Travel writing while living in North Carolina, Utah, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Italy, London, and Madrid.
A collaboration between the Polish artist and writer Grzegorz Wroblewski and the South African artist Doris Bloom, at the Warsaw Literary Museum, takes as it’s starting point The New Colony (2003), an experimental treatise/novel/play, in the tradition of Kafka and Beckett. Both Bloom and Wróblewski are immigrants to Denmark and
I have never been comfortable with money. The chasing it, living my life for numbers. In America, as an immigrant, I was saturated with the lack of it. Lower middle class, chasing the American dream, the endless informercials and my family trying so many pyramid schemes, doing the grunt work
Why do we travel? The weekend getaway. The summer and winter breaks. The islands and exotic locations. What are we looking for? The travel industry is one of the biggest on our planet. According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the travel industry generated 7.6 trillion U.S. dollars
EXACTLY!!!! FREAKING MEASUREMENTS ARE EVERYWHERE (EDUCATION, THE ARTS, CORPORATE CULTURE!!) HOLY SHIT!! WE NEED MORE HOLY SHIT!!
DOG WALKING IN TRIESTE WITH JAMES JOYCE ITALIAN PIZZA AND THE BORA. “THE LONGEST WAY ROUND IS THE SHORTEST WAY HOME” https://vimeo.com/136311567
HORSES ARE REALLY SOMETHING ELSE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQPvdHsAow&feature=youtu.be
Another excerpt from my recently completed novel Never Mind the Beasts. This time as a child in Portadown, N. Ireland at the height of the troubles. PTSD, the bomb, satanic rituals, graveyards, granny’s, lucid dreaming, witches. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/no-surrender
https://vimeo.com/134944360 Homeless beach dwellers. Summer 2014. Almeria, Spain.
WRITTEN IN GENOA. PART OF NEW MANUSCRIPT. CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://vimeo.com/134836919
