#Shaun Lawton

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"Terminal Spine Inquisition in the Third Degree: A Multidimensional Journey of Inquiry"

"Terminal Spine Inquisition in the Third Degree" by Shaun Lawton is a thought-provoking and intricately woven text that delves into the realms of storytelling, consciousness, and the enigmatic nature of human input. I explore the themes and stylistic elements present in Lawton's work, examining its structure, symbolism, and underlying inquiries. Unraveling the Narrative: Lawton's text presents a unique narrative structure, where a story is introduced and gradually unraveled, leading to a fundamental question concerning the whereabouts of human input. This enigmatic plotline invites readers to ponder the nature of storytelling itself, questioning the purpose and ultimate fate of the narratives we create. Automatic Feedback Loops: Within the syntherian mandate colony exorcism facility, Lawton introduces the concept of automatic feedback loops. These loops symbolize the cyclic nature of human experiences and the perpetual questioning of our actions and intentions. Lawton prompts us to contemplate the repercussions and significance of our input within the larger framework of existence. The Absence of Questions: Lawton challenges the necessity of questions by deleting question marks from the text. This absence signifies a departure from traditional inquiry and suggests that sometimes the structure of the question itself becomes the subject of interrogation. Lawton encourages readers to reconsider the role of questioning in our quest for knowledge and understanding. Converging Perspectives: Lawton explores the convergence of disparate viewpoints through consensus amalgamations. By uniting various perspectives and perspectives into a holistic panopticon, Lawton emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse viewpoints to attain a more comprehensive understanding of the world. This convergence allows for the emergence of new vistas and transformative experiences. Electromagnetic Resonance: The text delves into the workings of the electromagnetic planet core, symbolizing the powerful forces at play within the depths of consciousness. Lawton's vivid imagery and references to explosive mandalas illustrate the transformative potential of these inner workings, which challenge conventional binary perspectives and open up new realms of perception. The Persistence of Memory: Lawton explores the concept of memory and its decay over time. Through iconoclastic revenue extracted from decaying stellar recording tape, Lawton alludes to the fragility of human memory and the erosion of past experiences. This introspective exploration prompts us to reflect on the nature of personal and collective recollection. "Terminal Spine Inquisition in the Third Degree" takes readers on a multidimensional journey of inquiry, inviting them to contemplate the nature of storytelling, the significance of human input, and the transformative power of converging perspectives. Lawton's intricate prose and thought-provoking symbolism create a captivating work that challenges our perceptions and encourages us to embrace the complexities of existence.

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And we're back!

As Val advances towards Nesh, Paige resolves to shoulder the burdens of leadership, Shrue negotiates back and forth over the faith of the Parish of Tide and Flesh - and a small team of national grid workers decide to take a stand.

This episode includes descriptions of mass civilian death and sanctification. Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-3-chapter-8

This episode features Marta da Silva, Lucille Valentine, Ishani Kanetkar, Damon Alums, Madeleine Turley, Kale Brown, Sarah Griffin, Rhys Lawton, Jimmie Yamaguchi and Méabh de Brún.

Additional voices by William Wellman, Rae Lundberg, Alex Nursall, Nathan Lunsford, Shaun Pellington, Michelle Kelly, Seb Hodgkiss, Rissa Montanez, Marlon Dance-Hooi, Lou Sutcliffe and Alex Stanley-Bell.

As ever, really hope you enjoy the listen.

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🎬 “LA POSESION” [Possession]

🔎 Género: Terror / Drama Psicológico / Surrealismo / Sobrenatural / Gore / Body Horror / Película de Culto

 ⌛️ Duración: 127 minutos

✍️ Guión: Andrzej Zulawski y Frederic Tuten

🎼 Música: Andrzej Korzynski

📷 Fotografía: Bruno Nuytten

🗯 Argumento: Berlín, antes de la caída del muro. Cuando Marc regresa de un viaje encuentra a su esposa Anna cambiada, muy nerviosa y perturbada. Por fin, le confiesa que tiene una aventura y lo abandona. Marc cae en una terrible depresión que lo lleva casi al borde de la locura. Poco después Marc se entera de que su mujer también ha abandonado a su amante, y la verdad sobre la aventura secreta de Anna se revela de forma monstruosa.

