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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
I've posted this in another thread but it might get missed. Fascinating stuff. http://www.davidcronenberg.de/cr_rushd.htm | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
You never really get over that TWILIGHT ZONE thing. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Salman Rushdie is one of my favourite writers, particularly Midnight's Children, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar The Clown and, his latest, The Enchantress of Florence. He exemplifies methods that underpin the Nemonymous Mythos. Thanks for the Rushdie/Cronenberg link. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Twilight Zone feels haunted. You're welcome Dez. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Rushdie made someone faint at a reading? Proof that to enjoy fiction-and life- you need to be a bit dim.  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
As an aside, and a distraction to that last post, I had this rather odd dream about Jeff Goldblum this morning. He came round to our house and hugged me. His stomach rummbled massively as he did so. Then we all sat down to watch a TV program about Strontium Dog (Yes, the 2000AD comic strip.) There was also a tortoise eating its way through a massive loaf of bread in the shape of a tortoise. (I'm trying the Atkins diet and have had no bread for two weeks) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
I wonder if this was a warning from my body to get nutrients or end up looking like The Fly/Johnny Alpha. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.112.60 |
Last night I dreamt BOB from Twin Peaks was in a room lit only by a television. The room was flickering. In the electric blue light, he had taken control of a pale woman who had unnaturally large pupils and who was laughing humourlessly and kissing him fiercely, without affection. BOB was cavorting and around. The phrase "an unreliable light" came into my head. When I woke, I didn't have the courage to look down at the foot of my bed. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
At least it wasn't Bob from Black Hole. That might have been worse. I tried to watch Twin Peaks recently but it felt sort of studenty and overstressed; the movie looks better. My autistic son has unnaturally large pupils! He hates light, and only likes autumn. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
"an unreliable light" Could be me. I often sit with the lights off and the TV on. Sleep that way too. And my lights are unreliable because for some reason all the flats in my house had their electricity cut off. A guy who lives in the house-who I don't like-bypassed the wiring and lit the house up again, but I think he wired it up via the washing machine meter which takes pound coins. So I might have to contribute. He was banging on my door last night! I also posted something about Bob on this thread today. http://www.2000revue.com/community/topic.cfm?topicid=4183 I have also become obssessed about the size of my eyes of late. Checking the mirror several times a day. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
And I'm a supernatural killer. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.112.60 |
I think Steve Coogan said that Princess Diana was like a candle in the wind -- unreliable. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Who I killed. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
At least it wasn't Bob from Black Hole.... As an aside, THE BLACK HOLE profoundly disturbed me as a kid, watching that movie on a gigantic screen in a pitch-black movie theatre... I remember the cheese-ball Vectron-graphics-ish opening credits frightened me too... but not as much as the ever-looming, ever-threatening, "it's-going-to-get-you-Barbara"-eventually aspect of the hypnotically-beautiful swirling colored Christmas-wreath of ultimate horror... was I alone in this?... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Yes, very, VERY alone. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Don't lie! You were too, Albie! Don't you remember?... You asked me to hold your hand?... By the way, do you want it back? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Keep it. I pooed on it. In case it was taken. Sniffer dogs will seek you out. Well, I let enough dogs sniff my bum, one of them should be able to track you. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
It doesn't want to go back, actually. Its mouth says you repeatedly abused it in a manner I won't mention in decent company. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Wanking in a bucket of bleach is just cleanliness. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Um, it's what you were wanking, Albie.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Or to be more accurate - "wanking." | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
I've been "wanking" my legs for years, ain't nobody gonna' stop me. The cheese that spurts from my little toe is the best! THE BEST! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Craig! We share a love! No - not Albie - The Black Hole! It's not great at all but it does have something - a few things - but the biggest for me was the cygnus, the bit when it's lights come on. That is one of the best ships in all cinema, and a classic moment. Creepier than Event horizon, anyways. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.224.90 |
I only saw it when it came out in the cinema. I have fond memories of it. I do remember being scared of the robot with rotating blades in his chest. Why did someone build a robot with rotating blades in its chest? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
No - they were in his arms. He only buried them in Tony Perkin's chest. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.208.65 |
After symbolically tearing through the thick book Perkins was holding, I noted sagely to my fellow cinema patrons at the time. They were busy shouting and running around. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.247.19 |
The more I dredge the movie up in my memory, Tony, the more grand and frightening it becomes at once. Hell, maybe it was just me having seen it before I became so aware of everything... you can't fool me anymore in the movies, much to my terrible loss... but there was an awesome fear the movie inspired - not a fear of a monster or a spirit or something tangible - no, here it's a fear of something beyond your ability to measure, quantify, or probe... black holes are explicitly inpenetrable... and when the ship goes in - because go in it must - it's a horrifying catharsis... what movies inspire that kind of fear anymore?... Does anyone know?... (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a close second - or first?...) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
And wasn't there stumbling infuriating, as the giant fire ball rushed towards them through that tube. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
we've sort of lost the thread on this one, but as a side note it looks like I'll be meeting Cronenberg on Wednesday. Looking forward to it. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.10.167 |
Cool! I have a friend whose son and daughter are good friends with Cronenberg's photographer daughter - well, "had" a friend maybe, we had a fight, and I haven't talked to her in a few months - she's Canadian - from Toronto - not that you care - I'm rambling aren't I?...  Tell us how that goes, A! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
Show him your finger. He'll probably lick it. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I totally had that same thought, Albie. I think I'll keep it covered though, as I don't want to look like a dolt. Anyway, it's healing pretty well now - I think I just must have really thin blood. Taking some Vitamin K now though, hopefully that will help. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I believe his kids will be there too, Criag. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.14.122 |
Nah, just go with the finger.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.14.122 |
Oh, thumb, I guess. Is a thumb a finger? Only when it's in a group, I guess - "five fingers" - but no one says "thumb finger" - so why is that?... hmm.... Move over, Albie. Time to wank. |