| Re: Season of the Severed Head, resumed |
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| Parry (parry@perfectmail.com) |
2003/10/31 13:00 |
elag wrote:
[snips]
> > > > > I think the 1st two books are pretty readable, though I can see your
> > > > > point when it comes to Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. I've spent many night
> > > > > wandering aimlessly through the streets of Manhattan seeing all through
> > > > > a "Tropic of Cancer" filter. It's like the opposite of a neutral
> > > > > density filter.
> > > >
> > > > I know the sensation you mean, though I've never gotten it from books,
> > > > probably because I don't go walking after reading. I've often had it
> > > > after leaving a movie, though. The effect is one of the best things
> > > > about movies.
> > >
> > > I've never heard of a name for this type of experience. maybe we could
> > > call it "Literary Afterglow" or "Cinematic Afterglow".
> >
> > after a little timely maintenance.
>
> Okay... venture a better term?
Post-cinematic vibramation? Synaptic lube job? Senual shock treatment?
> > > > > > Why are you evading the question of pumpkin?
> > > > >
> > > > > Ah, pumpkins... they are wonderful aren't they?.. they can be a sweet
> > > > > pie or a savory soup and even the toasted seeds make a wonderful treat
> > > > > to say nothing of their marvelous transformation into Jack O' Lanterns.
> > > > > Think of it, a vegetable into which you might merrily climb... some of
> > > > > them grow to weigh 100's of pounds.
> > > >
> > > > Know any recipes for pumpkin drinks, Chef Elag?
> > >
> > > I've never really thought of it but I found a few:
> > >
> > > http://www.angelfire.com/on/cucurbitaceae/dk.html
> >
> > Unfortunately, any drink that includes alcohol just tastes like alcohol
> > to me. Pumpkin just blended with milk, sugar and spices is actually a
> > tasty drink. Now if I could only figure out a way to make potato
> > popsicles.
>
> Not that I suggest that you ever attempt to eat these but here's a
> horrid little solution to your problem... frozen Potato Smiles... just
> add popsicle sticks...
>
> http://www.mccain.ca/Grocery/Detail1.asp?Sect=1&Sub=2&No=7
potatoes by cutting them into strange shapes and giving them funny
names.
> > > > > The noble pun'kin... I'm glad that it's nearly the season when I can
> > > > > once again gaze upon their orange shiny faces.
> > > >
> > > > Hallowe'en's a great time of year, when my own shiny orange face isn't
> > > > so out of place.
> > >
> > > Don't need any make-up, eh? My best costumes were "Death" when I was 8,
> > > "The Flash" when I was 10, "Psychedelic Trip" when I was 18, and
> > > "Ancient Roman in Black Mourning Toga".
> >
>
> GORILLA MY DREAMS
> (McKimson-1948)
>
> Down where the trade winds play
> Down where you lose a day
> We found a new world where paradise starts
> We traded hearts
> Way down where the trade winds play
>
> Someone's rockin' my dreamboat
> Someone's invading my dreams
> We were sailing along
> Peaceful and calm
> Suddenly something went wrong
> Someone's rockin' my dreamboat
> Disturbing a beautiful dream
> But with love as my guide
> I'll follow the tide
> I'll keep sailing till I find you
>
> (this is the best gorilla themed song I could think of)
I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life like a good homo
sapiens
But all around me everybody's multiplying and they're walking round like
flies, man
So I'm no better than the animals sitting in the cages in the zoo, man
apeman.
I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized 'cause I'm a strict
vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation and the crazy
politicians
I don't feel safe in this world no more,
I don't want to die in a nuclear war.
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman.
I'm an apeman, I'm an ape-apeman, oh I'm an apeman
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, I'm an apeman
Compared to the clouds as they roll by,
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an apeman.
In man's evolution he's created the city and the motor traffic rumble.
But give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in
the jungle.
Is swinging up and down in the coconut trees.
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an apeman.
I'm an apeman, I'm an ape-apeman, oh I'm an apeman
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, I'm an apeman
I look out the window but I can't see the sky,
The air pollution is a-foggin' up my eyes,
I want to get out of this city alive and make like an apeman.
Oh come on and love me, be my apeman girl
And we'll be so happy in my apeman world.
I'm an apeman, I'm an ape-apeman, oh I'm an apeman
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, I'm an apeman
I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane,
I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane,
We'll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day, just like an apeman.
> > > In contrast to tech tricks, I've been reading about a technique used in
> > > cel animation by the late Shamus Culhane (he worked at all the major
> > > studios from the '20s to the '60s and wrote "Talking Animals and Other
> > > People" and "Animation: From Script to Screen"). He had a high speed
> > > animating technique which involved drawing a scene (on many sheets of
> > > animation paper) very quickly almost w/o thinking about it... sometimes
> > > drawing only an eye or an arm... just enough to suggest the action while
> > > allowing for later clean up work to pull the drawings into final form.
> > > It sounds like a kind of "Automatic" Animation.
> >
> > McLaren too found a near automatic technique by drawing directly onto
> > technique and worked at considerable speed. It looked like doodles
> > spontaneously coming to life.
>
> I think we've both seen the same McClaren docu.... wasn't he drawing a
> chicken of chicken like form in that sequence. I think of that sequence
> often. I used to make bunches of hand made film loops using scratching,
> marker, bleach, etc. to form partly animated partly random images.
with his facility and how he altered the film equipment to suit his
needs.
>
> No... worthwhile?
I loved it. Terrific, imaginative stuff, full of strange and memorable
of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. In it, confection tycoon Nebby K.
Nezzar wants everyone to worship the false god chocolate bunny. In the
end, God jumps into the furnace and saves the vegetable protagonists.
The cartoon is every bit as stupid as it sounds. Witless, too!
> > > > Sure, then you could be trendy and buy new vinyl releases of things
> > > > like the Rolling Stones' "Between the Buttons" for only a few dollars
> > > > more than what the cd costs. Actually, New York would be a great place
> > > > to own a record player. There's a vast, strange universe waiting in
> > > > those used vinyl stores.
> > >
> > > Yes, and because of the DJ culture you can find whole stores full of
> > > nothing but beats, ambient noise and pop cultural samples... but then
> > > you'll need 2 turntables.
> >
> > Have you been to a place called Norton Records? I know they operate, or
> > used to operate, out of New York but am not sure if they were strictly
> > mail order.
>
> No, and they're not in my phone directory.
Found their website (www.nortonrecords.com), one-stop shopping for Hasil
physical store. What I remember about them was that apparently you could
guaranteed ripping rockabilly 45s. Never got around to giving it a try,
though.
-- Parry
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