"Marconi plays the mamba / snakes on the radio / don't you remember"

[larryhammer]

Alternities:

Special to asakiyume and anyone else interested in a lyrical study in small coincidences: then-n-now. (via)

In 1995, Hayao Miyazaki directed a music video: "On Your Mark." The song is bombastic pop-rock and the characters have the Three Standard Miyazaki Faces, but there is flight and redemption and multiple versions of the same story, all in six minutes. (via)

You only need to remember two things for a duel: dudes and swords. (via)

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What a perfect bouquet! That Kate Beaton cartoon is one of my all-time favorites, and I totally concur about "On Your Mark." I sent it to everyone here because wow.

And I thought "then-n-now" was beautiful and poignant--and I thought this while at the same time feeling a bit of hedate at the notion, commonly expressed, that our technology is keeping us apart. I believe it too, in situations like the one in the film . . . and yet here's LJ...

But yeah, I loved the little short. Thank you ♥

[larryhammer]

I'm more than a little dubious about the technology separating us thing, too. People had just as many ways of avoiding contact before smartphones and bluetooth headsets. But if I filter that part of the filmmaker's point-grinding, it's a lovely recreation of small differences leading to different results.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Exactly!