If you’ve not ever read Soledad Brother, please do so immediately. At least sound smart in line at the movie theater when you go see Gary Dourdan work out his George Jackson (as if knowledge weren’t an incentive). No need to bring back the black medalions and the afros. I mean you can, but don’t feel any pressure from me.

Here’s the trailer:

A little info about Brother George:

George Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was a Black American militant who became a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison, where he spent the last 12 years of his life. He was one of the “Soledad Brothers,” and achieved fame due to a book of published letters.

Here’s the the thing, black family, we need to learn how to tell our stories in a bunch of ways. Folks aren’t going to see our movies on the regular cause we get stuck in a rut. First we had success with Boyz N The Hood and then there were forty five million versions of that. Then we had The Best Man and Soul Food and seven billion wack versions of that. After that we have Mr. Perry’s stuff and we have so many straight to DVD versions of those stories that I couldn’t even make a living selling them on the block if I had to. Vary up your shit! I am about to practice what I preach, by the way. If you missed my short story in Reverie, you’re wack. But you can still check it out at Aquariuspress.net. Also, there is another story of mine coming out in a Flipped Eye anthology very soon.

If you’re in LA on June 8th, “Woodshed Rhythms” a short film based on one of my novellas of the same title, will be showing at HBFF. My other project that I was involved with “Love Aquarium” was just shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York last month and is still making the rounds. Me and my dear friend Tracie Thoms are shopping a romantic comedy I wrote for her called “Smoke and Mirrors.” Lastly, I just finished two screenplays: “The Brooklyn Bubble” about a guy who never leaves Brooklyn after his wife leaves him but is forced to when he falls in love with a superstar; and “Weak in Florence” about three couples who go on vacation to Florence together and find themselves stripped of their usual insecurities.

Sometimes I have to run down the stuff I’ve worked on so I don’t feel like a complete loser.