saw the cremaster cycle today (4/5)
notes directly:

bagpipe music in the isle of man one is all scratchy and noisy
i really like the colour of testicles
centuar with shorn horns, ron perlman in hellboy,
escape thru tunnels, vas deferens/wombs
all this fucking lubricant
isle of man makes me reconsider girl on a motorcycle-!
swimming thru pearls, like fish roe
cod peices
doves (jacobian doves !?)
couteiers in crimson and orange--twins ?
ribbons all over the place
the lights like ovaries, the angels bless the house
opera=high code for low emotion
pink slit betwixt black leather
drums on empty stage
stuffed/inflatable
pools of water
lillies ribbons
4(goat,excess, servents, centaurs)
dancers,doves,mistresses)
baubled pairs
climbs the bean stock
black leather bodice
hand peice of two glass spheres connected by gold
two pennies
love on stage as an assumed 3rd audience, this does not
orchestra as audeince
like a whistler painting
underwater, baptism/drowning
min black on a black horse, are they dying together
winter field, black trees
emph. on footwear
naked under his cloak, white bone futursitc goves and manacles
langourus cuts
tragic, almost camp, so over time (does it realize this?)
germanic (remake of wagner)
horse rides alone (western)
dives off bridge in mantacels naked (houdini and the water sequences in 4, the centuar dives beneath the floor, handcuffed or weighted)
swelling strings
greygreen river much like the forrest (intercessional ?)
strange biomechincals (pool, shoe, robotic vaginas and anuses, unrelated or pseudorelated to ursla andress)
broad silent acting more kabuki then gish
18th centuy polychrome itaalian clupture of angelic kids
4 mermaids live under roe
full size, with fetal faces
marie attonies, wating to rise to coutiers
saphhic
barney comes in, as neptune, with red tulip feet, walks into the water, the attendants come and tie ribbons to genderless gentila, and then doves take the ribbons and fly it to the celling, pulling out (cremaster) his cock
majorettes/busby berkley one idea taken too far
sex--bees over whelming
houdini
salt flats
norman mailer (who wrote about gilmore, and gilmore is in this one)
rythimic
sacred/secert rituals in rooms shaped like honeycombs (lds deseret)
rock and roll (slayer--inside joke--cf blood revenge(ww) lds (think laban)
Brahma Bulls
rock and roll as GGs first break w. the church
Desert
wax phallus
everything overwhelmed w. bees (work, efficency but also groupthink)
matthew barney and his ego
does everything have subliminal meanings ?
(dino gas)
two cars connected by honeycomb (replacement, intercessary again, conduit)
slc tabernacle, w. 12 men--scale model
petrojelly everywhere (in the flapdown wind visor)
old fashioned american gothics (the gilmore murder/the architechture of slc)
12 apostles, 12 tribes, 12 riders, 12 flags, latter 12 bison
american/canuck flags
rodeo (angola + gary on the bull, bull dies as gary rides, sacfricial)
circle of salt,
4 beehive sentinals
cops on mounts in atheltic patterns
2nd half about drones and queens,
mounties, lakes, rocky mtns, banff springs

surreal in its most litearal sense

chris& i talking

PinkMoosePearl: yeah
PinkMoosePearl: and i love it
the minor thirds: i haven't seen sleep
the minor thirds: but the stills i've seen didn't seem particularly shiny
PinkMoosePearl: do you know what barney reminded me of
the minor thirds: britney?
PinkMoosePearl: mass
PinkMoosePearl: and lds temples
PinkMoosePearl: rodeos
PinkMoosePearl: musical rides
the minor thirds: how so?
PinkMoosePearl: its weird and its ancient
PinkMoosePearl: but you dont notice it, cause you do it so often
PinkMoosePearl: when was the last time you saw some really excellent horse work
PinkMoosePearl: or some really transcendant world shattering tap dancing
the minor thirds: when i was in canada
the minor thirds: we watched some rodeo
the minor thirds: although i admit i was paying more attention to how all the riders looked the sam
the minor thirds: same
the minor thirds: i haven't seen transcendent tap dancing live. it's been a while since i've seen it in a movie
PinkMoosePearl: rodeo does it for me
PinkMoosePearl: and everyone assumes its cause i want to fuck the cowboys
PinkMoosePearl: its all about how man and aminal merge in a way we have jettisoned
PinkMoosePearl: barney reminds me that there is something left
PinkMoosePearl: something holy
PinkMoosePearl: in hi/lo animal/machine
the minor thirds: does barney remind you of that or do you remind you of that?