Happy Hour

[Christophe]

What? There's only one discussion going on in the Pub?

That's definitely not enough. Barman! Another drink for me and the boys!

In the meantime I'll choose a song from the Jukebox:

www.youtube.video

[Ambo Suno]

Hi Bruce - I sent an email to Jesse Kellerman co-author and son of Jonathan Kellerman making some comments about The Golem of Hollywood. For your possible interest, here is what he wrote back:

"Thank you very much for the kind words.

I wish I could explain to anyone—including myself—how The Golem of Hollywood came together. That would've made it a lot easier to write the sequel. (The Golem of Paris will be out in November. It expands and enriches the themes and stories of the first book.) Very often I'm writing from the subconscious, drawing on my most primal fears, interests, and preoccupations. When a narrative emerges, it almost has a received quality—as though it was sent *to* me, rather than invented *by* me. Two thousand years ago I would've founded a bang-up religion. Today I'm just a storyteller…

At any rate, I appreciate again your taking the time to write, and I wish you all the best.


Jesse"



Balder said:

Oh, Hillerman - that's right!  Thanks for clarifying.  I haven't read anything by Kellerman yet.  But the review and summary of The Golem of Hollywood I looked at earlier this morning was quite enticing.  Have you read anything by Neal Stephenson before?  I haven't yet, but his books sound similarly mind-bending and philosophically rich (I'm curious about his forthcoming book, Seveneves).

[Ambo Suno]

Hi Joe - to my everyday eyes: hotties, hunks, hearties, and happies - creative expressions for fun and profit. Florida must be a petri-dish for the growth of this culture-play.

Joe, have you seen the movie/DVD Everlasting Moments? I got a copy from our public library. It is a Swedish film set in the early 1900s. Flowing through the story was the obvious stream of images/facts of life, reflecting how challenging, difficult, culturally sparse was small-village life in the north.

The principal character was a wife to a hard-working, garrulous, often alcohol-inebriated and abusive husband. She had one child after the next and worked long loonnngg hours to keep the home in food, the children in minimally dignified body-covering clothing, and earning extra money sewing.

This is a rendering of a true story that depicted the times and the ways of swedes and, to some extent, poor, mythic society in many places across the globe.

As a young woman she won a camera, year 1900, in a lottery. After a time when she went to sell it to get some living money, the local photographer instead showed her how to use it, and with much generosity and perhaps unrequited affection for her, encouraged her gradually into being a competent and creative-for-the-times photographer herself.

Looking back into that era, she had become one of Sweden's sources of historical-cultural recollection.

This was a very moving story for me because of so many imbedded issues, including woman's 'place' and struggles, the weary-making of poor provinciality, how the human bio-cultural organism survives before the greater discovered gifts of technology and broad wealth generation.

I suspect, joe, that you would like this video. ambo



Joseph Camosy said:

Was at the faire again this weekend practicing my recreational hobby.  After drinking a hard apple cider, I then ran into a friend who insisted on buying me another. 

Here was the result:  Sunday 3/1/15

[Joseph Camosy]

Thank you Ambo, I will look this movie up!

Actually, I'm going to watch it now on my Amazon Prime instant video....

Joe

[Edward theurj Berge]

Colbert catechism for the day.

[Edward theurj Berge]

Bad Spock obits.

[Edward theurj Berge]

I saw the movie CHAPPiE today and thought I recognized the woman from this band. Sure enough it was her per this wiki. It also sounded like they used some of their music in the movie. It was filmed in South Africa.

Balder said:

A wild South African rap video (criticizing American perceptions of, and influences on, South Africa).  They were not too nice to Lady Gaga, though.

[Edward theurj Berge]

Indeed, it was some of their music in the movie.

[Balder]

Interesting... How was the movie?  That is one I'm interested in seeing, along with another one on AI which will be coming out later this year.

[Edward theurj Berge]

It was ok overall. I did like the theme of AI gaining sentience. And it was entertaining where CHAPPiE gets his early influences. The plotting is a bit plodding. But the criminal characters are very much like a Die Antwoord video, so that was fun. Worth seeing.

[Edward theurj Berge]

Tina S does it again. Just amazing.

[Joseph Camosy]

The creative result of Strongbow hard apple cider and Warsteiner Beer.

FLARF Saturday March 7.   <== Hard Apple Cider

FLARF Sunday, March 8.  <== Beer

[Edward theurj Berge]

Silent Lucidity. Even though this song came out in 1990 I just heard it for the first time recently on the radio. I was immediately attracted to it, thinking at first it was early Pink Floyd. Then midway through it sounds like some of the Beatle's orchestral compositions. The lyrics appear to be about lucid dreaming.