Heard
in regards to the Catholic influence on popular music: "Any band that
gets condemned by a Catholic church is okay in my book."
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Monday, May 23, 2016
LOL
Friday, April 1, 2016
Making some extra space at Cybervato Headquarters
Selling off my "vhs to dvdr" collection of obscure eurothrillers of the 60s 70s 80s. Each disk was either placed on dvdr by me or by an "archive transfer service". $ 5.00 each. Plus 6.00 postage. For US residents only There is only 1 copy of each title and I will not be making any extra copies. Act fast! I will be placing the titles and more info here shortly. Some cool titles if you like that obscure type of film
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
My view on anxiety
From what I have read and subscribe to as my belief, about we with severe anxiety issues, is that it combination of nature (predisposition towards anxiety) and nurture (triggered by events in one's life) that causes us to have anxiety and related issues. I don't think it can be "cured" permanently except maybe by divine intervention, and if that doesn't happen I believe a combination of meds and cbt type activities(ie going into an anxiety producing situation with the right attitude) is the key to keeping anxiety issues under control.
This was a pretty insightful book on the subject
Friday, July 23, 2010
Lone Star A movie by john Sayles that paints a realistic picture of border life
The semi obscure John Sayles film Lone Star
that takes place in a very realistic fictional border town . Lone Star is a movie about barriers and relationships. The film moves smoothly for the most part from the expansiveness of geographical, racial, judicial, and social relationships and borders to the intimacy of family, and romantic relationships and barriers including forbidden ones. The search for historical truth in the border town and its relationship to the past propels the main plot of the movie as well as each of the side stories. Each of these subplots relates and compliments each additional story line as well as providing insight into the relationships of the movie.
I was at my fave mexican restaurant recently and was struck by how the accommodations, and the interactions of the citizenry in the film were perfectly written in many cases. The only thing missing were the Mexican hotdogs!
I heartily recommend this movie and Mexican Hotdogs!
that takes place in a very realistic fictional border town . Lone Star is a movie about barriers and relationships. The film moves smoothly for the most part from the expansiveness of geographical, racial, judicial, and social relationships and borders to the intimacy of family, and romantic relationships and barriers including forbidden ones. The search for historical truth in the border town and its relationship to the past propels the main plot of the movie as well as each of the side stories. Each of these subplots relates and compliments each additional story line as well as providing insight into the relationships of the movie.I was at my fave mexican restaurant recently and was struck by how the accommodations, and the interactions of the citizenry in the film were perfectly written in many cases. The only thing missing were the Mexican hotdogs!
I heartily recommend this movie and Mexican Hotdogs!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Out of the Past one of my favorite film noirs
Out of the Past
is one of those films that stays with you. Dark and bleak, it is a great example of the film noir style and a predecessor other styles as well.
The theme of that one can not escape ones past and the tentacles of that past can be fatal. Robert Mitchum as the protagonist shows us this in spades. He is trying to live a non descript life in a quiet town in Northern California when his past literally drives up in the guise of easy going thug, Joe.
I found it interesting how Mitchum/Markham/Bailey is first shown as a guy who is romancing another guy's woman in his very first scene, kind of showing us that the "good guy" is somewhat flawed.
In the flashback we find out that Mitchum fell in love with a girl, who's looks could have made a bishop kick out a stained glass window. The problem was she was the main squeeze of his employer and stole $40,000. Mitchum narrates this flash back cynically albeit accurately.
Jane Greer plays Kathy the femme fatale that Mitchum falls for like a brick. She is a quintessential film noir woman dark, exotic, dangerous, manipulative and untrustworthy. I liken her perhaps to a praying mantis. The fact she only will meet Mitchum at night when they are in Mexico is also indicative of her shadowyness and also a trademark of film noirs. Symbolism runs rampant in this film. A scene in Mexico typifies this. Mitchum and Greer are clinging to each other like wet socks and there is a net near by. This reinforces the web of deceit and danger Mitchum is letting himself slide in to. Jane Greer was later black balled by Hollywood and replaced by Linda Darnell in many "Jane Greer" type rolls, as they looked surprisingly similar.
In direct contrast to Kathy is Ann. Ann, portrayed by Virginia Huston, is blond, homespun and innocent. The first shot of Ann in the sunshine at the lake seems to be a deviation on the Film noir formula but I believe it helps let the viewer know that she is the "good girl" of the movie.
Kirk Douglas, in just his second film roll, shines as the male villain. He bad but, not so bad you can't like him. He too falls victim to Kathy's deceptions and finally her bullets.
Other than Ann the entire cast is pretty much untrustworthy as I counted at least 10 betrayals of trust. Most of these committed or orchestrated by Kathy.
This film is dark and brooding with no truly happy ending. Out of the Past is one of the greatest film noirs and a great film in general about darkness, betrayal and deception in ones past and the outcome of that past. This film should be in any true film fan's collection.
is one of those films that stays with you. Dark and bleak, it is a great example of the film noir style and a predecessor other styles as well.The theme of that one can not escape ones past and the tentacles of that past can be fatal. Robert Mitchum as the protagonist shows us this in spades. He is trying to live a non descript life in a quiet town in Northern California when his past literally drives up in the guise of easy going thug, Joe.
I found it interesting how Mitchum/Markham/Bailey is first shown as a guy who is romancing another guy's woman in his very first scene, kind of showing us that the "good guy" is somewhat flawed.
In the flashback we find out that Mitchum fell in love with a girl, who's looks could have made a bishop kick out a stained glass window. The problem was she was the main squeeze of his employer and stole $40,000. Mitchum narrates this flash back cynically albeit accurately.
Jane Greer plays Kathy the femme fatale that Mitchum falls for like a brick. She is a quintessential film noir woman dark, exotic, dangerous, manipulative and untrustworthy. I liken her perhaps to a praying mantis. The fact she only will meet Mitchum at night when they are in Mexico is also indicative of her shadowyness and also a trademark of film noirs. Symbolism runs rampant in this film. A scene in Mexico typifies this. Mitchum and Greer are clinging to each other like wet socks and there is a net near by. This reinforces the web of deceit and danger Mitchum is letting himself slide in to. Jane Greer was later black balled by Hollywood and replaced by Linda Darnell in many "Jane Greer" type rolls, as they looked surprisingly similar.
In direct contrast to Kathy is Ann. Ann, portrayed by Virginia Huston, is blond, homespun and innocent. The first shot of Ann in the sunshine at the lake seems to be a deviation on the Film noir formula but I believe it helps let the viewer know that she is the "good girl" of the movie.
Kirk Douglas, in just his second film roll, shines as the male villain. He bad but, not so bad you can't like him. He too falls victim to Kathy's deceptions and finally her bullets.
Other than Ann the entire cast is pretty much untrustworthy as I counted at least 10 betrayals of trust. Most of these committed or orchestrated by Kathy.
This film is dark and brooding with no truly happy ending. Out of the Past is one of the greatest film noirs and a great film in general about darkness, betrayal and deception in ones past and the outcome of that past. This film should be in any true film fan's collection.
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