Hi Scores

For the last few months, I have, slightly embarrassingly, somehow become, well, addicted, to playing Snake (II), on my antiquated mobile phone.

I had hoped I could reach 3000 and then never play the bastard thing ever again, but tonight I have accepted defeat.



I got 2883.

Capitalism sure is sunny!

Two 3 hour long films that deal with two types of capitalistic society; Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man and Lars von Trier's Dogville.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration. Unemployment obliterates the world of the unemployed individual. Cultural underdevelopment of the worker, as a technique of domination, is found everywhere under late capitalism. Authentic self-domination by individuals is thwarted. The false consciousness created and catered to by mass culture perpetuates ignorance and powerlessness. Strands of raven hair floating on the surface of the Ganges…Why can't they clean up the Ganges? If the wealthy capitalists who operate the Ganges wig factories could be forced to install sieves, at the mouths of their plants… And now the sacred Ganges is choked with hair, and the river no longer knows where to put its flow, and the moonlight on the Ganges is swallowed by the hair, and the water darkens. By Vishnu! This is an intolerable situation! Shouldn't something be done about it?

Tati + Kaurismäki + Kafka =

Roy Andersson?

Oh, I don't know, I don't know where Kafka fits in, but there's something of him in there.



You, the Living (Du levande) is peculiar, but wonderful.

Bertolucci's The Conformist (Il Conformista) looked a lot better than it actually is, sadly.