenly shouting the name of their preferred candidate to the employee at the drive-through, it's time to get down to the real business of electing a President.

The Atomic Adventures of Jack Keroauc
by Jack Feldstein, March 2008
One of the nicest things about taking road trips with homosexual junkies is that they don't fight you to get the girl.

Are You Smarter Than an Alien?
provided by BarelyPolitical.com, February 2008
What is the Supreme Law of the Land in the United States of America? And are there any Americans who actually feel bound by it?

Promises
by Leigh Herrick, February 2008
"she was kissed by the river
she was kissed and taken up
like her kissing god
like her saying goodbye "

Blow Rock Poem
by C. J. Laity, January 2008
C. J. Laity is the publisher of ChicagoPoetry.com and the organizer of the annual Chicago Poetry Fest. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times calls Laity "a major figure in the city's thriving poetry scene."

Poleo Speaking
a full-length documentary by León De La Rosa, December 2007
For the past several years the citizens of Poleo, a tiny community near the border of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, have been in the center of a legal, physical, and sometimes violent battle between developers who claim to own their land and the institutions which claim the land belongs to the federal government.

The Adventures of James Joyce
by Jack Feldstein, November 2007
It's not easy being an author of historical significance, especially when one is being narrated in neon.

The Big Brother State
by David Scharf and Stephen Taylor, October 2007
"The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom, but what we refer to as repressive legislation."

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