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The Eye Like A Strange Balloon

28 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The Eye Like A Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity is a lithograph made by Odilon Redon in 1882.  It was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and is on display at the L.A. County Museum of Art: In 1995, the BBC commissioned Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin...

Artistic Diaspora: Rise of the Message

11 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Where I go I just don't know;I might end up somewhere in Mexico"Soul To Squeeze   Diaspora (noun)a: people settled far from their ancestral homelandsb: the place where these people livec: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from...

Hedwig's Lament (The Curse of Sexual Calvinism)

4 Apr 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"There's a lot of soul searching that Hedwig does about looking for a romantic partner and trying to find wholeness and be recognised for their music and their creativity; it's not just a gender journey."Stephen Trask   The plot of Hedwig & The Angry...

My Lucky Sister Saw Elvis Perform Live Two Years In A Row!

13 Feb 2023 4 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara

Elvis Presley fans will know that while he regularly toured the U.S.A. throughout his career, he only performed once outside the continental United States and that was in Toronto, Ontario way back in 1957. Footage of that concert can be seen here.  M...

Friend, Fear, Foe, Flaw: The 4F’s in “Down To Earth” - a short film about aliens and adolescence

12 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

“Down to earth” is both a coming-of-age film and an alien invasion film. These two themes are not as worlds apart as we might think, because puberty, adolescence, coming -of-age is a sort of alien invasion. There are changes, alien things grow, alien...

The Princess of No Return

6 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."Jonah 2:8   Has America reached the princess of no return? I think it's possible. What is the princess of no return?  Can we come back from the edge of the chick brink?  Will we live like th...

Artificial Intelligence VS movie Characters (Daenerys Targaryen, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes)

23 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Lazy Bear

Experimenting with celebrities is fun. But I want something new. I chose the characters of the films, because everyone also has book options, and that's why it's even more interesting that the network will generate. Test 1. Daenerys Targarian More re...

Teams Are Better Than Communities

21 Jan 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

People who know me know how much I dislike the buzzwords that have infiltrated public discourse.  "Community," "content," "creator," and the like, are all generic words that are interchangeable and therefore meaningless, and which devalue everything...

Movie Review: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

14 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments peerynt

[Cross-posting – the original post can be seen here. This review contains mild spoilers. Btw, I never played a Matrix game.] A little more than a year after its somewhat disastrous and baffling release, I decided to give another watch to The Matrix R...

What The Manosphere got wrong about The Matrix Trilogy and Fight Club AKA "Most Guys Do"

10 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

What the adherents of the manosphere and Patriarchy fail to understand is that it, not the world under the influence of Feminism and "wokeism", is The Matrix, the thing that inspires the feeling that something is wrong with the world. Their doctrines...