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gwydion* "Remembering Maldives from Late 2011 to 2012:" http://yaseen101.livejournal.com/55842.html
* Seriously, folks, if you are in the area where the blizzard is happening, stay the fuck inside unless you are a first responder or other necessary personnel, like snow plow driver or hospital worker. When snow plows are getting stuck in the snow, it's time to hunker down at home.
* The truth behind Republican attempts to destroy the Post Office:
* The next wave of Republican attempts to restrict Abortion to well off women:
* Creepy Misogynist attacks on Beyonce:
* "35 Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Sudan Necropolis:" http://www.livescience.com/26903-35-ancient-pyramids-sudan.html
* "Ecuador's Diane Rodriguez Poised To Make History:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/02/ecuadors-diane-rodriguez-poised-to-make.html
* ""Aggressive Pizza-Stealing Dog" Makes Bail:" http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/02/aggressive-pizza-stealing-dog-makes-bail.html
* Today I was meant to be making phone calls and either doing the long loop or gardening. Marine Rob woke me up at the perfect time for the purpose of this plan to talk to me about gun control. (We agree on universal background checks, but I believe the first amendment trumps the second and he believes the opposite). Texas agrees with him by the way. He was so done with Alaska. Anyway, I then proceeded to try to acclimate myself to upright, do meds, etc.. After about an hour and a half it as clear I shouldn't be driving today and more sleep was required to edge me up into functional. I proceeded to discover a third imaginary college in my dream map on the world. Despite the prevalence of werewolves, it's a college I think I would have enjoyed going to if it existed. I'm still below average functional, but this is manageable. Some of my bulbs are sprouting, btw. It's already Springish here thanks to climate change, but still too cold for night gardening.
* So instead of useful things I had a fascinating time watching The Vampyre. It's an early talkie shot in 1931 and released in 1932, and was thought to be lost. This is a copy reconstituted from damaged French and German prints. You almost wouldn't notice, except for two scenes where the best print was still pretty damaged, but watchable. I'm glad this film exists because I have never seen anything like it. No really. It is broadly an art film about vampires, but really, it's at least as much about consciousness. They used the camera in all these beautiful inventive ways. They use unusual angles, variable camera speed, deliberately disjointed editing combined with long dolly shots, and things like shooting upwards through glass to create a subtly disturbing, dreamlike feel. The special effects are ground breaking for the period, with use of light and shadow, double exposure, and the like. I can't convey in words how this all worked with the mostly silent sound track punctuated by eerie short bursts of dialog and the blank sleep walker quality of the leading man to create a fascinating, but disturbing effect in the viewer. If you get a chance to see this, do. It works as a Vampire story, as high art, and from a film history perspective. It is simply beautiful on it's face, and fundamentally enigmatic. I love when a film makes you think.
* How to tell you are old: You occasionally accidentally take an extra thyroid pill when you meant to take a muscle relaxant.
* "Study: Scarlet Fever Did Not Blind Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pretty Sister:" http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/02/study-scarlet-fever-did-not-blind-mary-ingalls.html
* "One Time Thing:" http://pb-fellowship.livejournal.com/83838.html
* Seriously, folks, if you are in the area where the blizzard is happening, stay the fuck inside unless you are a first responder or other necessary personnel, like snow plow driver or hospital worker. When snow plows are getting stuck in the snow, it's time to hunker down at home.
* The truth behind Republican attempts to destroy the Post Office:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* The next wave of Republican attempts to restrict Abortion to well off women:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Creepy Misogynist attacks on Beyonce:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* "35 Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Sudan Necropolis:" http://www.livescience.com/26903-35-ancient-pyramids-sudan.html
* "Ecuador's Diane Rodriguez Poised To Make History:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/02/ecuadors-diane-rodriguez-poised-to-make.html
* ""Aggressive Pizza-Stealing Dog" Makes Bail:" http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/02/aggressive-pizza-stealing-dog-makes-bail.html
* Today I was meant to be making phone calls and either doing the long loop or gardening. Marine Rob woke me up at the perfect time for the purpose of this plan to talk to me about gun control. (We agree on universal background checks, but I believe the first amendment trumps the second and he believes the opposite). Texas agrees with him by the way. He was so done with Alaska. Anyway, I then proceeded to try to acclimate myself to upright, do meds, etc.. After about an hour and a half it as clear I shouldn't be driving today and more sleep was required to edge me up into functional. I proceeded to discover a third imaginary college in my dream map on the world. Despite the prevalence of werewolves, it's a college I think I would have enjoyed going to if it existed. I'm still below average functional, but this is manageable. Some of my bulbs are sprouting, btw. It's already Springish here thanks to climate change, but still too cold for night gardening.
* So instead of useful things I had a fascinating time watching The Vampyre. It's an early talkie shot in 1931 and released in 1932, and was thought to be lost. This is a copy reconstituted from damaged French and German prints. You almost wouldn't notice, except for two scenes where the best print was still pretty damaged, but watchable. I'm glad this film exists because I have never seen anything like it. No really. It is broadly an art film about vampires, but really, it's at least as much about consciousness. They used the camera in all these beautiful inventive ways. They use unusual angles, variable camera speed, deliberately disjointed editing combined with long dolly shots, and things like shooting upwards through glass to create a subtly disturbing, dreamlike feel. The special effects are ground breaking for the period, with use of light and shadow, double exposure, and the like. I can't convey in words how this all worked with the mostly silent sound track punctuated by eerie short bursts of dialog and the blank sleep walker quality of the leading man to create a fascinating, but disturbing effect in the viewer. If you get a chance to see this, do. It works as a Vampire story, as high art, and from a film history perspective. It is simply beautiful on it's face, and fundamentally enigmatic. I love when a film makes you think.
* How to tell you are old: You occasionally accidentally take an extra thyroid pill when you meant to take a muscle relaxant.
* "Study: Scarlet Fever Did Not Blind Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pretty Sister:" http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/02/study-scarlet-fever-did-not-blind-mary-ingalls.html
* "One Time Thing:" http://pb-fellowship.livejournal.com/83838.html