This was Hayden Croft’s fourth appearance on this podcast because it represents his fourth film that has screened at either Film Invasion Los Angeles or Sherman Oaks Film Festival. In March 2018, he came by with actor/producer Jay Eftimoski to discuss their film “New Age, Olde English” which screened at SOFF 2016. In July 2021, he came by to discuss “Last Wish” which screened at FILA 2018. In September 2021, he came by to discuss “Four Junkies” which screened at SOFF 2019. And today he came in to discuss… The short film “Tax Time” that screened at FILA 2023 and, almost more importantly, his self-published short story anthology “Kisses from Strangers in the Dark” that he gave me in 2018, and his currently unpublished novel “Sand Ramsey is a Dick” aka “Oh No, NoHo” aka “No Way, NoHo.”
We had a LOT to talk about!
You can learn more about Hayden and his work at haydenlcroft.com and, to get a little high art on y’all, below is the poem Hayden recited on this podcast!
“Combustible Criteria”
By Hayden Croft
Contending with the coarseness, current culture
calls “connection,”
Confers a change – of course – on once
conventional conceptions.
Collective condescension can oft condemn the
callous,
And the cover-up contenders, who conceal their
constant malice.
They concoct a coalition of compelling
conversations,
To consort with the contentious, and contort all
condemnations.
Coercion is a construct used to codify
contrivance,
And by condoning corporate conduct, one
corroborates connivance.
Crude, continual conjecture on the concept that
is class,
Is both critical, and cynical, and caters to the
crass.
In conscripting crowds to conquest, your charm
must be contagious,
Your commands be uncontested; your charisma
be courageous.
To capture the chaotic, then condemn it to
confinement.
The combative must be concrete; any comfort’s
by consignment.
The conditions of convection are conveyed
through circulation,
And constricting coalescence, can’t constrain
the conflagration.
Contained within this charter, is the credible
collusion,
Of contro-versy contagions, meant to
counteract confusion.
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