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Zenon M. Feszczak
Philosopher ex nihilo
REPOSTED COMPOST FOLLOWS
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Subject: (idm) Orbital "Boxaanisqatsi" vid
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Yo -
(a word originating from Philly, which I never use, but I might as well
announce my provincial roots right off) -
So what's up with that Orbital video for "The Box", which I was lucky
enough to semipermanently smuggle to a magnetic medium from the
surreptitiously stolen second showing of MTV's AMP?
Is it Amelia Earhart?
An alien?
That model who lived down the street?
Well?
Loved this video, by the way.
Simple, elegant, and very moving (literally and figuratively, and what a
figure. Go figure. Figure 8).
The video is hereby re-christened (no capitals or capitols, as I'm an
apolitical pagan) - "Boxaanisqatsi".
And, now that we're on the subject of videos, what's the story behind the
gruesome Ken Ishii video?
Couldn't get the narrative beyond the "Heavy Metal"+"Blade Runner" images.
I do find the dark side of Japanese culture no less disturbing than the
entire rack of gun magazines in Tower Books here in the U.S.
Guns don't kill people, gun magazines do!
Why, I oughtta....
Zenon M. Feszczak
Sleep Deprivation Expert
Subject: (amb) Orbital Orlando?
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Here's the theory, and the answer to my own query.
The actress is Tilda Swinton.
The film is "Orlando".
The author is Virginia Woolf, always ahead of her time.
An individual of ambiguous - or unpredictably evolving - gender and
sexuality, who apparently does not age, and finds him/herself living in
various periods of history, from the 1600s to the present.
The protagonist stoically and poetically endures the disorientation of
immortality, with its enviable curse of eternal youth.
THE THEORY, AT LAST:
The Orbital video for "The Box" continues the story, into the techno
fin-de-siecle.
In fact, the actress in the video bears such a remarkable resemblance to
Ms. Swinton, that I would bet someone else's life savings that the two are
one, a denial of a priori mathematical concepts worthy of Lobachevski.
Speaking of Russia, the film is a Russian-British co-production, and the
Russian beauty is indeed a Russian beauty. Though she does seem a bit
more Ukrainian, what with the beauty and all, if you ask me. Or ask David
Bowie. Or whatever.
Anyway, that's my theory.
If anyone speaks to the Brothers Orbitolov, hit them with the question and
see if they panic and call their copyright lawyers.
Zenon M. Feszczak
Ambient Philosopher