****
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
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