tony23k said:

Thank you.....

Like a documentary or his actual films? Which one or ones would you recommend?

obsessed said:

Kenneth Anger:vol;1

"Fireworks"(1947)
the 16 minute version of "Rabbit Moon"(1950)

the best is "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"(1954)
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Vol;2 has "Rabbit Moon"(1979 version)
and ""Scorpio Rising"(1964)

EmbattledWarrior said:

Thanks for being so open about that...it helps to understand you, if only a bit better...you're a complex person.

Then I guess I'm insane and don't know shit, because I like a lot of your stuff... lol

I really hope you'll continue to do what you do, Embattledwarrior, because you have a rare gift whether you know it or not.

complete short films.
they've all been restored and compiled on two dvd's

tony23k said:

Thanks, I'll take note....
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tony23k said:

Looks like youtube may actually have the ones you recommended...

On second glance, I guess not....
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obsessed said:

there's enough of his work there to get an introduction.
the dvd's bring it full circle

tony23k said:

How about a film thread.
I have not seen a piece of his work.
Have a couple of questions but maybe film should have it's own thread before it takes over the Korner.

Never have I wanted something so bad
The way I wanted you
You were my everything

How can I pretend like I didnt know you
Let alone love you
You were my world

Everywhere I go I hear you
Your sweet tone
You were my teacher

Exterior so cool and calm
But eyes filled with sorrow
Nobody notices

I sit here looking at you
And go along with your charade

Just reminds me of all the lies you said

You hear my pain aloud and the yells of my heart
Yet you keep your pain and yelling heart on the inside.

You may not be my everything or my world or my teacher anymore
But the one thing that will never change is that you will always be my first love.

Girdle said:

done.
thanks for the inspiration.

obsessed said:

I'm complex and simple , perfect paradox
i do torment myself mentally
thnx for being a reader tho

Inspired by a text message and an Edward Hopper painting.


Night Hawk

Waited in a coffee shop
2 a.m., the rain won't stop
to let me leave

Surrounded by the references
to Hopper and it's never been
so clear to me

It was too wrong to turn out right
It was too right to see the wrong
We were afraid to say goodbye
and let the night hawk fly

Wrapped in your fluorescent light
colder than a New York night
I miss the moon

Your heart has got the best of mine
took down all your exit signs
[still] I'm leaving soon

It was too wrong to turn out right
It was too right to see the wrong
We were afraid to say goodbye
and let the night hawk fly

CrazySexy said:

I like this....first love is sometimes the best love....

Girdle said:

I love Edward Hopper paintings...
especially this one...

EmbattledWarrior said:

I'll always be a reader, whether you like it or not...so there.....lol
We're perhaps all paradoxes.....simple in some ways, complex in others.
I guess what it boils down to is that we're just human, afterall.
"Torment" is such a strong word though....the image of the word even stronger.

Anyway, (((hugs))) to you, cuz I feel like you could use some right now..

And now it's back to poetry...that is, when I come up with some... lol

obsessed said:

I've seen so many Hoppers, since childhood, and though I like his work, I never really connected. They never spoke to me.
It was both "Night Hawk" and "Automat", that came to mind, yesterday...and I got them. I was even a tiny bit concerned about that. I think if I got out more, that would cure that.

obsessed said:

I like this one too. Hard to tell if it's about love, a crush or an almost love.
It probably doesn't matter. At that point, it's all the same.

Girdle said:

If you got out more...

As for Automat, I can easily relate to that one...coffee cup in hand,
deep in thought...now maybe an artwork thread would be in order...not our own,
but other artists...go for it!

CrazySexy said:

nice poem

Girdle said:

"took down all your exit signs"...
I love this line.

cool painting,
I've seen several versions of it too.

obsessed said:

OK, I know you don't like editing, so this is just for you! (Actually I'll let
ya in on a secret..tony23k doesn't like it either)

Anyway, I felt like adding the picture, so we all get a better flavor...

obsessed said:

But so much of his work is about loneliness and isolation, that when you "get it", or connect, you have to wonder. I like being a spectator of...I don't want to see myself in it. His work always gave me a Twilight Zone feeling. You know how you love to watch but seldom want to enter?

Thanks, Tony.

obsessed said:

What did I miss?

Girdle said:

I don't find this particular painting at all isolating.....to me it celebrates
precious time to oneself to contemplate....nothing isolating about that...I
love to go out to coffee shops and even restaurants by myself. I get alot of
my thinking done in those situations, and in the meantime you get to enjoy
food and drink and people-watching, which really is a favorite pastime of mine.

Now then, where is that thread??

obsessed said:

oh, right. We're taking over the Korner again.

Girdle said:

In reality, that doesn't bother me in the slightest...
It's all about communicating with one another, no matter if it is the
so-called "wrong" thread....there just is no right or wrong where that's
concerned.

obsessed said:

I wasn't being sarcastic. We were taking over the thread.
I moved it over.

Girdle said:

I see that....and you also put "words in my mouth"!

obsessed said:

that's not going to be a thread




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