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Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All)...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:09:38 +0930

Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All) (1998): Gaspar Noe, who won awards (Prix Georges Sadoul, Cannes Crix Week) for his 40-minute Carne (1991), continues where that film ended, beginning with a Carne recap: The Butcher (Philippe Nahon) narrates, telling how, as a war orphan working at 14, he opened his horsemeat butcher shop and fathered a mute, retarded daughter. After the mother and daughter left for life in a Paris suburb, he served a prison term after an assault on someone he mistakenly believed had raped his daughter. The follow-up sequel, set in a Lille suburb, begins in 1980: Obese bar owner (Franjkyie Pain) is pregnant by The Butcher, who is unable to find work. The couple moves in with her mother, but he becomes irritated with the two women and goes to Paris where the humiliation of job-hunting and the sum total of futility and hopelessness triggers thoughts of what he might accomplish with his gun and his last three bullets. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Medea (whole movie): Directed by Lars von Trier. With Kirsten...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:10:05 +0930

Medea (whole movie): Directed by Lars von Trier. With Kirsten Olesen and Udo Kier. 1988. Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the throne. In exchange, Medea and the boys are to be banished. Jason explains that his actions ensure a rich future for Medea and her sons. She asks that she be allowed to stay; Kreon refuses. She asks for one more day, and begs Jason to seek the king’s permission to allow their sons to stay in Corinth. Jason agrees and Medea prepares a gift for her sons to give to Glauce. Will Medea leave peacefully?

Santa Sangre (whole movie): Circus horrors cross over into the...

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:14:43 +0930

Santa Sangre (whole movie):

Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man who brought you the infamous El Topo. Fenix (Adan Jodorowsky, the director’s son) is the son of a circus strongman (Guy Stockwell) and an aerialist (Blanca Guerra). One night, the mother sees from her high perspective that her husband is fooling around with the tattooed lady. She later confronts him and throws acid on him in retaliation. He saws off her arms in return and kills himself. Fenix, witness to all this, runs away raving. Years later, Fenix (now played by older brother Axel Jodorowski) is released from an insane asylum by his armless mother. She wants to go on a murderous revenge spree, and maybe play a little piano, and she needs Fenix to be her arms for both tasks. Though the film has some of the hallucinatory qualities of Jodorowsky’s earlier films, Santa Sangre doesn’t quite have the same punch, particularly in terms of cerebral and emotional impact, despite its fine visuals. Santa Sangre is available in both R-rated and NC-17 edits. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi

R, 2 hr. 3 min.

Drama, Horror, Art House & International,Science Fiction & Fantasy, Special Interest

Directed By: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Written By: Claudio Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roberto Leoni

Republic Pictures Home Video

Stalker (1979) Andrei...

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:06:42 +0930

Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky

http://youtu.be/JYEfJhkPK7o

http://youtu.be/hUHBgqx8YP8

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Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. The film follows three men — the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) — as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the “Zone.” In the Zone, nothing is what it seems. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence is actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker: a magical room which has the power to make wishes come true. The Stalker is the hired guide for the journey who has, through repeated visits to the Zone, become accustomed to its complex traps, pitfalls, and subtle distortions. Only by following his lead (which often involves taking the longest, most frustrating route) can the Writer and the Scientist make it alive to the bunker and the room. As the men travel farther into the Zone, they realize it may take something more than just determination to succeed: it may actually take faith. Increasingly unsure of their deepest desires, they confront the room wondering if they can, in the end, take responsibility for the fulfillment of their own wishes. ~ Anthony Reed, Rovi

Unrated, 2 hr. 40 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky

Wise Blood (1979) An American-German drama directed by John...

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:26:56 +0930

Wise Blood (1979)

An American-German drama directed by John Huston and based on the 1952 novel Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor. It was filmed mostly in and around Macon, Georgia, near O’Connor’s home “Andalusia” in Baldwin County, using many local residents as extras. Though largely faithful to O’Connor’s novel, Huston reframes many scenes from the book as broad comedy accompanied by a bluegrass banjo score. The original music score was composed by Alex North. The film was titled Der Ketzer or Die Weisheit des Blutes when released in German, and Le Malin when released in France. Wise Blood was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, and was released on DVD by Criterion Collection on May 12, 2009.

