Comments on: Middle Age. http://www.ultramundane.com/wp/archives/24 Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jessica http://www.ultramundane.com/wp/archives/24#comment-37 Jessica Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:03:59 +0000 http://www.ultramundane.com/wp/archives/24#comment-37 I went to a commercial screening of The Fall last night [paid to see it a few days ago, and will buy the DVD if I can't find a nice long loop of swimming elephants elsewhere, but:], and hit either a plateau or abyss as I actually pulled out a notebook to jot down all the not-just-homage-or-reframing-but-omg-total-ripoffs, shot for shot. And almost bitched about it, afterward, but then realized no one else in the cohort had noticed. 'Cause they hadn't seen any of the -qatsi films, or Joel Peter Whitkin's photography, or listened to any field recordings or, say, WOMAD CDs (the director credits himself for <a href="http://www.woebot.com/movabletype/archives/cat_twanboc_specials.html" rel="nofollow">writing</a> the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6hsgkd" rel="nofollow">Ramayana Monkey Chant</a>.) We won't even get into how Mama Mia is a Bastardization of Antonia's Line, and OMG Yet Another Thing In Which Colin Firth Plays Depressed Guy Upon Whom Others' Happiness is Reliant, This Time in Diving Bell et la Butterfly Revisited™ Only [x] Months After The Fact. Plus I have a new rogue hair that unfurls itself, with alarming frequency for such a regularly lush-appearing strand, inside my right ear. I went to a commercial screening of The Fall last night [paid to see it a few days ago, and will buy the DVD if I can't find a nice long loop of swimming elephants elsewhere, but:], and hit either a plateau or abyss as I actually pulled out a notebook to jot down all the not-just-homage-or-reframing-but-omg-total-ripoffs, shot for shot. And almost bitched about it, afterward, but then realized no one else in the cohort had noticed. ‘Cause they hadn’t seen any of the -qatsi films, or Joel Peter Whitkin’s photography, or listened to any field recordings or, say, WOMAD CDs (the director credits himself for writing the Ramayana Monkey Chant.)
We won’t even get into how Mama Mia is a Bastardization of Antonia’s Line, and OMG Yet Another Thing In Which Colin Firth Plays Depressed Guy Upon Whom Others’ Happiness is Reliant, This Time in Diving Bell et la Butterfly Revisited™ Only [x] Months After The Fact.

Plus I have a new rogue hair that unfurls itself, with alarming frequency for such a regularly lush-appearing strand, inside my right ear.

]]> By: Rhea http://www.ultramundane.com/wp/archives/24#comment-26 Rhea Wed, 07 May 2008 18:19:41 +0000 http://www.ultramundane.com/wp/archives/24#comment-26 I do that a lot. I have to remind myself whether I've written on a topic before. I do that a lot. I have to remind myself whether I’ve written on a topic before.

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