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Nov 16, 2016 - 10:59 AM
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Last Child
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Last Child, I love that face which Sidney Blackmer "puts on" (tee hee) in "The 100 Days of the Dragon" - sort of like he's narrowing his eyes and actually shape-shifting back to being Oriental.
It's my take on how things turned out last week. In the episode, I interpreted it as an unconscious behavior which he couldnt always control...and pragmatically to remind the audience he was the villain.
And I love the idea of a Lovecrat beer! If you drink enough of it, does it transport you to a blasphemous, eldritch world of loathsome, gibbous moons, of hideously shapeless forms with bulging eyes and pouting, flabby lips, where the nauseous stench of the seaweed cities built by the Elder Ones make you wake up going "N'Par'lep-g'dang' g'dang"? Or does it just give you a normal hangover?
I, uh, well....both!
Lovecraft has become a seasonal theme beer for the last 5 years. Previous incarnations can be seen on the website:
http://www.narragansettbeer.com/beer/reanimator-helles-lager
http://www.narragansettbeer.com/beer/innsmouth-olde-ale
http://www.narragansettbeer.com/beer/lovecraft-honey-ale
http://www.narragansettbeer.com/beer/i-am-providence-imperial-red-ale
They started to add a short chapter of a faux story on the back of the cans, so they're up to chapter 4.
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Nov 16, 2016 - 1:50 PM
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Graham Watt
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Re - Outer Limits, I think it was mostly to pragmatically "remind" the audience that he was the villain. I put "remind" in "inverted commas" (see?), because the audience doesn't really need reminding who the villain is, but I think it's wonderfully done, with the lighting etc. And Dominic Frontiere's score for that is great. His Orientalisms were shared to a certain extent by both Goldsmith and Hugo Friedhofer.
I love the idea of beer by chapters. So we're up to Chapter 5 with Lovecraft? Better buy another tin! I also discovered that I've actually got "The White Ship" story, not in his "complete" (coz it ain't) "Necronomicon", but rather in Grafton's Lovecraft Omnibus 2. And it's also got that brilliant story in it, the one he wrote with (or was completed by) Kenneth Sterling - "In the Walls of Eryx", probably the most purely SF Lovecraft story. Set on Venus!
I'd love to see "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" or "At the Mountains of Madness" serialised on beer cans. We'd need about a million of them to get through each tale!
However, reality intrudes. I shall now open my second can of Estrella Galicia what I bought in da supermarket.
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Nov 19, 2016 - 11:42 AM
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Last Child
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Re - Outer Limits, I think it was mostly to pragmatically "remind" the audience that he was the villain. I put "remind" in "inverted commas" (see?), because the audience doesn't really need reminding who the villain is, but I think it's wonderfully done, with the lighting etc.
I love the idea of beer by chapters. So we're up to Chapter 5 with Lovecraft?
If you're quoting me, I never implied the squinting/reversion to original character was "mostly to pragmatically remind the audience." You interpreted it as a physical reversion. I said it was mental (he couldnt hide every little expression regardless of his appearance), and on a pragmatic level it served to remind the audience who he was. Just as the music reminds us. A more subtle reminder is a literal expression he had trouble with - he says "Something not clear?" in a mechanical, ESL manner instead of "Is something not clear?"
Regarding the beer, the latest is chapter 4. I originally thought they were making up their own text despite using some of the actual story titles, but maybe they're quoting from them. The can art is the same the whole season.
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Nov 19, 2016 - 4:38 PM
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Graham Watt
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Re - Outer Limits, I think it was mostly to pragmatically "remind" the audience that he was the villain. I put "remind" in "inverted commas" (see?), because the audience doesn't really need reminding who the villain is, but I think it's wonderfully done, with the lighting etc.
I love the idea of beer by chapters. So we're up to Chapter 5 with Lovecraft?
If you're quoting me, I never implied the squinting/reversion to original character was "mostly to pragmatically remind the audience." You interpreted it as a physical reversion. I said it was mental (he couldnt hide every little expression regardless of his appearance), and on a pragmatic level it served to remind the audience who he was. Just as the music reminds us. A more subtle reminder is a literal expression he had trouble with - he says "Something not clear?" in a mechanical, ESL manner instead of "Is something not clear?"
Regarding the beer, the latest is chapter 4. I originally thought they were making up their own text despite using some of the actual story titles, but maybe they're quoting from them. The can art is the same the whole season.
Now I agree with you, Last. I actually always had done, but my memory is poor and sometimes I express myself badly, and I also just forget a lot of things. Nevertheless, it is heartening to know that we are partaking of alcoholic beverages together, albeit through the vast chasm of space-time continuuuuuuuum wot is wot is Facebook.
I went to a jazz concert tonight. Brilliant. It was the bloke who was sax on Bowie's last album. The beer was subventioned by the State. I got drunk for 10 euros.
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