the dream is always the same

Pity if there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders!

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Where they found the first body. Brer Rabbit Motel, Villa Park, IL

Photo credit: Spencer Parsons

http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ripper_Crew

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Supercut Of Every Time Oprah Said ‘The Vultures Are Waiting To Pick Your Bones’ On Her Show

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Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

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If we are right in our suggestion that romance, tragedy, irony, and comedy are all episodes in a total quest-myth, we can see how it is that comedy can contain a potential tragedy within itself.

Text: Northrup Frye, “Theory of Myths” ... Image: Catherine Breillat, À Ma Soeur!

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There is such a thing as  the unified text that is written as the expression of a single voice, but that reveals itself as open to interpretation on several levels.

Text: Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium ... Image: David Cronenberg, Shivers

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“I knew many girls who had had breakdowns. I drew little touches from each of them and a lot from myself. I don’t mean I’m really going mad, but I’m a little crazy - we all are - and sometimes I let things go.”

Gena Rowlands on her spellbinding role in A Woman Under the Influence,1974 Dir. by John Cassavetes

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That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

Text: Herman Melville, Pierre, or the Ambiguities ... Image: Andrzej Wajda, Ashes and Diamonds

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Our own thoughts are what we are most at home with, what we are least afraid of.

Text: William James, The Will to Believe ... Image: Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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 "...of all recognitions, the best is that which arises from the incidents themselves, where the startling discovery is made by natural means." 

Text: Aristotle, The Poetics ... Image: Robert Altman, California Split

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Hence do we proceed to search out the secret powers of nature (which is beside our end), which to know profits not, and wherein men desire nothing but to know.

Text: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions ... Image: David Lynch, Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

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That thing where we leave real action and drama and incident tastefully offscreen, can we stop considering that tasteful yet? Or that other thing where characters who should/would confront one another over the shit they have between them, instead just have long, quiet awkward moments when they do meet up onscreen that are pretty much meaningless because all the other moments in the movie are also long, quiet and awkward--can we quit with that too? And maybe could we call that a cliche just like we do the distasteful, melodramatic cliches that this somewhat newer cliche replaced? And that other thing where we basically infuse every frame with our desperate worry about whether the tasteful people will like it, can we just freaking stop? And for good measure, let's tell the tasteful people they can suck it, because they don't know how to party.

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We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Text: Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya ... Image: Paul Verhoeven, Robocop

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"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."

Text: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophocus … Image: John Boorman, Zardoz

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Olga lounges in her room, Suspiria (1977)

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White Dog (1982/Samuel Fuller)

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Orson

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It's pretty, but is it art?

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Important milestone.