Tag: surrealism
Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession
My reflection on Style is Substance’s YouTube critique “POSSESSION (1981) — Faith and Chance” 00:54 − Relative Morality As suggested in my previous philosophical riff, I reject the idea that such a thing as “relative morality” exists as anything more than a theoretical concept. I base this assertion on the… Continue reading
Leaving Disneyland
(Rated M for Mature) Micky mouse woke up today and the Disney-dollar went down again. He went to the corner deli to cop a pack of cigarettes which were five bux yesterday but today cost twelve. “What gives?” Micky asks the clerk but all he got in response was a… Continue reading
The Legend of Gray Lee
This story is the whole truth as imagined by the legendary gunslinger Gray Lee. Of course, Gray has a tendency to get confused and so he forgets sometimes what was really the truth. That’s what legends are made of. The loan cowboy, dressed in all black stares down the barrel… Continue reading
Suspiria
(musing over Dario Argento’s Suspiria remastered) Suspiria is a masterpiece conceptually, a beautiful, disorienting, sublime, surreal and sometimes terrifying fairytale of horror. It is a true “video play” of a film. Argento uses disorienting visuals/sound to allow for revelation, this sublime experience beyond language. This is the value of ‘altered… Continue reading
it started off as an abstract love letter….
All my romantic encounters build me as a romantic object. As they break my heart into pieces I come back with a bigger, stronger, more efficient heart beat. I pulse and reverberate the sounds of absence, placed against itself then back in reverse. Am I dangerously approaching another abyss or… Continue reading
Phantom On the Horizon
Cecil is a captain with a mission to get that boat to shore. Put on some music and vibe to it. The shore may be close or may be far. You’ll never know until the fog is gone and you can see the north star. You are clothes, boots and… Continue reading
Eternal Life is Death drive
Though something tells me I should write something easier: Anti-Poem Moi the Unwell: I felt I was coming to terms with her to some extent, trying to see her as the “right one”, for now. I was even able to put all those attractive women I saw at the theater last… Continue reading