AnOther... Suspiria

Tilda (we love her)

Swinton chooses the people first, not the projects, and her relationship with Guadagnino – with whom she formed the production company Crazy Crazy Crazy Normal Normal Normal in 2017 – is clearly an inspiring meeting of minds. She first came across him when, as an unknown Italian director, he pursued her via her agent in 1994. He then ran into her in Rome later that same year and Suspiria is the latest result of their ongoing conversation – a film about which they have been talking, both confirm, for almost 25 years.

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This film was written for Swinton – and for her co-star Dakota Johnson – the director says, and it’s difficult to imagine anyone else stepping into the role of Madame Blanc, a tormented choreographer and dancer who has, effectively, sold her soul for her art. There is a dignity to Swinton’s performance in the film, and a fragility that is immensely moving. That Guadagnino loves her is evident as the camera studies her every move.

Black 47 - Official Trailer

Being There (1979) UK Theatrical Trailer.

“Insomnia Is Good for You”

`Two Long-Lost Peter Sellers Films Discovered in a Trash Can`



Screenshot from one of Peter Sellers’s recently discovered films, “Insomnia Is Good for You”
Today’s “holy crap!” story is the discovery of two long-lost Peter Sellers films  that were salvaged from a trash can. Sellers, for those who may not  know him, was a British actor and comedian, probably best known (at  least to some of us) for his triple-header starring roles in Stanley  Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. He also played Chief Inspector Clouseau in the majority of The Pink Panther movies.
According to the New York Times Arts Beat blog, the lost films are titled “Dearth of a Salesman” (wah-wah)  and “Insomnia Is Good for You,” and both come from 1957, when Sellers’s  career was just starting to take off. Clocking at about half an hour  each, the films were co-written by Sellers and renowned Canadian author Mordecai Richler, who twice won the Governor General’s Award.
The  shorts are silly, satirical takes on public-information films, and may  even have been used by Sellers as reels to show producers his talent,  reports the Independent.  They were found by Robert Farrow, the building manager of the site that  housed Park Lane Films, when he found 21 film cans among the garbage  cleared from the studio and took them home. That was in 1996, but he  didn’t actually sort through the contents until recently. There he  found the negatives, titles, out-takes, and master prints of the two  Sellers films.
The titles are being digitally restored and will screen at next May’s Southend Film Festival. Until then, viewers can watch short clips from both of them embedded in the New York Times‘ blog post. Jillian Steinhauer

Warzone

Now, against the current backdrop of out-of-control hostility, destruction of nature, political lies and chicanery, repression of human rights, and corruption without impunity of all kinds, Yoko Ono has emerged with Warzone (Chimera Music), her newest musical project.

Ghostbusters Vs. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

it's coming along good - no wait

I am finishing up a writing project on our shrinking brains and attention spans... yup... and it will be done soon... well in this century for sure...

OH HELL - it's now two books - one poetry and one not

art is medicine

Doctors in Quebec Will Soon Prescribe Museum Visits as Medicine via

weird people

I'd Really Love To See You Tonight

Eva Cassidy - Time After Time

Dispatches from the Field: Dark Skies

#TwoLineGhostStory

I had a nightmare that a game show host was President. I’m still trying to wake up! #TwoLineGhostStory pic.twitter.com/a5fu3UHC7g
— #HashtagJones (@HashtagJones1) October 21, 2017

I saw a naked ghost. It scared me sheetless.#TwoLineGhostStory
— Jared S. Pumpkins (@jaredshroyer) October 21, 2017

Alone in the empty house I asked, "Is anyone there?"
A whisper from the darkness: "If I said 'no,' would it comfort you?"#TwoLineGhostStory pic.twitter.com/CJ2ywwjdto
— Geoffrey Gould (@realbadger) October 21, 2017

There are more on Twitter: use hashtag #TwoLineGhostStory

Most Common Ways Criminals Launder Money

For a second I was thinking of ways to wash the dirt and grime off money - and I had a relative from Belgium who did that. Her sons came home and she had them soap up the bills, dry them and iron them. And coins were washed too.

my day so far

what is yours?

A list of Stephen King’s “personal terrors” was published in 1973.¹⁵ This list strikingly reflects the species-typical distribution of evolved fear objects much more so than it reflects the objects, creatures, and situations that a 20th-century inhabitant of Maine ought to fear:

1. Fear of the dark
2. Fear of squishy things
3. Fear of deformity
4. Fear of snakes
5. Fear of rats
6. Fear of closed-in spaces
7. Fear of insects (especially spiders, flies, and beetles)
8. Fear of death
9. Fear of others (paranoia)
10. Fear for someone else

I'd add Fear of vampires and zombies:

a whole lot

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retronaut

Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine — coinciding with a book by Wild of the same name, which also debuted last month — features highlights of an unexpected past sourced from Wild’s year of exploring the Woodhorn archive.

"upward going" cosmic rays

...a team of astrophysicists from Penn State University showed that there have been more upward-going high-energy particles than those detected during the two ANITA events. Three times, they wrote, IceCube (another, larger neutrino observatory in Antarctica) detected similar particles, though no one had yet connected those events to the mystery at ANITA. And, combining the IceCube and ANITA data sets, the Penn State researchers calculated that, whatever particle is bursting up from the Earth, it has much less than a 1-in-3.5 million chance of being part of the Standard Model.
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