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Conspirators of Pleasure
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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By Jan Švankmajer, director of "Faust" and "Alice", a surrealist film dealing with the internal suppression of furtive, guilty and indecent pleasures. Suggestive, symbolic, finger condoms, the gooey flour paste lathered over pornographic magazines to make papier mache masks, glue squeezed out of a tube, tightly clutched joysticks, the absence of real and meaningful connection, filled with surreptitious and knowing glances, tactile sensory imagery, the characters discover that their elaborate fantasies have real world repercussions, and they are as much the victims of the fantasies as they are their authors...
Finally something that doesn't adhere to the American cultural narrative, worthwhile...
The son's older brother...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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In a Stadium, or perhaps on the edges of a walled city, there's an older guy, late 20's, maybe early thirties, a skateboarder and magician, he's running around all charming, we're in a stairwell, it turn's out he's the boys brother...
...I look at K****, the boy's mother, she doesn't want to discuss it, then relents and explains to me that a few years before we met, in Montreal,...anyways, she doesn't like this child, though he seems well adjusted enough...
We're in the wall, around the city or the stadium, and the newfound brother takes off, he's got to do a show or something, and the boy and I are both perplexed, there are a lot of questions to be sure...
(remembered this a few hours after I woke, details are missing, peculiar dream...)
Rilke
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finished, an easy read, poetry after all, it takes time only in finding the right mood to appreciate it. I shall have to pick it up again, in the meantime...
Could it be that Fate measures us in spans of being,
And hence seems to us so alien?
Think how many such spans stretch from a woman
To the man she longs for and avoids.
Ouiji: Origin of Evil
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Teenage girls love horror films.
A date with the daughter, she brings a friend, give them a choice: A one man show playing at the Pumphouse (Star Wars, Charles Ross) or a movie. After the last "One Man Show" the daughter chooses movie...
Not surprising. My movie pick, in keeping with the Halloween and horror theme, is "Ouiji: Origin of Evil". Her friend is agreed, she wants to see this. They text their mothers, get permission to be up a bit late, we kill time at the mall...
Movie. OK. Not a masterpiece by a long shot. But for the girls, it was a screamfest, and as they are howling and hiding their eyes I can't restrain my mirth, the movie, it has a few moments, for sure, but for both of them (I thought one was experienced in the genre, she claimed to be, she wasn't...) it was the fuel of nightmares..."Don't Breathe" was the better movie, by far, but this has them terrified, and I suggest that for Halloween I pop by with my Ouiji board...
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