Cast: Mary Nell Santacroce, William Hickey, J.L. Parker, Brad Dourif, Harry Dean Stanton, Ned Beatty, Amy Wright, Dan Shor, John Huston

Philosophy A collection of good thoughts: In Praise of...

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:21:14 +0930

Philosophy

A collection of good thoughts:

In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell,

William Burroughs: Advice for Young People,

Some Robert Anton Wilson, Allen Ginsberg, Nietzsche, Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne & Schopenhauer

WHITE TIGER A:. A:. Album Launch – May 5th 2012 Squatters Arms, SA

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:29:56 +0930

WHITE TIGER A:. A:. Album Launch – May 5th 2012 Squatters Arms, SA:

WHITE TIGER A:. A:. Album Launch
with:
DIE LIKE A GOD
TWISTED SUBTERRANEAN DEATH TRAP
MONOLITH
SISTA NOTORIOUS
KAOS KOLLEKTIV 11:11

Saturday, May 05 at 8:30 PM - Squatters Arms Hotel - 1 George St

Thebarton, SA 5031 AUSTRALIA - Map It

It’s been about 5 years since WT’s last appearance and it’ll more than likely the last appearance so make sure you don’t miss it. It will be truly be a gig to remember.

“I went to see White Tiger, and White Tiger alone. As I half-expected, the impact was such I left immediately the band had finished to write this, and, as I type, I doubt the Messiah has gotten half-way through their set.
White Tiger have been rehearsing since June 2007, and this is their first gig. All the members are old lags who, basically, feel it’s time to stop writing songs which no-one listens to and performing to twelve people and they’re all the members of the support bands. So why not enjoy themselves, they clearly thought?
At the moment, there are five members (if that’s the word I’m looking for. Perhaps ‘disciples’ might be more appropriate); three guitars (one doubling with a pc), a bass and drums. And that is about as far as convention takes us.
Wearing nowt but white paint, improvised loinclothes (the drummer’s looked suspiciously like a bath-towel) and blank mime masks (front and back of the head), White Tiger look ugly (they’re no spring-chickens, sorry girls), disturbing and – here’s the rub – rather comical. Starting up their only song tonight (all 25 minutes of it) they throw themselves into it.
The guitarist with the astonishing dreadlocks (and, consequently, no face) spends most of his time on the floor in front of his amp providing what I’ll describe as the direction of the song; the bass player hurls himself at and around his very noisy big amp as he shores up the dreadlocks, the guitarist/pc player emits huge swathes of complex sound which is brutally undercut by the bald guitarist who looks completely alien – by the end of the song, it’s his guitar which is causing the most mayhem. The drummer simply punishes his kit.
The white paint ran, staining their instruments. The bass player lit up a home brand fly-spray, squirting flame into the air, at the crowd and finally (with some justification) on himself. This bass player has to be seen to be believed; the man’s mad. He humped the remains of the percussion horse, used a miked-up clinical fat vibrator on himself (no, not pretty at all), his bass, the microphone and finally shoved it down his loincloth (now in imminent danger of revealing far too much) and – yes, there’s more – stuck a sparkler in each eye and got a fan to light them up. Members of the audience joined in the general trashing of the percussion horse, various other members left the stage toward the end to get changed into something more human while the others continued. Lyrics; well, I’ve no idea, I couldn’t concentrate on something so mundane. It was an experience, you had to be there.
If I’ve made this sound like one of those interminable, directionless jam sessions I must apologise, because I’ve again not done my job; it most certainly wasn’t; there was power and humour and a hundred shades all at once. There aren’t many bands I could compare them to (and there’s little point, in truth, since what they’re doing has as much in common with Can, Faust, EN or TG, but of course sounds nothing like any of them).
What I will say is that White Tiger have a rare few contradictory qualities. They seem to stop time and send it somewhere else. When they’d finished, I could have sworn they’d played for close on an hour. I was shocked to see only 25 minutes had passed. If you’d listened to any part of the song, at any time during the set, you’d have had difficulty working out if they were beginning, ending or in the middle. And yes, that’s a plus – it means there’s a hell of a lot going on here. I’ve not seen a band be so forceful, so ferocious in their performance and music and yet so funny in many, many years; that both conflicting situations can occur simultaneously is remarkable. Mind you, if there’s still a law against incitement to riot, they could be in trouble.
Musically, White Tiger deserve to be recorded and filmed, if only to go back to over and over to figure out what the hell they’re doing. Frankly, they deserve a special arts grant all of their own; they’d make mincemeat of many of the Fringe acts heading this way (and I tell you what, there’s not a lot of people who’d like to clamber on a stage after White Tiger have done with it).
If you get the chance, go and see what I mean. In fact, look them up on the internet and book them as the party band next time you want to upset your neighbours. As Kermit once said, it’s not easy being green. I suspect it’s not easy being White Tiger, either. Their future White Tiger could be predicted: die a forgettable death; be brilliant but unknown; a striking career beckons and the future is now; or, more likely, perhaps, they’ll get all po-faced and serious and go up their own arseholes. Better people than these have done the latter.
I’ve just realised this review took longer to type all in one go than the band did to perform.” - ROBERT BROKENMOUTH