👥 Reparto: Isabelle Adjani (Anna, Helen), Sam Neill (Mark), Michael Hogben (Bob), Johanna Hofer (madre de Heinrich), Kerstin Wohlfahrt, Heinz Bennent (Heinrich), Margit Carstensen (Margit Gluckmeister), Carl Duering (Detective), Ilse Bahrs, Leslie Malton (Sara, mujer con zapato equivocado), Maximilian Rüthlein (Hombre con calcetines rojos), Shaun Lawton (Zimmermann), Thomas Frey (Acólito de calcetín rosa), Harry Riebauer (Hombre en la Conferencia) y Bata Kameni (Taxista).

📢 Dirección: Andrzej Zulawski

© Productoras: Gaumont, Oliane Productions, Marianne Productions & Soma Film Produktion

🌎 Países: Francia-Alemania del Oeste (RFA)

📅 Año: 1981

📽 PROYECCIÓN:

📆 Sábado 26 de Octubre

🕗 8:00pm.

🎦 Cine Caleta (calle Aurelio de Souza 225 - Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

🙂 A tener en cuenta: Prohibido el ingreso de bebidas y comidas. 🌳💚🌻🌛

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Halloween Horror Movie Festival: Possession (1981)

Title: Possession Release Date: May 27, 1981 Director: Andrzej Żuławski Production Company:  Oliane Productions | Marianne Productions | Soma Film Produktion Main Cast: Isabelle Adjani as Anna / Helen Sam Neill as Mark Margit Carstensen as Margit Gluckmeister Heinz Bennent as Heinrich Johanna Hofer as Heinrich’s mother Carl Duering as Detective Shaun Lawton as Zimmermann Michael Hogben as…

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Possession

Expatriate Polish director Andrzej Zulawski turned the stress of a bitter divorce and the pain of his having to leave his native land, which banned one of his films and halted production of another, into a work of art, POSSESSION (1981, Shudder), because that’s what artists do. Not every artist, however, would create such a queasy, visceral, absurdist take on marriage and alienation. International spy Sam Neill (who sounds like James Mason in this, which gives the film echoes of Nicholas Ray’s great deconstruction of the middle-class family, BIGGER THAN LIFE) retires to spend more time with his family in West Berlin only to discover his wife (Isabelle Adjani) wants a divorce. She lets him think she’s leaving him for another man (Heinz Bennent), but she’s actually taken another apartment, where she cares for a strange, tentacled creature.

POSSESSION doesn’t have a traditional exposition. You have to piece the characters’ backgrounds together from hints, and there’s little beyond the film’s style to explain some of their more outlandish behaviors. Yet the cast performs it with such commitment that they seem to have found the justifications for what they do. They often engage in strange, repetitive movements, as if they were dancing out their inner lives. Bennent and Neill have trouble keeping their hands off other characters, so much so that the gay private eye (Shaun Lawton) Neill hires to follow his wife thinks his client is coming on to him. Adjani has physical and vocal seizures, with the most intense being a lengthy scene in which she has a miscarriage in a subway tunnel.

You can’t really parse the film. Nothing falls neatly into place. Is the strange creature Adjani’s miscarriage, a figment of her imagination or an extension of her husband’s jealousy? Why does Adjani also play her son’s almost perfect schoolteacher? Is the wife’s best friend (Rainer Werner Fassbinder regular Margit Carstensen) trying to seduce Neill even though they claim to hate each other? Although I watched with full trust that the actors knew what they were doing, I’m not sure Zulawski cares about the answers. Logic takes a back seat to imagery. But the film has some beautiful, hypnotic Steadicam work and a marvelous creature design by Carlo Rimbaldi. It’s not for everyone — and the U.S. version that cut about 45 minutes wasn’t for anyone — but it’s likely to stay with you long after more logical films have faded from memory.

