You need to know, you're your personal alchemist

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Short things:

1. I'd never even heard of Cyber Monday until this year. What is it? I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

2. R.I.P., Ken Russell. I should find somewhere to start with him that isn't The Lair of the White Worm (1988). The Devils (1971) is only coming out on Region 2.

3. I wonder why Roddy McDowall was not also cast in the film version of No Time for Sergeants. (Those are some of the dorkiest glasses in stage history.) The other two principals were: it made Andy Griffith a star. It's not exactly as though he was an unknown property.

4. I'm not sure I see the point of having a book on Derek Jarman reviewed by someone who clearly didn't like his films very much. I'm glad Bray finds his paintings important, because I know very little about Jarman's non-cinematic art, and I hope someday to visit his garden at Dungeness, ideally with rushthatspeaks, but seriously: difficult? Hard to sit through? Sententious gesture politics? Well-intentioned? I have to wonder if we saw the same movies—I am never sure what to do with criticism when that happens. (Did he miss how much of Wittgenstein (1993) is funny?) Personally, I'm looking forward to Sebastiane (1976); I have been since I knew it existed. Brian Eno did the music and it's in Latin.

5. Aphorisms by Kafka, which I hadn't even known existed. Commentary by Michael Cisco, who probably does.

I must catch a bus.

Comments

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1.

Glad it's been explained to you, sorry there's an it to explain in the first place.

2.

RIP. I need to watch The Lair of the White Worm through sometime--the once I had a chance to see it on late night RTÉ I was exhausted and only watched through the pub scene, cos I'd heard tell it might be an early incarnation of Oysterband. I can't even recollect if I thought it was or no.

DVD regions are so irritating.

3.

I hope you can find an answer.

4.

I wish I knew. It doesn't seem quite on. I suppose it's better than giving the book to a slavering fanboy, but surely there's someone available who's got both appreciation and interesting opinions.

5.

I'd not known Kafka wrote aphorisms, either.

Commentary by Michael Cisco, who probably does.

Probably. Of course, he could be a pseudonym used by Sir Francis Bacon, who definitely did not write Shakespeare's plays but did make a Philosopher's Stone. (Or, better yet, a pseudonym used by Kit Marlowe, who also did not write Shakespeare's plays but did end up living to the present day after being used as a test subject by some mad alchemist. And therein would lie a webcomic, could I but draw.)

I must catch a bus.

I hope you successfully caught the bus* and that all is going well, or at least adequately.

*I also hope this didn't require 10,000 pound test line, a flyrod made of some exotic composite material which was liberated from a CIA laboratory, and whatever fly a bus would bite upon. (That's my father's thing, not mine, so I have no useful advice on the matter, I'm sad to say.)

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(Or, better yet, a pseudonym used by Kit Marlowe, who also did not write Shakespeare's plays but did end up living to the present day after being used as a test subject by some mad alchemist. And therein would lie a webcomic, could I but draw.)

. . . I really want the manga about modern-day mad alchemical Kit Marlowe.

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. . . I really want the manga about modern-day mad alchemical Kit Marlowe.

I do as well. If only I could draw, or at least knew an artist who'd be game, I'd make a stab at a webcomic on the subject.

Maybe I could even work in a chracter trying to catch a bus with a flyrod. I'm sure it's been done by somebody, somewhere, in some medium, but for some reason I'd now like to see it in a comic.