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The Mark of Cain : on Russian criminal tattoos Sailing...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:35:16 +0930

The Mark of Cain : on Russian criminal tattoos

Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners — The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of its origins- the penitentiary and the criminal environment. Incisive interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of The Zone and The Code of Thieves of the vory v zakone. As early as the 1920’s, Russian prisons and Gulag began to attract the attention of researchers. The prisoners of the Stalinist Gulag, or “Zone,” as it is called, developed a complex social structure that incorporated highly symbolic tattooing as a mark of rank. The very existence of these inmates at prisons and forced labor camps was treated by the state as a deep secret, and their tattoo art was considered a forbidden topic.
In the last decade, Russia’s prison population has exploded; overcrowding has reached unimaginable proportions. Few other nations have had such a massive prison population. The most conservative estimates suggest that in the last decades, over thirty million of Russia’s inmates have had tattoos even though the process is against the law inside prison.
According to The Book of Genesis, God placed a mark on the world’s first murderer before sending him into exile. The mark of Cain proclaimed its bearer as a criminal and social outcast; for centuries, prisoners and those who broke social codes were forcibly tattooed. In Russian prisons, tattooing emerged as a visual mode of communication linked with social division. The Mark of Cain tells the story of a fading art form and how that practice’s death reflects transition in broader Russian society.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288114/ (7.8/10)

near dark Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Adrian Pasdar, Jenny...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:49:54 +0930

near dark

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton.

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Antony Balch - Ghosts at No. 9 (Paris) 1963-1972, UK, 45’...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:41:52 +0930

Antony Balch - Ghosts at No. 9 (Paris)

1963-1972, UK, 45’ 7”, Color / Black & White
Cinematography: Antony Balch
Cast: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin

Decoder [1984] [full version] Director: Jürgen Muschalek aka...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:49:06 +0930

Decoder [1984] [full version]

Director: Jürgen Muschalek aka Muscha
Release Date: 19 February 1984 (West Germany)
movie website:
http://decoder.cultd.net/
starring:
F.M. Einheit [EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN],
Christiane F (elsherinow),
Bill Rice,
Genesis P.Orridge,
William Burroughs.

Industrial Culture Handbook: The Movie!

That might as well be the title of Decoder, a German film that came out in 1984. Unreleased in the United States and forgotten until the Internet recovered it in recent years, Decoder is a fascinating relic of the early industrial ethos.

Written by Klaus Maeck, directed by Jürgen Muschalek, and based onThe Electronic Revolution by William S. Burroughs, the film focuses on a lone audiophile who discovers that multinational corporations are controlling populations through muzak. By playing the mind-controlling, sedative non-music in elevators, fast food joints, lobbies and stores all over the country, corporations such as the evil H-Burger are able to produce a docile population of consumers. To combat this, our protagonist turns to industrial noise, and inspires a legion of “cassette terrorists” to covertly swap muzak tapes for sounds that are much more subliminally sinister, inciting riots all over Germany.

