Anthony Ray Hinton and The Sun Does Shine

This book is very difficult to read.   It is enraging, horrific, deeply depressing.  And yet, without having read it, I would have missed meeting this extraordinary individual.  So read it.  Be infuriated.  And get to know Anthony Ray Hinton.  And support the Equal Justice Initiative.

Driving Finish

A painting by my brother, the equine artist Robert Barnete, currently on display at Redmond Fine Art.

Driving Finish

Literary Rights

I'm pleased to announce that the Aura-Pont agency is handling the European rights for my work.  

Currently available: Still Life with Booze
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IMDb Update

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Dear Southern States: Please secede from the Union.

A Supreme Court Reporter Defines the Threat to Abortion Rights

newyorker.com

Music video for Ira Wolf's "Sunscreen"

This is the only music video I've done and I enjoyed it very much.  With appreciation to Patrick Mason, Ian Reid and Paola Torres.

Article:Sunscreen

irawolfmusic.com

Producers: Ian Reid and Max Haben
Director: Patrick Mason
Cinematographer: Ian Reid

Starring:
Alexander Barnett
Paola Torres

Director’s Notes: The trial scene in the film King Lear.

Watch “the trial scene” – part of Episode 9.  

It has taken Lear and the others 20 minutes to travel through the storm to the hut.  Throughout that trek Lear’s mind is in constant flux.  More and more he is losing any sense of time and place.  However he always retains his awareness of being king and the terrible wrongs done him by Goneril and Regan.

Eric Michael Smith, Alexander Barnett

Invariably this scene is staged as three characters running amok, each in his own chaotic world, spewing nonsense and mindlessness for no real purpose but simply to be a chorus to Lear’s madness.  No.

Peter Holdway, Alexander Barnett

This scene marks the first time Lear hallucinates.  At the beginning of the scene his further mental decline is evident.  His fascination with Edgar is gone.  When Lear first sees Edgar in the storm his mind cracked and he was overwhelmed by guilt and empathy.  But here that is gone.  It is the second of three very different stages in his mental deterioration.  Now he is driven by vindictiveness and his focus is entirely on revenge.  In his mind everything he loved has turned against him, even his adoring dogs.  Betrayal overwhelms him.