Yeah, I'm sure it's a good flavor, but it sucks that Ben & Jerry's made their famous cherry ice cream by keeping Jerry Garcia in a cage and milking him nonstop. That's how he died, actually. From being milked too much.
actually, scratch that, this is obviously an adaptation of Leonard Salby's unpublished final novel The Northern Caves, but (thankfully) both much shorter and with a fascinatingly oblique anti-war angle.
this is all v. off-the-cuff; I'd probably need to sit with it a bit longer to know what to say about it, but: damn.
anyway, hard to say whether this or Blade Runner makes for the better Philip K. Dick adaptation. Blade Runner's iconic, and rightly so, but watching Wax *feels* like it captures whatever was happening to PKD in February-March 1974—not, though, that I'd know.
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees feels like the kind of infohazard movie you'd see depicted in a story as being one that you show to somebody to permanently change their brain and turn them into a vector for breaking other people's brains, à la The King in Yellow.
Like, you show this to someone and they now permanently hear the bees talking to them
tfw your hot wife is absolutely terrified of you for no discernable reason (narrator's voice: there were, in fact, several clearly discernable reasons) and you suggest that reading some Jung would fix her
You know there's something up with a movie when you find yourself saying "now I want to watch Blue Velvet as a palate-cleanser" afterwards.
Well, Marnie was a wild fucking ride. Absolute mess of a film. Not one of my favorite Hitchcocks, I think, but absolutely one of the most fascinating. Recommended with a bunch of asterisks attached.
Like, at some point we need to accept that if some British Invasion-era pop star died in a car accident and got replaced by a much more interesting musician who had a huge hand in the Beatles' best work... well, which one are we gonna call the *real* Paul McCartney, huh?
Paul was *born* in 1966, and I stand by that.
You know, that Paul McCartney lookalike has lived as Paul McCartney over twice as long as the original ever did, at this point. Made better music, too.
