****

 

 

 

!HAPPY

 

40TH ANNIVERSARY,

 

CANADA'S

 

CONSTITUTION!

 

 

 

!!LONG MAY YOU

 

SUPPORT

 

AND

 

INSPIRE US!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

Alas,

 

2022

 

is also

 

the

 

fortieth anniversary year

 

of

 

the TZ disaster,

 

a still shocking

 

and

 

outraging day

 

that keeps getting

 

nearer and nearer.

 

 

Indeed,

 

to paraphrase Young,

 

 

"...fatal crashes and John Landis

 

doesn't seem so long ago

 

you can still hear the wailing

 

three dead in the Twilight Zone."

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

 

There can be

 

no more exceptions

 

or privileges.

 

Everybody must be equal...

 

 

The power of peace

 

must be dominant.

 

 

- Ukrainian President

 

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

 

 

!G'day people!

 

 

Hope you are

 

staying healthy.

 

 

By the way,

 

if you need

 

to escape from

 

the infuriating

 

and

 

depressing

 

war in Ukraine

 

for a while,

 

drop by

 

the Zone Warriors

 

section

 

for the latest

 

and already revised

 

revision

 

of

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

the twilit and allegorical

 

film art

 

of

 

Sir Peter Jackson

 

and

 

the latest

 

revised look

 

at

 

the brilliant film art

 

of

 

Richard Kelly.

 

 

 

 

The thoughtful look

 

at

 

the Dune series

 

by

 

Frank Herbert

 

has also

 

been re-revised

 

for

 

greater

 

incandescent illumination,

 

so

 

feel free

 

to

 

click on

 

the recently revised

 

Terry Gilliam

 

"essay"

 

to ponder that,

 

as well as

 

the also recently revised

 

"essays"

 

on those other

 

Masters of cinematic mayhem,

 

Tim Burton,

 

Alex Cox,

 

and

 

Slava Tsukerman.

 

 

!IT'S INTENSE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

 

 

!HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

TO YOU

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

TO YOU

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

James and ULYSSES

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

TO YOU!

 

 

 

!Yes!

 

 

!FEBRUARY 2, 2022,

 

was indeed

 

THE 100th ANNIVERSARY

 

of

 

THE PUBLICATION

 

of

 

the allegorical James Joyce

 

indie docufiction novel

 

ULYSSES (1922)

 

and

 

the 140th birthday

 

of

 

James Joyce!

 

 

 

 

!SO RAISE

 

A GUINNESS

 

OR

 

A JAMESON

 

TO JIMMY

 

and

 

ULYSSES

 

this

 

anniversary year!

 

 

 

!!SLAINTE CHARAS!!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

DO NOT ATTEMPT

 

TO ADJUST

 

YOUR COMPUTER.

 

 

This is the latest update

 

from

 

the poor ol' Gardevil

 

coming to you

 

live n burnin

 

from

 

Slotek HQ

 

deep in the heart

 

of the

 

Free Village of Streetsville.

 

 

This update concerns

 

the

 

already

 

slightly revised,

 

twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

Zonebuster film art

 

of

 

James Francis Cameron

 

and

 

cannot be stopped.

 

 

It can however

 

be trusted

 

as it emanates

 

from the only free

 

and

 

honest source

 

on planet Earth.

 

 

A free

 

and

 

honest source

 

dedicated to ensuring

 

that

 

audiences understand

 

the truth

 

about

 

the dread allegorical

 

Zone Wars,

 

in order to

 

hold film artists

 

to account.

 

 

Peace and luv...

 

Out.

 

 

- Gardevil

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

!Feel free!

