Kevin Rolly
Bio
Artist working in Los Angeles who creates images from photos, oil paint and gunpowder.
He is writing a novel about the suicide of his brother.
http://www.kevissimo.com/
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Stories (64/0)
- Top Story - January 2024
Rebel Moon Part One: A Dumpster of Fire
**SPOILERS** Oh, Zack Snyder...you and your ‘this isn’t Star Wars meets Seventh Samurai’ scheme, what did you do to us? I tried, I really did. The first fifteen minutes or so I thought we had something going on but quickly it all felt painfully familiar with themes and characters we’ve all seen before. We’ve got the evil Motherworld which is basically the Empire who have depleted their own world of resources and are in search of a planet that can make them sandwiches. One of the first images of them is their cylindrical ship leaaving what can only be describes as large space vagina. You be the judge. They find food makers in the village of the planet Veldt (It's not Tatouine) populated by a handful of farmers who proudly work their land and are home to our main protagonist Kora (Sofia Boutella). She is a brooding, isolated twenty-something with an attitude and with that well worn stereotype introduced we now know how this is all going to play out character wise for her. And yep, turns out she’s an elite trained soldier who escaped the Motherworld after their king, queen and their magical princess daughter Issa were assassinated. Issa could apparently bring dead things back to life (not using the Force) and was heralded as a messiah to her people. Well, she’s DEAD now viewers, don’t you feel angry? Well you SHOULD because Zack TOLD us so through three minutes of TOUCHING exposition. Does this play into the narrative? Does this motivate Kora for revenge? Nope. I don’t think it’s even mentioned again. So why bloody introduce us to it in the first place if it doesn’t advance the story? Well, viewers don’t ask questions, just suck it up and move on.
By Kevin Rolly3 months ago in Geeks
INCINERAT
It had been five days and the land still smoldered in wisps of curling smoke. All the homes gone, including his. The grey trails rose like mindless prayers into the merciless air like loosed cobwebs holding to themselves only to be dispersed by the winds that blew in from the sea just beyond. Smoke from grandparents’ beds, children’s toys and family albums. Things yearning to still be. Here he grew up, fought bullies, fell in love and wrote his first poem. The Five Cent Diner sat at the corner of Main and Holland. The counter still visible under the ashen collapse of the roof and coffee cups cracked and sullen rested still where no patron would ever go again. It’s where he met his first wife. Huervos Rancheros and conversations till dawn until another fire erased that as well. He turned left onto Spring St. It would only be another block.
By Kevin Rolly6 months ago in Fiction
THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
The Man wakes in the dark in the post-apocalyptic landscape, his son known only as the Boy, sleeps beside him, the father’s hand on his little chest feeling it rise and fall “with each precious breath.” We do not know what befell the earth and we never will. All we know is that the“Barren, silent, godless” world is dying and they need to move south or they will not survive the coming winter.
By Kevin Rolly8 months ago in BookClub
Snow Hill
Atop a snow covered hill a group of six figures hold colorful ribbons dancing about a May pole with train tracks in the distance. In Andrew Wyeth’s culminating masterwork they dance in anticipation of his impending death for the hell he put them through. Notice there are seven ribbons however.
By Kevin Rolly8 months ago in Critique
Atoms and Adversaries - the Power of OPPENHEIMER
J. Robert Oppenheimer lies in bed, his lover Jean hovering intently over him holding the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred Hindu text written in Sanskrit. She demands his translation of an obscure line. Oppenheimer struggles with the dead language and hesitantly speaks the now infamous quote.
By Kevin Rolly8 months ago in Geeks
- Top Story - August 2023
The Sound of Freedom and the Maligning of TruthTop Story - August 2023
So much stink has surrounded this film that I went to see it to see if any of the media criticism leveled at it had any merit. Is it a conspiracy laden melodrama exploiting child trafficking for a buck? Is it a call to awareness about this dark hidden world that we all know exists but don’t hear about much? Is it good? Is it bad? So many questions... So let’s pull the trigger on this and get to bottom of it.
By Kevin Rolly8 months ago in Geeks
[boom]
On acid everything is very very important I had been on acid since breakfast and guarding the merry-go-round in my uncle’s Vietnam helmet was my only responsible choice. It was 2007 and my friend Ellen’s bachelorette party was raging sloppy and I knew everyone were incredibly vulnerable. Donned only in bridesmaids dresses, my friends cavorted in the dangerous wilds of San Francisco slurping mimosas out of baby bottles and occasionally exposing themselves as the ride careened at a seemingly impossible speed as legs and arms flailed in a tangle of chaos and light trails. Ellen was coming round on some chipped white beast of a horse and as she swung round she crossed her eyes, her tongue sticking preternaturally to the side and screaming, “BLAAAAAH!” and vanished from sight.
By Kevin Rolly9 months ago in Humor
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Disappointment
So...Indiana Jones and the Dial of Disappointment. The film no one asked for. Let me preface this. My brother and I grew up on Raiders of the Lost Ark. We had never seen anything like it before and it captivated us in a way that few films other than Star Wars had. I still consider it a perfect movie. It transformed cinema and gave us a new hero who we all wanted to be. He was a hero without super powers, just a guy, a professor with immense skill, knowledge and fearlessness to achieve something rare and precious. Something magic had entered into the world and we were different people after that movie. I wore a fedora in high school and my brother became a stunt actor and master of the whip because of this film, so I take this seriously.
By Kevin Rolly9 months ago in Geeks
This One Thing
It was September now and Kirk was out of time. After the diagnosis there were few options left. There was little of him left except this one desire. His wife took everything while he was in the hospital and found a new man, one not dying at least. His money helped. But Kirk only wanted one thing. The thing beyond measure.
By Kevin Rolly10 months ago in Fiction
- Runner-Up in Micro Heist Challenge
