A Message To The Masses

Classical bust of Empedocles (ca. 490-430 BCE)

  

Friends, that inhabit the great digital arena of cyberspace looking down on the yellow rock of the intra-state highway, up by the citadel, busy in goodly works, harbour of honour for the stranger, men unskilled in meanness, all hail. I go about among you an immortal god, no mortal now, honoured among all as is meet, crowned with fillets and flowery garlands. Straightaway, whenever I enter with these in train, both men and women, into the flourishing towns, is reverence done me; they go after me in countless throngs, asking of me what is the way to gain; some desiring oracles, while some, who for many a weary day have been pierced by the grievous pangs of all manner of sickness, beg to hear from me the word of healing....But why do I harp on these things, as if it were any great matter that I should surpass mortal, perishable men?

In another life, perhaps, I spoke these words as a citizen of Agrigentum under the name of Empedocles, as I speak them unto you now in the context of digital salvation and binary deliverance. Metempsychosis is thrilling, isn't it?

Have a good Sunday.

Sense & Sensibility

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2551225369/

Are you stoked, faithful disciples? Hell, I know I am. I have been tripping on this trailer for months now, and on the previous ones in the months before that. At long last I finally turned into a frenzied speedfreak, suffering the unimaginable agony of anaphylactic shock when I was removed from my computer screen and thus robbed of my daily desideratum of hyper-stylized violence, sexualized divinity and frenetic action. Violence is good, kids! It's what myths teach us! And this is just the previews.... I actually don't dare go to the cinema, for fear that I will collapse in downright astonishment before the entirety of this flick, like poor Semele being incinerated by the sight of the full glory of Zeus' godhood.

"Jupiter & Semele" by Gustave Moreau (1894/5)

However, I deeply dislike the "From the producers of 300"-tag to lure the unwitting, televized masses raised on a steady diet of hamburgers, coca-cola, Rihanna and JK Rowling to the theaters. Not you, trusty followers! Never you. But 300 this film ain't. Director Tarsem Singh really impressed me with his previous outing The Fall (2006), and with The Cell (2000) before that, though I have to admit that the latter one was a bit too disturbing for my fragile senses at times. Anyhow, check out The Fall for some stunning cinematography, and while you're at it check out Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006) as well. Why? Because I said so. "But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin." (Romans 14:22-23) Like not reading this blog. Thanks Paul, buddy, for clearing that up. Now go out and sin no more.

Until the next........