I saw a couple of movies this weekend that I thought were worth commenting on:
Incubus--This "horror" film has the distinction of being the only movie ever made with an Esperanto dialogue track. It stars a pre-Star Trek William Shatner and some other people. I was really geared to see this movie because it just sounded so absolutely out there. I wish I could tell you the plot, but unfortunately, about halfway through it, my brain froze because I had no idea what the hell was going on. It has some very artistic shots and looks great in black and white, but the movie is mostly an incoherent mess in which a lot of people walk around in the night while creepy music plays. This movie was presumed lost for a while I hear, until someone drummed up a copy of it somewhere. Oh the horror, the horror...
Ravenous- This movie is a mildly funny tale of cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada mountains set at the time of the Mexican-American War. It stars Guy Pearce and the always creepy Jeffery Jones as army officers in a remote California outpost who fall under the spell of a strange man with some rather unusual...uh appetites. Really, I had to give kudos to this movie for just being different from the usual Hollywood fare. I do think they could have developed the subtext that they started with at the beginning--America's policy of Manifest Destiny being akin to cannibalism--in the same fashion that the equally strange "Parents" (has anyone seen this?) used cannibalism as a metaphor for America's involvement in Vietnam. But, hey, I was entertained and it was free, right?
And last off, here are some lyrics to a song I wrote:
My Twin on the Rocket Ship
By Michael S. Walker
Yeah my twin on the rocket ship
Hes still got my youthful grin
Theres still a lot of worlds out there
Places hes never been
Yeah my twin on the beam of light
Still listening to Patti Smith at night
Thinking a word can open a door
If you just get it right
Yeah my twin
Hes waving to me each day
As I get up for work
Hes got his own
Ideas of gravity
Yeah its a certainty
Its somewhere
Yeah my twin on the rocket ship
Hes still got my youthful grin
Theres still an awful lot of worlds out there
Places hes never been
Incubus--This "horror" film has the distinction of being the only movie ever made with an Esperanto dialogue track. It stars a pre-Star Trek William Shatner and some other people. I was really geared to see this movie because it just sounded so absolutely out there. I wish I could tell you the plot, but unfortunately, about halfway through it, my brain froze because I had no idea what the hell was going on. It has some very artistic shots and looks great in black and white, but the movie is mostly an incoherent mess in which a lot of people walk around in the night while creepy music plays. This movie was presumed lost for a while I hear, until someone drummed up a copy of it somewhere. Oh the horror, the horror...
Ravenous- This movie is a mildly funny tale of cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada mountains set at the time of the Mexican-American War. It stars Guy Pearce and the always creepy Jeffery Jones as army officers in a remote California outpost who fall under the spell of a strange man with some rather unusual...uh appetites. Really, I had to give kudos to this movie for just being different from the usual Hollywood fare. I do think they could have developed the subtext that they started with at the beginning--America's policy of Manifest Destiny being akin to cannibalism--in the same fashion that the equally strange "Parents" (has anyone seen this?) used cannibalism as a metaphor for America's involvement in Vietnam. But, hey, I was entertained and it was free, right?
And last off, here are some lyrics to a song I wrote:
My Twin on the Rocket Ship
By Michael S. Walker
Yeah my twin on the rocket ship
Hes still got my youthful grin
Theres still a lot of worlds out there
Places hes never been
Yeah my twin on the beam of light
Still listening to Patti Smith at night
Thinking a word can open a door
If you just get it right
Yeah my twin
Hes waving to me each day
As I get up for work
Hes got his own
Ideas of gravity
Yeah its a certainty
Its somewhere
Yeah my twin on the rocket ship
Hes still got my youthful grin
Theres still an awful lot of worlds out there
Places hes never been
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
infinity:
good lyrics...and too bad the movies werent as good.
syzygy3030:
the ninth is awesome. i wish i had a copy. which recording do you have? (that's my problem with buying classical music--there are so many recordings of the same piece! hard to know what to get)