MEMORA8ILIA

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A Memory, Blown out by Madeleine Cocolas

❝ ‘A Memory, Blown Out’ explores the vaporous world of shifting memories. I recorded a vocal track nearly ten years ago when I was living in Seattle that has always stuck with me, yet never really found its place. I re-visited the track more recently and manipulated it, playing around with octaves and pitch, making it hazy and fluid, like a dream you couldn’t quite pin down. ‘A Memory, Blown Out’ was born and exists as an altered version of memories from ten years ago. ❞ *

I’m presently reading The Memory Police so the theme of fading memories is rattling around my headspace.

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/24/madeleine-cocolas-a-memory-blown-out-a/

The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming

❝ When music is so abundant and our attention is scarce, there’s power in adding more intention to your listening diet, more chaos, more risk. The thrill in finding music that is wired to your singular life is not that thousands of other people have found the same thing. It’s that the music becomes something confounding and unique, a true reflection of where you are and where you’ve been. The beauty of the algorithm of your mind is that it makes perfect sense to no one but yourself. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/23/the-woes-of-being-addicted-to-streaming/

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Ryunosuke Tsukue reminds me of No Country For Old Men’s Anton Chigurh — an amoral anthrophobe willing to do harm for fun and profit. There’s no rhyme or reason (though The Sword of Doom does hint at daddy issues). Anton’s coin tossing becomes Ryunosuke’s non-lethal-turned-lethal fencing duels, both serving to amuse. Even Ryunosuke’s dead-eyed stare echoes Anton’s — I wouldn’t be surprised if Javier Bardem found inspiration in the great Tatsuya Nakadai’s portrayal of unfeeling psychopathy.

A commenter in a Letterboxd review of The Sword of Doom has the most intriguing take on the Ryunosuke character which could also apply to Anton Chigurh:

❝ From a certain perspective, Ryunosuke might actually be the most moral of all the characters. In that, in being so unfeeling he ends up least hypocritical …  The Japanese title actually means Great Bodhisattva Pass and I think it’s significant in bringing up the film’s more religious, spiritual aspects. In a weird way Ryunosuke may be pure evil but he is pure, and thus becomes a karmic retribution machine for the universe. ❞

Tatsuya Nakadai is so good that I haven’t even mentioned that Toshiro Mifune is in this with one of the most bad-ass scenes of his career. And the ending is amazing and batshit crazy, and could reasonably be interpreted as being stuck in a purgatory of one’s own making.

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https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/21/ryunosuke-tsukue-reminds-me-of-no-country-for-old/