****

 

 

LEST WE FORGET

 

YPRES

VIMY

HILL 70

 

HONG KONG

DIEPPE

AGIRA

 

NORMANDY

CAEN

ORTONA

 

SCHELDT

ANTWERP

WALCHEREN

 

HILL 355

SUEZ

CYPRUS

 

RWANDA

BOSNIA

AFGHANISTAN

 

 

****

 

 

 

There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

!'Nuck said,

Brother Vol!

 

 

!!!!Mir

SalaamShalom

Peace!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

And remember,

when in

the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

RIP

 

DAVID LYNCH

 

1946 - 2025

 

 

!THANKS FOR ALWAYS BEING

 

WEIRD ON TOP

 

AND

 

WILD AT HEART,

 

DAVID!

 

 

!!MAY THE ETERNAL DREAM

 

NOW BLISSFULLY UNFOLD!!

 

 

!!!YOUR LIFE

 

WILL BE COMMEMORATED

 

EACH MONTH

 

WITH A LINE

 

FROM ONE OF YOUR

 

MOVING PAINTINGS

 

OR

 

TELEMOVING PAINTINGS

 

IN THE TITLE

 

OF THIS SITE!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Started off 2025 right

 

by sitting down

 

on New Year's night

 

to experience

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed,

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

Kathryn Bigelow

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

STRANGE DAYS [1995],

 

still one of the greatest films

 

ever made,

 

and still the greatest film

 

ever made

 

by a female film artist!

 

 

 

!!BRAVO

 

and

 

HAPPY

 

30th ANNIVERSARY

 

to Bigs,

 

James Cameron, Jay Cocks,

 

Ralph Fiennes, Tom Sizemore,

 

Juliette Lewis, Angela Bassett,

 

Michael Wincott, Brigitte Bako,

 

Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer,

 

Vincent D'onofrio, William Fichtner,

 

and 

 

the rest of

 

the talented cast of crew

 

of

 

STRANGE DAYS

 

on a brave film

 

well done!!

 

 

!!!BRAVO,

 

AND ENCORE!!!

 

!!!!ENCORE!!!!

 

 

 

 

!By the way,

 

revisified thoughts

 

on

 

the Alice Duology

 

have led to 

 

no less than

 

eight-

 

!EIGHT!-

 

impossibly possible

 

revisifications

 

before lupper

 

to the

 

Timothy W. Burton,

 

Walter E. Disney,

 

Terence V. Gilliam,

 

and

 

Sarah E. Polley

 

essays,

 

so

 

feel free

 

to

 

drop by

 

those essays

 

and

 

find out

 

what caused

 

the

 

delighted Dormouse

 

to squeak happily,

 

after he had

 

eagerly eighten,

 

"Feed your head!

 

Freed your head!",

 

plus

 

the first

 

pensive thoughts

 

on

 

DreamWorks Animation

 

in

 

the Disney Essay!

 

 

 

!Those already

 

wistful for

 

tasty

 

Hallowe'en treats

 

should also

 

drop by

 

the 

 

James F. Cameron

 

essay

 

and

 

Chapter 9

 

of

 

THE WIZARD OF FORCE,

 

but not yet,

 

alas,

 

the Disney essay,

 

for

 

the 

 

already inevitably revised

 

and

 

ULTIMATE

 

look

 

at the

 

twilit, allegorical, CGI enhanced,

 

and

 

Ozian themed

 

Francis Coppola

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA [1992]!

 

 

 

 

!Feel free

 

to

 

also

 

drop by

 

da

 

sort of

 

completed

 

and

 

slightly enhanced

 

Spike Lee

 

"essay",

 

sort of

 

completed

 

due to the fact

 

that

 

inflation

 

is

 

wiping out

 

my meagre

 

Library Technician

 

"salary",

 

making it difficult

 

for me

 

to pay

 

all of my bills

 

and

 

buy

 

the films and telefilms

 

needed

 

to write

 

the "essays"

 

for

 

this website.

 

So,

 

if any

 

of

 

the more

 

successful

 

fiction and film artists

 

out there

 

would like

 

to

 

send

 

a gratefully received

 

and

 

carefully spent

 

donation

 

my way

 

in order to

 

complete

 

the Lee essay

 

and

 

essays

 

on

 

Clint Eastwood,

 

Werner Herzog,

 

John Huston,

 

Norman Jewison,

 

and

 

Fritz Lang,

 

amongst others

 

and

 

THE WIZARD OF FORCE,

 

please

 

drop by

 

the

 

Contact

 

tab

 

or full details.

 

 

!!THANK YOU SO MUCH

 

IN ADVANCE!!

 

 

 

!!And

 

don't forget

 

to

 

check out

 

the "startling" insights

 

into

 

 rantin' and ravin' l'il Spawn

 

and

 

the rest of the Spawn Universe

 

and

 

Garic of Canuckleboney

 

in

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

film "scholar"

 

Gary W. Wright,

 

and

 

check out

 

the latest

 

mysterious misadventures

 

of

 

the implicitly Gardevil linked

 

private eye Holly Gibney

 

in

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

and implicitly

 

Donald Trump

 

and

 

Tim Burton

 

roastin'

 

Screamin' Stephen King

 

docufiction novel

 

NEVER FLINCH [May 2025]!!

