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Ken Russell - The Devils
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Which reminded me a bit of Jodorowsky's films, well shot, well acted with a handsome young Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, amongst others, and delightfully, obscenely perverse. The true, if not somewhat stylized, history of the Church in France. Makes me curious to see the uncensored version..
...of hand grenades and crocodiles...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm in the Philippines, coming out of a subway to overlook a railway track into a great marsh that disappears off into a distant mist. In the swamp there are piles of discarded hand grenades, some old, some new, and I want to pull one out, yank the pin and throw it, only I consider that it might set off a chain reaction, set off all the piles of hand-grenades that I see, and I realize that they are old, lying in the swamp, they might go off at any time, maybe even just picking one up would be enough, or they might not go off at all...
...now I've found my way to an old plaster or concrete apartment building in the marsh, empty apartments face onto a flooded courtyard that's bridged by a balcony, there are windows facing into the courtyard and out towards the marsh, discarded iron bedframes and bunk-beds in the rooms, on the balcony looking into the flooded pool I can see crocodiles, climbing out, great hooked feet allow them to crawl up the walls, snapping at me, and I'm wishing I'd picked up some of those hand-grenades now...
A***** from the old restaurant, the Italian waiter, not the nephew, is there, and I'm asking him if he's brought any weapons, a Kalishnikov, anything, he hasn't, he's quiet, watching the crocodiles climbing the walls, they could get into those windows, climb the beds, there's no place to hide here...
...from the roof there hangs an old chain, not too secure, precarious at best, and testing my weight on it I'm not sure it'll hold, the last thing I want is to fall into that pool below, I hang onto it, gingerly swing towards the crocodiles, hoping to kick them, or somehow knock them from the wall...
'Tease The Season
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
- Hits: 1363
Which was the 3 hour long Burlesque show in Nelson. Which I can't rate highly enough, because nowhere else in the world would you see something like this. The support of the audience, the utterly off-the wall acts, the enthusiasm for every act - regardless of gender, persuasion, age or body style. And, like the last theatre production I saw here, completely off-the-wall, over-the-top batshit crazy, and an audience ranging in age from 20 to 80 and everyone enjoying themselves like it's the most normal thing in the world. Easily 30 or more performers from as far away as Calgary and Seattle, all for a $20.00 ticket. It doesn't get better than this - you might get a more finished play or performance, but never would you get the absurd and outrageous acts - that generally were the hits of the show - the same process that "finishes" theatre too often finishes it in the other sense, takes off the edge and makes it bland and homogeneous. Not here, not by a long shot. 5 Stars.
This place is Paradise.
A Stormy Xmas Hamper
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Stormy
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He dropped by the restaurant, the standard barter-for-coffee, brought me a little Xmas hamper of sorts:
A festively arranged take-out container filled with a half-eaten piece of cheesecake, a nibbled on piece of smoked gouda, an xmas bulb, 2 headless rubber gingerbread men, a piece of Xmas red felt, and a cigarette in a pack of matches. A perfectly made up Stormy Xmas Hamper...
...I ate every last bit. Things here are pretty lean...
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