Log24

Fantasy:  Moment by Stella

Reality:  A Death on October 25

Intersection:

For related British humor, see a Venn diagram by
Alexander Matthews.* I prefer the Venn intersection
in Object Lesson continued, a Log24 post from
July 1, 2007.

* The Matthews diagram is from July 31, 2012.
For less-facetious remarks from that date
see Rowling Birthday in this  journal.

Relevant material:

• The title of this weblog,
• "24 Hour Psycho," and
• the theme from "Blackboard Jungle."

Or: Chinny-Chin-Chin .

This post will be meaningless unless you
have seen the recent film "R.I.P.D.," starring
James Hong and Jeff Bridges.

(In that film, two deceased lawmen appear to 
the living in disguised form— as Hong, and 
as Bridges in the guise of a major babe.)

From the AP Today in History  page
for October 29, 2013 —

On this date in:
1967 The musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway.

This, together with the Halloween season and
"R.I.P.D.," suggests a bizarre show:

"And there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space…"
– Don McLean, "American Pie" 

The show would star Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges
as, respectively, Jackie Chan and Nicole Kidman in…

V.I.P.D.

See also some related posts with Jeff Bridges.

Backstory: Sermon (Nov. 18,  2012) and
Eternal Recreation (Dec. 24, 2012).

"We've lost the plot!" — "Slipstream."  Small wonder.

"Frank actually makes the moment.
He captures it and helps to define it."

— Architect Robert Kahn on artist
Frank Stella, as quoted by
Nancy Wolfson in "Rings of Art,"
Cigar Aficionado , Autumn 1995

Related material: A review of a work
by Stella quoted here on Friday,
October 25, 2013 (Picasso's birthday,
and the date of death for art theorist
Arthur C. Danto).

See also this journal on July 13, 2003.

See August 9, 2009 at Haaretz and in this journal.

For Mike Nichols…

Scene I:

"Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology 
in structuring the plot is innovative…."

— Wikipedia on the play "Betrayal," a version of which
    opens tonight

Scene II:

Reverse Chronology in Wikipedia —

"As a hypothetical example, if the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk 
was told using reverse chronology, the opening scene would depict
Jack chopping the beanstalk down and killing the giant. The next
scene would feature Jack being discovered by the giant and climbing
down the beanstalk in fear of his life. Later, we would see Jack running
into the man with the infamous magic beans, then, at the end of the film,
being sent off by his mother to sell the cow."

Scene III:

Dialogue for Scene III — 

"Sell the damn cow, Jack."

Epilogue:  Jack + Jill.

"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."

The New Yorker , May 13, 2002

See also Log24 ,  January 8, 2012.

"                          … Had they deceived us 
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?"

— Four Quartets

Good question.

Rhetorical questions by art critic Michael Glover—

"Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas
of the spiritual? Are we supposed to see behind
what we have here some kind of evidence of
superhuman energies at work in the universe?
Is this some kind of manifestation of the force
that through the green fuse drives the flower—
to quote a line from Dylan Thomas?"

Rhetorical answer —

See also St. Stephen's Day, 2012.

See also "Where Madness Lies."

Vigil for a teacher slain yesterday —

"Another student tweeted today to bring a candle
to Danvers High School at 8 p.m. tonight."

"How many miles to Babylon?"

… Continues.

"24 Hour Psycho" at the Museum of Modern Art in the novel
Point Omega  is illustrated in a New York Times  review—

Related material — Today's 1 PM post and… 

See also yesterday's  1 PM post.

From today's online New York Times —

The performance was on Wednesday evening.

See also an echo of Ovid.

  Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes
— Ovid, Metamorphoses , VIII, 188,
     epigraph to Joyce's Portrait

Log24 last month —

Paul Hertz, alias "Ignotus the Mage" —

"When we're doing the fortunetelling, as soon
as we finish capturing the face and the voice,
they get sent right over to the table." — Paul Hertz,
"Ignotus" video, 2013

Commentary:

"… ignotus  has faint connotations of lowness,
baseness, vulgarity"

— "International Eyesore: Joyce the Pornographer,"
by S. J. Boyd, pp. 31-60 in Troubled Histories, 
Troubled Fictions , ed. by C. C. Barfoot et al.

