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What happens when the scary predictions of speculative fiction start to come true earlier than expected?
I guess you could say that I’m excited to see A Dangerous Method.
Best Coast and WAVVES.
An interesting interview with Steven Soderbergh about Contagion.
Did Chris Martin cheat on Gwyneth Paltrow?
J.J. Abrams is doing some cool new shit.
Science fiction magazines and The Joy Of Sex.
from here.
Noah Baumbach is developing Jonathan Franzen‘s The Corrections as an HBO series.
Post-apocalyptic porn. Sure, why not?
Matthew Fox could be in some trouble.
Saturn is beautiful.
The critics of Joan Didion.
This is Peanut St. Cosmo’s new favorite picture on the internet.
What does clitoral stimulation do to your brain?
Post-Sept. 11 Saudi Arabia is modernizing, slowly.
Mos Def will no longer be Mos Def.
Kitty Ravenhart’s selection for The Best Of Yahoo Answers.
Did you drain your balls at DragonCon?
More leaks from David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
from here.
“A guy jerked off to me in the subway and the NYPD didn’t do a thing.”
I feel like with each passing day I’m a little more amazed that The Avengers movie is happening.
The beginning of the end for Yahoo?
Johnny Depp to star in another fucking remake, this time of The Thin Man.
Female blogger threatened with defamation suit after writing about TSA rape.
Jeff Tweedy and the Black Eyed Peas.
Tech company to build science ghost town.
A new story by Haruki Murakami.
Very cool fan art.
A huge list of deleted scenes that are awaiting you on the new Star Wars blu-rays.
Yelping with Cormac McCarthy.
NYC bans dogs from bars.
A movie about Keith Richards?
Reality as a failed state.
Ouroboros.
Mad linkage:
Tina Fey wins comedy prize, thanks Betty White.
“Crossbow cannibal” remanded over prostitute murders.
Something massively important: A timeline of the hair styles of one Mr. Nicolas Cage.
You’ve seen our round up of reviews of Sex In The City 2, but there’s so many more, including one that posits that it could very well be a work of science fiction.
First human “infected with computer virus.”
The oil spill becomes an internet sensation.
Highly creative people and schizophrenics have quite a bit in common.
Neal Stephenson, computers, sword fighting, and The Mongoliad.
RIP Dennis Hopper, fascinating actor, lover of art, and all around strange bastard.
The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol, usually a depiction of a dragon or a serpent (sometimes two) swallowing it’s own tale and thus forming a circle. It usually symbolizes self-reflexivity or the concept of an eternal return. In alchemy, it’s a purifying sigil, something Carl Jung saw as representing the basic mandala of alchemy. Sometimes it’s associated with gnosticism or hermeticism. Perhaps it represents a pre-ego “dawn state,” as Jung suggested or maybe it depicts mankind’s circular nature, our self-defeating, always repeating cycles, or perhaps it’s more similar in nature to the mythological phoenix, reminding us that some things can begin anew even as they’re coming to an end…
Jörmungandr, the world snake, and enemy of Thor.
The armadillo lizard.
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AURYN from The Neverending Story.
The mandala, “the representation of the unconscious self.”
The Möbius Strip and Klein bottle.
Self-reference and strange loops.
Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher.
The books of Douglas Hofstadter.
Ensō art and the Lucent logo.
“-All You Zombies-” by Robert Heinlein.
“By His Bootstraps” also by Heinlein.
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.
The ouroboros was also one of the main symbols used in the Chris Carter show, Millennium, which started Lance Henriksen and Terry O’Quinn, who was amazing in it. I’ve been in a mood lately to watch this show again and I’d recommend (parts of) it to you as well. There’s some perfect moments in season 1 (though not the whole of it), and season 2 was absolutely brilliant.
The first and last sentences of both James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren.
How cool would it have been if Charles Widmore had been his own grandfather?
Paradoxes of both the predestination and ontological nature.
Don’t forget that Philip J. Fry is his own grandfather!
The dark side comes in any colour you like.
I’m fascinated by human perception, especially of art, as the human eye takes two separate things and combines them, giving them new special meaning. Sometimes it’s on purpose, a mashup, like adbusting or The Grey Album, but sometimes it’s not, like the accidental synchronicity of combining The Wizard Of Oz with Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon.
I love the idea that human beings live somewhere in the meaty subspace between synchronicity and apophenia.
But the question of just what’s going on as you play the Pink Floyd album along with the film and the way things line up eerily has been around since the 90s, with hundreds of examples of odd connections noted by people. At one point, Turner Classic Movies, which owns the broadcast rights to the film, even aired Wizard Of Oz with Dark Side as the alternate soundtrack.
Engineer Alan Parsons mixing the album in great big quadrophonic sound.
“It was an American radio guy who pointed it out to me. It’s such a non-starter, a complete load of eyewash. I tried it for the first time about two years ago. One of my fiancee’s kids had a copy of the video, and I thought I had see what it was all about. I was very disappointed. The only thing I noticed was that the line “balanced on the biggest wave” came up when Dorothy was kind of tightrope walking along a fence. One of the things any audio professional will tell you is that the scope for the drift between the video and the record is enormous; it could be anything up to twenty seconds by the time the record’s finished. And anyway, if you play any record with the sound turned down on the TV, you will find things that work.”
