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     David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.35.223 |
I guess this explains Stephen King surviving that accident: http://disinfo.com/2013/07/study-reveals-expressive-writing-makes-physical-wound s-heal-faster/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.132.32.171 |
Yes, because it helps visualise. The world jumps up to meet our image of it every time. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.233.35.100 |
I heard that in ancient Egypt the "doctor" would tell a king who was bitten by an asp about another king in the past this happened to, in order to heal him. Role models, stories. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Medicine and magic kind of need each other. I get rid of cramps by pinching the mirroring part of my body, say, the opposite calf or whatever. The first cramp seems to become confused and goes almost instantly away. I've been learning about about the Mandela effect, manipulating it in our daily lives to guide us into...well, slightly happier circumstances. At least it seemed to work on our car. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.132.176 |
Falsely remembering things? I once watched a film thinking it was directed by a good director and paid extra attention to the shot choices and details, then discovered it was directed by someone else. I found that when looking at a Michelangelo in Florence once you assumed you were in the hands of genius it gave one confidence to dive into the work - you'll never touch the sides of such a person's universe, and their mind is big enough for you to fly around inside. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Yes! I used to do this. Imagine a bad film were directed by someone respected. You instantly saw qualities, intentions. NOT knowing who made something or write something almost works just as well. I had a friend said she though Stephen Spielberg was a racist director. Some time later she told me The Colour Purple was her favourite film. I had the mean spirited joy of telling her who'd made it. She hadn't known. I've finally got round to reading -well, hearing - Frankenstein. I know people claim.it as horror or.sf, but I have the sneaking suspicion it's neither, it's about basic human things like rejection and neglect, consequences (of any action), work, addiction. It's really affected me, brought tears to my eyes a couple of times, which is quite new for a Frankenstein, to me. I think it's deep message is don't have a *reason* to live. I haven't felt so close to a book in a long time. (Also it helped the BBC Sounds reading was so good; regional accents made it seem totally new - it felt like anything might happen, not anything I was familiar with.) On the down side, it now makes every adaptation feel horrifyingly crude.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Btw I think role models are dead, muddied, and I think it's been harmful. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Btw, hasn't anyone else noticed the staggering prescience of the final scene of Frankenstein? The monster dying amid the (currently melting) North polar cap? It hit me like a ton of bricks, felt like the hand of bloody god. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
I just bought a Michelangelo book yesterday. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.147.106 |
Just a quickie: someone told me she disliked EXCALIBUR and thought the director was too Jungian. I asked what film she liked and she said BEYOND RANGOON, not realising who directed it! (Now there's a film that history has shifted the goalposts on...) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Ha! Though I hadn't heard of that film. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
I listed to Hans Christian Anderson story recently. In it demons made a lens that made you see evIl or flaws everywhere. One day it broke and all the shards fell about the earth, lodging in men's hearts and eyes, making them see everything in negative ways. Again, this is deep stuff, not political, but it seems to have predicted so much. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.150.61 |
Yes. I'm sticking with the art that's proven itself over time and finding that it doesn't let us down. But I'd like to take the lessons and standards from it, that level of quality, and bring it to today. We need it so badly. We've never been so contemptuous of the past, but it's the thing that can save us. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
Albie recently used the word "street view" to describe a picture I'd taken (not of a Street). I knew what he meant. It's the sense we are seeing unadorned reality, not a speck of it contrived. I think quality conjures that sense. It also covers the feeling of off screen reality. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
I've started taking pictures through windows into empty places, especially houses for sale if I can. There's just something thrilling about it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.106.110 |
I've started taking pictures through windows into empty places, especially houses for sale if I can. There's just something thrilling about it. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.132.156 |
Hmm, has Google street view been used as the basis of a horror film yet? Spoilers The ending: someone in the Google van done a bad murder. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.107.95 |
No, but I was just thinking that today. Or at least a novel. Heard a programme on radio Four the other day about exorcism. The last minutes, involving a silent phone, scared me more than anything has in decades. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.67.233 |
Now I'm scared! Just the thought of waiting for someone to speak down a phone is scary. Watched Exorcist III again. Man, I've always loved this film, but those two old men might be my favourite characters in horror. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.107.95 |
Here's the show. Honestly, the last minutes scared me so much I almost left the house (I was in on my own). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.107.95 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012x12c | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.107.95 |
I even liked Exorcist 2! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.67.233 |
I didn't hate Exorcist 2. It's a mess, but it had some notes and moods in it that I haven't seen elsewhere. The only way to get those is to swing for the fences. |