Thursday, November 21, 2013

Scraping More Brain

There is ringing in my ears. It's deep, I can dig but I'll never reach it. It is always there. The discipline within reach for many physical endeavors may be a way to cope, but I will always know where to find it. Instead I would drown it with other noise.

Places that are known to be vile are taken as such by comparison of what is vile means but there are many forms of it. The one that arrives feels personal, and something to not be shared. What are not the crutches of the world are the pillars of the sky. Into the dark cold damp bowel where there are teeth and breaths that left time long ago. The rabbit remembers the breath as the foliage remembers the shrinking of the sun. 

What the brain is trained to grasp is what the brain craves, and in denying that the self resists fulfillment. Cracks that appear in the ice don't necessarily weaken its structure, at least in no practical way. 

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Scraping the Brain

And still if there couldn't have been a fox, a grey charter set against a receding plane so fouled and cracked its resolution is not even a scent memory. You'll get in where everyone else did, and by your own design and wit. There could be something worth hearing in the song after all, you think, or worth predicting. If its that therer were colors that stood in for favors, scenes constructed by a mind for details as much as for impulse, five steps would be little less than the same for seven -- you dig in a meaning for it, a proof clapped against the row of blackboards a mile long, raining a gentle cloud of dust to the scotchguard carpeting.

Problems that get solved too quickly risk failing to instruct, as in fact the speed of it suggests either excessive resource or in the end a lack of a tangible problem at all. There are always windows, and through them it is always possible to draw enough information so as to begin to tell a story. Seeing in through the molecules that span the distance is the clearest way to reach in, to grab something with no particular degree of tangibility and trying to bring it somewhere with contours and gradients. Not allowed were any of the sounds so familiar to break through the typical, or the lessening drive to mold it or them, tracking context in order to graft them on to the mobile idea. Living in a particular way, softness must be answered with asceticism, deny the id if possible, punish the body when not. There is a brain somewhere that can track the elements, the character of the black line on the white field, so that pinching closed the book conjures a hologram of the soul.

Anything can be made a personal design, adopted, co-opted, aped, inspired, the merit is irrelevant in the shadow of its contribution. Does this bring minds to unsought conclusions? Does it add real estate to the realm of the imagination?

To whom to we address our inquiries regarding what should come next? Beacons posting playful messages in an otherwise shrouded atmosphere communicate at enhanced speeds. The chemicals mingle and produce results subtly differnt from the norm. Honor is described on old papers boxed in dusty corners. They should be read once and for all but they are merely there, occupying thought and with the intention that they'd rest as resources, being unwilling to trust the mind to do the proper work of storing with prioritized accessibility, instead that information will always be missed, lost and found again with pleasant surprise when furtive interest grants fractured elements of the whole to be absorbed before distractions cause it to be abandoned again. In this manner the collection of items containing information are hoarded. But there are always more items of information to be encountered, nor is there a need to glean every pixel from every line.

If we leave they will crush us. They will leave faster than flight. Areas of the mind once loyal to the ambitions of the body turn mutinous. And all that is left of the vessel will fall from the current and drift slowly to the cold black crushing deep.

The house was dry, yellow walls thickened by unknown decades of paint, each new tenant transfixed to the present by the control they exerted on it.

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Dumb Things in Otherwise Well-Regarded Movies 1.1


Anna and I rewatched the Peter Jackson King Kong last night. While at times really great, there are so many things in that movie that are fudged, things that used to firmly compel me to stamp scripts with 'PASS'  back when I was doing coverage, followed up with comments along the lines of "script full of overly convenient developments, needs to go through about five more rewrites." I can only guess that producers figured Hey, who cares? It's Peter Jackson! He just made Lord of the Freaking Rings! Seriously, fixing that stuff will fuck everything up. Shut up.

Among the dumb things in this generally well-regarded movie:

  • Ann Darrow gets tied up to the thing, and the big monster comes by and yanks her off of the thing. Why does she still have arms?

OK, the knots are really tricky, you have to-aaaaaeeeiii!!

  • On the island, it's established that a human can't walk five steps without encountering something awful and huge that wants desperately to eat you. Yet Adrien Brody, a writer from New York, finds Naomi Watts' exact location through the nightmare monster jungle with no apparent difficulty.

  • I can accept that a tommy gun might be the right tool for the job to zap away giant crickets trying to eat a person's face off, but the kid doesn't even try to aim carefully -- he wavers and twitches, jerking around with the recoil... You expect to see Brody's head go like a pumpkin. But I guess maybe the kid's a natural. He's got the eye.

Watch the nose, kid!


  • How the fuck did they get King Kong on the boat and all the way back to New York, and then into a movie theater?
  • Why is there a big black-tie affair at a theater to go and see a giant ape?

  • King Kong escapes say an hour after the premier begins, which let's assume was at 10pm, to be generous, then goes on a rampage for about an hour, and then it's suddenly dawn.


You tired? 8 hours of rampaging catches up with you...


  • It's cold enough for a lake to be frozen solid enough to support a 10-story ape, yet Naomi Watts wears nothing but an evening dress all throughout the third act, seemingly just fine even at the very top of the Empire State Building, where it would probably be even colder. Windchill!

  • Adrien and Naomi are standing and emoting at the very tippy top of the Empire State Building, as if they were just standing in the middle of a sunny field. Even Spiderman would be freaking the fuck out up there.

I know you're cold, but let's scoot in a bit, ok?