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Getting drunk and ordering books I've been meaning to find forever...
Like "Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsey. A couple of books by Blaise Cendrars. And, of course, previously mentioned, "Red Spectres". I'm laying in for winter.
And I'm wondering why i didn't order them sooner, like, what was blocking me?
Books soothe my restless soul. So we'll see.
Anyways, something to wait for...
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Having seen most of his work before the popularity of the Internet I'd thought I'd seen it all. But going down the well of Polish Film Directors I chanced upon a whole pile of his earlier shorts and interviews.
So some good cinema/company to pass the time waiting for my copy of "Red Spectres" to arrive.
(I gave up on searching for it, too obscure, broke down and ordered it off of Abebooks. It was Bonnie Garmus that did it to me...)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kieslowski
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Not my look, but why not mix it up a little?
Need to clean the bathroom mirror. Heading downtown, the street-people are in awe, I've won the fashion competition for the day, "Let him pass" they say, it pairs a little better with an brown paisly cowboy-billy shirt, but it hardly matters, this is just absurd...
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This came up on my YouTube, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4r
Interesting, it's the Soviet answering to and picking up where 2001 - A Space Odyssey left off.
The plot, in a nutshell, revolves around a trio of astronauts in orbit about a planet that appears to be alive, and capable of reading their unconscious thoughts and returning them to the station in human form.
In a sense a little like "Stalker". And a bit of horror, in that your unconscious thoughts can take physical shape and haunt you...
Notes; that while Tarkovsky spends a lot building a mock-up of a space station, it's entirely irrelevant to the situation at hand, which is - in a nutshell - how can we make and sustain a meaningful contact with an alien species when we so poorly understand ourselves?
It's merely a backdrop to tell a very different sort of story.
It doesn't bog itself down with irrelevant science techno-babble to try and explain what's going on, it's merely the dynamic of a group of people that are in a situation they are at a loss to explain...
Noteworthy, the long traffic sequence, blood through veins, how we are as well a part of a larger organization we can’t expect to comprehend, as well the folly of man's vision, as evidenced by the illustration torn from "Don Quixote", that all this science, exploration, is a fool's errand...
Anyways, curious, Canon, but probably not for everyone. But I notice his "Mirror, Mirror" is also on YouTube, and so that might be my next watch...
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And this, a new gentrification for the town:
You can visit their website here: https://www.hallonelson.com/
It's like they thought if they changed "Hello" to "Hallo" they'd get away with it. They didn't. Visit their website, watch their video.
A bunch of tech-villains looking to escape the consequences of the world they built.
Fortunately there's a reasonably tech-savvy populace here. Some of their replies below:
I'm with them. Bloody hell, no more gentrification...