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I litterally wrote this as a doodle after having to wait on hold on the phone forever.

Upon waiting on the phone

Watching the sand pass
ever changing winds of time
shift with the seasons

It's fall here in the north country. My maples, sumacs, oaks, barberries, hornbeams, paper birches, & co are wearing their colors. And the pines are shedding last year's needles. Some of these old needles are falling on my storage shed, which sits beneath them. There's chill in the air. And I remember how much I love the cold -- the hard breath of a frosted morning, the numbing of cool water on my hands.

This chill and turn of season reminds me of early spring and one of my favorite ...

Through a Glass Darky - This film is one of the greatest religious films ever made, and the reason why this is so is not because it is filled with angels and demons, but because it deals with real humans on a human level, existing within the absurdity of the human condition. This absurdity and despair is something Bergman admits in all of his films, but in the tradition of Kierkegaard, he still finds a place for God.

The title is a quote from Corinthians (Swedish translation) which ...

Blue Velvet - It's amazing how David Lynch can take something which seems to have been done a number of times, and craft it into something so entirely his own, that the influences almost seem to disappear. He creates simulacrum

Blue Velvet remains today Lynch's most powerful film (next to Mulholland Drive and his short film Grandmother) and certainly his most nostalgic; and though it may not be him at the height of his independent powers (much of this film is influenced by Hitchcock, ...

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Well, this being one of my three favorite films of all time, whenever it's on, I never hesitate for a revisit.

First of all, this is the greatest dedication to film ever made; it is a complete homage to art and life, and how art can save life. The subtitle of this film was The Beautiful Confusion and that is exactly what it is. Throughout the film we feel as if the camera and actors are participating in some sort of surrealistic ballet. This film was so many layers of ...