now updated with funnies
7 th sept
THIS POST TO BE IMPROVED now i am in my grove.. really full steam ahead...no matter what
this is just a taste.... if anyone knows what words are for that is, rather than ordering slaves to cook your dinner
All the way time... this will also be 'published' one day in a book form about the books...and films too! and poetry...
And even greatest songs ...
The 'blue book' this
started with nearly a decade ago, will be transcribed soon into these webpages.
And then at least 2 or 300 great literature books and arthouse films added to
the list.
The last decade i have trawled
the lists of arthouse and independent films watching 1000s, and meandered
the bookshops picking up the very best of 20th c lit (ehh...sorry except for
Rachel K, I can't find much that's as good from the 21st C). I will
report in findings in full.
Will be ready by middle of
September
unfortunately to have a little
'privacy' every few years i have created a new google id so my bookmarks are
all over a fair few accounts...but there all still there. When i have time.
Unedited highlights below.
Perhaps the greatest of the greats ...just in case the local animal murderers
get me any time soon.... no not the 'hunt'. the ones who take public money and
even more public regard, regard for suposedly protecting the environment
when they are in fact brutally burying alive badgers with cubs in their sets
(2020 me filming from the undergrowth) and causing massive disturbance to
protected birds; nesting areas that same summer... they shoot far far
more lethally than any drunken huntsman..
but there is this one film...
from the 30s ..maybe my best find of all, i cannot yet find again...i have many
notes. I remember most without needing them but this one evades...like someone
else....who knows the name of the assasins... have been and would be
WHAT THIS LIST IS
apart from being a jumbled mess
written up thus far rather speedily with a laptop with a dodgy keyboard - yet
to be fixed when i have 3 more hours of life fixing something that should never
have broken in the first place ..and blogger doesnt want to provide the red
squiggle at the moment which is the spell check system 15 years off and on...
I have 20 years not had a tv
occasionally i will hear of
something (On Front Row usually) televised that sounds top of the zeitgeist and
will look in on the pirate sites. What i see is predictable. Usually
overblown.
Exceptions Atlanta Donald
Glover's masterpiece. Other endlessly top rate series are crass. Sopranos is a
perverted bling obsessed nasty piece of work as the supposedly emotionally intelligent
hero, rather than cuts a vital part offhis enemy in revenge, goes to his sexy
shrink first, doesnt cut off the necessary bit....but always does later
on...when hes having a really bad day, as someone threatens his pile of bling.
This is crass nastiness of the nth degree in that The Guardian rate it as
somehow some new ground in art... fuck off ..gratuitous violence dressed up in
stylised psychowhatever is even worse than straightforward violence.
Easier and better examples of the
litmus test.
There may be two valid reasons
for art: to show us how to live (well), and to show us the realities of our
fellow humans.
In respect of the latter,
reality is pretty bizarre and often rather sad...and getting more bizarre and
sadder.
The former is easy. Take Erin
Brockovic. Do something tough, that hurts...and in the end one evolves (victory
never feels special - been there got t shirt). Or maybe more important
Tangerines shows us universal rules of vanity and ignorance may be just a
LITTLE bit..transcended by a humble man who has some wisdom..and bravely
applies it.
Ditto Even The Rain..
The corollary - in fact it is
almost in both categories, is Nomadland.
I know van people. No matter
HOW hard life is, how shit, how damaging people have been, you get in your van
and Smile...no matter how smelly you are, no matter how poor...
van life is ASIDE...normal bourgeois
pretention and concerns....above really. I have never encountered a van person
who does not have at least a partially lit unusual light in theitr eyes
Nomadland is one of the wprst movies i have ever seen. It parasitises a false
self pitying version of .unreality...for effect only.
Ditto Waller Bridge and her
"anal sex" in every other sentence.
Art... doesn't need cheap
shots.
And perhaps the best example of
all is Sampson and Delilah - out of bleakness - the real true so beautifully
portrayed bleakness, eventually the human spirit finds peace and something a
bit healthier. There is no better film on how to live..
