Of Eve and ...
I'm in a park, well treed, there are tables everywhere with my things on them...maybe my things, not sure, maybe it's a flea market...
My children are here, somewhere, I don't know exactly, they're younger, off playing...
Walking off to a short hill the weather begins to change, dark clouds, a grey funnel reaches down above me and opens it's mouth like a sandworm, and up in it's maw I can see the clouds lightening to white, fluffy, and I'm drawn inside...
...Sitting now, in the clouds, I'm with Eve, not my daughter, but Eve of Adam and Eve, a fiery, beautiful redhead, forever young, she's speaking to me about some petitions I've made, both her and Adam, they are the rulers of the universe, and I'm worried a bit about my children as we're talking then I realize that here, in the clouds with her, time has no meaning...
...we talk, about my petition (which I can't remember), I'm asking about her husband, Adam, commiserating, they can never be together, she rules the sky at night and he the day, and never can they meet, and this saddens me but I realize that time, to them, is but an instant, and come the end of the universe they can be together and then realize again that the universe is without end...
She places me back in the park from where I was taken, walks with me a bit, I run into my children, only now they're younger, some of the stuff on the tables I recognize to be mine, I introduce her to Eve, my daughter, but she's not so impressed, and I find that not only has no time passed but I'm years earlier than when I was taken, I didn't want this, I wanted to change some things, but at this time I'm with D**, the most dreaded of all ex's, and I entreat Eve yet again to return me to the present, she tells me that everything will be all right, this is my chance to try again, and she leaves and I know I was fortunate to have this audience with her, that I might never again ...
...and upon the tables, vendors, selling curious busts in bronze, puzzle boxes filled with secrets if only you can put them back together, ...
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Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa
A woodcutter, priest and a commoner gather beneath the decaying city gate to seek shelter from the rain. While sheltering they share conflicting stories of a heinous crime they are all somehow tied to, and every story contradicts the other. Slowly tearing down the walls to feed the fire they each arrive at very different understandings of their own and each others nature.
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Moran Cerf - Brain Hacks
A couple on Moran Cerf, former computer/bank hacker and current expert on hacking the brain. Some intriguing insights into dreams and how changing the dream can change the waking outcomes, still lots of research to be done, but lots of interesting discoveries already...
Link: Moran Cerf on TED
and, if you liked this, maybe listen to his bank-robbing story on THE MOTH...
He reminds me a bit of Justin Trudeau, handsome, that Gallic Charm
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Prospectors
Yeah, what happens on the mountain, stays on the mountain. I just watched 4 seasons of this so you don't have to.
Imagine a "reality" "adventure" "prospecting" show that was created expressly created for the Weather Network and you'd have this. Exactly this. "DRAMA", meaning the scripted overreaction to predictable weather - "SURPRISE" - and the escalating weather conditions over 4 seasons - from rain and lightning in episode one to "ThunderSnow!!" (I'm not making this up, I swear, and I didn't Photoshop the screen-capture above...), to Tornadoes. (Cut to Stock Footage of Tornado), Escalating threats of VIOLENCE with Claim-Jumpers (by episode 2 characters are carrying GUNS), the "Love Interest" (last husband died, one year later she finds new one, they get tattoos, happy, by season 4 he's disappeared and unmentioned in favor of a cute female California miner), people painfully reciting obviously scripted lines, obviously scripted rockfalls, dramatizations, reenactments, boring, incorrect and occasionally outlandish "factoids", "Experts" a'la Antiques Roadshow or Storage Wars, over-valued finds, families, people of every level of competence and success...
Fuck I'm glad it's over. I mean, for every 21 or 43 minute episode I could maybe get 2 or 3 minutes of good, new information. The rest, all complete and utter bollocks...
But I can imagine for the Weather Network this is perfect filler, and it's proven surprisingly popular, people rooting for their favorite miner to get ridiculously rich, praying for the Christian family (that prays together before mining), they're living the American Dream after all, Seniors trapped in their houses by adverse weather buying every scripted, edited and preposterous minute as fact..."he's still down with his injured finger....wasn't able to make it up to the claim...", the show's still finding it's formula, mixing up the characters, as TV goes, reality or otherwise, it's bollocks...but a lot like prospecting, in that, in all the bullshit and drama, irrelevant and inaccurate factoids, occasionally there's a bit of good information you might be able to use...never very much, and youtube has far better resources, but it's over now and I can move on...
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