tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6493894570400691553..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Idiom, Resonance, and DestinyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87415907502130220802015-03-05T15:20:28.090-08:002015-03-05T15:20:28.090-08:00Loving this Split Lip, preacher's son!Loving this Split Lip, preacher's son!Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5038127411193863352015-03-05T10:01:14.758-08:002015-03-05T10:01:14.758-08:00The SwimmerThe SwimmerRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89611473673942785692015-03-05T08:09:08.769-08:002015-03-05T08:09:08.769-08:00The Petrified ForestThe Petrified ForestRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82651251065458066362015-03-05T07:51:45.304-08:002015-03-05T07:51:45.304-08:00John
I have, twice. Thank you.
Checkout Split L...John<br /><br />I have, twice. Thank you.<br /><br />Checkout Split Lip Rayfieldson of a preacher manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055448926930885913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26232716039548387322015-03-05T07:44:47.539-08:002015-03-05T07:44:47.539-08:00Plus, I miss Venician blind shadows.
Which reminds...Plus, I miss Venician blind shadows.<br />Which reminds me, Niagara was good.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67888408989965887142015-03-05T07:39:28.888-08:002015-03-05T07:39:28.888-08:00All 4 Bogart and Bacall "pictures".
The ...All 4 Bogart and Bacall "pictures".<br />The dialog scenes are incredibly long. Which was nice to see in Birdman.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5847266621041799562015-03-05T07:30:31.880-08:002015-03-05T07:30:31.880-08:00Many of my favorites are on this list of Films Noi...Many of my favorites are on this list of <a href="http://www.listchallenges.com/100-greatest-film-noirs" rel="nofollow">Films Noir</a>, e.g., Asphalt Jungle, White Heat, Rififi, Night and the City, Scarlet Street, Pickup on South Street, Kiss of Death, & others. Definitely my favorite genre.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3856718554136454352015-03-05T07:30:09.677-08:002015-03-05T07:30:09.677-08:00Star Wars. You had to be 12.
Forever.Star Wars. You had to be 12.<br />Forever.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5393053958723977232015-03-05T07:24:11.981-08:002015-03-05T07:24:11.981-08:00No Country For Old Men was definitely haunting, bu...No Country For Old Men was definitely haunting, but not personally haunting.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53449675728217906622015-03-05T07:20:18.983-08:002015-03-05T07:20:18.983-08:00Night of the Hunter definitely spoke to me, only i...Night of the Hunter definitely spoke to me, only in the haunting way of A Place in the Sun. So did A Hard Days Night, but more in the Cuckoo's Nest way.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49689363399132409382015-03-05T07:15:27.216-08:002015-03-05T07:15:27.216-08:00I'm just browsing some lists of the best 100 m...I'm just browsing some lists of the best 100 movies of all time to remind myself of any others that might have spoken to me in that idiomatic way. Some of my favorites are<br /><br />Double Indemnity<br />Sunset Boulevard<br />Treasure of Sierra Madre<br />Night of the Hunter<br />Godfathers 1 & 2<br />Goodfellas<br />Days of Heaven<br />The Dark Knight (the first & secondt)<br />Napoleon Dynamite<br />Big Lebowski<br />No Country for Old Men<br /><br />But A Place in the Sun is the only one that really spoke to me in a haunting kind of way. <br /><br />I wonder if it means anything when a film that speaks to millions, doesn't speak to oneself at all? I never could stand Star Wars.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89654381424333721912015-03-05T06:58:56.676-08:002015-03-05T06:58:56.676-08:00Rick:
I'm not sure I can remember the first t...Rick:<br /><br />I'm not sure I can remember the first time. All I know is that it somehow "clicked," and that I wanted to repeat the experience. It was a very different feeling from merely wanting to see a movie again for its own sake.<br /><br />I well remember seeing Jaws, which came out the same year as Cuckoo's nest. It was such a sensation that there was a long line outside the theatre. Loved the movie, but it was a very different experience. It didn't speak to me in any personal way. Good call, however, about the Shem & Shaun angle. Star Trek has that same dynamic between Kirk and Spock. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7313424940309274812015-03-05T06:57:44.786-08:002015-03-05T06:57:44.786-08:00SOAPM,
Witness Old Crow Medicine ShowSOAPM,<br />Witness Old Crow Medicine ShowJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73592183265393488732015-03-05T06:32:36.320-08:002015-03-05T06:32:36.320-08:00"Bluegrass and Punk are natural allies."..."Bluegrass and Punk are natural allies." <br />Amen to that.<br /><br />Bluegrass certainly is in my idiom.son of a preacher manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055448926930885913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40885411237525408632015-03-05T06:25:54.543-08:002015-03-05T06:25:54.543-08:00Anywayz, it all supports my theory that there are ...Anywayz, it all supports my theory that there are clues in the present, soon to become the past, and they were planted by the "things to come". The examples are in the OT/NT and everywhere else. Which is to say, hey, it's not <i>my</i> theory.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74334246764215243702015-03-05T06:21:48.316-08:002015-03-05T06:21:48.316-08:00Bob said "That is -- and this is in hindsight...Bob said "That is -- and this is in hindsight, because I wasn't consciously aware of it at the time -- it was as if the film were comforting to me. In a weird way, it was as if I were "at home" (in a psychic sense)."<br /><br />Bob, maybe this isn't important, but do you think you felt comforted the first time you watched it? (you said "the first ten times")<br /><br />With Jaws (so it may be a poor personal example after all) I was probably too young to be allowed to see it. I was shocked when I saw it (yeah, like everybody else, but I was about the age of the scrawny boy on that raft out there) and I think it was that movie and some western that bought the terrible news that I would die someday.