But the issue is we have a
whole slew of films especially the last 15 years which we are TOLD are 'good.
when they do neither of these two functions well. Moonlight a good
example. And then a range of ..for want of a better word
"ethnic" films....sorry Roma was flat and lifeless.In other words
anything with a bit of the developing nation about it seems to get extra bonus
points for just having been made. That is no way to welcome in TRUE spirit and
talent from less traditionally cinematic societies. They are little more than
patronised, and we (those who do need to learn as we have the tanks guns bombs
and ruin their planet with our pollutants) are never challenged or made to
think. Just smile along with everyone else who have been told be appalling
(nowadays 'woke) critics who know nothing about inspiring cinema.
Killing Fields made us -
Western Whitey...cry for a brown man. Because it showed us so beautifully he
was better than a hundred of us put together. (whilst Withnail - watch it a few
times and after the hype has worn off, you will see...very little in fact - it
is a dull badly written film about not much new..)
I know the great films... those
that just may wake you up to being a slightly new and more enlightened version
of who you already are inside.
And i know no other point OF
sitting through a few hours of screen...
take not... excepting Columbus
2017 i have found nothing in the films of the last 15 ish years of note... and
at least 75% if not more lead characters when theyre feeling a bit miffed or
stressed by normal real life...always seem to be popping the 'xanax;' or some
variant of prescription narcotic... methinks a bit of a problem creeping
in...because intellectuals know that strategy never works..is the very opposite
of how to live...never mind live well and grow
my list is good. Real. and i
know Socrates would agree with every word... (Plato and Aristotle a bit dodgy
on major things like....women should be DOING things in films not only having
things DONE to them...as in all Sorrentino films i believe...)
And put Babette Feast against many older films or films of
USA - Babette alone has her
kingdom...and she uses it only for good. She does only what she wishes... and
not to hurt anyone.
THE ONLY
'mindfulness; and new age newspeak newwords...or is it 'newthink' they call it
- sort of postmodernish (doesnt exist!) selfish thought about personal feelings
and emotional intelligence - which does exist a bit but you need to LIVE life
and crap to develop it the real version....... crap of the last 20+ years on mind
body and soul, and how to look like you aren't rally wearing makeup when you
still have a very expensive foundation on...and botox, the rich babe variety...
book...concept....one
sentence which is all you need to ever know...from Mister Taleb's superb Black
Swan..
a ferkin
allegory.. though the one dimensional (described above) are too fanatical ever
to read between the lines.
to
paraphrase a tad but i have a lifetime of study and ponderation and real life experiencing
others how their ways, cures, therapies....dont work on ANYone -
especially themselves...no matter how much they are cheating you out of for
their mindfulness courses..
(i do
their land... rusty carelessly discarded tools... broken down fences... compost
heaps filled with plastic... i never opine i only deal in facts)
YOU
CANNOT GET CHANGE FROM A MENU... all such is expensive self obsessed
hospitality... hospitality is fake.... real life requires taking the plunge -
jumping over the cliff... doing something else...and.. Mister Taleb's superb
all you need to ever know about mind body [yes body too as angst and confusion
wrack it with pain and contortion in ways you cannot know until...they have
GONE! ..once yur mind is different] and soul and one simply cannot ever
ever ever know how one will 'feel' 'think' 'BE' until the event has happened.
That event can be anything from first ever time in a dusty gaolhouse, to doing something
you spent your whole life avoiding quite deliberately - having to speak in
public or to a judge or just not having a shower week and getting on a bus, to
having to hustle for every meal...to having a front tooth drop out and after
being horrified but in time realising in fact it makes you speak more
thoughtfully to hide the lisp and look of a bar room drunk... or best of all
being 'stuck' in a place populated only by lost fakes who steal from anyone
they can to afford their next mindfulness retreat ... and no friends in
truth.... but knowing in time being forced to remain in the last place on earth
you would chose to be for many year well known reasons - somehow makes the very
best of your inside persona stronger and maybe even helpful to others one
day... never mind stoical...
many
other better examples. There are however NO examples of how some decadent or dilettante
behaviour enhances ... it doesnt work that way. There are no examples of how
running away positively 'evolves' ditto... there are NO examples of how
relying on anyone for basic needs who one is in some worker relationship with
or sucks up to ever helps... there are examples of how having to rely a bit on
truly useless ignoramuses... you know are so....does 'help'
Mister
Taleb. the only king of Mind Body and Soul
Even if
the ignoramuses put it in the economics section.
Saturday last in the town of the dentist - too late to have found at
last my perfect hat ?
poncy arts bag has chargers for 2 oldish... wonky laptops and all the nonsense you need to
keep a phone ticking over... it, battery pack if on awful whatsap - so so
narcissistically power hungry.
