NOTICING THAT THE 1957 "Tracy/Hepburn" movie, "THE DESK SET", WAS BEING SHOWN ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES......

      I THOUGHT,  TODAY,   ABOUT HOW PREDICTIVE THE FILM WAS, WHEN IT WAS FIRST RELEASED......AND WAS, MOMENTS AGO, REFLECTING ON IT'S 'MEANING'.....  I PLAYED SAMMY OGG'S CHARACTER, KENNY,  IN A 'RUN-THROUGH'  PRODUCTION.. WHEN I WAS IN 6TH GRADE AND HAD JUST VIEWED A GIGANTIC  PRE-ANTHROPOMORPHIC "FAIL-SAFE" COMPUTER, RECENTLY ASSEMBLED AT REDSTONE ARSENAL'S 'ARMY MISSLE COMAND CENTER' , IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA,  IN THE EARLY 1960'S.....A TECHNOLOGICAL PRECURSER OF 'THE FORBIN PROJECT'S "COLOSSUS" AND, OF COURSE, THE 'HAL 9000'....   TODAY....AN AVERAGE BONEHEAD CARRIES, IN HIS HAND....MORE COMPUTING POWER WITHIN THE CIRCUITRY OF HIS UBIQUITOUS MOBILE PHONE......NEITHER REQUIRING THE INTELLIGENCE NOR THE WIT OF KATHERINE HEPBURN OR EVEN HER OBEISANT ASSISTANT, RUTHIE SAYLOR....{PLAYED, INCIDENTALLY, BY SUE RANDALL....AKA "MISS LANDERS" OF "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER" FAME..... IN HER ONLY MOVIE APPEARANCE......}   

"LOVELY TO LOOK AT" Adrian's Fashion Excesses of 1952

the gowns/costumes in all the SAG and GOLDEN GLOBES, EMMYS, and the ACADEMY AWARDS SHOWS keep Fashion Trendiness on a linear path of Surrealistic Over-The-Topness......Perpetuated, with some humor...well, a lot of humor.......on RU PAUL'S DRAG RACE  and PROJECT RUNWAY......

tell us about it, Tilda!  what!...a bare head???

Doesn't 'everything' have an effect on 'everything else'? "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds"

In a philosophical mood, this morning.....I thought of this film, that I'd not seen in many decades.....The internal dialogue of Matilda "Tillie" Hunsdorfer reminding me of my own childhood, immersed in a Gilbert Chemistry Set, a terrarium that represented...to me...a microcosm for the Universe, and meditations on a world that I fantasized, existed beneath a huge boulder in our back yard, where the Akashic Records existed within small chrome-like spheres that could be played in a device that had been left there by aliens, a billion years before........

this led to 'sessions' with a shrink...and a battery of tests to evaluate my sanity......The Psychiatrist determined that I was merely an artist, with a vivid imagination and who was squarely in the center of the Masculinity/Femininity continuum.........I was relieved to be released from others' constructs and prejudices about what and whom we/I should be........Nothing is forgotten.......Everything is remembered, if only  for the amount of time it takes for light to pass over a  hydrogen molecule.  

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I'll ask Guy Maddin about this 'matter'......

Guy knows all about the Grand Malaise....

if his Films are any indications......