Month: July 2007

  • Eight is a Gate...

    24 frames
    in search of
    a picture

    (5/24/06)

    Related material:

    Canonization.

  • Catholic Tastes, continued:

    Pulp Fiction

    "There is a body on the cross in my church. (Which made me think
    at first that the people worshipped the suffering, till my teenage son
    told me one day at Mass: 'What else would get everybody's attention but
    something really grisly? It's like Pulp Fiction.' In other words, we wouldn't have it any other way.)" --Mary Karr

    Corpus Hypercubus,
    by Dali.

    Pulp fiction:

    "Does the word 'tesseract'
    mean anything to you?"
    -- Robert A. Heinlein

  • It's 12:01 AM, time to...

    Perfect your
    wand work
     

    -- Web page for the
    "Harry Potter and the
    Order of the Phoenix"
    Xbox 360 game

    Sounds to me
    more like Harry Reems.

  • Random Tasks:

    Harry Potter and
    the Xbox 360

    Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix for Xbox 360 "is based on the
    fifth book and is timed to coincide with the release of the movie of
    the same name.... The game consists of Harry walking around and talking to characters and
    performing spells and tasks in order to advance the plot. I jokingly
    considered calling this review 'Harry Potter and the Order of the
    Random Tasks Needed to Advance the Plot.'" --July 9 review at Digital Joystick

    Today's lottery numbers
    in the Keystone State:


    Mid-day 220

    Evening 034

    Related material:
    2/20 and
    Hexagram 34 in the
    box-style I Ching:

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    The Power
    of the Great

    Let us hope that Harry fans remember the meaning of Hexagram 34 (according to Richard Wilhelm)--
    "Perseverance furthers" and "That is truly great power which does not
    degenerate into mere force but remains inwardly united with the
    fundamental principles of right and of justice. When we understand this
    point-- namely, that greatness and justice must be indissolubly
    united-- we understand the true meaning of all that happens in heaven
    and on earth."

    Related material:

    "If Cullinane College
    were Hogwarts    "
    (continued) and
    the four entries
    that preceded it
    on July 5-6, 2007

  • A Stone for Johnny Frigo

    Mystic River Song
    continued from June 18:


    From the Harvard
    Math Department:

    Noam Elkies of Harvard Math Department

    From the late
    jazz violinist

    Johnny Frigo    :


    Johnny Frigo Summertime
    (mp3)


    From a film version
    of Somerville...

    A Stone for
    Johnny Frigo

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    Mystic River, 2003

    Related material:

    Human Conflict

    Number Five
     


    (Album title,
     10,000 Maniacs)

    10,000 Maniacs, Human Conflict Number Five



    This album contains
    "Planned Obsolescence":

    any
    modern man can see
    that religion is
    obsolete

    piety

    obsolete

    ritual

    obsolete

    martyrdom

    obsolete

    prophetic vision

    obsolete

    mysticism

    obsolete

    commitment

    obsolete

    sacrament

    obsolete

    revelation

    obsolete

    Noam Elkies:

    Folk are humpin'
    And the chillun is high.
    Oh yo' daddy's rich,
    'Cos yo' ma is good lookin'...

    Conrad Aiken:

    "By
    all means accept the invitation to hell, should it come. It will
    not take you far-- from Cambridge to hell is only a step; or at most a
    hop, skip, and jump. But now you are evading-- you are dodging the
    issue.... after all, Cambridge is hell enough."

    -- Great Circle, a 1933 novel by Conrad Aiken (father of Joan Aiken, who wrote The Shadow Guests)

  • Dead Time:

    Requiem for
    an Ad Exec

    "Dead time
    lasts for one hour-- from half an hour before midnight to half an hour
    after midnight. The half-hour before midnight is for doin' good. The
    half-hour after midnight is for doin' evil...."  --Voodoo Justice

    Lois Wyse (previous entry) died "shortly after midnight" on the morning of Friday, July 6, 2007.

    See Friday's
    Log24 entries of

    12:06 AM,
    12:18 AM,
    and
    12:26 AM.


    Related material:

    Death on the Feast

    of Saint Nicholas

    Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent, by Goya

    Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed
    of an Impenitent    , by Francisco Goya
    (1746-1828) in 1788

  • 7/7/7 Finale:

    Seven is Heaven


    John Lahr, review     of a production of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers"--

    The play is about a philosophy professor, George, and his wife, Dotty,
    who "exudes a sumptuous
    sexuality.... She has a pert round head, high
    cheekbones, and a deep voice, which, like her acting, is full of
    playfulness and longing. George is lost in thought; Dotty is just lost.
    'Heaven, how can I believe in Heaven?' she sings at the finale. 'Just a
    lying rhyme for seven!' She is promise and heartbreak in one."

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    "With a name like Frigo..."

    Related material:

    Eight is a Gate


  • Midnight Dreamscapes and...

    Nymphet Witches

    A New York Times review  
    of the new Geoffrey Wright
     film of "Macbeth"--

      "... dreamscape of nymphet witches....
    In this telling, the three witches
    are first glimpsed in the
    opening scene vandalizing
    tombstones"

    For a rather different dreamscape
    of nymphets and tombstones, see
    the five previous entries.

    As the Times notes,
    "'Macbeth' has been made as
     a gangster picture before."
    A truly surreal production,
    perhaps to be made in
    the next world, might star the
    young (again) George Melly

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    as Macbeth,
    introduced by
    the following
    tombstone:

    GEORGE MELLY
    1926 - 2007

    WHAT AFTERLIFE
    HE NOW ENJOYS
    GOD ONLY KNOWS

    For further details,
    click on Melly's picture.

    "A tale told by an idiot...
    signifying nothing...."

  • 11:07:02 Review

  • For Loulou Brooks

    Mearingstone, or:
     
    "Last to the Lost,"
    continued from
    July 1, 2007


    Finnegans Wake 293:

    Vieus Von DVbLIn, 'twas one of dozedeams
    a darkies ding in dewood) the Turnpike under
    the Great Ulm (with Mearingstone in Fore
    ground). 1 Given now ann linch you take enn
    all. Allow me! And, heaving alljawbreakical
    expressions out of old Sare Isaac's 2 universal
    of specious aristmystic unsaid, A is for Anna
    like L is for liv. Aha hahah, Ante Ann you're
    apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise.
    Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall. La, la, laugh
    leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we're last to
    the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect. Now (lens

    "with Mearingstone in Fore ground....
    we're last to the lost, Loulou!"

    Desconvencida at Blogspot -- Monolito -- Midnight July 1-2, 2007

    Midnight, July 1-2, 2007
    Click on image for details.