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Possession (1981) Andrzej Żuławski

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Possession | Andrzej Zulawski | 1981

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Possession

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254. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, France/West Germany, 1981)

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Thursday 22 December 1836

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No kiss finish dampish morning F46 ½° now at 8 50 - out till breakfast at 9 ¼ to 10 - A- did ½ her usual French - out again at 10 to 12 ½ when came in to Mr. Watson was only just arrived - the mail having been an hour behind its time - A- returned from the school as I came in - the great holly set up in its new place before 10 - earthed up in the course of the morning - some talk with Joseph Mann just before 12 out of doors, and with Robert about the coal and inclined plane and water getting for the engine till 12 ½ - Note from Mr. Washington at 12 ½ by A- vid. line 2 the next p. - a little while with Mr. Watson - then came upstairs and made a schedule from the plans and from SW-‘s valuation of the annual and real value according to SW- and of the actual rents of South holm, yew trees springs Hilltop and Hipperholme fields - then a little while explain to Mr. W- and left him a bundle of old (useless to the title) papers respecting yew trees, and went out again between 2 and 3 (W- dined at 2) - and out till 5 with Robert Mann + 2 and at sodding up the Low-pool and giving the gardener a lift with the great tall thorn (the gardener unfortunately cut off the top to shorten it, and spoilt it) planted on the embankment about the great golden holly - Jack Green driving and John Frier getting the stuff away - Jack found his afternoon the Sough or drain we have been seeking walked in front of the house and then soon after sometime (from 5  to near 6) with Mr. Watson and A- who had been poring over the old papers (copied one respecting Lightcliffe chapel) all the afternoon - then wrote 3 hurried pp. to ‘Mrs. Lawton Lawton Hall Cheshire’ sent it tonight - would send Robert off on the 26th according to agreement - what was M- about? begged her to write - if she had been ill, surely Mrs. Milne would have written - the 12th of next month the earliest day we could get off - if not then, would be off the next earliest day - the air pillow for the neck arrived from Mrs. Bean York this morning - A- delighted and very much obliged to M- for so nice and useful a cadeau  - dressed - dinner at 6 ½ - coffee at 8 in the little dining room (south parlour) and had Mr. W- to coffee and he sat till about very near perhaps till 10, and then went off to bed - shewed him the wills of my great great grandfather great uncles John James Samuel and Japhet and of my uncles Joseph and James - these to be looked over tomorrow - and titles to be made out from them of Southolm, yew trees, Hill top, and Hardcastles - thinks nothing will be wanted but a common deed and copies of the wills - mentioned £6000 more - yes! thinks it can be had immediately at 4p.c. - would put in what I mentioned to Mr. Parker and Pump into the bargain if required - that would do very well (the mines and minerals reserved) and would even allow more than £6000 - the Misses Jane and Ann Preston furnish the seven - said they knew me personally - mentioned A-‘s purchased - might make a 3d. more by selling it in small lots? - mentioned the field belonging to the late Miss Shaun - mentioned the value of my adjoining stone [street?] but said the stone was done in Miss S-‘s field - there was coal - could only be got by me and the owner of the adjoining colliery - SW. thought Haigh would offer £200 - I would give £300 - but begged to know what H- had offered or rather what the hairs of Miss S- would take wished to avoid higgling - A- and I sat talking till 11 - then till 11 ¼ wrote all but the 1st 5 lines - fine day - raining hard now at 11 20 and highwish wind and F44°

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Teams: Manly's axing after show-stopping game

The NRL's form player of the year, Tom Trbojevic, is set to make his return for the Sea Eagles after missing round 23 with a facial injury.Last week, Trbojevic was ruled out as a precaution amid conflicting reports the superstar fullback had damaged a pre-existing facial fracture.

Tom Trbojevic (Getty)While serious injury concerns were put to bed, the Sea Eagles took no chance, resting their talisman who is set to make an emphatic return against the Bulldogs this week.Meanwhile, star teammate Moses Suli has been dropped from Des Hasler's squad despite putting up a stellar man of the match performance last week. Suli has been dropped to reserves, replaced by Brad Parker who slots straight into the centres.

Moses Suli. (Getty)Elsewhere, it's tough luck for the Tigers who have the unfortunate task of taking on the Panthers without standout star Adam Doueihi who has been sidelined with a knee injury.To make matters harder for Michael Maguire's men, star winger Brian To'o has made an early return from injury and will line up on Sunday evening.Meanwhile, the Raiders have dumped halfback Sam Williams after back-to-back critical losses to the Storm and Manly.

