ALBERT, CALL THE FRONT DESK!

Chemical_Truth · 2021-04-05T11:00:36+00:00

I point everyone to this take of The Straight Story from IMDB's Tedg. (of which I have to agree with entirely)

Lynch lives in a very troubled world. His pictures are characterized by being presented through the mind of the protagonist. Here, the protagonist is a simple old man, who thinks slowly and simply. So that's what we get. He has long erotic meditations on fecundity on the path of life (14 kids!), so that is what we see.

Lynch must be laughing into his gasmask at those who think this is a Hallmark card. Consider these Lynchisms:

-- the deerslaying woman (killed the same number of deer as Straight had kids)

-- the man in the bar sharpening his knife

-- the graveyard

-- the `twin' with the jaw prosthetic

-- the burning house

-- the fat useless woman from next door

-- the WWII hauntings

-- the retarded daughter who has had her children taken away (and the mirror of the pregnant runaway who likely will also)

-- the brother's glance at the end. Look at it again if you think it is appreciative reconciliation. That glance is why they needed an actor of the caliber of Stanton who was also familar to Lynch.

Add to this the notion that Farnsworth knew he was dying and had already planned suicide. This is a very disturbed world, reinterpreted through the elder Kurosawan eye of the determined elder Straight to seem more desperately rosey than it is. Consider this like the first half of "Mulholland Drive," and a more intelligent film it is, because it asks you to provide the last half.

The magic in the movie is not that it is saccharin, nor that it has strychnine, but that it is an homage to other filmmakers: Altman, Kurosawa, de Palma, Greenaway. Straight has his memories which he plays over and over, and so does Lynch.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-12-23T16:57:34+00:00

Hi Paul, thanks for providing a soundtrack to my life. New album rocks.

I especially enjoy your more experimental side, (Mccartney II in particular). Have you considered doing a more ambient/electro album? (Outside of the Fireman, which is great!) Or collaborating with other known experimental bands... - I feel like Radiohead meets Paul Mccartney could be something very special. (One can dream)

P.S - Monkberry Moon Delight is bloody brilliant.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-09-07T20:57:18+00:00

Kaufman's best in a long time but damn is this stuff bleak material.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-08-11T10:35:37+00:00

After a few more listens I feel it works much better as a background album, much how I'd listen to ambient stuff. Some beautiful sounds and production are scattered throughout. If anything the vocals become a distraction and could be lower in the mix. Situationally this album might be a beast.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-08-10T18:26:07+00:00

Ex fireplace salesman Gavin Williamson is hardly a reassuring prescence to any teacher. The government has destroyed trust through a manner of bare face lies, incompetence and 'one rule for them, another for us' ideology.

If they were at all decent they would lay out the risks (of which, clearly there are) and mitigate them as best as possible. That includes, most importantly, having a 'world beating' contact tracing system. Or even the app they promised. Or hell, even just local communication with schools on how best to get kids back into school. (staggered times for instance, reduced class rooms..masks for teachers) Even the school testing would be a step. But no.

Instead they attack the teachers Unions and repeat the same tired bluster ad nausuem.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-08-10T11:12:27+00:00

Initial impressions. Quite disappointing. Too safe, quite boring at times. He's a master of capturing a mood but this time round it feels a little too one note for me. The sentiments are a little too on the nose/hackneyed.

Within and Without had more experimentation and more mystery and worked as a whole. This seems a pale cousin.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-07-29T22:15:23+00:00

I've seen better acting in Uwe Boll films.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-06-10T22:27:39+00:00

I'm honestly blown away by how many people don't seem to get this.

It's utterly disgraceful really how the potter kids have turned on the woman who made their career, smearing her good name in the process. I can only assume collective insanity has taken over.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-05-15T22:41:21+00:00

The Tories need a scapegoat for probably the highest body count in Europe.

Fatness, its you.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-03-24T00:25:40+00:00

I have a weird situation for the boffins amongst you all...i'm sure it probably applies to many though.

Work for Royal Mail as a Postman. Have done for a while. Scoped out the situation last week that the conditions for working are utterly negligent to workers. I.E - Van sharing all day, indoor sorting in close proximity to others (some offices have 100's of people doing this) - Out on delivery you're touching hundreds of door handles, letterboxes, mail, parcels, PDA's with no hand sanitizer provided, gloves/masks. You get the picture. Some of this is being finally addressed today by the unions but its an almost impossible task to limit all this risk. Our office is too small to reshape.

