The Shield of Honor (Emory Johnson, 1927).

The Flying Serpent (1946)

My rating: 5/10

Fairly standard "guy with a murder creature" type stuff, but the monster is pretty funny, and at just under an hour it doesn't really have time to get too tedious.

Films Watched in 2022:

61. Outside the Law (1920) - Dir. Tod Browning

One Week from Today: Relive the Astor Place Theatre Riot!

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 5:30pm EDT Once again, friend, Ralph Lewis, Bowery Booster and vital third of the conscientious triumvirate known as Peculiar Works Project is offering his gripping, minute by minute explication of the Astor Place Riots on their anniversary through the NY Adventure Club. May 10 is the anniversary of that that looney event, when nativist supporters of actor Edwin…

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Strange Days

Ralph M. Lewis – The Science Of Mysticism

Halloween Season: The Occult!

Ralph M. Lewis Imperator of Rosicrucian organisation, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) made a couple of albums.

From the Gatefold:

"Personal instruction by the spoken word! Forty minutes of instructive discourse and demonstration. In this recording, Imperator Ralph M. Lewis dramatically describes the proper methods for achieving success in concentration, contemplation, and meditation; three techniques which embrace our whole existance. These vital tools of the student of Mysticism are important assets to every member of AMORC".

Get it from my Google Drive HERE

Strange Days (1995)

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti

Sheryl Lee Ralph & Dawnn Lewis at "The United Negro College Fund Kick-Off Party (1988).

the holy trinity. worshipping at the altar of kathryn bigelow

STRANGE DAYS (1995) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

See... I can get you what you want. I can. I can get you anything. You just have to talk to me, you have to trust me. You can trust me, 'cause I'm your priest, I'm your shrink... I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it.

Wandavision characters as onion articles and textposts (with a bonus Knives Out: Glass Onion meme):

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Bonus:

STRANGE DAYS (1995): Elaborately derivative, unpleasantly sordid cyberpunk thriller, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, set in Los Angeles in late December 1999 (still four years in the future when the film was released) and starring Ralph Fiennes as Lenny, a disgraced former vice cop and down-at-heels dealer in black market recordings for a technology that lets the user experience someone else's prerecorded memories (essentially the "simstim" rigs from William Gibson's Sprawl novels). After a former acquaintance leaves him a recording that could set a match to a city already perpetually teetering on the brink of riot — and which seems somehow connected to Lenny's estranged ex-girlfriend Faith (Juliette Lewis) and her sleazy producer/pimp/boyfriend Philo (Michael Wincott) — Lenny ends up on the run, aided only by his former partner Max (Tom Sizemore) and his inexplicably loyal driver/bodyguard/ex-girlfriend Mace (Angela Bassett, in a role obviously inspired by Gibson's Molly Millions, albeit without the hardware).

The story, which is by James Cameron, borrows liberally from William Gibson throughout (with an icky soupçon of Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM), but by keeping the setting to the then very near future, it remains topical and largely avoids reducing the cyberpunk trappings to a series of rote aesthetic gestures in the manner of the R. Talsorian CYBERPUNK games. However, a bunch of important narrative elements just don't gel (Lenny, whom Fiennes plays as a sort of musty wet dishrag of a man, is not at all convincing as an ex-cop, and the idea that Mace is still carrying a torch for him is hard to credit), and it's often really ugly (in particular a horrifying rape/snuff sequence that's upsetting to watch even if you're forewarned).

Worse, the film then catastrophically undermines its own political throughline with a preposterous and infuriating cop-out ending that betrays the filmmakers' white liberal equivocation about policing and race. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Only in a brief and obvious performative simstim sequence. VERDICT: Intermittently compelling — particularly Bassett, who is magnificent in every respect and by far the best thing in the movie — but its sheer nastiness and the cowardly ending tend to overshadow its virtues. CWs apply for graphic sexual violence and police brutality.

Wandavision 1x09 - The Series Finale

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤

the temporary nature of life has been weighing rather heavily for the past few weeks... isn't it weird how these men we love are all dead? how their memories have been woven into the fabric of our lives, even if we haven't shared words with them? anyway, may their memories be a blessing and so too shall their souls be righteously judged.

↪ All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque / Frozen Pines by Lord Huron / East of Eden by John Steinbeck / Frozen Pines by Lord Huron / The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi

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