Tuesday, September 23, 2025

A dozen years back via Cinematic Time Machine's Illuminated 'Nostalgia Button'.....before the fast-forwarding to next year's "Projects Underway"....




In a Memento, Donnie Darko and Shane Carruth will be presenting a Primer on the meaningfulness of "Pi" at their secret location at their Mulholland Drive Enigma Center location....next to The Tree of Life, over by The Fountain.....Timothy Green will be the guest speaker after Corey Anton's introduction......Rick Rosner will be filming a documentary of the event, in the style of The Saragossa Manuscript..........

No contest between Following 8 1/2 reels of Fellini and Raking 8 1/2 bags of Fallen Leaves




when a pint of java wouldn't jolt me into frenetic activity.....(raking leaves, cleaning out the garage/pond/fountains, sweeping the decking or clearing the sidewalk, flat roofs and gutters.......another, more enjoyable, diversion came into consideration....hmmm......a boxed set of Fellini Movies......that should keep me 'busy' today.....I'd rather re-read Foucault's Pendulum, out loud...to a dozen hyper-active 5 year olds, than hear the sound of a rake, scraping the driveway or the next-door-neighbor's gardeners' leaf blowers, weed-whackers and leaf-blowers, while I remove withered leaves, one by one or scrub tree sap from the cars' windshields...with a toothbrush.......preferably, in relative silence.......

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

SEXISM, RACISM AND NONSENSE TO SOME THEN FASHIONABLE BUSBY BERKELEYNESS, TEN YEARS AFTER "POTASH AND PERIMUTTER"

IN PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD, BEFORE DOROTHY AWAKENED IN A FIELD OF POPPIES, FINDING HERSELF 'OVER THE RAINBOW', EDDIE AWAKENS, AFTER A HEAD CONCUSSION, IN ANCIENT ROME....IN BLACKFACE....WITH 'GOLDWYN GIRLS' SINGING AND DANCING ABOUT MODERN COSMETICS AND HIGH FASHION AS THE WAY TO 'GET A MAN'........IN THE DAYS WHEN ACTORS WITH NAMES SUCH AS 'RAUFF DE RYTHER DUAN ACKLOM' WERE SIMPLIFYING/MODERNISING THEIR NOMENCLATURES IN A NEW, 'AMERICAN' HOLLYWOOD.....