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Favorite films

  • Cremaster 5
  • Brick
  • And the Band Played On
  • Nobody Knows

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  • Fallen

    ★★★½

  • The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

    ★★★★½

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    ★★★½

  • Obsession

    ★★★½

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Damage
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

"It takes a remarkably short time to withdraw from the world.
I travelled until I arrived at a life of my own.
What really makes us is beyond grasping. It's way beyond knowing. We give into love because it gives us some sense of what is unknowable.
Nothing else matters, not at the end.

I saw her once more only.
I saw her by accident, at an airport, changing planes.
She didn't see me.
She was with Peter.
She was…

Dune
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

At Fine Arts Uni I made a LOT of Dune themed sound-art, sculptures, and installations. One sound-art sculptural installation was titled, 'Hommage to David Lynch's Props Table'. One element of this, was cinnamon sticks I hand-ground for 35 hours to replicate a pile of the spice Melange. (nobody cared lol).


All Dune novels and novellas in chronological order:
(with a worm emoji 🐛 next to my faves).

1. "Hunting Harkonnens" (included in Tales of Dune) 2002
2. The Butlerian Jihad…

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Close My Eyes
★★★★½ Liked Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

John Q
★★★★ Liked Rewatched

it was in this ED with John Q that Dr. Jack Abbot learnt the error of his youthful ways, and was was first inspired to become an ED doctor in Pittsburg

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Cellar Door
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From Donnie Darko (2001):

Karen Pomeroy: "This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that 'cellar door' is the most beautiful."

(The class is silent, and Donnie stares, intrigued.)
Donnie Darko: (whispers to himself) "Cellar door."

In Donnie Darko, the concept of the 'cellar door' is discussed in a classroom scene that highlights the beauty of language, sound, and the enigmatic resonance of…