Adam Doueihi inspires the Tigers to a big win over the Knights. (Getty) (Getty)

NRL Teams

THURSDAYNewcastle Knights vs Gold Coast Titans, 7.50pm at Sunshine Coast StadiumKnights: 1. Kalyn Ponga 2. Enari Tuala 3. Kurt Mann 4. Bradman Best 5. Hymel Hunt 6. Jake Clifford 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Sauaso Sue 9. Jayden Brailey 10. Jacob Saifiti 11. Tyson Frizell 12. Mitchell Barnett 13. Connor Watson 14. Brodie Jones 15. Chris Randall 16. Josh King 17. Jirah Momoisea 18. Jack Johns 19. Pasami Saulo 20. Simi Sasagi 21. Phoenix CrosslandTitans: 1. Jayden Campbell 2. Phillip Sami 3. Brian Kelly 4. Patrick Herbert 5. Corey Thompson 6. Tyrone Peachey 7. Jamal Fogarty 8. Jarrod Wallace 9. Mitch Rein 10. Tino Fa'asuamaleaui 11. Kevin Proctor 12. Beau Fermor 13. Sam McIntyre 14. Erin Clark 15. David Fifita 16. Moeaki Fotuaika 17. Jaimin Jolliffe 18. Toby Sexton 19. Sam Lisone 20. Esan Marsters 21. Greg MarzhewFRIDAYWarriors vs Canberra Raiders, 6pm at BB Print StadiumWarriors: 1. Reece Walsh 2. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 3. Peta Hiku 4. Adam Pompey 5. Marcelo Montoya 6. Sean O'Sullivan 7. Chad Townsend 8. Addin Fonua-Blake 9. Wayde Egan 10. Matt Lodge 11. Josh Curran 12. Euan Aitken 13. Bayley Sironen 14. Kodi Nikorima 15. Bunty Afoa 16. Eliesa Katoa 17. Jazz Tevaga 18. Jamayne Taunoa-Brown 20. Rocco Berry 21. Kane Evans 22. Jack MurchieRaiders: 1. Jordan Rapana 2. Bailey Simonsson 3. Sebastian Kris 4. Matthew Timoko 5. Harley Smith-Shields 6. Jack Wighton 7. Matt Frawley 8. Josh Papali'i 9. Josh Hodgson 10. Joseph Tapine 11. Hudson Young 12. Elliott Whitehead 13. Ryan Sutton 14. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad 15. Emre Guler 16. Corey Horsburgh 17. Siliva Havili 18. Sam Williams 19. Dunamis Lui 20. Semi Valemei 21. Trey MooneySydney Roosters vs South Sydney Rabbitohs, 7.55pm at Suncorp StadiumRoosters: 1. James Tedesco 2. Daniel Tupou 3. Lachlan Lam 4. Joseph Manu 5. Brad Abbey 6. Drew Hutchison 7. Sam Walker 8. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 9. Sam Verrills 10. Siosiua Taukeiaho 11. Egan Butcher 12. Sitili Tupouniua 13. Isaac Liu 14. Ben Marschke 15. Naufahu Whyte 16. Fletcher Baker 17. Ben Thomas 18. Moala Graham-Taufa 19. Tukupa Hau Tapuha 20. Daniel Suluka-FifitaRabbitohs: 1. Latrell Mitchell 2. Alex Johnston 3. Dane Gagai 4. Campbell Graham 5. Jaxson Paulo 6. Cody Walker 7. Adam Reynolds 8. Mark Nicholls 9. Damien Cook 10. Thomas Burgess 11. Jaydn Su'A 12. Jai Arrow 13. Cameron Murray 14. Benji Marshall 15. Jacob Host 16. Tevita Tatola 17. Hame Sele 18. Liam Knight 19. Blake Taaffe 20. Peter Mamouzelos 21. Taane Milne

