All the pretty machinery under the sky
Bad news: I just woke up now. Good news: I slept six hours. Frankly, after this week, I'll take it. A few things off the internet before I head out to meet ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks and Fox and later phi—
1. Solaris has put up a hexarchate faction quiz for Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire! I got Shuos, which is not what I was expecting. Maybe I flunked the trolley question.
2. Girl of the Port (1930) had almost no internet footprint when I watched it—I could find links to contemporary reviews on Wikipedia, but almost nothing by anyone closer to me in time. By now it's been reviewed by both Mondo 70 and Pre-Code.com, clearly from the same TCM showing. Honestly, this is pretty cool, even if I wish it were more like discovering and promoting a cult treasure than a thought-provoking trash fire.
3. I have been meaning to link this poem since Juneteenth: David Miller's "Hang Float Bury Burn." I wish I knew where to nominate non-speculative poems for awards.
rushthatspeaks and Fox and later phi—1. Solaris has put up a hexarchate faction quiz for Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire! I got Shuos, which is not what I was expecting. Maybe I flunked the trolley question.
2. Girl of the Port (1930) had almost no internet footprint when I watched it—I could find links to contemporary reviews on Wikipedia, but almost nothing by anyone closer to me in time. By now it's been reviewed by both Mondo 70 and Pre-Code.com, clearly from the same TCM showing. Honestly, this is pretty cool, even if I wish it were more like discovering and promoting a cult treasure than a thought-provoking trash fire.
3. I have been meaning to link this poem since Juneteenth: David Miller's "Hang Float Bury Burn." I wish I knew where to nominate non-speculative poems for awards.
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Heh. What are some of them?
(Also, I have a list of favourite 80s sf movies, none of which appear. I was relieved to see the Liberator on the starships list)
. . . It occurs to me that choosing a Shadow vessel may have influenced my assignation of alignment. Babylon 5 was the defining TV show of my adolescence, though.
Your review of Girl of the Port was fascinating and I am still thinking about it.
Thank you.
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Dune, Enemy Mine, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, and Explorers are probably top of my list, although some of those might suffer a bit on rewatching (none of them are particularly good on women - I had to hold out for the 90s and Terminator 2!). I also remember being obsessed with Dreamscape, which has psychic powers and entering people's dreams, and is one of those movies I am happy not to go back to.