Tree, Cat Chiropraction, and Movies
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rain_gryphonTree pictures, as promised!
Flaster contemplates his handiwork. Back in 2001 he managed to decapitate this wiseman. I was gonna glue him back together, but I happened to be out of glue. and ended up putting him away before I got more. Next year when I unpacked him I decided I'd just keep him this way as a sort of souvenir of Christmas Past. I added the cloth 'bloodstain' then. Just behind Flaster's head you can see the Kangaroo Wiseman I added to make up the requisite three.
Silver Balls! Silver Balls!... The silver balls await in their box.
The tree, all blue and mysterious.
The firey golden heart of the tree. This is part of what fascinates me about the aluminum trees, is the way their mood changes with the light. I like to defocus my eyes, and stare down into it. It's hypnotic.
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When I tug gently on Flaster's tail, his spine cracks. He seems to enjoy it - he'll come up to me and present his butt until I do that, then purr and wind around my legs.
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Max was talking about the Academy Awards the other day. I've never really grasped why people pay so much attention to those. They're industry awards, for an industry that I'm not part of. If I worked in movies, I'd probably be interested, but I don't. If something won an academy award, that's useful information to take into account when I'm deciding what movie to watch*, but what good does it do otherwise?
*or maybe not. 'Robot Monster', 'Frankenstein Conquers the World', and 'The Wizard of Mars' are firm favourites of mine that hold up to repeated viewing.
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I've always felt that 'Robot Monster' was under-appreciated by the critics. Granted, the plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but what always seems to be overlooked is that this is the little boy's dream. He fell asleep reading a pile of lurid 1950s science fiction comics, and this is the result. It's a movie that always worked for me in that regard.
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I'd like to commend 'Frankenstein Conquers the World' to Patch Bunny. It's a bad movie, but enormously entertaining. In many respects, it's the epitome of Japanese monster movies. It starts out in Germany, near the end of WWII, with a Nazi scientist trying to unlock the secret of the undying heart of Frankenstein, presumably to make a batallion of Nazi Frankensteins*. He runs out of time, though, and the SS spirits the heart out of Germany, and on a U-boat to Japan. They're studying it in a lab in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb falls, and it's buried beneath the rubble and presumed destroyed.
Twenty years later, however, the now-radioactive heart has managed to regenerate an entire, radioactive Frankenstein monster. He emerges from the rubble and begins to wreak havoc. It only gets better from there. It's a true masterpeice of the genre. Every so often you see something, and you know that if you had all the resources in the world, you could never come up with this, because your mind just doesn't work that way. This is one of those.
*The idea has so many possibilities. Imagine a squad of American soldiers, at an outpost in the Ardennes, and out of the fog come lurching undead SS men...
Flaster contemplates his handiwork. Back in 2001 he managed to decapitate this wiseman. I was gonna glue him back together, but I happened to be out of glue. and ended up putting him away before I got more. Next year when I unpacked him I decided I'd just keep him this way as a sort of souvenir of Christmas Past. I added the cloth 'bloodstain' then. Just behind Flaster's head you can see the Kangaroo Wiseman I added to make up the requisite three.
Silver Balls! Silver Balls!... The silver balls await in their box.
The tree, all blue and mysterious.
The firey golden heart of the tree. This is part of what fascinates me about the aluminum trees, is the way their mood changes with the light. I like to defocus my eyes, and stare down into it. It's hypnotic.
*****
When I tug gently on Flaster's tail, his spine cracks. He seems to enjoy it - he'll come up to me and present his butt until I do that, then purr and wind around my legs.
*****
Max was talking about the Academy Awards the other day. I've never really grasped why people pay so much attention to those. They're industry awards, for an industry that I'm not part of. If I worked in movies, I'd probably be interested, but I don't. If something won an academy award, that's useful information to take into account when I'm deciding what movie to watch*, but what good does it do otherwise?
*or maybe not. 'Robot Monster', 'Frankenstein Conquers the World', and 'The Wizard of Mars' are firm favourites of mine that hold up to repeated viewing.
*****
I've always felt that 'Robot Monster' was under-appreciated by the critics. Granted, the plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but what always seems to be overlooked is that this is the little boy's dream. He fell asleep reading a pile of lurid 1950s science fiction comics, and this is the result. It's a movie that always worked for me in that regard.
*****
I'd like to commend 'Frankenstein Conquers the World' to Patch Bunny. It's a bad movie, but enormously entertaining. In many respects, it's the epitome of Japanese monster movies. It starts out in Germany, near the end of WWII, with a Nazi scientist trying to unlock the secret of the undying heart of Frankenstein, presumably to make a batallion of Nazi Frankensteins*. He runs out of time, though, and the SS spirits the heart out of Germany, and on a U-boat to Japan. They're studying it in a lab in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb falls, and it's buried beneath the rubble and presumed destroyed.
Twenty years later, however, the now-radioactive heart has managed to regenerate an entire, radioactive Frankenstein monster. He emerges from the rubble and begins to wreak havoc. It only gets better from there. It's a true masterpeice of the genre. Every so often you see something, and you know that if you had all the resources in the world, you could never come up with this, because your mind just doesn't work that way. This is one of those.
*The idea has so many possibilities. Imagine a squad of American soldiers, at an outpost in the Ardennes, and out of the fog come lurching undead SS men...
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Date: 2004-12-05 04:13 am (UTC)What I've never seen, but would love to get, is They Saved Hitler's Brain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265870/). Heard so much about it but have yet to some across it. It's out on DVD now, so I'm running out of excuses.
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Date: 2004-12-06 06:37 am (UTC)