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But if I could have a hundred homes and dwell in each a while
It has been the kind of day where not much happens in my brain except that I throw it against my job, the stupidity of the fashion industry (I hate clothes shopping; I need jeans), and the occasional interesting thing on the internet.
1. It's like a play by Alan Bennett or Michael Frayn, only real: Alan Garner and Alan Turing.
2. The Science Museum in London is building Babbage's Analytical Engine. I hope they are consulting Sydney Padua.
3. Does anyone on this friendlist read Lackadaisy? My interest seems to have been piqued by a sketch of one of the characters in human form, which is almost certainly the wrong way to get into Prohibition-era therianthropomorphic St. Louis, but I'd still appreciate information. From the outside, it looks rather like Baccano! (2007) with cats.
4. I have suspected for some time that I would need to see Tarsem's Immortals (2011) despite its mixmaster approach to Greek mythology, and it looks from early reviews as though I was right: "The influences and wild ingenuities of Tarsem's designs surpass mere dressing to enliven and enrich the ceaseless bloodletting, making it the first action-intensive film in recent memory without a single tedious fight sequence. He gifts Rourke's Hyperion with Egyptian-inspired jackal headgear that becomes a hellish motif of evil, models the movements of his chiseled heroes after the work of Caravaggio, and offers a stunning penultimate shot that looks as if it were peeled from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. No detail is left unconsidered. In one scene, Theseus, within the central chamber of a labyrinth for the dead, faces off against a minotaur in barbed wire armor atop an Escher-esque staircase littered with rose petals."
5. You know, the Borg really are the Cauldron-Born of the Star Trek universe.
And now back to throwing my brain against things. I may rewatch Wittgenstein (1993) later to clear my head.
1. It's like a play by Alan Bennett or Michael Frayn, only real: Alan Garner and Alan Turing.
2. The Science Museum in London is building Babbage's Analytical Engine. I hope they are consulting Sydney Padua.
3. Does anyone on this friendlist read Lackadaisy? My interest seems to have been piqued by a sketch of one of the characters in human form, which is almost certainly the wrong way to get into Prohibition-era therianthropomorphic St. Louis, but I'd still appreciate information. From the outside, it looks rather like Baccano! (2007) with cats.
4. I have suspected for some time that I would need to see Tarsem's Immortals (2011) despite its mixmaster approach to Greek mythology, and it looks from early reviews as though I was right: "The influences and wild ingenuities of Tarsem's designs surpass mere dressing to enliven and enrich the ceaseless bloodletting, making it the first action-intensive film in recent memory without a single tedious fight sequence. He gifts Rourke's Hyperion with Egyptian-inspired jackal headgear that becomes a hellish motif of evil, models the movements of his chiseled heroes after the work of Caravaggio, and offers a stunning penultimate shot that looks as if it were peeled from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. No detail is left unconsidered. In one scene, Theseus, within the central chamber of a labyrinth for the dead, faces off against a minotaur in barbed wire armor atop an Escher-esque staircase littered with rose petals."
5. You know, the Borg really are the Cauldron-Born of the Star Trek universe.
And now back to throwing my brain against things. I may rewatch Wittgenstein (1993) later to clear my head.
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Garner on Turing is both saddening and fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
I'm happy somebody's building an Analytical Engine, and it does look as if Sydney Padua should be consulted. I'll have to bookmark 2-D Goggles.
I've heard of Lackadaisy before, but never read it. It does look sort of interesting--I'm curious to find out more about it myself.
I'll be curious to hear what you think of Immortals. The mixmaster approach to mythology* can be so very annoying, and makes me obscurely glad that the Ulster Cycle and the Fianna have largely escaped the movie industry, but it seems as if they always do that and maybe there's hope this one will have some redeeming characteristics.
I hope the rewatching of Wittgenstein proves helpful to you.
*As distinct, of course, from the weird complexities of the actual mythologies.
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It's a brilliant strip; it started as a one-off joke for Ada Lovelace Day and developed into one of the most erudite webcomics I know. I am very fond of both of its protagonists.
I hope the rewatching of Wittgenstein proves helpful to you.
The Producers (1968) was on TCM: I watched that instead. I'm not sure about what it did for my intellect, but it is a wonderful movie.
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I'll definitely have to be reading it. NaNo's probably beyond recovery in my case, so I suppose I might as well start in on the archive.
The Producers (1968) was on TCM: I watched that instead. I'm not sure about what it did for my intellect, but it is a wonderful movie.
It is. The post-Broadway movie was much better than I was afraid it might be, but the original is the best.
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Wow, yes! What a great observation.
You weren't clothes shopping in B-town, were you? (Of course not: there are no clothes stores in B-town.) Your post reminded me: this morning I saw I guess your doppelgänger. I was driving to the transfer station (=dump); she was walking by the side of the road ahead of me, with a dog. She had long brown hair loose down her back, was slim, and was wearing a brown fitted jacket of suede or velvet or something like that. I drove by and couldn't make out her face in the rearview mirror.
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I was thinking about the ways in which later iterations of Star Trek mangled the original conception of the Borg and it just popped into my head.
Your post reminded me: this morning I saw I guess your doppelgänger.
At least I'm still alive . . .
I drove by and couldn't make out her face in the rearview mirror.
Hah.
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I hope in another universe that play exists.
Nine
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Dunno. I like the reality.
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I blitzed through the online archives when I ran out of brain for the night: it is a lot like Baccano! with cats. This is not a detraction. My favorite character appears to be a psychopathic neat-freak of a Jewish contract killer: so what else is new.
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One of my housemates at school two years ago got me hooked on "Lackadaisy Cats" (as I've come to think of it) and I've been a faithful reader ever since. Even though it updates with the speed of continental drift.
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I discovered the strip because of his human version: I saw the fellow with the gloves and glasses in the down-right corner here on someone else's journal and wanted to know who he was (among other things, he bears a real-life resemblance to someone I know). Fortunately, it was relatively easy to locate him in cat form; the pince-nez was the giveaway. And then I considered for a bit and then I started reading.
Even though it updates with the speed of continental drift.
I was afraid of that. I might still buy the first print volume anyway.
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The Borg as cauldron born... I can see that.
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It's almost the only reason I've wanted to see it from the beginning. Some of the casting doesn't hurt, though. *cough*John Hurt*cough*
The Borg as cauldron born... I can see that.
The dead, dehumanized, weaponized, who might have been your dearest friend the day before and now will merely look at you with that red-laser flare and move forward to kill you and make you as they are: I imagine they evolved primarily as a variation on zombies or pod people, but I have a lot of Lloyd Alexander hardwired into me.
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You see!
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