HEADING FOR THE BLUES, WANDERING THROUGH A 'COOL', BOOZY UNDERGROUND FILLED WITH CIGARETTE SMOKE, BRILLIANTEENED MEN IN SUITS & TIES AND SLEAZY WOMEN, HOOLA-HOOPING IN SCHOPENAUER'S FAR OUT BEAT PAD.....
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Dexter, Knife Connoisseur

I was catching up with some missed episodes of DEXTER and noticed Dexter's tastes in kitchen cutlery. He uses A samarai-edge Shun Kaji SG-2 Damascus steel knife with Pakkawood handle....what a refined connoisseur, keeping Williams-Sonoma in business....on a blood-spatter-analyst's salary!
Nevertheless, I was motivated to award my own darkish-passenger with a set of pakkawood Damascus steel animal carcass dissection kitchen knives.... The knives arrived ......each, in a bag of oil.....to waylay rusting......they reminded me of the surgical 'tools' in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers....for cutting flesh and bone....sinews, ligaments and cartilage...and of Uma Thurman's knife-welding sprees in KILL BILL, and the latest reincarnation of DEXTER, and....of course.....Christian Bale's AMERICAN PSYCHO..... and Norman Bates shower curtain shredding equipment.....
Thursday, July 3, 2025
SCENE THEFT
WATCHING THE 1979 FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MUSICAL PLAY, "HAIR"......I RECALLED A SCENE IN THE 1978 FILM, "1900".......THE SCENE IN WHICH TREAT WILLIAMS DANCES DOWN AN ELEGANT, FORMAL DINNER TABLE, MAKING A BIG MESS FOR THE SNOTTY DINERS, MAY HAVE BEEN REPLICATED FROM A SCENE IN "1900", IN WHICH ROBERTO MACCANTI, AS "OLMO", AND ROBERT DE NIRO, AS 'ALFREDO', WALK DOWN A WOOD PLANK PEASANT TABLETOP.....CAREFULLY AVOIDING 'STEPPING ON THE FOOD' AS HE TRAVELS FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER........THESE SCENES IN BOTH THE BERTOLUCCI FILM AND THE FORMAN FILM MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT CLASS SOCIAL BARRIERS.....