 

to

 

also check out

 

the

 

rethunked,

 

 

rewritten

 

and

 

revised

 

"essay"

 

on

 

Sarah Polley

 

to

 

bask gratefully

 

in

 

the refreshing

 

and

 

rejuvenating

 

daylight

 

of

 

!Polleywood!,

 

complete

 

with

 

revised looks

 

at the daylit, allegorical

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Polley toasting

 

Tim Burton

 

animaction artbuster

 

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010),

 

and

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Polley toasting

 

Kenneth Branagh

 

docufeature film

 

CINDERELLA (2015)

 

and

 

an expanded look

 

at the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Polley toasting

 

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

 

super satirical animaction film

 

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

Make sure ya

 

also check out

 

the

 

Zone Warriors

 

section

 

for

 

revised "essays"

 

on the

 

twilit and allegorical

 

film art

 

of

 

Ben Affleck,

 

Luc Besson,

 

Kathyrn Bigelow,

 

Neill Blomkamp-

 

the latter slightly

 

revised-

 

Tim Burton,

 

James Cameron-

 

the latter

 

with another

 

slightly revised look

 

at

 

the Nolan

 

BATMAN TRILOGY-

 

Gia (GC) Coppola,

 

Sofia (SCC) Coppola-

 

now including

 

revised thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit and allegorical

 

Terry Zwigoff

 

indie docufeature film

 

ART SCHOOL

 

CONFIDENTIAL (2006)

 

and

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and CGI enhanced

 

SCC indie docufeature film

 

ON THE ROCKS (2020)-

 

Don Coscarelli,

 

Alex Cox,

 

Guillermo Del Toro,

 

Johnny Depp,

 

Sir T.V. "Terry Baby" Gilliam,

 

Sir Peter Jackson,

 

Angelina Jolie-

 

the latter slightly revised

 

yet more again-

 

Richard Kelly-

 

also slightly revised again- 

 

Stanley Kubrick,

 

Sean Penn,

 

Sarah Polley,

 

Jason Reitman-

 

the latter now

 

with

 

expanded thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and

 

Ozian themed

 

docufeature film

 

GHOSTBUSTERS:

 

AFTERLIFE (2021)-

 

Richard Rush, 

 

Sir Ridley Scott,

 

Quentin Tarantino,

 

Slava Tsukerman

 

and

 

Denis Villeneuve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

!Feel free

 

to also

 

check out

 

Chapters 1-9

 

of the

 

"insightful"

 

book

 

on

 

George "Lord Stinkious" Lucas!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...This country 

 

is

 

something that must be chosen-

 

it is so easy to leave-

 

and

 

if we do choose it

 

we are still choosing

 

a violent duality."

 

 

- Margaret Atwood

 

from p. 62 of

 

THE JOURNALS

 

OF

 

SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...There are no interpretations

 

but only misinterpretations."

 

 

- Harold Bloom,

 

from

 

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE

 

(1973)

 

 

 

Aaaarrggghhh!!!

 

- poor ol' Gardevil

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

 

- so sayeth Stanley Kubrick,

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"Once,

 

we were artists.

 

!Pure!

 

But we,

 

all of us,

 

we became a distraction,

 

compromised

 

for the sake of fame,

 

comfort,

 

the approval

 

of strangers...

 

We

 

sing and dance

 

not to entertain

 

but to distract people

 

from the crushing gears

 

of a capitalist machine

 

that has no ideals

 

save for

 

greed and violence.

 

And let's not

 

kid ourselves,

 

Hollywood

 

is the best PR firm

 

the gunmakers

 

ever had.

 

What a sick culture...

 

This is a system

 

of soul-murder.

 

And history

 

will not be kind to us

 

for our complicity,

 

because

 

we know better."

 

so sayeth

 

Jim Carrey

 

on

 

pp. 102-3

 

of

 

the allegorical

 

Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

 

novel,

 

Memoirs

 

And

 

Misinformation (2020)

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...Then

 

when we

 

in turn

 

write,

 

speak

 

or do things,

 

we release

 

our ideas

 

out  into

 

the environment,

 

where they

 

can infect

 

new brains.

 

Ideas,

 

like viruses,

 

thus proliferate

 

at prodigious rates,

 

changing

 

at prodigious rates

 

as they do so."

 

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"The Evil

 

running rampant

 

around the world

 

shows no signs

 

of disappearing.

 

It hasn't changed

 

since I became

 

a Hero for fun.

 

In other words,

 

I am having no effect

 

on society.

 

I'm not sad about that.

 

I do this for fun,

 

so I just need

 

to satisfy myself."

