Looks like I'm staying in ASP for a while. Must return and visit HTML from time time to time, catch up with (forgotten but easily remembered) friends, see what's changed and what's stayed the same.
Big bingeing, how dull to write about. Maybe a diary of my bowel movements would be more useful. Blew $800 in a day, birthday celebrations the excuse. Leaves me feeling poisoned and head-mashed. Bought a little bottle of bourbon for the non-drinker that I am to self-medicate with; as all the Valiums I got a fortnight ago were guzzled in the striving for further nullification whilst nullified. One good thing has come out of this period though. Finished DL Solaris, which I thought was the original 1972 film bought after I double-clicked it and saw "Twentieth Century Fox's" searchlights, I knew something was wrong. There was no intro screen whatsoever, either Soderbergh minimalism or a ripper's condensing manoeuvres, but it took me awhile to ascertain that George Clooney hadn't looked his current age back in 1972 Russia, instead Hollywood had (surprise surprise) found possibly the same list as I did (The 100 Best Foreign Films of all time!) http://www.filmsite.org/foreign100.html and had dutifully recreated the Russian original.
Reviews I read of this version pan it as dull dull dull. But I enjoyed it after overdosing on all three Lord Of The Rings movies in 24 hours. Somehow the realism of a space station seemed more mysterious and fantastic than all the "magic and mystery" of a CGI recreated Middle Earth. I guess it renewed my faith in the art of story telling, reminding me that you don't need fantastic settings/premises for fantastic ideas to work.
Anyways, I'm glad I saw it. I can't find a torrent for the original that works, Trash Video doesn't have a searchable database and I believe I am still black-banned from their store (it's a long story believe me, dating back to my May 1995 arrest). The Brisbane City Library has the soundtrack to the original on CD but no movie. So I have ordered the book in to Toowong library and look forward to reading it.
For now, back to Greg Egan, whose quote moved me to replace Jean Grae's pic and lyric quote on the index page of this site. SO that should give you an idea of the respect I feel for this man. Maybe I should email him and ask his post-permission?
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