Lilo and Stich was and is a beloved movie in our family. My daughter, now in her 20’s had fairly limed media when she grew up. Repeat viewings of Lilo and Stich, Shrek, Spirit: the something horse of the Cimmaron and Fairy Tale Theater. I’ve always loved the sadness of the film and you really put into words the comfiness and liquid pleasures of the movie. Whenever someone says we need something sturdy, I always quip “like a lobster”
Far too much of stuff-that-I-might-actually-give-a-shit-about in this month's round-up; please watch more anime next month so that I can save myself half-an-hour's reading time. That aside, I loved reading your takes. Am resigning myself to the fact that I'm going to have watch some fucking Star Wars for the first time this millennium – I just keep hearing too much good stuff about Andor not to. Fuckit.
Also, at last I know what's wrong with me: my pattern-discretion neurons are all fucked up. (And the rest, obvs).
Oh and, apropos of nothing, have you ever read any Peter Vansittart? I don't expect you to have (he's hardly well known), it's just that... his Parsifal entranced me, and I just started The Death of Robin Hood, and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND A FUCKING WORD OF IT but it is SO SO VERY deeply _something_, I'm hypnotised, and I keep find myself wondering "I wonder what somebody who can actually read critically & grok things would make of this, somebody with tip-top A1 pattern-discretion neurons, somebody like... Patrick?"
Dan you are the very Mushroom Man who is the most dangerous kind. You should get the illustrated version of 'Entangled Life', I suspect your witchy communion would love it.
I know nothing about Vansittart! I will add him to my very-long 'prospective reads' list.
and you are right i do have the best neurones many people are saying this
I am well aware that I am, in this respect, the most dangerous kind. However, recognising the problem being the first step to solving the problem, I am less dangerous than the less aware members of my coven. However, believing that I am less dangerous no doubt makes me more dangerous. However, recognising the problem being the...
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I actually bought the unillustrated edition of the Sheldrake book when it first came out. Have yet to open it. Every other take on it that I've heard (I've heard many) has been breathy and uncritical, so your counterpoint is much welcome. The time I lose watching Andor, I can claw back by still not reading Sheldrake (although, of course, I now have to buy & read the Halliday, so my account is down overall).
(Sidenote: a very old friend of mine used to hang out with M & C Sheldrake; claims that, when they were kids, their annual Christmas present from ma & pa each year would be a hit of ketamine. Nice one, Rups & Jill 🤦)
Vansittart: yeah, nobody seems to have heard of him nowadays. A wise and sickeningly well-read friend of mine dropped his name in conversation several times, so I thought I would investigate, and dropped £Too.Much on Bookfinder. There's an LRB article about him online, from 1986, in which the author writes "most people have read at least one of his books", but I think that what he means is "most people on my street in Islington have read at least one of his books". I keep getting the sense, when reading, that his stuff (particularly the Arthurian) is made for you, but I'm probably wrong – those pesky neurones. Speaking of which, look after yours! We're going to need them when we re-clone humanity from scratch.
Lilo and Stich was and is a beloved movie in our family. My daughter, now in her 20’s had fairly limed media when she grew up. Repeat viewings of Lilo and Stich, Shrek, Spirit: the something horse of the Cimmaron and Fairy Tale Theater. I’ve always loved the sadness of the film and you really put into words the comfiness and liquid pleasures of the movie. Whenever someone says we need something sturdy, I always quip “like a lobster”
Far too much of stuff-that-I-might-actually-give-a-shit-about in this month's round-up; please watch more anime next month so that I can save myself half-an-hour's reading time. That aside, I loved reading your takes. Am resigning myself to the fact that I'm going to have watch some fucking Star Wars for the first time this millennium – I just keep hearing too much good stuff about Andor not to. Fuckit.
Also, at last I know what's wrong with me: my pattern-discretion neurons are all fucked up. (And the rest, obvs).
Oh and, apropos of nothing, have you ever read any Peter Vansittart? I don't expect you to have (he's hardly well known), it's just that... his Parsifal entranced me, and I just started The Death of Robin Hood, and I DO NOT UNDERSTAND A FUCKING WORD OF IT but it is SO SO VERY deeply _something_, I'm hypnotised, and I keep find myself wondering "I wonder what somebody who can actually read critically & grok things would make of this, somebody with tip-top A1 pattern-discretion neurons, somebody like... Patrick?"
Dan you are the very Mushroom Man who is the most dangerous kind. You should get the illustrated version of 'Entangled Life', I suspect your witchy communion would love it.
I know nothing about Vansittart! I will add him to my very-long 'prospective reads' list.
and you are right i do have the best neurones many people are saying this
I am well aware that I am, in this respect, the most dangerous kind. However, recognising the problem being the first step to solving the problem, I am less dangerous than the less aware members of my coven. However, believing that I am less dangerous no doubt makes me more dangerous. However, recognising the problem being the...
Oops, sorry.
I actually bought the unillustrated edition of the Sheldrake book when it first came out. Have yet to open it. Every other take on it that I've heard (I've heard many) has been breathy and uncritical, so your counterpoint is much welcome. The time I lose watching Andor, I can claw back by still not reading Sheldrake (although, of course, I now have to buy & read the Halliday, so my account is down overall).
(Sidenote: a very old friend of mine used to hang out with M & C Sheldrake; claims that, when they were kids, their annual Christmas present from ma & pa each year would be a hit of ketamine. Nice one, Rups & Jill 🤦)
Vansittart: yeah, nobody seems to have heard of him nowadays. A wise and sickeningly well-read friend of mine dropped his name in conversation several times, so I thought I would investigate, and dropped £Too.Much on Bookfinder. There's an LRB article about him online, from 1986, in which the author writes "most people have read at least one of his books", but I think that what he means is "most people on my street in Islington have read at least one of his books". I keep getting the sense, when reading, that his stuff (particularly the Arthurian) is made for you, but I'm probably wrong – those pesky neurones. Speaking of which, look after yours! We're going to need them when we re-clone humanity from scratch.