Lightning silvering the sky just after midnight.
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First track off the forthcoming album. Edge of the storm.
Comments closedFinally got to see SHIN GODZILLA, made last year by writer/director Hideaki Anno, whose name you may know from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. It is recognisably Anno from the top – the staring, dead animal eyes of the creature at the top of the movie could really only be his touch. SHIN GODZILLA, known elsewhere as GODZILLA RESURGENCE, updates the original by adding the bureaucratic nightmare of the Fukushima reactor disaster to its core theme. And it works brilliantly, imagining the response to the emergence of Godzilla as paralysed by procedure and politics, much as the response to Fukushima was.
It’s an extraordinary illustration of what you can make when you toss all the tired filmic conventions of saying it emotionally and learning and hugs and the hero’s journey and making sure everyone’s crying and just telling the story you want to tell without diluting or breaking it. SHIN GODZILLA is a peculiarly pure experience.
(originally written 2 May 2017, recovered from morning.computer)
I have declared Podcast Bankruptcy, inbox is currently holding at 14, I got woken after 5 hours sleep by a cat learning how to operate a radio, my call sheet is filling up at speed and I’m about to try and set up a new travel laptop in the hopes that I can actually escape my office some time this year.
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Comments closedWhat I write here is not my teaching, but my study; it is not a lesson for others, but for me. And yet it should not be held against me if I publish what I write. What is useful to me may also by accident be useful to another. Moreover, I am not spoiling anything, I am only using what is mine. And if I play the fool, it is at my expense and without harm to anyone. For it is a folly that will die with me, and will have no consequences.
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Four of the ten discs I just bought from Tuluum Shimmering. His music is sort of a summery, meditative pysch-folk from some eternal forest August. Tuluum Shimmering has a a lot of stuff on his Bandcamp. As if making it is as much of a meditative practise for him as it is for me to listen to it and live inside his endless woodsmoke summer.
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People do not talk about this film enough. Is it too resistant to analysis because it is so much? Does it overwhelm the viewer, or drain the viewer? Does it defeat a close reading because it says everything? It’s a novel on the screen. I bought it on digital the day it was available. This blu-ray has a bunch of extra stuff. But I mostly wanted it on the shelf, like a favourite novel, there to dip into or spend an evening with. Trying to study its pieces and then getting swept away in its orchestral storm.
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (UK) (US)
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