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The Lives of Others
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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It's been a long time since I've been this emotionally invested in a film. I remember this - the fall of the Berlin Wall (working and annoyed I hadn't saved enough to fly over and be there), living in Prague which still - although "free" - definitely captured the tone of this film. About a Stasi agent who, in 1980's East Berlin, develops feelings for a couple that he's supposed to be spying upon and incriminating.
I know these people - all of them, and they are infinitely more relatable than anything Hollywood can offer you, more depth, and not to say deep, just more - human.
German with English subtitles. A beautiful film.
CBC - Spaceman
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A short and well done documentary on Granger Taylor, the Duncan BC Resident who on November 29. 1980 left behind a note for his parents telling them he was invited to board an Alien Spaceship and disappeared.
Animals and Consciousness
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An article in the Atlantic that speculates upon animals and consciousness. Not that I have any doubt, but it gives some interesting examples with amusing human correlations - for examples, fruit flies, when faced with "dim mating prospects", will seek out alcohol, and trout have been observed fake orgasms to presumably divert the sperm of inadequate suitors...
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/
The Bartering Picker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: For Sale
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Sunday, a couple more pickers through, one, a younger couple that pick up a couple of cheap vintage cameras and a typewriter, and again help me out by taking some bones and crystals.
The other, a low rent picker, handsy, touches everything, asks prices of things that aren't for sale, fortunately he doesn't have much of an eye....
He notes the bronze bell - "From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" I said in my ad, and he believed it...wants to trade for cheap reproduction sword, various junktiques in his car boot, I'm explaining, I'm downsizing, letting shit go, don't want more, want less, ...end up getting a couple of mint condition $2.00 Bills, $20, on items that I'd valued at around $60, but really, they're low-end and so - as much to get rid of him as to get rid of junk, I make the deal and send him off.
Most of the people, they've been likable, relateable, him, not-so, and finally he's gone and I can get back to whatever it was I was doing. The $2.00 bills will end up in some Barista's jar as a tip.
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