 

 

- from

 

the intriguingly garish,

 

twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

One and Murata Yusuke

 

manga

 

One-Punch Man:

 

volume one,

 

p. 92.

 

 

 

Of course,

 

for

 

fittingly punchy

 

"insights"

 

into

 

One-Punch Man,

 

drop by

 

the

 

"essay"

 

on

 

Gary W. "Gardevil" Wright

 

in the

 

Zone Warriors

 

section.

 

 

!'Nuck said! 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Power is lost or won,

 

never created

 

or

 

destroyed."

 

 

- Immaculee Constantin,

 

from p. 100

 

of the

 

twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Gardevil roasting

 

David Mitchell novel

 

 

THE BONE CLOCKS (2014)

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...A pestilence does not have

 

human dimensions,

 

so people tell themselves

 

that it is unreal,

 

that it is a bad dream

 

which will end.

 

But it does not always end

 

and,

 

from one bad dream

 

to the next,

 

it is people who end,

 

humanists first of all

 

because

 

they have not prepared

 

themselves."

 

 

- THE PLAGUE

 

by Albert Camus

 

p. 30.

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...The sugar

 

was sweeter

 

when you gave

 

it

 

to someone else

 

to taste."

 

- Harper Grayson

 

from p. 206

 

 

of the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced novel

 

 

THE FIREMAN (2016)

 

 

by Joe Hill

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

...life is the same as death

 

but the soul continues

 

in the same blinding light

 

 

- Ti Jean

 

from 123rd Chorus

 

of

 

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...The truth is always best.

 

The only trouble is -

 

what is the truth?"

 

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

Out In The Open:

 

life on the street (1997)

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Received opinion

 

is

 

often wrong

 

and 

 

usually boring;

 

the text is yours

 

to interpret...

 

This ability

 

to ready symbolically,

 

to view

 

the very world

 

around us

 

symbolically,

 

is at the heart

 

of the whole

 

literay

 

(and cinema games).

 

To accept things

 

at first glance

 

to be

 

as they appear

 

on the surface

 

is to be trapped

 

in the literal.

 

To be able

 

to see

 

symbolic possibilities

 

allows one

 

to begin to make

 

connections

 

between things

 

that at first

 

seem to have

 

little to do

 

with each other."

 

 

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from p 88 and 136

 

of

 

SIN BOLDLY:

 

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

 

the college paper (2004).

 

 

****

 

 

"...Life, 

 

he realized,

 

was a profoundly

 

complicated thing.

 

It was filled with awe

 

and wonder

 

and beauty,

 

but it was also filled

 

with heartbreak

 

and

 

loneliness.

 

Maybe that was what

 

made it

 

so precious.

 

You could never know

 

what to expect next,

 

or who might

 

step into

 

or out of

 

your world.

 

And the truth was

 

that we were all

 

navigating the mystery

 

together."

 

 

- from 

 

the implicitly

 

Jason Reitman

 

addressing teen novel

 

Superman: dawnbreaker (2020)

 

by Matt De La Pena, 

 

pp. 204-5

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

And

 

remember,

 

when in

 

Mississauga,

 

always visit

 

Image Collections,

 

the

 

finest emporium

 

of

 

collectibles,

 

games

 

and

 

narrative art

 

in

 

Streetsville,

 

"...the town in the city"

 

of Mississauga.

 

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

 

Reza Baraheni

 

Peter Bogdanovich

 

Boris Brott

 

Olivier Dundas

 

Andrew Gregorovich

 

Taylor Hawkins

 

Elaine Herzberg

 

Howard Hesseman

 

William Hurt

 

Guy Lafleur

 

Michael Lang

 

Meat Loaf

 

Stuart MacMillan

 

Hudson Madsen

 

Shane O'Connor

 

Sidney Poitier

 

Ivan Reitman

 

Brent Renaud

 

Rene Robert

 

Brayden Smith

 

Michel Subor

 

Bjarni Tryggvason

 

Victims of the Ukrainian War

 

including

 

the Mariupol Drama Theatre

 

bombing 

 

Shane Yellowbird

 

 

 

****