Things were different back then. The Twin Towers still stood tall at the tip of Manhattan. Brooklyn was more dangerous than hip. Trump and Giuliani were New York names but largely unknown to the rest […]
SHADOWS WRITER
My name is Kevin Leicinger. I write books. This site isn't about my books. At least not directly. It's about all the incredible, cool, amazing things that have helped inspire me to write them. Lots of music, books, movies, pop culture whatever, has gone into my brain and been spit back out again in some weird form I call my writing. This site is dedicated to those demonic influences. I hope you find it interesting.
Oscar Winning Prostitutes
It would seem to be an odd approach, but playing a prostitute has been one of the surest paths to Oscar glory for many actresses. It’s a technique right up there with an actor gaining, […]
A Man Ray Kind of Day
Man Ray was a Surrealist and a major contributor to the Dadaist movement. He worked in several media and actually considered himself, primarily, a painter. This is just a very small, random, collection of his […]
Feeling At Home In Tokyo
It has been one year, to this very day, that I left on my, first ever, trip to Tokyo. The fact that I’m marking the date should tell you at least one thing. In my […]
My Halloween Movies
I don’t do much for Halloween. I don’t dress up. I don’t decorate or wait for kids to show up and extort candy from me. What I do, is watch movies. Any excuse to justify […]
The Photos of Guy Bourdin
Dark. Disturbing. Violent. Women as victims. The photos of Guy Bourdin often make people uneasy. Especially, given that these were commercial, fashion, photos that appeared in the pages of Vogue or in ads for Charles […]
