The Popular Arts Post: Film, Poetry, Roleplaying, Music and Literature

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Went to IMAX for the first time last week to see "300". As the thread on RPG.net suggestsit really isn't good at all (my summary is probably on the last page). Also recently saw The Notorious Bettie Page. Visually cute, it included some excellent thematic considerations and then utterly failed to elaborate on them.

Unitarian service last Sunday was poetry, readings and folk music. As is my norm, I selected Unitarian poets and authors, specifically, Horatio Alger, Ambrose Bierce, ee cummings, and Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.

Easter Sunday was spent, as per last year, playing GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. The Fellowship of Talor journeys in the eleventh scene for HeroQuest. Have managed to convince imajica_lj to run Call of Cthulhu in the near future.

Went a bit nuts on the weekend buying music: Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Hawkwind, Gang of Four, Devo, China Crisis, Eels, Elysium. No one can claim I don't have a variety of tastes. Have made a start on the small moutain of books sent to me by Ticonderoga; a seven-part space opera by Kevin J. Anderson. Also should mention that my review of Blackbeard: The real pirate of the Caribbean is available in the latest issue.

Cocktail party for Friday night is shaping up very nicely indeed.

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300 on IMAX was BIG and LOUD.

WRT to Betty Page, perhaps the strongest theme was her as a proponent of naturalism and how she tied this into her Christian background and belief ("We were all naked in the garden of Eden". Less strong are the influences from the suggestions she was abused by her father, and from when she was gang-raped by a group of strangers. The Senate committee debate on pornography lurks in the background, and the debate troubles Page - but it's left hanging.

Overall however, I quite enjoyed it. There's a slightly upbeat review here:

http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2006,8,91/

LSD had caused his schizophrenia by itself

That's ... interesting. *cackles*

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but it's left hanging.

But how could you have closure with those things? I just thought that since no one really seemed to be Bettie's advocate (including Bettie), no one was working on resolving these things, so they never got resolved in her life or, correspondingly, in the film. The optimist in me says this was on purpose, to leave you feeling as she would have. Meh, maybe it was just incomplete.

That's ... interesting. *cackles*

Ya. Especially 'cause she claimed to have read his book.