The Ring

Momma wants to sell her ring so she can pay her property taxes. Escalating property taxes are a serious problem for the fixed income elderly.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: elderly, easttexas, marshall, property, taxes, marquisdejolie, fixed, income, family

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Anarchist VRS Politics As Usual

Interviewing a homeless, RV-dwelling self-avowed anarchist at my homeless veterans shelter dorm room on his reactions to the evils of politicians. A series.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: anarchist, anarchism, politics, marquisdejolie, politician, veterans, shelter, series, interview, documentary

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Uncertain By Boat

A quick, pastoral tour of Uncertain, Texas as seen from a flatbottom boat on Caddo Lake in east Texas.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: tour, caddo, lake, uncertain, texas, marquisdejolie, bayou, flat, bottom, boat, boating, nature

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Baby and Butt Dance

My granddaughter creates a home video of grandpa’s baby feeding and cousin Scott’s fascination with a lounge chair.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: baby, feeding, grandpa, marquisdejolie, weird, cousin, butt, dance, family, kids, home, video

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Finding Humor In Homelessness

Interviewing a homeless, RV-dwelling ex-attorney in my Inglewood, California U.S. Vets homeless veterans shelter transitional living facility dorm room on the little humors one can find in homelessness. A series.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: homelessness, homeless, humor, marquisdejolie, leaky, car, veterans, shelter, u.s.vets, series, interview, documentary

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Drug Test Heart Attack

Song about the irrational fear of mandatory random drug testing by the landlord at the homeless veterans shelter in Inglewood, California. A nonfiction dark comedy.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: homeless, homelessness, veterans, shelter, marquisdejolie, drug, test, heart, attack, military, inglewood, humor

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Duet For Crackheads

Musical duet rendition of an excerpt from my poem, “Crack Motel: The Crackheads Are Coming” sung by me and a sepia-toned friend.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: duet, crack, crackheads, humor, marquisdejolie, crackmotel, music, poem, poetry, song, weird

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Trying Not To Think In Russian

Existentialist prose about a Russian art film using a Jon Voight American action adventure prison break runaway train movie as metaphor. Vintage footage courtesy The Prelinger Archives. Soundtrack courtesy Incompetech.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: russian, art, film, marquisdejolie, jonvoight, american, action, adventure, prose, poem, metaphor

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The Crackheads Are Coming Song

A parody of a childhood song twisted to the street with lyrics from my poem “The Crackheads Are Coming” sung by a friend and lipsynced poorly by me.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: parody, street, crack, crackheads, marquisdejolie, song, twisted, lyrics, poem, poetry, lipsync

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The Unworking

Video tour of the main things in my momma’s east Texas house that hadn’t worked for a while when I arrived. (Some of them work now) “Infados” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0”

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: work, unworking, tour, mother, marquisdejolie, momma, house, marshall, easttexas

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