Latrell Mitchell (Getty)SATURDAYSt George Illawarra Dragons vs North Queensland Cowboys, 3pm at Browne ParkDragons: 1. Tyrell Sloan 2. Mathew Feagai 3. Jack Bird 4. Zac Lomax 5. Mikaele Ravalawa 6. Talatau Amone 7. Corey Norman 8. Blake Lawrie 9. Jayden Sullivan 10. Josh Mcguire 11. Billy Burns 12. Tariq Sims 13. Jack de Belin 14. Freddy Lussick 15. Tyrell Fuimaono 16. Daniel Alvaro 17. Jackson Ford 18. Kaide Ellis 19. Poasa Faamausili 20. Gerard Beale 21. Josh KerrCowboys: 1. Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow 2. Kyle Feldt 3. Valentine Holmes 4. Ben Hampton 5. Murray Taulagi 6. Scott Drinkwater 7. Tom Dearden 8. Jason Taumalolo 9. Reece Robson 10. Jordan McLean 11. Ben Condon 12. Heilum Luki 13. Reuben Cotter 14. Jake Granville 15. Jeremiah Nanai 16. Mitchell Dunn 17. Griffin Neame 18. Tom Gilbert 19. Daejarn Asi 20. Francis Molo 21. Laitia MoceidrekeCronulla Sharks vs Brisbane Broncos, 5.30pm at Suncorp StadiumSharks: 1. Will Kennedy 2. Sione Katoa 3. Connor Tracey 4. Jesse Ramien 5. Mawene Hiroti 6. Luke Metcalf 7. Braydon Trindall 8. Toby Rudolf 9. Blayke Brailey 10. Aaron Woods 11. Briton Nikora 12. Siosifa Talakai 13. Jack Williams 14. Matt Moylan 15. Braden Hamlin-Uele 16. Aiden Tolman 17. Teig Wilton 18. Kai O'Donnell 19. Billy Magoulias 20. Jenson Taumoepeau 21. Joniah LualuaBroncos: 1. Tesi Niu 2. Corey Oates 3. Selwyn Cobbo 4. Herbie Farnworth 5. Xavier Coates 6. Anthony Milford 7. Albert Kelly 8. Thomas Flegler 9. Jake Turpin 10. Payne Haas 11. Alex Glenn 12. Jordan Riki 13. Kobe Hetherington 14. Danny Levi 15. Rhys Kennedy 16. Ethan Bullemor 17. TC Robati 18. David Mead 19. Brendan Piakura 20. Cory Paix 21. Brodie CroftMelbourne Storm vs Parramatta Eels, 7.35pm at Suncorp StadiumStorm: 1. Ryan Papenhuyzen 2. Dean Ieremia 3. Reimis Smith 4. Justin Olam 5. Josh Addo-Carr 6. Cameron Munster 7. Jahrome Hughes 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Brandon Smith 10. Christian Welch 11. Felise Kaufusi 12. Kenneath Bromwich 13. Chris Lewis 14. Harry Grant 15. Aaron Pene 16. Tom Eisenhuth 17. Nicholas Hynes 18. Tui Kamikamica 19. Isaac Lumelume 20. Tepai Moeroa 21. Marion SeveEels: 1. Clinton Gutherson 2. Haze Dunster 3. Viliami Penisini 4. Waqa Blake 5. Blake Ferguson 6. Dylan Brown 7. Mitchell Moses 8. Isaiah Papali'i 9. Joey Lussick 10. Junior Paulo 11. Shaun Lane 12. Marata Niukore 13. Nathan Brown 14. Ray Stone 15. Bryce Cartwright 16. Makahesi Makatoa 17. Keegan Hipgrave 18. Will Smith 19. Oregon Kaufusi 20. Sean Russell 21. Jakob Arthur

Ryan Papenhuyzen (Getty)SUNDAYManly Sea Eagles vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, 1.50pm at Moreton Daily StadiumSea Eagles: 1. Tom Trbojevic 2. Jason Saab 3. Brad Parker 4. Morgan Harper 5. Reuben Garrick 6. Kieran Foran 7. Daly Cherry-Evans 8. Toafofoa Sipley 9. Lachlan Croker 10. Martin Taupau 11. Haumole Olakau'atu 12. Josh Schuster 13. Jake Trbojevic 14. Dylan Walker 15. Karl Lawton 16. Curtis Sironen 17. Josh Aloiai 18. Moses Suli 19. Cade Cust 20. Jack Gosiewski 21. Kurt De LuisBulldogs: 1. Nick Meaney 2. Corey Allan 3. Will Hopoate 4. Aaron Schoupp 5. Jayden Okunbor 6. Lachlan Lewis 7. Kyle Flanagan 8. Ava Seumanufagai 9. Bailey Biondi-Odo 10. Jack Hetherington 11. Matt Doorey 12. Joe Stimson 13. Josh Jackson 14. Brandon Wakeham 15. Ofahiki Ogden 16. Chris Patolo 17. Sione Katoa 19. Falakiko Manu 20. Jackson Topine 21. Jake Averillo 22. Watson HeletaPenrith Panthers vs Wests Tigers, 4.05pm at Moreton Daily StadiumPanthers: 1. Dylan Edwards 2. Stephen Crichton 3. Paul Momirovski 4. Matt Burton 5. Brian To'o 6. Jarome Luai 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Moses Leota 9. Apisai Koroisau 10. James Fisher-Harris 11. Viliame Kikau 12. Kurt Capewell 13. Isaah Yeo 14. Mitch Kenny 15. Scott Sorensen 16. Tevita Pangai Junior 17. Liam Martin 18. Izack Tago 19. Taylan May 20. Tyrone May 21. Charlie StainesTigers: 1. Moses Mbye 2. David Nofoaluma 3. Tommy Talau 4. Michael Chee-Kam 5. Ken Maumalo 6. Jock Madden 7. Luke Brooks 8. Thomas Mikaele 9. Jacob Liddle 10. Stefano Utoikamanu 11. Shawn Blore 12. Luciano Leilua 13. Alex Twal 14. Joe Ofahengaue 15. Jake Simpkin 16. Tom Amone 17. Alex Seyfarth 18. James Roberts 19. Billy Walters 20. Tukimihia Simpkins 21. Zac Cini

