10 favorite films: 2012

Amour
Django Unchained
Holy Motors
Post Tenebras Lux
The Master
The Turin Horse
V/H/S
Sleeping Beauty
Detachment
Michael

short, simple.
Each film altered my perception in profound ways. Go check them out.

5 Greatest Active Cinematic Auteurs

End of the year has got me feeling senti-MENTAL. . . Hats off to these masters of light! ! ! Keeping me smiling, inspired, crying, and hopeful through these apocalyptic times.

1. Michael Haneke

THEE MODERN MASTERPIECE MACHINE. 2 Palms, 98/100 percent masterpiece consistency, hands down the epitomy of "moving" pictures.

2. Werner Herzog

THEE PIONEER. Watching "My Best Fiend" renewed my absolute total respect and admiration for this living legend. 2 words: Klaus Kinski. 2 films: Aguirre & Woyzeck. Laurel Canyon's most interesting resident.

3. Quentin Tarantino

THEE ORIGINAL. Ironic that the master of references be called original, but he does it MUCH better than anyone else. Period. Through this process QT has developed a truly unique and original style. After viewing Django today, I would vote him world's best director of actor's. An American master.

4. Gaspar Noe

THEE EXPERIMENTER. With a solid 100 percent perfect track record of progressive cinematic master-works under his belt, GN is the director I look to as a model and direct influence. Best visuals ever layed down on celluloid... ever.

5. Park Chan Wook - Carlos Reygadas

TIE. Can't leave these two out. I am constantly blown away after watching these two auteurs work. When it comes to narrative, visuals, and style, these two are at the very top, the crest of the cutting edge. The new...

Crush Cut Up

Dedicated to Brion Gysin, William S Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Chinese rabbits, and Nico.

LASER tag

Nothing beats creating, laughing like a kid, hanging in the company of good people, and breaking the law. Last night I set out as the sun hid, gear in hand, and ended up downtown. Inspiration smiled as I shined a light on the lonely buildings, and gave the sky something new to look at.

DELUSION

A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.[1] Unlike hallucinations, delusions are always pathological (the result of an illness or illness process).[1] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.
Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or mental illness, although they are not tied to any particular disease and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical and mental). However, they are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, paraphrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression.

Another "election" day 11-4-12

What a joke. The picture above, a mormon standing silent as an ominous pre-recorded voice instructs followers how to follow the ways of Joseph Smith etc. is more interesting than this so called election coverage. If I had plato or plomo for every post about getting out and voting, I would use them. Because it wasn't so log ago that a charismatic man mesmerized the country with "HOPE". I knew it then, and I know it now, there is no hope. Once we deal with that, really face it as the collective virus that we are, then maybe we can start living.

Let go, Don't try.

Have you seen the scientific journal reports lately...? Take a look, it's not pretty. It's fucking ugly. And no one cares less than those in charge. Think about it.... really really ponder where this culture is headed. Take a good long look around you. what do you see? I see a concrete jungle filled with insects with insatiable greed. If you are lucky enough to see trees, and water, and birds from your view... first, what are you doing reading this, destroy your gadget! Second, cherish that which is left untouched by this deadly human hand, the dark hand that poisons everything in its path. Read alternative history, not written by the winner's perspective. Never come back to wherever you left. Never look back.

And if I'm preaching to the choir, God bless you..... Mitt 2016

“El Jibaro”

Puerto Rico - Oso Blanco frame capture - Expression of a man's pain, 4 yrs naked, cold, and in a pitch black dungeon. 4 YEARS Straight, not for one second was he let out of hell. No one, no thing, nada.... how did he make it? What did he think sitting there... time is gone, reality is gone, you are almost gone....but, something, someone, some strength, from within or without, it doesn't matter. No doubt that is a man I respect, his essence tested to the limit. And one day the door opened... blinding him.... but he could see......

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