"Trivial Obsessions and Refootling Postulations" OR "Maybe, you should keep your towel under your pillow"

 

 

Make sure that 'Frank' has some toilet paper.....otherwise, don't use that towel! Don't we all know at least one 'Ralph', that will use your toothbrush, drink from your milk carton and fart on your silk-upholstered chair. And, never 'drink after' Ralph.. You never know what he's had in his mouth, minutes before. I posted this over a year ago.....in the context of Today, it seems relevant...in another way, doesn't it?

LIKE CHANGING ONE'S NAME FROM 'IMA HOGG' TO 'THE MOST WANTED FIRST AND LAST NAMES'....FOR STARDOM

 Would Juan Vincent Apablasa, Merle Johnson Jr., Tommy Mapother, Issur Danielovitch, Demetria Gene Guynes, or Neta-Lee Hershlag have been remembered, had they not been assigned  their "new" names.... John Gavin, Troy Donahue,  Tom Cruise , Kirk Douglas, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman  during their ascent in Hollywood?   

Watch Jane Fonda’s 'Woke' Message During Life Achievement Award Speech a...

ROMANTIC MELODRAMARTISTRY .......RECALLED AFTER LOOKING UP, FROM THE CENTER/FRONT IDLE, RECALLING GEORGE SAND'S HAVING CLAIMED AN ORGASM WHILE LYING IN THE FLOOR, BENEATH CHOPIN'S GRAND PIANO'S SOUNDBOARD, AS HE PLAYED HER INTO EXTASY

The 'stuff' one digs up, with some time on his hands........ (left to right) Samuel Barnett as John Everett Millais, Sam Crane as Fred Walters, Aidan Turner as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rafe Spall as William Holman Hunt. A Romantic Melodrama about the lives of the then young Pre-Raphaelite Artists, as they romp down dark alleys, squalid studios, brothels and chop-houses in 1850's London.......Looks like a good companion piece to Penny Dreadful......Young sophisticated, creative bad-boys writing and painting their Immortality, while risking their Mortality.... Better to spend 6 hours with these fellows, fictionalized, than 30 minutes with 'The News'.......This will be the cinematic 'biographical' update for Ken Russell's earlier film, Dante's Inferno.......I'm wondering if there's a boxed set of all of Ken Russell's biographical films about the lives of Artists.....I watched them all, on that old 21' black and white TV, with its screwed up 'vertical hold' circuitry, when I was in my early 20's.....hmm....wondering what I'd think of those crazy 'Youth-Takes' movies, now...cleaned up into HD with surround sound......My favorite is, still, IMPROMPTU, James Ivory's 'take' on another bunch, George Sand, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Eugene Delacroix and that Creative Crew......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmC3rsgHD9E

 

THE ANGRY/DEPRESSIVE DOUBLE FEATURES OF ROBIN WILLIAM'S LAST TWO FILMS........BOTH DONE WITH 'A MONKEY ON HIS BACK'.....

Humor is often the mask of Anger......situation and romantic comedies have never been appealing to me....Nevertheless, I watched two of Robin Williams' last films recently.... The Angriest Man In Brooklyn and Boulevard.....both films were depressingly sad....Perhaps they reveal the Person behind the Persona....the tragic face behind the mask of comedy......I thought of Lenny Bruce, Phil Hartman, Feddie Prinze, and dozens of others, who only 'seemed' happy when there was an audience, laughing and applauding them.....There's that 'instant rictus' facile smile...quick to surface and quick to fade when the cameras exit....replaced by Hamlet's 'worry face' covering their anger, covering their hopelessness ........

THE BIRTH OF TELETUBBIES.......PARENTED BY GEORGE PAL AND ROBERT HEINLEIN

Last night, I noticed the 1950 George Pal Sci-Fi Flick, DESTINATION MOON.......and tuned in for the last half hour of the movie.....just because 4 time Hugo Award Winner, Robert Heinlein, had written the screenplay.........Not having seen the film in such a long while, I couldn't 'not see' the Teletubbies.....Pay it Forward to caped superpowerheros, now/always playing at your local Malls.....Incidentally, it is rumored that Winky Dink was the 'real' father of Tinky Winky.....although Tinky may have been created by a tiny tear in a plastic screen that separated a glass cathode-ray tube from a suspiciously penis-like purple wax crayon.

A wholesome human trafficking musical - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

THE SHORT HOP, SKIP & A JUMP..... FROM WILLIAM WELLMAN'S "THE PURCHASE PRICE", then.... "WESTWARD THE WOMEN" to STANLEY DONEN'S "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS'....... STORE-BOUGHT LADIES, CAPTURED BRIDES AND EASTERN FINERIES....SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED TO 'THE REAL MEN' OF THE AMERICAN WEST.... FROM PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD CONNIVANCES TO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN.......

WHO DID IT BETTER?

THE SHORT HOP, SKIP & A JUMP..... FROM WILLIAM WELLMAN'S "THE PURCHASE PRICE", then.... "WESTWARD THE WOMEN" to STANLEY DONEN'S "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS'.......

 STORE-BOUGHT LADIES, CAPTURED BRIDES AND EASTERN FINERIES....SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED TO 'THE REAL MEN' OF THE AMERICAN WEST.... FROM PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD  CONNIVANCES TO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMSxShz8UA

"I watched Wade Watts and his High Five both defeat plausibility and engender complicit deniability, as comics-reading/virtual gaming fantacizers, incapsulated in CGI-actuated-retro-nostalgia, fill their goggles and headsets with Alter-World displacements of the exigencies of Dulldrum and its replacements of excitement, super-powers and the considerable unthinking rewards of Deus Ex Machina,,,,,,,,,The escapist fare looked great!.... It IS all about the surfactants, isn't it.......with the catalyst of unquestioning adolescence, buying this all up...then rushing out to Circuit City for the latest escape mechanism.... Now....clean up all this crap and do your trig homework or move out and get a job wrangling your plastic trash into the garbage pickup truck.....and McDonald's needs drive-through window order takers, you know!...."

Sincerely, your parents, King Kong and Godzilla, recently wed.. to legitimize their many offspring...[recently, in a lake of molten discarded electronic circuit boards and batteries, as The Iron Giant melts like The Terminator, and the enormous gorilla with lifelike fur dissolves in evanescent, liquid Imagination.....]

it's about the disconnect between hemispheres, perhaps, that produces the illusion that Fantasy is already Reality, with the metaphorical assumption that Reality is, perhaps, a Fantasy to begin with.......99.9999999999% of everything is just Nothingness… floated on Waves of Probabilities........

https://veristes.blogspot.com/.../unzipping-brain-to...

A SUMMER'S TALE (Conte d'été) by Eric Rohmer--Official US trailer

Melvil Poupaud was the Timothee Chalamet of that Era........I'm surprised that there's not a recent remake of the film, with Chalamet ...as Gaspard....