Jarome Luai of the Panthers jumps on the pack as Viliame Kikau of the Panthers celebrates a try. (Getty)For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! Read the full article

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Posthuman Review: Shaun Lawton & Nicholas Alexander Hayes

"In a few quick years, the first transhuman in vivo Minksian-Kurzweill clone emerges from its neonatal intensive care unit, eyes unblinking. Max quickly grows to establish the first CORE school (Consilience Of Recombinant Extropy) by the seasoned age of four. In the year 2020, eight-year-old Max engenders a transubstantiative doctrine reprising Heraclitus's ideas of flux. He publishes his manifesto >H by sending it back in time to his conception-year, where it now happens to appear on certain nodal points of the internet. Stars and their remnants, in the beginning, appear perfect with our skulls the shape of eggs while we listen to the music of the spheres. We never know we are dreaming, despite the uncanny appearance of our faces barely submerged below the surface of an image trapped on a screen, as if gazing at a host of cameras that were recording the whole scene and playing it back in overlapping sequences until rendered in 3D, a sort of holographic emergence as a film to show the whole fully recorded history of the human race intact in one performance taking hours to play out that tells the story of our pregalactic form expanding like a cell splitting into divisions congruent with the microchip cluster each acquires to their myriad snowflakes and fingerprints; no two are quite alike, this quality of uniqueness the most common attribute in the galaxy because it takes its shape from the constant force it has been from the beginning, a dorsal fin configuration pre-eminent to radial symmetry, subdivided from the pie & expanding in the recesses of our own mind at rates which we don’t share and we don't want to have to admit even to ourselves it could be the case but on the face of it our individuality evaporates along with the rest of the universe, siphoning itself back & forth both in and out of existence, in a blinking state of awakened beings cycled in an infinite figure eight Mobius strip, along the thermodynamic principle where the electromagnetic motors of creation pass along the triggering current arriving in its multiplicity of waves so here we are much further away from the start than we'd ever imagined before making it in a world on the verge of boiling over with accelerating change to the point it's quaking under this pretense we begin thinking about the stars & their remnants to which we end up belonging while the motion picture of our lives flashes inside our mind in an effortless gesture disarming the gravid affront with united civic resistance paving the way forward for the benefit of our progression into the distance only going to show which ends up being the case that it doesn't really matter so much as the belief we hold well and verily fixed foremost in our mind unravels before a hand to be woven in predetermined fashion foremost reveals the negative gravity bound pressure resistance capsule in the shape of a psychonautical skull transcript." - Shaun Lawton

