Clouds
I'd like to go on writing this book of ours (it's a shame, we have nearly the half of it), but as soon as i sit on the screen everything gets clouded. I get ideas, plots, characters, sometimes even musicscores, when i am driving or when i'm sitting in a bar. Everything is cristal clear. Until i sit and try to type it down. Damn. Perhaps it's a matter of technique. I just know, that i have to search for a solution soon.
Friday, March 15, 2002
Magic in Cinema: Jay and Silent Bob
It seems a bit out of place here to write about these two characters in Kevin Smiths movies, but wait: Theses two are really magic figures, and i think, Smith invented them that way (The resemblance of Smiths Alter Ego Silent Bob and his comicbook character Kevin Matchstick in the "Mage" series tells me that). In every movie these two guys come along helping the main character out of a situation that nobody could have done with just the "normal" human possibilities. They seem to have a special foresight, they seem to have ways to escape police or foes you will only find in fantasynovels or comicbooks.
Silent Bob, trying hard to learn the "Jedi"-trick of pulling things with the mind, finally succeeds in the last movie (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), so that the magic itself becomes more accurate with every installment: In "Mallrats" he is practicing this the whole time and at the end it works, but only by synchronicity: someone kicks a pole just in the right moment, so that the videocassette Bob does not reach is pushed right in his hand as he tries to reach it with the Jedi-Mindtrick. In the latest movie he does it right! Smiths movies are worth watching not only for Jay and Bob, but it's as well a very good reason if you do.
The right choice in the right order is:
Clerks(how it all began)
Mallrats(settles the score)
Chasing Amy (for magical purposes neglectable)
Dogma (for magical purposes a must have)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (the great finale)
It seems a bit out of place here to write about these two characters in Kevin Smiths movies, but wait: Theses two are really magic figures, and i think, Smith invented them that way (The resemblance of Smiths Alter Ego Silent Bob and his comicbook character Kevin Matchstick in the "Mage" series tells me that). In every movie these two guys come along helping the main character out of a situation that nobody could have done with just the "normal" human possibilities. They seem to have a special foresight, they seem to have ways to escape police or foes you will only find in fantasynovels or comicbooks.
Silent Bob, trying hard to learn the "Jedi"-trick of pulling things with the mind, finally succeeds in the last movie (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), so that the magic itself becomes more accurate with every installment: In "Mallrats" he is practicing this the whole time and at the end it works, but only by synchronicity: someone kicks a pole just in the right moment, so that the videocassette Bob does not reach is pushed right in his hand as he tries to reach it with the Jedi-Mindtrick. In the latest movie he does it right! Smiths movies are worth watching not only for Jay and Bob, but it's as well a very good reason if you do.
The right choice in the right order is:
Clerks(how it all began)
Mallrats(settles the score)
Chasing Amy (for magical purposes neglectable)
Dogma (for magical purposes a must have)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (the great finale)
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Mages in emotion
Some, ...well...very few, will remember the "Trenchcoatbrigade" CD i put together at the end of the year 2000, that contained songs and music that connects to people i could call my magical ratpack. It was very moody and quite dark and pensive and perhaps less cheerful that it could have been. But my friends liked it very much, so i think that i found the right blend at the right time.
I just start collecting songs for the next edition of the CD, and this time too, it will not be less moody, surely because i have to apologize to one of my friends, whom i seem to have hurt very much, measured on his response to not knowing me any more. But it will be a bit more agressive as well, fitting my loss of patience with some matters. One of the songs that are in the momentary shortlist is Nickelbacks "How you remind me". I dunno why, but it fits absolutely to the state i'm in these days.
Some, ...well...very few, will remember the "Trenchcoatbrigade" CD i put together at the end of the year 2000, that contained songs and music that connects to people i could call my magical ratpack. It was very moody and quite dark and pensive and perhaps less cheerful that it could have been. But my friends liked it very much, so i think that i found the right blend at the right time.
I just start collecting songs for the next edition of the CD, and this time too, it will not be less moody, surely because i have to apologize to one of my friends, whom i seem to have hurt very much, measured on his response to not knowing me any more. But it will be a bit more agressive as well, fitting my loss of patience with some matters. One of the songs that are in the momentary shortlist is Nickelbacks "How you remind me". I dunno why, but it fits absolutely to the state i'm in these days.
Monday, March 04, 2002
It has been a while
but at last we all need a little time to catch some breath and contemplate. In terms of magic the last weeks went well, but without new challenges or highlights. This is a nice change for me after the harder times that lie behind. And i will certainly not complain about it. I even had time for some new projects that will certainly not please these hypocrite "i am big cheese" magickians and "my knowledge has to be secret for your own safety" high-priests.
Just having seen, that one of these people has been proven to steal all his answers from other internet sites pretending that this knowledge is his very own (he even did not change the sentences of copyrighted material) in an online forum shows me, that people are quite aware and alerted. This is very encouraging. Of course, the direct followers and friends are griping now trying to call the claims down to be a exaggerated peccadillo, but even with doing this they just show their shiftlessness. Down from his pedestal he fell - thats what everybody could see.
but at last we all need a little time to catch some breath and contemplate. In terms of magic the last weeks went well, but without new challenges or highlights. This is a nice change for me after the harder times that lie behind. And i will certainly not complain about it. I even had time for some new projects that will certainly not please these hypocrite "i am big cheese" magickians and "my knowledge has to be secret for your own safety" high-priests.
Just having seen, that one of these people has been proven to steal all his answers from other internet sites pretending that this knowledge is his very own (he even did not change the sentences of copyrighted material) in an online forum shows me, that people are quite aware and alerted. This is very encouraging. Of course, the direct followers and friends are griping now trying to call the claims down to be a exaggerated peccadillo, but even with doing this they just show their shiftlessness. Down from his pedestal he fell - thats what everybody could see.
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