The film’s score was a collaboration between F.M. Einheit(Einsturzende Neubauten) and Dave Ball (Soft Cell), with contributions from Genesis P. Orridge and Alexander Hacke. In addition to scoring, F.M. Einheit, a.k.a Mufti, also plays the film’s protagonist. Other characters include cult film actor, scholar and artist Bill Rice, playing a sad-faced security official on a mission to foil the cassette terrorists’ plot, and inadvertent heroin-chic style icon/musician Christiane Felscherinow, playing an amateur herpetologist/go-go dancer who looks eerily similar to Rooney Mara’s Liz Salander. Cameo appearances include Genesis P. Orridge andWilliam S. Burroughs. The film is sprinkled with many other references to items you might find in a 1980s-era RE/Search publication, such as the appearance of a Brion Gysin Dreamachine inside a secret nightclub belonging to an industrial cult, as well as a giant Survival Research Laboratories logo on the wall of the protagonist’s studio.

One of the film’s most stunning features is the color palette. “Lensed by Johanna Heer,” writes Samantha Anne Scott, ”the film’s blunted, monochromatic color schemes — primarily red, green, and CRT blue — demarcate character, mood, and motivation … while doused with art house affectation, Decoder delineates a relatively cohesive narrative of corporatism, control, and the power of noise.” The full film is posted above.

[via wobbly]

Posted by Nadya Lev on February 27th, 2012
Filed under Ambient, Art, Conspiracy theories, Cyberpunk, Drugs, Film,Industrial, Music, Punk, Surreal, Television, Uber

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (English Audio) Originally...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:54:54 +1030

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (English Audio)

Originally filmed in 1922, this version was updated in the mid 1960’s to include english narration by William S Burroughs. The writer and director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches through the seven parts of this silent movie. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and the witch-hunts. Finally Benjamin Christensen compares the behavior of hysteria of the modern women of 1921 with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.

Enter the Void (full movie - hi def) is a French film written...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:00 +1030

Enter the Void (full movie - hi def) is a French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, starring Nathaniel Brown,Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by the police, but continues to watch succeeding events during an out-of-body experience. The film is shot from a first-person viewpoint, which often floats above the city streets, and occasionally features Oscar staring over his own shoulder as he recalls moments from his past. Noé labels the film as a “psychedelic melodrama”.^[1]

Noé’s dream project for many years, the production was made possible after the commercial success of Irréversible, the director’s previous feature film. Enter the Void was primarily financed by Wild Bunch, while Fidélité Films led the actual production. The cast is a mix of professionals and first-timers. The film makes heavy use of imagery inspired by experimental cinema and psychedelic drug experiences. Principal photography took place on location in Tokyo, and involved many complicated crane shots. Co-producers included the visual effects studio BUF Compagnie, which also provided the computer-generated imagery. The film’s soundtrack is a collage of electronic pop and experimental music.

A rough version of the film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, but post-production work continued, and the film was not released in France until almost a year later. A cut-down version was released in the United States and United Kingdom in September 2010. The critical response was sharply divided: positive reviews described the film as captivating and innovative, while negative critics called it tedious and puerile. The film performed poorly at the box office.

The Color of Pomegranates (1968) More at IMDbPro »Sayat...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:33:26 +1030

The Color of Pomegranates (1968) More at IMDbPro »Sayat Nova (original title)

One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov’s “Color of the Pomegranate”, a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet’s life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events inSayat Nova’s life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov’s imagination and Sayat Nova’s poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. Sofiko Chiaureli plays 6 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work void of any dialog or camera movement.

The Trip (1967) - Full Movie Playing loose versions of...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:04:34 +1030

The Trip (1967) - Full Movie

Playing loose versions of themselves, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprise their hilariously fictionalized roles from Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and reunite with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom for an acerbically witty, largely improvised ride through the English countryside. Tapped by The Observer to review fine restaurants throughout the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, Steve finds himself without a traveling companion after his girlfriend decides not to go at the last minute. After being turned down by everyone else he knows, Steve extends an invitation to Rob, and together the pair attempt to navigate the winding back roads of rural England, impersonating popular celebrities such as Michael Caine, Woody Allen and Liam Neeson (among many others) and bickering along the way

PSYCHIC TV! Rather privileged to be the first Australian city...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:19:31 +1030

PSYCHIC TV!