Δ = (Σ(bug + defect + flaw + hitch + malfunction + mishap + problem + glitch + defeat + delay + difficulty + adversity + complication + crisis + deadlock + dilemma + gridlock + predict + meant + dire circumstance + hard ship + impasse + standoff + stand still + pickle + plight + condition + breakdown + trouble + anxiety + concern + danger + debacle + complication + hazard + catastrophe + changes + confrontation + disaster + calamity + emergency + failure + quandary + collapse + decline + breaks down + beating + annihilation + destruction + raw carnage + elimination + eradication + decimation + extinction + obsolescence + end of life + extermination + void + nullity + nonbeing + nothing + zero + ∅ + H in a few quick years + transhuman + Minksian-Kurzweill clone + neonatal intensive care unit + eyes unblinking + Max + CORE school + Consilience Of Recombinant Extropy + four + 2020 + eight-year-old Max + transubstantiative doctrine + Heraclitus's ideas of flux + manifesto + internet + STARS AND THEIR REMNANTS + beginning + skulls + shape of eggs + music of the spheres + dreaming + uncanny appearance + faces submerged + image trapped + screen + host of cameras + recording + overlapping sequences + 3D rendering + holographic emergence + fully recorded history + human race + pregalactic form + cell splitting + microchip cluster + snowflakes + fingerprints + uniqueness + galaxy + constant force + dorsal fin configuration + radial symmetry + mind + individuality + universe + existence + blinking state + awakened beings + infinite figure eight Mobius strip + thermodynamic principle + electromagnetic motors of creation + multiplicity of waves + accelerating change + quaking + stars & their remnants + motion picture of our lives + united civic resistance + progression + belief + fixed foremost + negative gravity bound pressure resistance capsule + psychonautical skull transcript by Shaun Lawton)

Explanation: The equation Δ represents the dynamic nature of life and the universe. It encompasses a wide range of elements, from challenges (bugs, glitches, difficulties, etc.) to unique qualities (uniqueness of snowflakes, fingerprints, etc.) to the constant changes in the cosmos. The equation also incorporates the concept of time travel and the emergence of transhuman technology.

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Gentleman Jack  -  BBC One  -  April 22, 2019  -  Present

Period Drama (8 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister

Sophie Rundle as Ann Walker

Joe Armstrong as Samuel Washington

Amelia Bullmore as Eliza Priestley

Rosie Cavaliero as Elizabeth Cordingley

Gemma Whelan as Marian Lister

Gemma Jones as Aunt Anne Lister

Timothy West as Jeremy Lister

Recurring

Stephanie Cole as Caroline Walker

George Costigan as James Holt

Peter Davison as William Priestley

Shaun Dooley as Jeremiah Rawson

Anthony Flanagan as Sam Sowden

Vincent Franklin as Christopher Rawson

Lydia Leonard as Marianna Lawton

Jodhi May as Vere Hobart

Katherine Kelly as Elizabeth Sutherland

Sofie Gråbøl as Queen Marie of Denmark

Tom Lewis as Thomas Sowden

Albane Courtois as Eugénie Pierre

Ben Hunter as Joseph Booth

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Saying No But Meaning Yes, Bluebirds & Survival Sex: BLACKSTAR Reviewed by Shaun A. Lawton

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Saying No But Meaning Yes, Bluebirds & Survival Sex: BLACKSTAR Reviewed

By Shaun A. Lawton

What is Blackstar?  It’s a 1960 song by Elvis Presley: “Every man has a black star, a black star over his shoulder, and when a man sees his black star, he knows his time, his time has come.”It turns out David Bowie and Elvis Presley not only share the same birthday (January 8) but they were also drinking…

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Possession (1981)

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski

Written by Frederic Tuten, Andrzej Żuławski

Music by Andrzej Korzyński

Country: France, West Germany

Language: English

Running Time: 124 minutes

CAST

Isabelle Adjani as Anna/Helen

Sam Neill as Mark

Margit Carstensen as Margit Gluckmeister

Heinz Bennent as Heinrich

Johanna Hofer as Heinrich's mother

Carl Duering as Detective

Shaun Lawton as Zimmermann

Michael Hogben as Bob

Maximilian Rüthlein as Man with pink socks

Thomas Frey as Pink socks' acolyte

Leslie Malton as Sara, woman with club foot

Gerd Neubert as Subway drunk

It’s just a hunch but I reckon Andrzej Żuławski was having a tough time on the marital front when he made this deliriously nuts arthouse splatter classic. Just a hunch, mind. Certainly Anna (Adjani) and Mark (Neill) are putting each other through the relationship wringer. Mark returns home to ‘80s Berlin after a long absence doing some shadily vague spycraft, only to find Anna’s been finding solace elsewhere. Like many couples in movies Mark and Anna shriek and bellow at each other while a child (Michael Hogben) looks tearily on, but the sense that the stakes are raised higher than Kramer vs Kramer (1979) is cemented when they meet in a café and Mark starts smashing things like smashing things is going out of fashion. It’s all very entertaining stuff, full of “deep” conversations delivered in a stagey way, but the bits where Mark loses his shit are best. Which is good, because during Possession Mark loses his shit a lot; he might even have surreptitiously stocked up on shit beforehand so much shit does he lose. Anna looks like a much better bet for any sense, but it turns out that she too is losing her shit, and her shit losing will reach truly operatic proportions before the credits roll and the viewer is left wondering just what the holy hell they just watched.

