tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post2334449429043935033..comments2024-03-27T17:20:17.463-04:00Comments on The Gnostic World Of Candy Minx: How To Understand Lynch and CronenbergCandy Minxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-60722084753793905342011-10-09T01:11:21.365-04:002011-10-09T01:11:21.365-04:00Burroughs was (stupid analogy coming) like Zardoz....Burroughs was (stupid analogy coming) like Zardoz. He believed in the gun before the penis - or the unity of penis/gun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-89997049508921278542007-03-15T14:51:00.000-04:002007-03-15T14:51:00.000-04:00Candy,I've loved Lynch since Twin Peaks. His sotie...Candy,<BR/><BR/>I've loved Lynch since Twin Peaks. His soties reminded me somewhat of Flannery O'Conner who has been one of my idols since the eighties. I think that was about the same time I discovered magical realism in Gabbo's One Hundred Years of Solitude.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I've read any Burroughs. At least none of the titles you listed are familiar to me. Nope. Just checked wikipedia for a bib list. Something else to put on the agenda for if/when the libraries reopen.<BR/><BR/>His definiton of those who are Right as being equivalent to a virus is one I came to after I cxited Fundamentalism. Tho I still differentiate between the ideas and the person. The ideas are viral. I am uncomfortable with the idea that violence against the Idea infected person is the only valid self-defence. How does one fight a Right-fighter without being one themselves? It is more likely that Right-fighters of every ideological shade will exterminate each other for no Right-fighter would be able to live in peace in a universe containing other minds suspected of heretical thoughts. I know how these people think from the inside out.Joy Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976987581528470589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-78554377384695938842007-03-14T19:26:00.000-04:002007-03-14T19:26:00.000-04:00I'm jealous you're going to see Inland Empire. I s...I'm jealous you're going to see Inland Empire. I still haven't been able to go. Don't know when I will. Provincial towns suck. May have to wait for the DVD...* (asterisk)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11969314216753450118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-26880200175786559042007-03-14T17:19:00.000-04:002007-03-14T17:19:00.000-04:00Underground Baker, I was surprised to see him link...Underground Baker, I was surprised to see him linking his ideas so clearly to manicaeism...of course, anything with good guys and bad guys could be broken down like that...<BR/><BR/>Wylie, well, YOU ARE NOT SHALLOW! Please keep coming back, I love the company and you have lots of awesome ideas. I just like the idea that you are either a Johnson or a Shit in Buroroughs books...I met him and saw him read years ago, and it was like meeting a shaman who felt super real yet was very matter of fact. I hope you might check out his books sometime when you're in the mood. He is edgy, but real.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-67063682150452823032007-03-14T17:13:00.000-04:002007-03-14T17:13:00.000-04:00You're so much more enlightened than me, I'm somet...You're so much more enlightened than me, I'm sometimes embarrassed by my own shallowness when I read your blog :)<BR/>But I'm too dopey to let it get to me, so I'll keep coming back ;DWylie Kinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09271148590574475682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-9536475030569685972007-03-14T14:39:00.000-04:002007-03-14T14:39:00.000-04:00PS, thanks for the link!PS, <BR/>thanks for the link!Underground Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17264338355668672900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-24207247569329160822007-03-14T14:38:00.000-04:002007-03-14T14:38:00.000-04:00Just read the article.If I had all those thoughts ...Just read the article.<BR/><BR/>If I had all those thoughts in my head at the same time I too would have to take a ride on that pony just to give myself a rest. <BR/><BR/>I haven't read any of Burrough's essays and had not thought of his books in such a structured mythological way. I had alway kind of looked at it as almost magical realism, (which is also mythological I realize...)but not looked any further. Oh dear, more reading.<BR/><BR/>Of course you know, I love him most for his power to create images for me that are tangible.Underground Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17264338355668672900noreply@blogger.com