The I Ching answers questions about THE MASTER

I just read an interesting review in the CUNY Graduate Center's Advocate about THE MASTER (2012) wherein Mike Phillips says: "It would seem that the impetus to shoot in 70mm is a fascination with film itself" (Nov. 2012, p. 41), but isn't that kind of... I don't know... both too concise and too vague? Are we sure that's why he did it. That's like saying Mad Men is about the collapse of print media. Maybe it is, but that's just one layer. Then again,...

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Kristen Stewart in the Snow with Poison: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

Why do so many people "hate" Kristen Stewart? Note the quotes. They don't really know her so how can they hate a projected fear from their own repressed subconscious? It just means she's doing her job. The only explanation is that these are the same people who were stoning adulteresses and burning hot young naturalists at the stake (and still are in some Islamic backwaters, so the headlines scream), in ye olden tymes, or driving innocent kids to...

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A Tree Falls in Brooklyn, + New Bright Lights, + Simon of the Desert and Swar of the Saints

"Discard your lustful fantasies; waste no more time on unrealizable desires."Bright Lights Film Journal. Issue #78. is up and there's a hilarious and heartbreaking article on slasher films by A. Loudermilk, who discusses the final girl in horror from the "Sissy Spectator" point of view, a rare and fascinating (and funny, horrifying, and affectionate) piece called Last to Leave the Theater:Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls"...

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Brother Bane's Sunday Counsel

(From SWAR OF THE SAINTS -- by the Yogi BruceBane)Q - How can there be Gotham's urban blight and fear in the presence of your peace?BruceBane: What else are these horrid, egregious bodily traumas for, the blunting pain of the pit, of class despair, if not the corresponding power of the benevolent acceptance? The worse the pain the deeper the surrender. Brainwashers and mystics alike know this.What is else is aloneness for, by which compared...

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A hole in me pocket - The Beatles, EST, The Buddha, the Yellow Submarine

 To act without acting, to fight without hurting, to shout quietly; these are the ways of the Tao, the ways of the Buddha, the ways of the Beatles. It's the Ascension, the 2012 Rise to higher vibrations. Can you feel them buzzing inside you like an interdimensional barber's razor? Maybe if you are as old as I am you remember the time YELLOW came on TV, a colorful candy cane hallucination of a film that seemed kid friendly until these crazy Blue...

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CinemArchetype 19: The Holy Madman

Okay, here is where it gets tricky. This is the last stop. This is when you finally after that long night before the dawn, surrender your last vestige of self-centered fear and open like a full flower before the void, the open arms to God, which means open arms to embrace even death and even your enemies, and even your own twisted self. Viola! No matter how zombie-rotten you think you've grown all those decades in the dank predator basement soil...

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