Poison like desire
I’ve taken mine
In your form
Slighted
Wounded
Wondering
Places far from home
Away from familiar ground
A ghost
Not wavering
Playing the cards close is so hard now
Dancing with the demon so much easier
To give in
To hate
For love
I’ve swallowed this poison like desire
And I’ve seen you in it
In the fantasy of future
The haunting of past
But not in present
Not here
Not now
Not with me
This wandering ghost
Clutching at life
But just passing through
Valley before me
Heartbreak at my back
Mulholland 3AM
As lights glitter down below
I search them
For the times we had
In search for some type of vision
of me
with you
A value to those times
Lost now
With the chill in the air
And the lights down below
It was a chilly and intimate evening with the films and filmmakers at the second night of Los Angeles Underground Film Fest.
Heaven Sent, written and directed by Gavin Hignight, was part of the Sunday night programming. It was the Los Angeles premiere of the film and cast and crew enjoyed representing the film.
Gavin and actor Rick Kent
AD Katie Townley and Sound Engineer and Music Superviser Adam Rydell
Gavin with actor Brian Brummitt
Katie and Gavin speak in the Q&A after the film
Hey!! Glad to say I was a guest on the podcast Geekscape with Jonathan London! You can listen to the show here! We spoke about many things… but mainly The Freak Table!
Hope you enjoy the listen. Click Here To Listen!
Double lane
On the side of the road
I saw a ghost
Of you
The way you used to be
The way I was
Looking back in that rear view
Hoping
Praying
For the curve not to let out
For you never to let out
To walk away
To disappear
I saw that ghost
In you
On the side of the road
That night
In darkness
On the curve
I’ll keep looking back
The Los Angeles Premiere of my short film HEAVEN SENT will be on December 9th as part of the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival!
Everyone involved with the making of this film is thrilled to be part of the festival. Many of us will be in attendance and hope to see you there!
Block 11
8pm-9:50pm
Sunday, Dec. 9th 2012
$12
Located at: The Actors Company
916a N. Formosa Ave.
West Hollywood CA 90046
The morning gray
Where have you been?
On days like this
Of lore
The world still
The people yet to wake
We have a moment here
In this morning gray
Everything is possible
Then you truly wake up
Back in this world
It’s limitations
Your station
But for a few sweet moments
You had it
The slight chill on the air
The freedom
The morning gray
Hello Everyone! As you may know from reading this blog Gavin’s film Heaven Sent premiered at Mile High Horror Fest last week! Here are some images from the weekend!
Doing a Q&A (next to actress Jossara Jinaro)
The short projected for the first time! (Laura Monaco on screen)
Denver Film Center had been taken over!
With long time friend and Denver film guru Bob Newman
This guy was greeting everyone as they came in.
The unruly crowd.
It was cold!!! *note the FEARnet gloves keeping me warm.
Greetings all my fellow freaks! To celebrate the release of The Freak Table, for the next year I will be writing 100 Stories about 100 Songs. These posts celebrate the music that has inspired me and helped to shape not only my life’s soundtrack but that of the book. There is no better band to start with then The Ramones! Hope you enjoy and come back for more.
If you like this blog post you can find more 100 Stories about 100 songs by clicking HERE
The Ramones- Beat On The Brat
In high school we weren’t exactly happy. Actually, we were pretty damn miserable. Feeling trapped, feeling oppressed, unable to do much with our situation.
We didn’t fit in. We were constantly under attack. My good buddy Tony had veered really close to the edge and was about to snap.
Who could blame him? As our ninth grade year continued he got more and more angry, reclusive and extreme. In an attempt to escape the constant barrage we were under at our high school, he transferred to another high school. Essentially he escaped one level of hell for another.
But, using the fresh start at this other school, he really truly got in touch with who HE was. A strong personality, and an original one so much so, that the worlds he explored on his own initiative (once removed from the BS of the world we were forced into) had such great influence, that much of it was able to lift me up as well as him. I thank that guy daily for being aggressive and inquisitive at life and introducing me to so many great things and adventures.
One of which is The Ramones.
We were young and angry, pissed fucking angry. Our soundtrack… bands like Ministry. We were the kids that were dealt the bad cards in the deck and by the time we got into high school it was taking its effect. Him with his shaved head, weapons in our sleeves, always ready for another shoe to drop on us. Especially him. But in that time where he was in a new school with a new chance, he started to change. Discovering bands like The Ramones. Guys, who we felt like, were dealt just as bad cards as us, they lived on the fringe, they had to make life one day at a time, but something was different. They were clever, they had commentary, but they weren’t angry. Never angry. Intense, right in your face, but not angry, not being eaten alive by forces unseen.
I remember distinctly bombing down a back highway with Tony in his white Buick late one night near Rocky Flats. The crappy car stereo blaring The Ramones. It was his copy of Ramones Mania, and he specifically told me about them. About New York, the scene they were from and how I needed to get into their music. His once shaved head now totally groan out long, brown bangs hanging over his eye, we passed going 80+ miles over a series of hills. The suspension in the Buick bouncing us, Beat on the Brat blaring, I had discovered a new world.
Soon I had many of their albums and was becoming well versed in the history of The Ramones. I listen to them often even now. I had the great pleasure of meeting them during their final tour. And I long for the days where not only my friend Tony was still around, but The Ramones as well.
When I hear Beat On The Brat, or any of the songs on Ramones Mania I think of that night. We were breaking through. Not only through the mold our community placed us in, but through the mold our rebellion tried to place us in.
HEY HO! LETS GO!
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100 Stories about 100 songs is written by Gavin Hignight, author of The Freak Table, a coming-of-age novel about the kids who didn’t fit in. Available online, in print and for eReaders everywhere. www.thefreaktable.com
Hello Everyone!!! I am pleased to announce that my first novel THE FREAK TABLE is now available in stores. The book is available for most eReaders like Kindle, Nook, iPad, SonyReader as well as others! A print version is available at Amazon.com and at Indie bookstores, and a limited edition signed/stamped/numbered version is available from my website.
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The fiction coming-of-age novel is based on many real experiences I had growing up in the post-punk, pre-alternative, skateboard scene in Denver in the late 80s and early 90s.
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For many who were there, it is a time that has not been documented. A story of an entire counterculture that has not been told. I wrote it for everyone who was there. But I also wrote it for those who want to be transported into a world and underground culture they may have never known existed.