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Kelowna
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And so I've another scheduled trip to the dentist, only without a car and so a friend steps up, opportunity for her to visit her family, and we're off. Beautiful autumn colours, stop at a pub in Rock Creek for lunch.
The pub, far better on the inside than outside, lunch, the big "Fell off the back of a GFS Truck" feast, onion rings, chicken wings, cheese sticks, chicken fingers, spring rolls, celery/carrots, fries, gravy.
Fucking appalling. $40 for maybe $4 worth of food, chicken wings cut from chicks still in the eggs, fingers more aborted McNuggets, spring rolls without filling, Onion rings that forgot the onion, carrots/celery recycled since the beginning of time, I mean, this was the worst - and most expensive - iteration of the classic Kootenay Roadhouse Menu I've seen in my life. It's like GFS has a secret menu for even worse food that what they usually sell these places, somehow, if possible, they managed to sell them on the "D" menu, half the price of the "C" menu which is what most places buy and is easily ranked as "appalling".
What kills me is that while it's far too generic, commonplace, the menu virtually identical to every other restaurant for a couple of hundred miles, it doesn't have to be. You could - from scratch - make an amazing fried cheese. Or Chicken Wing. Or French Fry, or Chicken Finger or Spring Roll or - well, all of it, you just have to know how to cook and take 5 minutes to prep it. But I swear GFS unloads this shit directly into the deep fryer and - the results, well, you know, you know.
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Onward to Kelowna, a couple of thrift shops, I pick up a few nice shirts, pair of pants, if you're into thrifting, Kelowna, it's the place to be. Any number of treasures, and I could have searched a lot longer, harder, only I was being done a favour and didn't care to impose further.
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The Dentist, fine, the standard, and then home, a couple more thrift shops, if I'd had time I might have found some treasures, the quality of the post-consumer landfill there is great, far better than the Kootenays, only I was a little disinclined, the dentist, the impatience of my ride, and so I cut it short, but next year, new vehicle, and I'll be making the trip for sure...
Szürkület (Twilight) - György Fehér
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Now, going through youTube recommended lists of "Films that you should see that nobody else has". A must-see list of undiscovered masterpieces. Sitting in a hotel in Kelowna, waiting for the dentist the next day, and so I watch.
The weather, cool, rainy, outside cloudy and grey, the drive - autumn colours and the immanence of winter, all made for the perfect viewing conditions.
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This, a black and white film, filmed in 1990 but set (?? Maybe the 40's, 50's ??) - about a detective on the trail of a serial killer, pedophile who's' murdering children in rural Hungary. It's atmospheric as hell, long takes of the forest, autumn, when panned overhead the trees have their leaves, when filmed on the ground the trees are all bare.
The dialogue, sparse, the soundtrack - haunting and familiar - Kate Bush is listed on the credits, but - I've heard this music before, only where...
The plot, about how when evil, in human form, comes among us how ill prepared we are to recognize or deal with it. Phrases like “Sociopath” or “Pychopath” or “Narcissist” hide it, give it an air of psychological legitimacy…to what most of us must be unknowable and unimaginable. Claustrophobic, haunting, disquieting, a morally grey landscape in which it's always cold and raining, in which the detective is always searching, not only outwards but in himself, in which...well, a few things. That rare combination of a film that makes you think as well as feel (perhaps more the latter.) I'll note this is not a happy or cheerful film, so, perfectly paired for the weather but probably not for everyone.
Link: https://rarefilmm.com/2017/12/szurkulet-1990/
Note, this version is unrestored, so poor resolution and a crackle in the audio. If anything to me it lends it that air of veracity. There are other versions that have been cleaned up and restored, to me it made no difference.
Vampyres
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Last night, restless, in and out of sleep, the same dream continuing of Vampyres, falling back into it after every waking. I have never been so lucky with a pleasant sex dream...
That I'm charged with protecting a lithe, attractive older blonde (40's ish?) from a Vampyre...it's hunting us, her, I know her, she's a close personal friend (that I've never met in real life, don't know, but in the dream)...a post-apocalyptic landscape, this Vampyre wants her to bear his child, continue the race...
We're hiding and tattooing crosses on one another with oblique lines through them, Byzantine, yet still he hunts us and his numbers are growing...
...a tower of earth, an excavator falling against it, nudging it, I'm on it, friend operating it, I'm telling her to be careful not to knock it over, the holes on either side drop into oblivions...
...or in a room, doors all sealed against the threat outside, only now, there's not one Vampyre, they are legion...
(wake, rinse, repeat)
Now, looking at a museum of vampyres, all of whom are sealed in dioramas visible only through little portholes and periscopes, look into one and you see the skeleton of a fetus, a beaver, any manner of creature, when you look through the next porthole it has changed it's aspect, now it's teeth have grown into golden fangs and it's staring at you with luminous eyes...
And we're trying to escape but their numbers are growing and I can see no end to this...
(disconcerting, puzzling, although I have some ideas...)
The Past Few Days...
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Getting drunk and ordering books I've been meaning to find forever...
Like "Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsey. A couple of books by Blaise Cendrars. And, of course, previously mentioned, "Red Spectres". I'm laying in for winter.
And I'm wondering why i didn't order them sooner, like, what was blocking me?
Books soothe my restless soul. So we'll see.
Anyways, something to wait for...
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