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Tyranasaur
Posted Feb 16, 2012
I watched the is film earlier...god I wished I hadn't. It's a British film from last year.
I think it's probably one of the most unpleasant films I've ever seen. Right from the start the most full on vicious violence. The main character kicks his dog to death at the start. There is violence and the F word and C word being used at very regular intervals.
The woman character is subjected to the most appalling violence, culminating in a most horendous rape scene. She is quite a fragile woman and behaves mostly passively in the film.
But it is the unrelenting nature of the violence *all* the way through the film...to me that is even crap as art...no variety of tone...from beginning to end.
I feel haunted by it...I kept watching because I hoped the tone would change...and I didn't want to be left with all that if something more optimistic was going to happen. It didn't.
And I can report I was physically sick afterwards. I don't remeber a film ever literally causing that before. That helped a bit. I'm hoping writing this will also help a bit.
Absolutely horrible.
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St. Valentine's Day
Posted Feb 14, 2012
In honour of it.
Shakespeares' Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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What to do about travel to the countryside?
Posted Feb 13, 2012
I suddenly had the most terrible thought earlier that had me crying my eyes out. How will I ever see the countryside again ie those places I know that no bus or train goes near, without a car?
I can't imagine being able to drive a car again..it feels too big as a vehicle to control now. I wouldn't feel safe for others, and Hoo made that clear last year in any case.
But I don't know how I'll cope psychologically with that loss. And christ I've had enough loss. None of my friends have cars.
It hasn't mattered in the winter.
The only thing I can think is to get a scooter. I could easily imagine driving one of those and controlling it.
I haven't been to the countryside in 2 years...but I can't imagine another year not visiting...and the thought that I'll never go again is unbearable. The places I like are remote, that I got to know when I lived in Sussex. I need it this year.
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Of late
Posted Feb 9, 2012
The garden has looked incredibly beautiful of late in its desolate midwinter state...especially with the snow we've had and the incredibly low night temperatures.
And now its gradually melting but little patches of the remaining icy snow make patterns all over the place.
The pond has been frozen for weeks but amusingly has fox footprints on the surface.
The cat, Stripey has been round regularly and happily sleeps for a bit now in the kitchen when it suits her..
As it should be with a cat....when it suits.
I put up a few photos of garden of late and Stripey sleeping.
http://bit.ly/zjZ1GD
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'There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.'
Posted Feb 7, 2012
In honour of today being the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens...I offer this journal. The above quote from 'A Christmas Carol'
I recommend Dickens to everyone.
Don't have a favourite; I adored every novel of his I read.
http://charlesdickenspage.com/works.html
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