I can deconstruct your nouns, I'll illuminate your verbs

[sovay]

I wish I had managed to make a post for Wittgenstein's birthday yesterday. Instead I did a bunch of stressful and necessary things, including phone calls about health insurance and nearly seven hours of work with Autolycus on my lap, and then watched Beyoncé's Lemonade (2016) with rushthatspeaks. Please enjoy this post of Anil Menon's about Wittgenstein and Ramanujan nonetheless.

I can tell I am not doing well because in real life I think I would enjoy wandering around a deserted, off-season amusement park by myself, but I don't appreciate dreaming that I went exploring with a bunch of friends who then promptly ditched me and didn't even leave me a map, since I don't own a smartphone and there had been no previous discussion of splitting up. The park itself wasn't frightening. No hauntings, no mysteriously rattling rides. Being left to fend for myself without even an instigating argument felt like well, what were you expecting?

I adore this Dinosaur Comics.

Comments

[lilysea]

Urgh, what an unpleasant / stressful dream. :(

*sympathies*

[sovay]

*sympathies*

Thank you. I really do like amusement parks in the ordinary way of things!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

a deserted, off-season amusement park

Have you seen Carnival of Souls? It's one of those quirky, low-budget horror offerings that has many flaws, but also brilliant flashes of art that rarely survive actual producers. One significant locale is a real-life abandoned amusement park near Great Salt Lake.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Some of the weirdness of Carnival of Souls may be due to the director having plenty of pro experience, but all his other movies were industrial and educational films. So it feels rather like a safety film about the dangers of reckless driving that then extends into a feature-length Gothic.

[sovay]

So it feels rather like a safety film about the dangers of reckless driving that then extends into a feature-length Gothic.

I got to tell you, that sounds great.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

It also briefly turns into a documentary on pipe organ factories!

[sovay]

It also briefly turns into a documentary on pipe organ factories!

Dammit, not on TCM any time soon!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

It is on Youtube, if that helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exUFpSFblaw

[sovay]

Have you seen Carnival of Souls?

I've never seen it, but I've heard of it. It's on my list to catch if it ever comes around in theaters or TCM.