Brokeback Mountain: A love affair between a pair of homosexualist cowboys ends tragically when one is killed by a horse . The actors playing the leads are (supposedly) straight. Includes graphic sex scenes. If you are into this sort of thing stay home and rent the spaghetti western Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot! instead, it's a weird and entertaining film that includes an honest depiction of homosexualist cowboys - an entire gang of them. Memoirs of a Geisha: A trio of Chinese honeys infiltrates Japan by disguising themselves as whores. The potential of the premise squandered, as unlike the homosexualist cowboy film Memoirs of a Geisha is only PG-13. The Producers: A pair of real life homosexualists (Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane) portray heterosexual Broadway musical impresarios. Notice the pattern. Do you understand 'Hollywood logic' works now? King Kong: I’ve decided the old-style stop-motion animation is better than tedious modern CGI effects. The latter mechanical
Great quote. How's Seattle? Have the Seahawks fans reached peaked buffoonery yet?
ReplyDeleteEver notice how Seahawk fans are big fans of themselves being Seahawk fans?
DeleteThey even give themselves credit for wins and their own number.
ReplyDeleteAlas, 'magic operations in the dream world' is how all manner of business is conducted today. I deal with such paranormal strategies at work by pretending to be a shaman in a collar and tie who consults the entrails of unpaid interns for bad omens.
ReplyDeleteI imagine if I visited the local lunatic asylum I would find it has the weird, ghostly atmosphere of a cube farm.
DeleteThe cube farm fosters the zombie rather than the wraith, but yes. I must attend a conference call in the dream-world to discuss how the magical operations of "social media" are going to boost our sales ..... hocus pocus on Main Street.
ReplyDeleteI find his use of the word "gnostic" in a way totally divorced from it's historical usage troubling. But by the way I stumbled upon a link that might be of interest "Eric Voegelin at 114 " http://speculumcriticum.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/eric-voegelin-at-114.html
ReplyDeleteTotally divorced? Replace 'Gnostic' and 'Gnosticism' with 'liberal' and 'liberalism' in the following passage:
Delete"Whereas Judaism and Christianity, and almost all pagan systems, hold that the soul attains its proper end by obedience of mind and will to the Supreme Power, i.e. by faith and works, it is markedly peculiar to Gnosticism that it places the salvation of the soul merely in the possession of a quasi-intuitive knowledge of the mysteries of the universe and of magic formulae indicative of that knowledge. Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them a superior class of beings, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who, for whatever reason, did not know."