tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post6579763223018451970..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: meditation on Infinite Thought's modernist pornRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-33352990579162071222007-07-17T14:41:00.000+02:002007-07-17T14:41:00.000+02:00Thanks, Roger, that is very rich. I think many pe...Thanks, Roger, that is very rich. I think many people have no idea just how rich the world is, still. And sometimes just knowing it is rich is as far as you'll ever get. And that's enough. PeaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-72755597960516921652007-07-17T06:16:00.000+02:002007-07-17T06:16:00.000+02:00Ah, I did find, on the web, Incandenza's filmograp...Ah, I did find, on the web, <A HREF="http://www.i1.net/~bytor/incadenza.html" REL="nofollow">Incandenza's filmography</A>. Got a quote a couple of films: <BR/><BR/>"Cage III - Free Show" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions/Infernation Animation Concepts, Canada. Cosgrove Watt, P.A. Heaven, Everard Maynell, Pam Heath; partial animation; 35 mm; 65 minutes; black and white; sound. The figure of death (Heath) presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators' eyes become larger and larger until the spectators themselves are transformed into gigantic eyeballs in chairs, while on the other side of the sideshow tent the figure of Life (Heaven) uses a megaphone to invite fairgoers to an exhibition in which, if the fairgoers consent to undergo unspeakable degradations, they can witness ordinary persons gradually turn into gigantic eyeballs. INTERLACE TELENT FEATURE CARTRIDGE #357-65-65<BR/><BR/>"Mobius Strips" - Year of the Whopper. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. 'Hugh G. Rection', Pam Heath, 'Bunny Day', 'Taffy Appel'; 35 mm; 109 minutes; black and white; sound. Pornography-parody, possible parodic homage to Fosse's All That Jazz, in which a theoretical physicist ('Rection'), who can only achieve creative mathematical insight during coitus, conceives of Death as a lethally beautiful woman (Heath). INTERLACE TELENT FEATURE CARTRIDGE #357-65-32 (Y.W.)<BR/><BR/>And, of course:<BR/><BR/>"(The) Desire To Desire" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Robert Lingley, 'Madame Psychosis', Marla-Dean Chumm; 35 mm; 99 minutes (?); black and white; silent. A pathology resident (Lingley) falls in love with a beautiful cadaver ('Psychosis') and the paralyzed sister (Chumm) she died rescuing from the attack of an oversized feral infant. Listed by some archivists as unfinished. UNRELEASED"Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-25990819479930974562007-07-17T06:05:00.000+02:002007-07-17T06:05:00.000+02:00ahfuckit, I believe that film is called Infinite J...ahfuckit, I believe that film is called Infinite Jest! aka The Entertainment Made by James Incandenza, the film is not only so fascinating that you have to see it to the end, it is so fascinating that you have to see it until you die. That's the joy juice indeed. I loaned my fucking copy of IJ to somebody, so I can't find the passage describing this.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-26379091733753268812007-07-17T05:20:00.000+02:002007-07-17T05:20:00.000+02:00philosophy in film, assignment 2, summer 2006(2.10...<A HREF="http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~sdalton/filmass2su06.html" REL="nofollow">philosophy in film, assignment 2, summer 2006<BR/></A><BR/>(2.10) In Boogie Nights Jack describes his dream of the ideal porn film thus: " It is my dream, it is my goal, it is my idea to make a film that the story sucks them in, and when they spurt out that joy juice, they just got to sit in it. They can't move until they find out how the story ends.... it's my dream to make a film that is true and right and dramatic." Is such a transcendent work of porn possible? Can a porn film also be "true and right and dramatic"? Write a 3 page (at least) essay on this very interesting question. Your goal should be to help Jack out, to show him the way to create his ideal film, or to realize that such a film is impossible and therefore he should give up now. Along the way you should also help us understand better some of those issues that Socrates and his friends addressed in the Symposium: love, sex, beauty, attraction, goodness, desire, possession, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-55074127642415285412007-07-17T05:19:00.000+02:002007-07-17T05:19:00.000+02:00You could organize it around Sting. He never cums...You could organize it around Sting. He <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1082918,00.html" REL="nofollow">never cums</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-7982465904564023062007-07-15T04:59:00.000+02:002007-07-15T04:59:00.000+02:00hey, thanks for the tip, Roger. Last Call, By Tim ...hey, thanks for the tip, Roger. <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=7NRcsQtAWwMC" REL="nofollow">Last Call, By Tim Powers</A><BR/><BR/>AQ 1268 = A REALITY WHERE POWERS GREAT AND UNKNOWN LURK JUST BEYOND PERCEPTION = CONVERSION FROM SKEPTIC TO BELIEVER IS QUINTESSENTIAL URBAN FANTASY (<EM>AQ-370 <A HREF="http://www.strangewords.com/archive/lastcall.html" REL="nofollow">VEGAS ON THE HALF SHELL</A></EM>).northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-35932538051278505912007-07-14T22:16:00.000+02:002007-07-14T22:16:00.000+02:00North, I wonder, have you ever read any of the det...North, I wonder, have you ever read any of the detective novels, if that is what they are, of Tim Powers? Writes them from a heavy tarot point of view. I'm reading Last Call and probably missing half the clues, but YOU would get them. The guru gambler in the book treats the cards like daemons. There's also a game called Assumption that has a few odd rules, 'a game with a weird deck, all pictures', as one of the Nevada gamblers says.<BR/>You might like this guy.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-44744683447366156372007-07-14T18:47:00.000+02:002007-07-14T18:47:00.000+02:00AQ 518 = BARELY TOLERATED SPINSTERS (Tennessee Wil...AQ 518 = BARELY TOLERATED SPINSTERS (<EM>Tennessee Williams</EM>) = <A HREF="http://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2001/07/so-when-ferdinand-lopez-borrows-750.html" REL="nofollow">A DISSERTATION ON JANE AUSTEN</A> (<EM>Sarah Raff</EM>) = LA PHILOSOPHIE DANS LE BOUDOIR (<EM>Marquis de Sade</EM>).northangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124226438327229521noreply@blogger.com