<br />Though Jaws is oddly comforting <i>now</i> and I metaphorically speaking, live on an island (maritime biz owner).Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18148386763102615002015-03-05T05:48:19.160-08:002015-03-05T05:48:19.160-08:00I can't believe I forgot the rivalry between Q...I can't believe I forgot the rivalry between Quint (man of action) & Hooper (man of letters) the day before last...speaking of lately: Jaws, the trinitarian nature of Quint/Hooper integrated finally in Chief Brody by the happy ending. If you recall certain scenes, Brody was a good listener <i>first</i>.<br /><br />Maybe you could make the same argument for the trinitarian nature of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; another Chief is finally integrated (freed) after the rivalry between McMurphy & Ratched.<br /><br />Wizard of Oz too, I think.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65940377878765458442015-03-04T17:30:39.327-08:002015-03-04T17:30:39.327-08:00Someone May have already said this, but Tommy Ramo...Someone May have already said this, but Tommy Ramone actually started a bluegrass band called uncle monk the end of his life. They got to be pretty well-known. I saw them live it was a great show.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797912120688482383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40060079531036109812015-03-04T15:04:43.860-08:002015-03-04T15:04:43.860-08:00In the days after 9-11, I took my Whole Earth Cata...In the days after 9-11, I took my Whole Earth Catalogs out to the dumpster, broke their spines, and threw them away. There has to be an idiom in that.Christina Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026226686936294936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59953158914294910652015-03-04T14:45:01.277-08:002015-03-04T14:45:01.277-08:00"This is a resonant space; or in other words,..."This is a resonant space; or in other words, truth seems to have a "frequency" or vibrational quality that stirs our inner tuning fork. Aristotle (in Taylor) compares it "to musical modes and rhythms," such that "some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.""<br /><br />And as the next paragraph points out about being in tune, is that it is a prerequisite for any music worth the name. However great your skills might be, or your intentions, if you are out of tune, you assault the ears, but if the instrument you're playing is your soul, the world is at risk, an untune soul is appetite unleashed. <br /><br />Sorry, but brought an annoyingly long Shakespeare quote to mind:<br /><br />"...Take but degree away, untune that string,<br />And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets<br />In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters<br />Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores<br />And make a sop of all this solid globe:<br />Strength should be lord of imbecility,<br />And the rude son should strike his father dead:<br />Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,<br />Between whose endless jar justice resides,<br />Should lose their names, and so should justice too.<br />Then every thing includes itself in power,<br />Power into will, will into appetite;<br />And appetite, an universal wolf,<br />So doubly seconded with will and power,<br />Must make perforce an universal prey,<br />And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,<br />This chaos, when degree is suffocate,<br />Follows the choking."<br /><br />http://shakespeare.mit.edu/troilus_cressida/troilus_cressida.1.3.htmlVan Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49848832861917736862015-03-04T14:17:25.539-08:002015-03-04T14:17:25.539-08:00the movie One Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando, that ...the movie One Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando, that manhood could be that poetic, and the book LOLITA by Nabokov and the book Franny and Zooey by Salinger, that language could evoke to that degree.....<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36107171236066227332015-03-04T13:13:04.076-08:002015-03-04T13:13:04.076-08:00Bertie and Jeeves
Baseball
Beer
Beach Boys
Beatles...Bertie and Jeeves<br />Baseball<br />Beer<br />Beach Boys<br />Beatles<br />Blue Note jazz<br />Bion<br />Bob Dobbs...<br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33890011621967086932015-03-04T13:00:35.892-08:002015-03-04T13:00:35.892-08:00Bluegrass and epiphanies reminds me, my cousin use...Bluegrass and epiphanies reminds me, my cousin used to play dobro for a band called the Bluegrass Five. While he was with them, they cut a gospel album, and I got a courtesy copy of it, because I sure wasn't going to pay for it.<br /><br />It was strange. If I had been sent to a desert island with one album, back then, I'd probably have taken "(Live) At the Fillmore East". I might still. But that Bluegrass sound connected, and I knew I was one of them. <br /><br />Oh, and <i>Firefly</i> and single-action revolvers.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2462367171649456182015-03-04T12:44:34.215-08:002015-03-04T12:44:34.215-08:00Bluegrass and Punk are natural allies. Forty perce...Bluegrass and Punk are natural allies. Forty percent of Bluegrass songs are about murdering your girlfriend.<br /><br />Hosed the link trying to use Chrome. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OG8Y7wDUVo" rel="nofollow">Try it again.</a>mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20254961847973689882015-03-04T12:17:54.673-08:002015-03-04T12:17:54.673-08:00After reading this blog for the first time, hell, ...After reading this blog for the first time, hell, I didn't understand most of it, but I knew I wanted to hang out here.<br /><br />Oh, and when I was 10 or so, the "Last Whole Earth Catalog". Mom got it for Dad for Christmas who didn't think much of it but when I took a look.. the whole hippie homestead thing, Yes!<br /><br />Nice story, Magister.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.com