But then none of these books except the REALLY good ones..
i nearly forgot him!!
so dated yes...so wrong on inventing the word 'soulmates' - wait til yer
fucked up the jaxi by one of them.... then you'll find out
how wrong Camus was... no point living ever...
THE grea bok on helpmeet collaboration 1 + 1 = 3 to help save the actual
real environment - their back yard- wilderness under threat
3 are needed... the combined effect of 1 and 1 together does apart
from providing backup if the landowners come and kill one of you - who will
feed the ferrets or hedgehogs or goats or ponies or...
give you the oomph to
do it
propper and
win
Lesley and Richard
Bridge Across Forever...
i say to anyone these days
after my very best friend in the world helped me by
spreading poisonous incorrect gossip about me in front of an old woman suicidal
i had recruited her to help me with caring...til i discovered what a fake she
was - all for lonely self pity and to hide her truly guilty conscience...she
conned even me as everyone later laughed and i thought i was immune hah hahh...
after 2010 that is and a certain writer ..of fiction, for others who then
harmed me on her behalf... thank you - skin as tough as leather baked in the
real sun..
and its good to never ever be afraid of anyones
words ever... and that takes a lifetime of hard work
A famous musical maestro... who told the truth once....sort godfather
but wouldnt share..
is 20 years of work on The Sublime..
before he isnt very sublime any more cos he is dead
with his personal book researcher for ten of those years...me..and the
person he knew was by LIVING the sublime, inheriting is living interest and beginning
a decade ago to speak and write about it better than him...
so he never found 'it'.. because its for us all ..if we can pin her down
that is.
I did in 2020.
One day i shall write it - but the deal is i KNOW that we all need to
come to it without the involvement of another because then we can truly trust
'it. ..unmitigated. Uncorrupted.. pure..
so he did the right thing in he end - his....even if he never found that
which i 'fond' in that last few sentences. Anyone wo shows a child or any
other human a 'religious;' or theosophical' or 'spiritual' way that they say
will benefit them...is doing the exact opposite of benefiting them. It will
come to you....when the kairos comes..
just so happens for me 17 years ago.. reinforced by events 2010..
I still have utterly no idea what the 'powers' or 'disembodied intelligence'
consider the RULES to be..for 'us'....what the 'deal' is... and anyone that
says they do or writes it for money,,, is a fraud. Ponzi scheme operator.
As of course was he too... fab conductor though - changed our lives always sat
front row a decade at his gigs... if i were honest apart from enjoying learning
his art by always sitting next to him...so dad could fantasise about what he
would like to be dong with all those gorgeous sexy uptight nervy looking
violinists too...
THE most interesting picture in UK academe about UK academe - except one
is missing
Muster Bernhard's Extinction....
because UK academe does not and will not 'teach'
the master of all modern life philosophy and glorious sedition.... because he
uses as vehicle a light parody on academe...and it is TOO good for UK
academe...
as the pinnacle of UK academe Mister Grayling
proved to me last time we met for an hour...
anyone that went to any so called Redbrick uni sue
for your money back
Load of effete creeps every single professor and
fellow (as is the photod man above...or was)
THE greatest book of the last 70 years and they
never heard of him....
BUt then when the same man tells me that he insists
all his students read one story from one of these books..
One you will read a review in your evil latterday
Gardian about it being about a duffed up woman who goes to gaol...
when it is only a universal book in fact about the
'light' and human soul in a magnificent poetical way, in the face of tyranny
their (Guardianthink) tyranny to review it as such
as there is NO self pity in it
and we learn
we never learn from self pity or any pity
certainly the greatest book this c
then we have
the other
Includes a story that is so so so bleak - as
bad as The Road in fact worse..
that a man charged with inspiring young people
makes young people read a story where a young person must be sacrificed in a
rather nasty way every now and then.... and everyone knows of the long
lingering death of said child... to save the rest of the children, and everyone
else..
is worse than the fuckin death cultist self pitying
big fat book called the Christian bible...
even if all words even malicious thieving words such as the
whole bible in toto can be used to advantage now and again – has some great
lines in it “let your yea be yea and nea be neigh..” basis of all civilisation.
Hate the sin not the sinner - basis of all therapeutic culture even if they
cant teach it etc
