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The Broccoli Tree
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Hank Green does a lovely narration of "The Broccoli Tree", a modern fable about sharing the things you love.
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And a longer prose description here: http://thebroccolitree.com
Packing up my University Locker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm back at University (dark, dimly lit, rows of lockers, bathrooms, swimming pools hidden behind locker rooms and closed doors, an imaginary place in my dream with no real world equivalent) - with my son, he's helping me to clean up some things that I've forgotten here, and we're going to all the places I used to hang out, to the lockers, and there are papers and notebooks here, and into the parkade/student dormitory, and ask the students and get more papers, and from place to place (always inside, underground, dark) we're going and collecting my possessions, long overdue this, and all of my possessions seem to comprise only notebooks and papers...
...behind a couple of old wood doors there's a locker room, and through this a darkly lit swimming pool...
Enter The Void
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Which was not the easiest film to watch, but - like a lot of things - the reward is directly proportionate to the effort you put into it.
It loosely follows "Oscar" - the protagonist - through his life and flashbacks, into his hallucinations and death. There is, of course, an awful lot more, but for a film as experimental as it is it still maintains interest and a cohesive narrative (the problem with a lot of these films - as experimental as they are, is that they lose all touchstones of humanity and narrative. This one doesn't). Worth watching - but, fair warning, at 2 hours and 40 minutes it's a bit long. And, for the record, while it requires a fair bit of attention it might benefit from a small dose of the many psychedelics it recommends. And ensure you watch it on a big screen...
The Lottery Hackers
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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An intriguing long read in the Huffington Post about a Michigan couple that found a loophole in the State Lottery that allowed them to make approximately $7.5 Million US.
Inspirational: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
"...There is a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)
That's how the light gets in"
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