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Septender


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Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp.

Ray Bradbury and John Huston wrote the screenplay for Moby Dick (1956).

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Eric Idle parodied Paul McCartney in The Rutles – fitting for a Monty Python.

George Best was alluded to as El Beatle :D

Mythopoeia by JRR Tolkien – meta

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William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Adam West were in The Outer Limits (Cold Hands, Warm Heart, I, Robot and The Invisible Enemy, respectively) before becoming Cap Kirk, Spock and Batman.


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TIL that Easter Island is antipodal to India – specifically, Desert National Park near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

Giancarlo Esposito b-boyed in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing!


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Embarking on Against The Day, today. Ennui has reared up again; irritated shrugs have become de-facto responses.

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Myst the video game was influenced by Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island…I recall playing it very long ago, the surroundings do not spring clearly to mind. The infinitive has been split.

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Lucid dreaming nights

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I have finally encountered the Myth of Sisyphus in Homer: Odyssey, Book 11. Odysseus talks to the inhabitants of Hades.

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Dear Mum’s budday.

Reading The New Yorker article on Guillermo del Toro, and he calls out his Sisyphean project. Spirals, incessant, variable, but always intersecting.

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I knew I had run across Anthony LaPaglia before: Frasier’s Simon Moon, Daphne’s obnoxious brother, no less! Australian Film Industry, I yearn for thee! :D

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Arete was the first Greek word I explored, courtesy Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Adding kleos and xenia to that one-item list, courtesy the Homeric epics.

Schism by Tool is literally about the chasm between people, mainly due to impaired communication.






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