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Warning Shadows: A Nocturnal Hallucination
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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I'm watching silent films so you don't have to...
Silent film, 1923, German (what does it matter, it's silent?!!!), a deeply psychological look at an aristocratic gathering wherein all the unconscious desires of the nobility are given reign. Dreams, desires, sex and murder prevail, as represented by shadows, dreams and reflections, the gateways to the deeper unconscious...easily as rich as "El Topo", but without the color and dialogue a lot more difficult to follow. Nonetheless you'll get it, the stuff of what dreams and nightmares are made of, in the end, all comes right, merely a spell cast by the itinerant performer, but what a curious and intriguing ride...
Major Themes: Shadows, Doppelgangers, Dreams, Reflections, Lust, Sex, Death, Conscious, Unconscious
Links: http://www.filmsufi.com/2008/10/warning-shadows-arthur-robison-1923.html
http://thedevilsmanor.blogspot.ca/2012/09/warning-shadows-schatten-eine.html
http://www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk/shadows.htm
Watch Online Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OcGxE60Gw
Odd that so little is written on a film that really, for the time, even now, is remarkably deep...
Sagittarius
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 2020
"Sagittarius". Found this thrifting, the medallion only, $4.00, 24 gold flashed, tin base metal, the chain, an old watch fob I had kicking around in my watch cabinet. Pretty sure the watch fob is solid gold, maybe only 10K, lacking hallmarks but it's definitely got the weight. The medallion, well, pretty sure it's tin with a 1 micron electroplate of 24 Karat Gold. The perfect introduction ... '"Sagittarius" I say smoothly, reaching forward to shake her hand...' How could I go wrong?
TED at 2X
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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So a little under the weather, still, tired a bit but you have to spend some of the day awake, lunch, coffee, then back home, nap, up, bored...
No good reason to be bored if your me, it's a form of procrastination, surf the web, see what there is to see, catch up, talk to family, but I'm not so well that I'm getting anything done...
Watch recommended TED Talks on YouTube. Some are OK, most are just shit. At 15 or 20 minutes a video these create even more boredom than they dispel...
...but every talk has something, and reading the comments on one that promises to "Multiply your time" I discover that the key is to watch the videos at 2X their regular speed...find it, it's on YouTube, the settings icon in the lower right corner...
And sure enough, everything is still there, you can understand the speakers, less "meaningful" pauses, and if you watch them you'll notice that the acceleration makes people more or less plausible as they give their talks, it accelerates, accentuates their mannerisms, gives you a quicker insight into not only who they are but what they're telling you...
So, life is short, the internet, vast, Watch TED Talks at 2X the speed...
A farm west of Lethbridge...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm driving somewhere south of Calgary, West of Lethbridge, a country road, then the best picture ever, the sun setting, sky turning every shade of over-saturated blue, moon rising, I'm taking pictures...a barn, big, red, tourist, rising up from the edges of the river...a row of trees trace silhouettes against the sky....photography gold...
Down, to the farm, I work here, haven't worked here forever, don't know if they remember me, some sort of tourist farm, with shops for all the visitors, I'm trying to find where I fit in, don't know, it's busy and understaffed...
...And I'm wondering, when did I last work here? And do they have a cheque for me? I'm not sure, not sure if anyone remembers me, soooo many tourists, don't know where to start, which shop to man...
...I find myself wondering, I've driven here from Calgary, to work, so far, 3 hours, and I'm not sure if they remember me, have my cheque, only I remember they told me I'd be back, and I'm thinking that this is bollocks and so I return to my car, leave the tourist barn filled with shops, drive back towards Calgary, I need to get a job closer to home...
(Sick the past couple of days, chest, head cold, sleeping 12, 14 hours per day, these amongst the feverish dreams...)
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