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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
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
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"...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)
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"...There are no interpretations
but only misinterpretations."
- Harold Bloom,
from
THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
(1973)
Aaaarrggghhh!!!
- poor ol' Gardevil
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"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)
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"...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
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Yeah,
that's right,
the poor ol' Gardevil here,
still twitchin'
and dismayin'
and delightin'
ya.
And speakin'
of delightfully dismayin',
check out
the Zonebusters
section
for
revised "essays"
on
the twilit and allegorical
film art
of
Ben Affleck,
Luc Besson,
Kathryn Bigelow,
Tim Burton,
James Cameron,
Sofia (SCC) Coppola,
Johnny Depp,
Sir T.V. "Terry Baby" Gilliam,
Richard Kelly,
Richard Rush,
Sir Ridley Scott-
including
revised looks at
the twilit, allegorical
and implicitly
David Lynch addressing films
THELMA AND LOUISE (1991)
and
ALL THE MONEY
IN THE WORLD (2017)-
and
Quentin Tarantino.
Feel free
to also
check out
the revised
Chapters
1, 2, 3, 4
and
9
of
the Lucas book.
!So stay healthy,
and remember-
the truth is
still
the better virus!
!!SO BE IT!!
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!And
Good Lord!
?Are we less than
a year away
from the
tenth
anniversary
of
the release
of
that amazing
twilit and allegorical
Jason Reitman film,
YOUNG ADULT (2011),
which
singlehandedly
kicked off
the woeful
and
tragicomic
sub-genre
of the
dread allegorical
Zone Wars
known reluctantly
as
"Cinema Garite"?
!Well Gawd!
!Sorry
I mentioned it!
!Excuse me
for feeling
a little sentimental
about the first film
to
implicitly
roast me
and my
dread allegorical Zone War
"scholarship"!
!Don't have
a
heart attack!
- PPQB 4ever
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And,
in the
All Too Prophetic
Department:
"...There is no truth-
no truth-
to the rumor
that this
strain of flu
is fatal.
In the greatest
majority of cases,
the person afflicted
can expect
to be up
and around
and feeling fine
within a week"
- so solemnly sayeth
the President
of
the United States
about the deadly
superflu
on p. 274
of the eerily
and
presciently
twilit and allegorical
Screamin' Stephen King
novel,
THE STAND (1978).
?Look all too familiar?
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"...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.
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"...The sugar
was sweeter
when you gave
it
to someone else
to taste."
- THE FIREMAN
by Joe Hill
p. 206
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...life is the same as death
but the soul continues
in the same blinding light
- Ti Jean
from 123rd Chorus
of
MEXICO CITY BLUES
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"...The truth is always best.
The only trouble is -
what is the truth?"
- Rockie
from
Out In The Open:
life on the street (1997)
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"...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).
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"...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 Reitman
addressing teen novel
Superman: dawnbreaker (2020)
by Matt De La Pena,
pp. 204-5
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Paging
Mr. Garrigan.
Would Mr. Garrigan
please come up
to the front desk?
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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
Covid-19 victims
Cloris Leachman
Christopher Plummer
Tanya Roberts
Barbara Shelley
Mary Wilson
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