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Suspiria
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Continuing the horror bent: Suspiria, good, 70's, high 70's style, Art Nouveau, vivid colors and imagery. The version I found, a little uneven on sound, and the overdubbing of the language is rather unconvincing, artificial, seems a little unsynced, but overall - definitely not the best, but you can see how it influenced later movies.
Trivia: I'd always wondered what became of Jessica Harper - the lead from "Phantom of the Paradise" - well, this was her next big thing. She turned down Annie Hall for this.
Curious.
LINK(Warning, Spoilers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria
Another Wing on my Estate
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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A beautiful estate in the country, high, narrow building, and I'm adding another wing, perhaps 3 stories, I'm telling the kids that my stories sold, we're set, and there's a big truck there filled with insulation to be installed and I'm suddenly possessed to check my bank account, just want to make sure I'm not running low...
Through the trees to a creek, shallow, and follow that down to where it meets another creek, and the neighbors, they've told me, I need to plant plum trees, they will overhang the creek with long, deep red fronds and guide the Kokanee salmon up my own little creek to spawn, I'm planting the seeds, gelatinous, big, red, in the creek bed along the bank, in the middle of the main creek I see some trash, an antique gas pump, and hauling it out - it's in good condition - the neighbor looks at it and says that maybe that's why the Kokanee haven't been coming up here to spawn, and I'm looking at the rocks in the creek, the pebbles, making sure they're small enough...
Joan Ocean
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I've linked to this before, but - in light of all the Bigfood / Peter Caine videos I've been watching I thought I'd visit it again. Still LOL funny.
I mean, she's skeptical:
He was seeking advice and suggestions because he said, "I am trying to communicate with Bigfoot and I was wondering how you communicate with dolphins."
I read the email twice and wondered if the writer was joking....
Two weeks later, I received a gift in return. The Sasquatch had chosen a rock for me. A heavy quartz rock, weighing 5 pounds with many little crystal bits within it, gleaming in the light. Along with it came a piece of crumbled paper. On it was the carefully printed words: FOR WATER WOMAN.
Could this be true? I was still doubting the veracity of this.
They should go on a youTube Date, Joan Ocean as the skeptical Dana Scully to Peter Caine's too gullible Fox Mulder...the Truth is out There!
Let the right one in
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Watching Horror films, review all the available top ten lists. Some are pretty bad - as a result of one I watched "The Conjuring". Absolutely terrible. But it introduced me to the lead parapsychological investigators of the late 60's and early 70's, "Ed and Lorraine Warren", who's bio on Wiki was rather amusing.
From this to "Let the right one in" - a better quality film by far, an awful lot better thought out, some rather haunting themes, and a film that does a great job of integrating the elements of horror into day to day modern life. A lot to dwell on and consider - not, so much, horrifying, but it's there, it's there. No spoilers here.
So - one dog, one slight masterpiece, a few more to go...
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