Why did Dyan Cannon mention having a “Great Balls of Fire Sale” in a Pink Panther movie? Why was a fire sale mentioned again in a “Die Hard” movie?
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Redacted, retracted, redux
I don’t know what it is that puts me in a mood like this, this feeling of smugness, this desire not to believe in myself, to always be wrong, always chasing the perfect 100 on a test score as if I’ll never get it, running from my mistakes, fleeing into the cosmos.
Why?
Because of both my faith in AND my fear of our species’ imperfections.
I do not want to be successful.
Instead, always vigilant, looking for the crack in the veneer, analysing the pinhole leak in the dam, contemplating the lack of understanding everything going on in a cubic centimeter of dirt.
Why?
Because we can make films about our mistakes, films which contain their own mistakes, and we learn from neither, or the lessons we learn and the solutions we apply solve a different set of problems because time is irrelevant, only relative.
That is why we seek perfection in our theosophical beliefs.
Otherwise, tarnish, rust and decay should be taken as normal aspects of our impermanence.
I am chasing my tail in an M.C. Escher print.
How and why do I live in the past, present and future?
Tuttle or Buttle?
Graham: Misspelling helped Tsarnaev elude FBI : http://wapo.st/12C4rCS
Feeding the comedian in me
On further reflection about recent events, the comedian in me sees the following:
In tragedy, comedy finds a way in, no matter how inappropriate, or perhaps because of its inappropriateness.
Art: “15 Minutes”
Genre
My wife and I watched “The Departed” a few nights ago. We had planned to watch it the evening before the Boston Marathon but opted for finishing a film already showing on the tellie, Torn Curtain.
Why “The Departed”?
Well, it’s that plate-of-shrimp type thing.
You know what I mean — you want a straight good guy/bad guy movie, go to the theatre and watch “Olympus Has Fallen,” only to have your interest piqued in another movie because of previews discussing the career of Mark Wahlberg.
Even though Leo D and Matt D are not your favourite actors, you agree to watch a film about crime, cops, corruption and punishment in the south Boston area.
Then, as luck would have it (I can’t say that the phrase “better bad luck than no luck at all” applies to the local crime scene on the streets of Boston right now), your interest is raised higher due to the conflux of life imitating art, art imitating life, life imitating life and art imitating immigration control acts with as much likelihood of passing as gun control acts in the Senate but maybe as much as the CISPA cybersecurity bill in the House of Representatives.
While the world watches video clips of potential suspects of the Boston Massacre Part Deux, we have little in the way of interest in the U.S. of the faces on bombing perpetrators in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Such is the power of the Western mass media owners, advertisers and viewers who want to prove their peaceful way of life is best.
Now, tell me again, which companies, according to Forbes, are the tops in the world right now? Chinese banks, ICBC and China Construction Bank.
I won’t wax the philosophical surfboard and ride waves of meditation upon the rise and fall of company values and families based on shaky loans and house-of-cards economics.
Instead, I take off my hat and bow my head, in respect, to the recently departed.
For them, there is no future on celestial bodies.
For them, our celestial body futures are dedicated.
For them and the billions before them.
There is no imitation for life, no substitute, no art form that replaces our loved ones.
But art and imitations can teach a lesson.
Are you listening? Paying attention? Can you afford the cost?
Tundra Timeliness
Do your neuronal connections have labels?
Do you know what your neuronal connections look like?
I think I know mine:
Four films, one plot
Mix-and-match in the filmmaking industry?
treetrunkdings 