-Alan Parsons, the engineer on Dark Side, about the supposed synchronicity.
No matter the coincidence versus the intent, I like the way our brains work, either looking for or creating connections in things, giving added contextual meaning, trying to make the universe more special to us. Sometimes it goes horribly wrong, but sometimes we do find things, little bits of weird magic to call our own. And let’s face it, this bit of film/music weird is so much more cheery than the urban legend about the munchkin hanging himself in the background of The Wizard Of Oz, right?
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to see the Wizard – the wonderful Wizard – on the dark side of the moon…
Contradictions and cosmic loneliness.
“Too shallow to be truly lonely,” Pauline Kael wrote in her review of L’Avventura, “they are people trying to escape their boredom by reaching out to one another and finding only boredom again.”
“Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I’m told.”
-Haruki Murakami, defying protests to accept the Jerusalem Prize.
“People don’t turn to self-help books to be reminded of the complexity of life or human relationships, they want an Oprah-esque ‘a-ha!’ moment that allows them to take charge and move on with their lives. (See: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.) So, I get it. The only thing I don’t get about HJNTIY is why, after a guy promises he’ll call and then doesn’t, plans a date and then ditches, the response should be ‘he’s just not that into me’ instead of ‘he’s an inconsiderate asshole, and I shouldn’t be that into him’?”
-Tracy Clark-Flory in Broadsheet.
“When so many are lonely… as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
-Tennessee Williams.
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The above is from a letter written by Zelda to F. Scott, May, 1919.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
-Walt Whitman.
Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins?
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“The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else.”
-Hsue-Feng.
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are changed.”
-Carl Jung.
Off with their heads!
According to Wikipedia: One of Carl Jung’s favorite quotes about synchronicity was from Through The Looking Glass, where the White Queen says to Alice: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” So true. I’ve written just a little about the works of Lewis Carroll here before but I should mention that synchronicity is something I will, on occasion, find myself very interested in.
And no, I don’t mean that superbly awesome album by The Police.
I’ve mentioned my love for it before, but synchronicity’s something that heavily affects a lot of the splendid and tasty nuggets of bloggery that you get from me here at this mad tea party that is Counterforce. I could go into it more, give you my personal answer for it, but a question I always find myself wanting to ask the various bloggers that I read and love is a simple one: Where do you get your ideas from?
But to me, once you have a formula, even a formula that works brilliantly (and if I’m thinking about this about bloggers online whose work I actually read and enjoy, then obviously their shit works just fine)(unless they’re walking, talking trainwrecks, and in that case, it works just fine too, only in a different, and probably more enjoyable sort of way), then I ponder about one’s regiment and the question of variety. The mixing it up, on occasion, if you will. And then I read something this morning that fit perfectly into those thoughts.
From Scribbles and Lies:
Let’s face it. You’re in a blog rut.
Most of the time, you write about more of the same kinda stuff that you usually write about.
Maybe it’s your day-to-day life, the stuff you did. Maybe it’s topical news response. Maybe it’s short fiction. Maybe it’s re-linking random stuff you see on the internet. Maybe it’s LOLCAT porn. (I hope it’s not LOLCAT porn.) Maybe it’s here on LiveJournal, or it’s over on Vox, or Blogspot or Blogger or Blogblog or Postablogablowablow, or WordPress or Facebook or Facepress or FacePlant or maybe it’s just your Twitter account. It’s what you’re comfortable with, I know, I know…
…but why not try doing something different, just for a day?
Two weeks from today, Tuesday, January 27th, is Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday. Carroll, you’ll recall, wrote about a girl who fell down a rabit hole and found herself in a place where all the rules had changed. In two weeks, on Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday, you should do the same.
That’s right: the 5th Annual Rabbit Hole Day is coming.
When you wake up on the 27th, instead of writing about your usual work and school and politics and friends and news and stuff, experience life down the Rabbit Hole and write about the work, the school, the politics, the friends, the news, the stuff that you find there instead. Travel through time. Turn into an animal. Flee from assassins. Talk to your goldfish. Conquer Greenland. Sprout some extra limbs. Learn how to walk on water. Marry an insect.
Take a break from Every Day and write about your Rabbit Hole Day. Your normal life will be waiting for you when you get back.
Very interesting. Very, very interesting. But at the risk of appearing just completely bereft of ideas, I want to throw it out to you, o mighty readers of Counterforce. I know there’s got to be a few of you out there. Some of you have left comments or dropped me a line saying you read us and actually like us and you know what? We appreciate the shit out of you. But for Rabbit Hole Day, what would you like to see us do differently, even if for just one day? We’re dying to know what you think.
Our operators are standing by, desperately awaiting your call. Or comment, email, etc. Let’s crack open our heads together and see what’s inside.
