Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Note for a Blue Guitar
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Saturday, September 7, 2019
Fury Road: Jukebox Hero*
"Fury: OK. Your turn. Prove you're not a Skrull.
[Carol calmly blasts energy out of her fists towards a jukebox
on the opposite side of the room before resting her head
back on her fist. Fury continues to look towards the jukebox,
both concerned and confused]
Fury: And how is that supposed to prove to me that you're not a Skrull?
Carol: It's a photon blast.
Fury: And…?
Carol: A Skrull can't do that. So a full-bird colonel turned spy turned
SHIELD agent must have pretty high security clearance. Where's Pegasus?
[The scene changes to a black car driving through an empty highway
next to a mountain, before changing to the inside of the car showing Fury
driving and Carol in the passenger seat]
Fury: So the Skrulls are alien races which infiltrate and overtake alien planets.
And you're a Kree, a race of noble warriors.
Carol: Heroes. Noble warrior heroes."
* See also this morning's post in memory of guitarist Jimmy Johnson,
as well as . . .
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
Song for a Blue Guitar
From a 2012 piece on author Oliver Sacks:
"… he successfully set out to envision a splash of
true indigo, the colour he had been fascinated by
since childhood."
Related material: The tag indigo in this journal and
Annie Lennox singing "Mood Indigo."
Thanks to UD for pointing out the Sacks piece.
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Metaphysics for Sunday
From Chapter 1 of R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience —
"An activity has to be understood in terms of the experience
from which it emerges. These arabesques that mysteriously
embody mathematical truths only glimpsed by a very few —
how beautiful, how exquisite — no matter that they were
the threshing and thrashing of a drowning man.
We are here beyond all questions except those of being
and nonbeing, incarnation, birth, life and death.
Creation ex nihilo has been pronounced impossible even for
God. But we are concerned with miracles. We must hear the
music of those Braque guitars (Lorca*)."
See also Christmas Day, 2009.
* Update of Sunday afternoon: A search for the Lorca quote yields
no result, but Cocteau wrote that "Mon rêve, en musique, serait
d'entendre la musique des guitares de Picasso. "
(Oeuvres complètes , Vol. 10, p. 107)
See also Stevens + "Blue Guitar" in this journal.
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