Saturday, July 25, 2009
Indeterminacy 134
Ramakrishna spent an afternoon
explaining that everything is God.
Afterward,
one of his disciples
entered the evening traffic in
a euphoric state and
barely escaped being crushed to
death by an elephant.
He ran back to his
teacher and asked,
“Why do you say everything’s
God when just now I
was nearly killed by an elephant?”
Ramakrishna said,
“Tell me what happened.”
When the disciple got
to the point where he heard
the voice of the elephant’s
driver warning him several
times to get out of the
way, Ramakrishna
interrupted,
“That voice was God’s voice.”
- John Cage
Best Friends (1975)
Two young couples taste the free and easy life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
This starts off as a buddy road movie with the obligatory nudie scenes, but turns into a homo-erotic psychological drama, when the one guy, who can't accept that his buddy is going to marry the girl, turns into a psychopath. Somewhere inside this flic there is some ambition, there's one well-done fist-fight and the ending scene is actually quite original, but this all has been done much better elsewhere.
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
An upright police detective goes undercover to crack down on the syndicate.
Above-average gangster drama with 2 of its greatest starring doing their thing.
Friday, July 24, 2009
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