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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