 

 

!!!!HaW!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

THE SMART PHONE

HAS BECOME THE NEW RETINA

OF THE MIND'S I.

 

THUS,

THE MEDIUM

IS THE TEXT MESSAGE

THAT CONVEYS

THE PERMANENCE OF TRANSIENCE.

 

- Doctor Brian O'Blivion

 

 

 

****

 

 

"I often say

that there are two languages:

the words that I wrote-

the words you can understand-

and behind that,

there's a silent language."

 

- Jon Fosse,

winner of the

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

 

 

 

****

 

 

"It sounds silly,

but when people talk about

Jane and Finch

or Downsview,

certain images

come to mind,

and a lot of those images

don't have the beauty...

There's so much history

and impact

that comes out of our community

that gets overlooked

because of media narratives

that have been there

for decades."

 

- Kayode Brown,

CEO of BGRAPHIC,

TORONTO STAR,

Together section,

Sunday, January, 21, 2024,

p. A16.

 

 

 

****

 

 

SRV

 

FVR

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Quite the movie fan

is Holly Gibney

(although she hasn't been in

an actual theater

since the previous spring),

and she enjoys

Hollywood tentpole movies

every bit as much as art films.

One of her faves

from the eighties

is Conan the Barbarian,

and her favorite line

from that film

is spoken by a minor character.

"Two or three years ago",

the peddler says of Set

and his followers,

"they were just another snake cult.

Now they're everywhere.""

 

- a paragraph from p. 17,

 

and another misquote from p. 326

 

"...Holly channels The Empire

Strikes Back.  "Everything

means something, it does.""

 

and still another quote from

 

the all too fittingly

 

and

 

ominously twilit p. 382

 

"..."Excuse my husband, " Emily says.

"He's upset and it makes him

garrulous.""

 

and

 

this Fourceful and final one

 

from p. 389

 

"...I have a bad feeling about this,

 

Ba."

 

from

the allegorical

and

implicitly Stan and Joan Lee roasting

Stephen King

indie docufiction novel

Holly [2023]

that affirmed

the implicit link

of

lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and mystery solvin'

Holly Gibney

to

equally lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and allegory crackin'

Gary Wright.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Then

when we in turn

write, speak

or do things,

we release our ideas

out into the environment,

where they can infect

new brains.

Ideas,

like viruses,

thus proliferate

at prodigious rates,

changing at prodigious rates,

as they do so."

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...Received opinion

is

often wrong

and

usually boring;

the text is yours

to interpret...

This ability

to read symbolically,

to view

the very world around us

symbolically,

is at the heart

of

the whole literary

[and cinema games].

To accept things

at first glance

to be

as they appear

on the surface

is to be trapped

in the literal.

To be able

to see

symbolic possibilities

allows one

to begin to make

connections

between things

that at first

seem to have

little to do

with each other."

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

of disappearing.

It hasn't changed

since I became

a Hero for fun.

In other words,

I am having no effect

on society.

I'm not sad about that.

I do this for fun,

so I just need

to satisfy myself."

 

- from

the intriguingly garish,

twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

One and Murata Yusuke

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

with "...his lifeless expression

to his bald head

to his unimpressive physique"

[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

 

 

Luz M.B. Agaton

Humaira A. Ali

Apu Apu festival attack victims

Betsy Arakawa

Jeff Baena

Mark Bonokoski

Serenity Brown

Cartelo

Sub.-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough

Peter David

Rick Davies

Rebekah Del Rio

Ken Dryden

Logan Federico

Frederick Forsyth

Ace Frehley

Ed Gale

Bruce Glover

Jane Goodall

Lieutenant Robert H. Gray

Graham Greene

Guy

Gene Hackman

Greg Hildebrandt

Hulk Hogan

Diane Keaton

Diane Ladd

Jon Landau

Lily

Los Angeles Hell Fire Victims,

including Rory Sykes

Michael Madsen

Magdeburg Market Attack Victims

Elijah E. Mahepath

Malibu and Pacific Palisades homes

of Billy Crystal, Anna Faris,

Mel Gibson, John Goodman,

Paris Hilton, Sir Anthony Hopkins,

Dan & Eugene Levy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,

Cobie Smulders, and Carel Struycken

Damian Maracle

William S. McMullen

Moja

Rachel Morin

Nidhua Muktadir

New Orleans Terror Attack Victims

Sophie Nyweide

Ozzy Osbourne

Suzette Penton

Shahnaz Pestonji

Joan Plowright

Robert Redford

Mike Rinder

G. Michael Robinson

Tristan Rogers

Aicha Saludares

Sammy

Prunella Scales

James "Jim" Shooter

Mark Snow

Jill Sobule

Terence Stamp

Isabelle Tate

Toronto Blue Jays 2024-25

Kartik Vasudev

George Wendt

Brian Wilson

Melody Xu

Iryna Zarutska

Zinna

 

 

 

 

 

 

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