Regular

The Regular plies the thoroughfares of alcoholism, writing, being a southerner, and how all three fill the mash bill of one man's unique spin on Victory! It is a documentary, but one that peddles in fact and fiction as it digs the deeper strata of truth. A home-grown prodigy of the urban South, the central character-Marvin Goodspeed-pursues a dogged defense of liberty and hearth via his dutiful use of the pen and the bottle: the former sustaining the man, the latter the myth. This is all filtered through the dutiful observation of local alternative-press journalist, Cyrus Cleburne, who spotlights the dislocating effects that history and environment, and obsessing over history and environment, can have on an individual, a culture, a region. Cleburne dials-in a tight focus, as the alcoholic wordsmith saunters about that porous zone separating who we are from who we think we are. Clinging to things "e;old"e; in the face of an unrelenting "e;new,"e; Marvin Goodspeed wages his losing battle each and every bloody day, declaring Victory! all the while.