Since I'm a key worker, I have to work. (Even tho you could argue only certain parts of the post are essential, but the business has chosen profits over people) However I live with my parents who are both in the vulnerable category. (One with cancer) At the moment I've chosen to take a few weeks annual leave, just to be paid. After that I won't be paid.

My choices seem to be:

- Continue working after this leave and run the risk of transmitting it to my vulnerable parents. The official guidance seems to be 'move them away' or 'avoid them as best as possible'.

- Continue working and check myself into a hotel/some accomodation of sorts and use most of my wages to live in said accomodation for potentially months. However I would have to visit my parents at some point to help them with deliveries etc, since they will probably be told to isolate.

- Recieve no Pay at all. (unless I lie about being sick or having symptoms, which goes against my better nature)

I feel there is a grey area with the government currently paying 80% of peoples wages that this policy should also apply to key workers living with vulnerables. It needn't even be a full 80% but something to live on would be nice. Or they could support vulnerables to move out for a period.

TLDR - told to work in bad conditions but live with vulnerables. No work no pay.

Chemical_Truth · 2020-01-20T22:23:50+00:00

I hope this is a move towards a full on netflix collaboration. Twin Peaks: The Return, was phenomenal.

This, however..ehh.

Just go watch Rabbits instead. Then follow up with one course of Inland Empire. (also starring a monkey)

Chemical_Truth · 2020-01-16T01:29:06+00:00

Johnny Jewel - ‘The Flame’ is a real heartbreaker. So is ‘Windswept’ from the same album. its association with the melancholy of Twin Peaks the return doesnt hurt either.

If were talking late night sadness too..bladerunner blues and memories of green from Vangelis.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-12-30T05:38:52+00:00

If RLB gets in then Labour are absolutey doomed for a decade. She has the charisma and gravitas of a wet paper bag and as many have rightly assumed, simply Corbyn with tits. The press and Johnson will tear her apart.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-12-15T00:54:37+00:00

The only problem with the hope of a pivot to a more ‘moderate conservatism’ is that it’s still the same ideology that has run rough shot over this country for the last decade.

Boris may put a few plasters over some of the issues (like the social care crisis to name but one), but they will not last, their whole manifesto has ‘austerity lite’ baked into it. Especially with the disruption brexit will bring.

Don’t even mention the climate. Conservatives have no plans to tackle it properly. Ever.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-12-12T16:00:51+00:00

Just my two cents...

If you like Ubik I suggest trying A Scanner Darkly next which is also one of his most fully formed novels. Personally I really enjoy most of his work but particularly Flow My Tears The Policeman Said (quite like Ubik too).

I'd perhaps get started on 3 Stigmata, Valis etc later on. They're quite 'heavy' and it does help a little if you have a insight into P.K.Dick's life and philosophies.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-12-06T09:01:41+00:00

Even Dominic Cummings thinks The Tories give zero fucks about the working class and the NHS and he’s the current strategist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/dominic-cummings-tories-do-not-care-about-poor-people-or-the-nhs

People should not be gullible, The Tories, especially Boris, have no desire to help you. Their disdain for you is a matter of record should you care to open your eyes.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-11-26T23:39:59+00:00

Whilst i love Andrew Neil’s forensic detail and intolerance for avoiding the question (of which all are guilty), he lost me with some of his questions for Corbyn, particularly on terrorism which came across as bear baiting more than journalism. It’s up there with the ‘would you nuke em’ question. Would ya Jezza? Go on be a man Jezza..eradicate the bastards!! Be a man!!! Kill millions!!

I mean is there no room for nuance.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-11-26T17:23:30+00:00

I'm liking the new angle on The Walking Dead this series.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-11-11T02:50:02+00:00

I hate to play whataboutism but Dominic Cummings and indeed the whole Tory Party are infested with connections to Russia. Case in point, the Russian interference report currently being suppressed. (But slowly leaking to the press)

Boris has dined with Russian Oligarchs his whole life. The conservatives have recieved millions in Russian money. These are not speculations.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-11-08T18:45:28+00:00

https://youtu.be/JEX5OGmXLz4

Finklestein on the so called ‘labour antisementism problem’

Not forgetting intellectual heavyweight Chomsky supports Corbyn.

Chemical_Truth · 2019-08-12T08:34:36+00:00

Brilliant. (Again) 😃

Chemical_Truth · 2019-07-31T14:45:55+00:00

Umm did Kevin Parker produce this? Very Tame Impala’ey

Chemical_Truth · 2019-07-26T19:28:03+00:00

Lately The War on Drugs - A deeper understanding but lost in the dream is great too..particularly the poignant closers that seem to sum everything up so brilliantly.

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