The previous post suggests a media review.
Doppelgangers from the wonderful world of entertainment —
“We have a clip.” — Kalle (Kristen Wiig on SNL)
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Some Style
Dialogue from the 1984 fourth draft of the script, as found on the Web,
for "Back to the Future" (1985) (apparently some changes were made
in the filming) —
A sort of "flux capacitor" (see previous post) —
… plus "e" for Einstein …
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Saturday, May 19, 2018
Flux Capacitor
For Tom Hanks and Dan Brown —
From "Raiders of the Lost Images" —
"The cube shape of the lost Mother Box,
also known as the Change Engine,
is shared by the Stone in a novel by
Charles Williams, Many Dimensions .
See the Solomon's Cube webpage."
See as well a Google search for flux philosophy —
https://www.google.com/search?q=flux+philosophy.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Friday, August 25, 2017
Two Paths for the Impersonal Essay
The above is a variation on a title from last night's post By Degrees.
The Literary Path —
The Hollywood Path —
Further remarks on algebra and space —
See as well the above image in yesterday's post Maori Chess, Vol. 2.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Auto Detailing
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
Background from January 25, 2017 —
"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Requiem for an Editor
"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe
(Suggested by Tom Wolfe, the late Byron Dobell, and
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby .)
See also Great Again? and Great Again.
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Monday, January 23, 2017
Great Again?
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Thursday, October 22, 2015
A Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Friday, July 15, 2011
The Magic of Numbers*
NY Lottery this afternoon:
See Post 757— "Release Date"— and The-Numbers.com
on a film with the release date 7/3/85.
* Title of a course at Harvard. See (for instance)
the Harvard page on The Numerology of the Beast—
"Now in math the magic is not in special numbers
like 7 or 28, but in the fabric of number systems…."
Sure it is.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Monday November 19, 2007
Lament for a DJ
In memory of Philadelphia DJ Hy Lit, who died on Saturday at 73:
"Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his 'Sweet Little Sixteen,' the lines 'Well, they'll be rockin' on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P.A.' I remember 'Bandstand' before it was 'American…' It started in 1952, when Walter Annenberg, whose Triangle Publications owned the WFIL radio and television stations, suggested an afternoon TV dance party…."
— Richard Corliss, TIME magazine, July 14, 2001
Related material: Back to the Future (Log24 on Sunday)
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Sunday, February 23, 2003
Sunday February 23, 2003
Grammy Night
Today's musical birthday: bassist Steven Priest of Sweet.
Today's back-to-the-future trip: See the article "Sweet Tunes…." on Chuck Berry at the top of today's New York Times website.
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen," by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
Click on the above for the context.
"Are you ready, Steve? Aha….
And the girl in the corner is ev'ryone's mourner.
She could kill you with a wink of her eye."
— "Ballroom Blitz," by Sweet
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