****
!Gruesome gobs of
glistening goo
Golloped out
to gibbering you
To ensure that your
plagued Hallowe’en night
Is still a frightful
and ghastly delight!
Yes, that is right,
I am slowly rewriting
the
Tim Burton
“essay”,
as a fiendishly sweet
Hallowe’en treat
just for
frighteningly fangstastic
YOU,
!O Children of the
Twilight!
Will the rewright
be finished
by the midnight hour
?of October 31st, 2020?
We shall see...
- Gordevil
****
AND
IN THE SO BE IT
DEPARTMENT,
HOPE YA
TOOK THE TIME
TO ENJOY
THE TWILIT AND ALLEGORICAL
ALLAN MOYLE FILM,
PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990),
IN CELEBRATION
OF
THE RECENT
THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF
ITS RELEASE
ON AUGUST 22, 1990.
!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PUMPY,
YOU RIOTOUS,
REBELLIOUS
AND
RAUCOUS
RASCAL YOU!!
AND THANKS FOR
INSPIRING US ALL
TO
THINK HARD
TALK HARD
LUV HARD
WRITE HARD
AND
!BLOG HARD!
- SCRAPPY GARY GARDEV
****
There are no interpretations
but only misinterpretations.
- Harold Bloom,
from
THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
(1973)
Aaaarrggghhh!!!
- poor ol' Gardevil
****
...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
****
What
strange blue world
with such brave
and
resilient people
in it.
Yeah,
that's right,
the poor ol' Gardevil here,
back to dismay
and delight ya.
And speakin'
of delightfully dismayin',
check out
the Zonebusters
section
for
revised 'essays'
on
the twilit and allegorical
film art
of
Ben Affleck,
Johnny Depp,
Richard Kelly
and
Quentin Tarantino,
the
newly revised 'essay'
on
the film art
of
Kathryn Bigelow
in time
for
the thirtieth anniversary
of the release
of the twilit and allegorical film,
BLUE STEEL (1990),
and
the twentieth anniversary
of the release
of the twilit and allegorical film,
THE WEIGHT OF WATER (2000),
the
newly revised 'essay'
on
the film art
of
Sofia Coppola-
including
yet more
'astonishing'
new 'insight'
into
the twilit, allegorical,
Ozian themed
and
implicitly SCC roasting
Terry Zwigoff film,
GHOST WORLD (2001)
and
the twilit, allegorical
and
implicitly SCC roasting
Zwigoff film,
ART SCHOOL
CONFIDENTIAL (2006)-
in time
for
the tenth anniversary
of the release
of the twilit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced
and
Ozian themed film,
SOMEWHERE (2010),
the
newly revised 'essay'
on
the film and telefilm art
of
David Lynch
in time for
the thirtieth anniversaries
of the release
of the twilit and allegorical
telemoving painting series,
TWIN PEAKS (1990),
and
the twilit and allegorical
moving painting,
WILD AT HEART (1990),
and the
newly revised 'essay'
on
the film art
of
Richard Rush
in time
for
the fortieth anniversay
of the release
of the twilit and allegorical film,
THE STUNTMAN (1980),
and
the fiftieth anniversary
of the release
of the allegorical film,
GETTING STRAIGHT (1970),
plus
"astounding"
new "insight"
into the
twilit, allegorical and
CGI enhanced
Tim Burton film,
BATMAN RETURNS (1992),
and
the twilit,
allegorical and CGI enhanced
Sir Peter Jackson film,
HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994),
in the
slowly transforming
Burton "essay",
and into the
twilit, allegorical
and CGI enhanced
Neill Blomkamp
docufeature film,
DISTRICT 9 (2009),
in the
Walt Disney
and
Sir Jackson
"essays".
Feel free
to also
check out
the revised
Chapters
1, 2, 3
and
9
of
the Lucas book.
!So stay healthy,
and remember-
the truth is
still
the better virus!
!!SO BE IT!!
****
!And
Good Lord!
?Are we only
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
****
And speaking of
inspiration,
thanks
to the allegorical
and
Eric Bloom and
Michael Moorcock written
Blue Oyster Cult tune,
"Black Blade" (1980),
celebrating
its fabulous fortieth year
of
bringing Chaos
to the world we know
this year, as well.
!Mourn on,
Elric and Stormy,
laugh on!
...I'm told it's my duty
to write against the Law
that allegory's my trade
and I was born to wade
through yore
I just wanna be a luvva
not a red eyed screamin' fool
sure wished it picked another
to be its revelatin' tool
!Black Pen!
!Black Pen!
Forged an ancient second ago
!Black Pen!
!Black Pen!
****
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 familiar?
****
"...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.
****
...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
Superman: dawnbreaker (2020)
by Matt De La Pena,
pp. 204-5
****
Paging
Mr. Garrigan.
Would Mr. Garrigan
please come up
to the front desk?
****
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
Danny Aiello
Andy Anderson
Al Noor Mosque victims
Ashina Sei
Ginger Baker
Jay Benedict
Steve Bing
Honor Blackman
Hal Blaine
Harold Bloom
Chadwick Boseman
Patricia Bosworth
Dr. Lorna M. Breen
Captain Marvel
Diana Carter
Brent Carver
Chinese Paddlefish
Clarkie the Turkey
Michael Colgrass
Nick Cordero
Covid-19 victims
Ben Cross
Charlie Daniels
Jonathan Davis
D-Day Heroes
Doris Day
Kirk Douglas
Shirley Douglas
Dayton victims
Chynna Deese
Dieppe Raiders
Leonard Dyck
Justin T. Earle
El Paso victims
Reese Fallon
Albert Finney
George Floyd
Irv Forbush
Robert Forster
Allan Fotheringham
Lucas Fowler
Graeme Gibson
Peter Green
Richard Gwyn
James 'Kamala' Harris
Rutger Hauer
Katherine Helmond
Toots Hibbert
Danny Hicks
Sir Ian Holm
Neil Innes
Andrew Jack
Benjamin Keough
Kimura Hana
Russell Kirsch
Julianne Kozis
Leo the Cat
Linwood Mosque victims
Little Richard
Carson Lockwood
Michael Lonsdale
Walter Lure
Johnny Mandel
Linda Manz
Peter Mayhew
Miura Haruma
Ennio Morriconne
Toni Morrison
Katharine Mulherin
Toni Myers
Joseph Norton
Alan Parker
Neil Peart
Nova Scotia shooting victims
D.A. Pennebaker
Luke Perry
Charles M. Portis
Kelly Preston
Andre Previn
Naya Rivera
Pat Roach
Rubble
Regan Russell
Shazam
Lynn Shelton
Lisa Sheridan
John Singleton
Geno Silva
Sri Lankan Bombing victims
Takeuchi Yuko
Rip Torn
Turkey the Clarkie
John Turner
Jane Underhill
Edward "Eddie" Van Halen
Agnes Varda
Max Von Sydow
Bill Withers
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