| Re: Season of the Severed Head, resumed |
Plus ca change plus c'es .. |
| elag (elag@cloud9.net) |
2003/11/13 01:49 |
Parry wrote:
>
> 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?
Happy, happy! Joy, joy!
>
> > > > > > > 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.
They're full of hydrogenated goodness!
>
> > > > > > 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)
> >
....
> >
> > (this is the best gorilla themed song I could think of)
>
>
Apeman is a great song. The main thing "GORILLA MY DREAMS" had going
for it was Elmer J. Fudd and a certain screwy rabbit.
Until now I hadn't realized that McKimson wrote it... I always thought
it was something from the hit parade.
>
> > > > 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.
I'll have to dig up that film one of these days and track down that
"chicken". I wonder what it'll turn out to be when I find it. Maybe
one of these days I'll find a roll of 65mm sound fill and I can try
drawing stuff like McClaren... at a proper size. Drawing images in a
16mm frame or worse an 8mm one can be quite the frustrating, wrist
cramping and eye smudging adventure.
>
> >
> > No... worthwhile?
>
> I loved it. Terrific, imaginative stuff, full of strange and memorable
I guess I'll add it to the list then.
>
> 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!
CVeggie tales is one of those things I can tell I will hate immediately
upon seeing the first few seconds. It just radiates insipidity.
I'd like to CRUCIFERAE (sic) a few of those overcooked veggies.
>
> > > > > 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.
You must try it then.
"How could anyone so round be so square?"
(a small hommage to Norton)
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