****

 

There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

Gary Wright

 

1943 - 2023

 

 

!Thanks for making my life

 

a misery,

 

 gentle Dream Weaver!

 

 

!!And for reassuring us that

 

Love Is Alive!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

Good Luck

 

and

 

all the best

 

to

 

my Brothers and Sisters

 

on

 

the

 

SAG/AFTRA

 

and

 

WGA

 

picket lines.

 

 

!Let us hope

 

you win

 

all you are fighting for!

 

 

!!In solidarity!!

 

 

- Brother Gar,

 

CUPE Local 1628

 

 

****

 

 

!Whoops!

 

!!!!!And

 

Happy Belated

 

50th

 

Anniversary

 

to

 

the allegorical Pink Floyd recording

 

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON [1973],

 

the 

 

GREATEST

 

POP ALBUM

 

EVER!!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

And

 

a belated 

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Sir Ridley Scott,

 

Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman,

 

Sam Rockwell, Bruce McGill

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly George Lucas toasting

 

and

 

Terry Zwigoff roasting

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

MATCHSTICK MEN [2003]!

 

and

 

another belated

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Lilly and Lana Wachowski,

 

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss,

 

Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas,

 

Kathryn Bigelow and Francis Coppola

 

toasting

 

indie animaction film

 

THE MATRIX RELOADED [2003]!

 

and

 

yet another belated

 

Happy 20th Anniversary

 

to

 

Sofia Coppola,

 

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson,

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, alllegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

indie docufeature film

 

LOST IN TRANSLATION [2003]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

Well,

I am finally

setting down and doing

a

more thoughtful look

at

the films of Sir Ridley Scott,

so

keep your eye on the Sir Scott link

in

the Zone Warriors section!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

Well, luckily for us all,

 

today ended the dread

 

fortieth anniversary year

 

of

 

the helicopter crash

 

that killed

 

actor/writer/director Vic Morrow

 

and

 

child extras Renee Chen and Myca Le

 

around 2:20 pm in the early morning

 

of

 

July 23, 1982

 

on

 

the George Folsey jr. produced

 

John Landis set

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

computer generated imagery enhanced, 

 

Landis and Steven Spielberg

 

executive produced,

 

Frank Marshall produced,

 

and

 

Kathleen Kennedy associate produced

 

Landis, Spielberg, Joe Dante

 

and

 

George Miller

 

docufeature film

 

TWILIGHT ZONE:

 

THE MOVIE [1983].

 

 

!Thank God for that!

 

 

Alas,

 

 while that dire and infuriating

 

anniversary year

 

has been left behind,

 

we have now just

 

begun the

 

fortieth anniversary year

 

of

 

the release

 

of

 

TWILIGHT ZONE:

 

THE MOVIE

 

on

 

June 24, 1983.

 

 

So we have gone

 

from the frying pan

 

into the fire,

 

people.

 

 

!Frak!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

!By the way,

 

feel free

 

to

 

drop by

 

the

 

Luc Besson "essay"

 

for

 

ASTOUNDING

 

and

 

already re-re-revised

 

insights into

 

the

 

daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Besson roastin' and toastin'

 

James Gunn

 

super satirical animaction film

 

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

 

[2023]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...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

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...Received opinion

is

often wrong

and

usually boring;

the text is yours

to interpret...

This ability

to read symbolically,

to view

the very world around us

symbolically,

is at the heart

of

the whole literary

[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 pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

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

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

And remember,

when in the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

Victoria Amelina

Tim Bachman

Russell Banks

Bob Barker

Jeff Beck

Ethan Bespflug

John Biernat

Jane Birkin

Robert Blake

Earl Boen

Ricou Browning

Jimmy Buffett

Anthony Ciccone

Carole Cook

David Crosby

Shahzada Dawood

Suleman Dawood

Charlotte Drozd

Tarek Fatah

Ed Fury

Michael "Micky" Geller

Paul Grant

Hamish Harding

Steven "Steve" Harwell

Peter Hernndorf

Nicholas "Nick" Hickey

Karolina "Caroline" Huebner-Makurat

Juliet Hulme

Barry Humphries

Abby Huntsman

Al Jaffee

Mikala Jones

Lahaina, Maui

CoCo Lee

Michael Lerner

Gina Lollobrigida

Marilyn Lovell

Mark Margolis

Hazel McCallion

Cormac McCarthy

Murray Melvin

Lloyd Morrisett

Paul-Henri Nargeolet

Peta Neuman aka Peter C. Newman

Tyre Nichols

Sinead O'Connor

David Onley

Jansen Panettiere

Tatjana Patitz

Margaret Pellegrini

Lisa Marie Presley

Mary Quant

Bryan Randall

Paul Reubens

Andrew "Andy" Rourke

Stockton Rush

Julian Sands

Tom Sizemore

Stella Stevens

Ray Stevenson

Robert Swan

Tina Turner

Nicholas L. Webber

Raquel Welch

Tom Whitlock

Cindy Williams