Or not so faint.

Related material:

The villanelle from A Portrait , and
a Log24 post of St. Stephen's Day, 2011.

This post was suggested by the business card
scene in American Psycho .

See also a post of May 20, Church Logic. The link to that
post was suggested in part by the death on September 23
of the artistic director of a 1960s church theater, and in part
by a Log24 post on September 23, "For Danny Boy."

… On the night of the October 18-19 full moon.

Related material for Richman from
the date of Hinds's death …

Knock, Knock, Knockin'.

Or perhaps the Richman.

Roger Richman, agent who represented image rights for the
estates of celebrities, reportedly died on October 9, 2013.

This journal on that date —

* For the title, see Apollo + Outram in this journal.

Click to enlarge —

Related material — El Lucero Puro .

(Continued)

At right above, a possible image of Queen Isabella I 
of Castile, attributed to Gerard David.

At left above, a Hollywood version.

Happy birthday to Chris Wallace and Hugh Jackman.

Related material: The Foot Configuration 
and Jews Telling Stories.

See also the epigraph to this morning's post Deconstruction —

"                          … Had they deceived us 
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?"

— Four Quartets

From a post of Oct. 13, 2009 linked to
in Friday morning's post "A Wake"—

See also some related reading.

See a post of October 13, 2009 (the upload date
for the video below), and consider the line…

"I bet he's out there shinin' like a diamond don't you know"

Happy birthday, Paulette.

For Amy Adams, who in a recent
Superman film posed the question…

"What's the S stand for?"

This logo appears on the new game
Beyond: Two Souls . (See this evening's
earlier post on the game.)

In a more appealing sort of computer
entertainment, the S might stand for Scarlett.

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

(From the October 5th post Dream Girls.) 

"What then?" — D. H. Lawrence on the novel

"What then?" — Yeats on Plato's ghost

(Saturday's Dream Girls, continued)

"How would you touch me?"

— The computer in the new film Her

For some remarks on Arcade Fire, see Saturday's 10 PM post 
and Sunday's 10:10 AM post.

In related news…

See also posts with Slow Art  and Amy Adams
shooting pool (scroll to the bottom).

(Continued from the Feast 
of St. Francis (Oct. 4), 2013)

An image suggested by the flower
on the cover of the book
Beautiful Mathematics —

Two Lips

(Those of Amy Adams in 2008)

"In the Master's chambers,
they gathered for the feast…"

Related material for the religiously inclined ​:

The Date  (August 8th, 2013)

(Continued from Frame Tale (Oct. 1) and 
this morning's Church with Josefine.)

See Trinity Knot in this journal.

Father

Son

Holy Spirit

Ite, missa est.

Her —

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

See also  the Oct. 13, 2011, post
        "Now, Here's My Plan"
  and Bester's The Deceivers —

(Continued. For the title, see Lucero  in this journal.)

See Newton in several works of literary art:

• Dürrenmatt's The Physicists  (spoiler alert)
• Newton at a Royal Wedding in Westminster Abbey
• Sicilian Reflections

The date, Nov. 23, 2010, of the Westminster Abbey remarks
in the second Newton link above suggests a quite different church 
​from that date.

(Continued from Monday, Sept. 30)

"The art of the playwright consists in
employing, to the most effective degree
possible, accident within the action."
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt, author of The Physicists

A link from 48 hours ago :  

Morphean adventures.

Related material for Wallace Stevens's birthday : 

Being's Road.

Click the above for some music and literary-philosophical remarks.

Related material: This journal on February 3 and 4, 2010.

"It's solution, dissolution." — Walter White

The Hallowed Crucible…  Continues.

Part I:

The Alchemist

Part II:

Back to Square One (Click for some backstory.)

Part III:

Chapter Eleven

Part IV:

Oh, What Can It Mean?

(This journal, 7 AM on Sunday, January 20th, 2008,
the date the first episode of Breaking Bad  was aired.)

From Dark Side Tales, a Log24 post
of August 26, 2013—

"And then one day you find
ten years have got behind you."

— Lyrics to Dark Side of the Moon

Or eleven.

See also today's previous post in light of
the bottom line of Dark Side Tales:

"the spirit's alchemicana."