Rather privileged to be the first Australian city to host this legendary act… finally. (SAT 3 MAR 2012 7PM) Here are some of my favourite (all killer) PTV tracks & videos from over the years…

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Perpetual Motion describes hypothetical machines that operate...

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:37:26 +1030

Perpetual Motion

describes hypothetical machines that operate or produce useful work indefinitely and, more generally, hypothetical machines that produce more work or energy than they consume, whether they might operate indefinitely or not.

There is undisputed scientific consensus that perpetual motion in a closed system would violate the first law of thermodynamics and/or the second law of thermodynamics. Machines which extract energy from seemingly perpetual sources—such as ocean currents—are capable of moving “perpetually” (for as long as that energy source itself endures), but they are not considered to be perpetual motion machines because they are consuming energy from an external source and are not closed systems. Similarly, machines which comply with both laws of thermodynamics but access energy from obscure sources are sometimes referred to as perpetual motion machines, although they also do not meet the standard criteria for the name.

Despite the fact that successful closed system perpetual motion devices are physically impossible in terms of our current understanding of the laws of physics, the pursuit of perpetual motion remains popular.

Ken Russell - The Devils (Full Film) The Devils is a 1971...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:17:00 +1030

Ken Russell - The Devils (Full Film)

The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama and horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based partially on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, and partially on the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based on Huxley’s book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposedpossessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays asexually-repressed nun who finds herself inadvertently responsible for the accusations.

The film faced harsh reaction from national film rating systems due to its disturbingly violent, sexual, and religious content, and originally received an X rating in both Britain and the United States. It was banned in several countries, and eventually heavily edited for release in others. The film has never received a release in its original, uncut form in various countries, and is largely unavailable in the home video market.

“Home” by X-E-S

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:35:30 +1030

“Home” by X-E-S:

Louis Burdett – Electronic drums, violin, sampler & Sherman filterbank.
Patrick Kavanagh – Synths, looping & processing.
Anastasia Mano – Vocals

Louis Burdett has played with many rock and jazz artists from Doug Williams and Russell Smith and Bobby Barren in Powerhouse, Renae Gayer the nerve with Tex Perkins, Bo Diddley, Dale Barlow, Evan Parker Dave Fennell’s powerpoint,Jon Rose, unconscious collective,Paris Green Northgate Jazz co-op Chiang Mia, berlin love parade,wangaratta jazz festival, Bart Willoughby & Mixed Relations,Serge Ermol’s Free Kata,qantastic jazz festival, london musicians collective Clarion Fracture Zone, Bill Crosby Bill Barrett Big Band, Jackie Clarke from Califunk (Ike and Tina Turner) Chrissy Amphlet, NineLives The Cat and punk bands such as The Real Fuckin Idiots, The Paranoia Club etc. He plays all percussive, brass and woodwind instruments„,studying violin at the moment. likes to improvise on any intraments or sound making de vices He’s an actor, performance artist, spiritual atheist …

Patrick is from ‘Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’ & ‘Spiney Fleshpot’. 2009 saw collaborations with Bain Wolfkind on ‘The Swamp Angel’ and Orryelle’s ‘Retcha-Watcher’. December 2007 saw ‘Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’ performing a live soundtrack to ‘Dr. Mabuse – Der Spieler’ at Mercury Cinema, Adelaide. A collaboration with Can A Worms label mate ‘Spiney Fleshpot’, featuring tracks from both acts’ 2007 CDs as well as Peter Read’s ‘The Wellington Boot Up Files’. Previous acts include ‘Dweller on the Threshold’; ‘Jaundiced Eye’; ‘Box the Jesuit’; ‘Madroom’; ‘Moist’; ‘Leather Moustache’ and ‘Smack of Jellyfish’

The Prophet of Hunger (1970) (Whole Movie!)O Profeta da...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:59:53 +1030

The Prophet of Hunger (1970) (Whole Movie!)O Profeta da Fome (original title)

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.