Things would be bad if Anna was just messing about with her ballet tutor, Heinrich (a thrillingly unhinged performance by Heinz Bennent, which doesn’t so much challenge the viewer but rather the entire concept of performance itself, and possibly singlehandedly redefines cinematic camp for the next hundred years). Unfortunately it’s even worse, she’s messing about on Heinrich as well with…well, uh, spoiler? There’s a reason the credits include Carlo Rambaldi, the renowned creature creator. I’ve never really been a Rambaldi fan, preferring instead Rick Baker, Screaming Mad George or even Rob Bottin, but Andrzej Żuławski keeps Rambaldi’s work off screen or splashed with gore, so any deficiencies are lost in the very effective shock the visual carries. 

Possession’s greatest special effect is the city of Berlin itself; it is set in Berlin when the Wall was up, see. It seems like some kind of early John Carpenter riff now in 2018, but, yes, the city of Berlin was in fact, post WW2, separated East and West, by a big wall with barbed wire, machine guns and sallow men in warm hats peering through binoculars. A divided city, a divided couple, yeah, all that stuff is in Possession. As is doubling, every clever director’s device of choice. And of course the title has more than one meaning. Sure, you could get all chalk and elbow patches about Possession but that’s on your own time. It’s the crazy shit I warm to and…hoo boy! Because as everything around him becomes ever more unhinged, some semblance of sanity finally possesses (ho!) Mark and he sets a detective on Anna’s trail, and when that works out badly he sets Heinrich on the case. Things look like they are trundling to a possibly merely slightly nuts conclusion when Żuławski goes “Ha!” and sets course for the heart of insanity with a final act that becomes apocalyptically demented and then carries right on through.

Possession’s an overwrought wail of a movie but it’s not lacking in discipline, don’t think that for one hot second. The tell is how the characters’ apparent lack of control in front of the camera is balanced by the total control behind it. Characters stomp around, spin on a pin and hurriedly flail off again, in rooms, down stairs, out of doors up and down, in and out, round and round but the camera stays right with them, it never misses a single step. No mean feat in the ‘80s when cameras were as big as suitcases. Żuławski’s hysteria is (ta-da!) rehearsed hysteria but the seeming spontaneity is uncannily convincing. The director’s control clearly extends to the performances; given everyone is so simpatico in their oddness Żuławski’s plainly had a word in every actor’s shell-like. Everyone is good, but Neill, Adjani and Bennent are volcanoes of thespian awesomeness. 

Adjani in particular is a revelation. She definitely has the hardest (because it is the most ambiguous) part, but she tears into it like a dog with a bag of hot chips. Actresses are eternally undervalued, largely because their roles are frequently underwritten, but here Adjani gets a chance to thesp until something snaps and she grabs it with both clawed hands. The bit where she has a breakdown (miscarriage?) in a pedestrian tunnel and ends up slouched in her own secretions of (apparently) milk, blood and fairy liquid is the kind of frenzied brilliance you’ll die happy you witnessed. Andrzej Korzyński’s earworm of a soundtrack certainly doesn’t hurt either. For a movie so apparently overheated and unrestrained  Possession turns out to be a thing of artistic precision and icy control.

Back in 1981 Possession was an unremittingly bleak spew in the face of optimism and yet…in 2018 the wall has gone, Berlin is united, Germany has healed and is doing just fine; so hope has snuck in retroactively. “This too shall pass” turns out to be the secret message of hope at the heart of Possession. A message secret even from the movie itself; a message equally applicable to divided cities and divided marriages; a message the movie wasn’t built to carry but then history always does the heavy lifting. I first saw this movie reviewed in “Starburst” (a British genre movie magazine, 1977 to present) in its year of release and made a pre-pubescent mental note to keep an eye out for it. Nearly four decades later I can rip that mental post-it note up. Possession was worth the wait.