24-04-2019:: answers to tomasino[1]                   .moji
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1. Name one film that everyone should see at least once.


  Fellini's 8½

  Definitely. The cinematography and the storytelling involve such a
  great balance between surrealism and realism, and the
  mundane/everyday of mid-C20th psychology of its central male
  'protagonist' against the depth of the 'inner space' explored. I
  find this film to be a really honest exploration of the main
  character's libidinal realities, and its obvious auto-biographical
  correlations (the main character is a film director), as well as a
  working-through of these ideas in the context of everyday Italian
  civilian life in this time. A beautiful movie that feels like it
  sends its own particular kinds of signals rushing through my mind.


2. Name one book everyone should read at least TWICE.


  Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

  Simplicity and an 'elemental' focus on living, growing old and
  'trying' - endeavour, attempt, struggle.


3. Name one song everyone should listen to at least once a year.


  Boards of Canada - Constants are Changing [album: The Campfire
  Headphase]

  This is a long-time favourite track. It's melodies and modulation
  seem to capture a sense of repetition-within-growth/becoming.
  Transformation. Reaching the other side. This is the song that
  matches that memory of the blissful movement away from the intense
  centre of a psychedelic experience, as you and your friends sit
  a'top the covered haybales on the edge of that wheat farm in the
  late-Summer, early-evening sunlight hangs still and motionless
  in the sky, dusty hilltops in the distance, Fern trees and old Oaks
  sketch out the skyline, as you begin to slow the moment. There's an
  old mechanical harvest machine left to decay by the edge of the
  field, its turqouise paint washing out to browning steel, as dense
  weeds and tall grass thread through the hollows of the old machine,
  drawing it back into the warm embrace of the Earth beneath.

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