King Shot In Production

It's coming. It's finally coming. Jodorowsky has come down from the Mountain after meditating for God knows how long, slayed the demon king of that mountain, had the camera found in the demon's belly blessed by a team of half-naked Hindu guys and is know in the production phase of King Shot.

I seriously believe that is how Jodorowsky prepares for a movie. Because he is that cool.

So for those of you who don't remember when I informed you of this monumentous event. King Shot is a "mystic spagetti western," featuring a casino in the middle of the desert, Marilyn Manson as a 300 year old pope, a giant skeleton, a beetle for a narrator and David Lynch producing. None of this really shocks me, except for the David Lynch producing bit which is freaking awesome. For my grandparents, who might find this shocking, or even blasphemous, I suppose it kind of is but I'm familiar with this guy and Jodorowsky has been wanting to work with Manson for awhile, and I'm going for Jodorowsky anyways. Manson is just sort of there.

So the question is, when is this movie going to be released and how am I going to be able to see it as soon as humanly possible. My guess is that it's going to be at Cannes, but I highly doubt that I'll be able to make it for Cannes this year. My closest idea is that the Princess Cinema will be playing this. They sure as heck aren't showing it in my neck of the woods. I'll be writing back as soon as I figure out where it's being shown.

2, or Night Blogging Shouldn't Become to Much of A Problem

Sorry about the lack of postage recently, but I've been lazy. Anonymous, I read your comment and was touched. I hope your protests against the Chrurch of Scientology are going well.

Well, Thursdays as always are busy for me. Religious Studies, Philosophy, WoD and Social Activism. I'm really starting to loose interest in the WoD game. Mages are really annoying when you arn't playing one or another supernatural creature, especially when your character is your standard garden variety occultists, in which case they think your really pathetic. I wish we could go up against something like vampires, or werewolves for a change.

Also, I'm starting to think Hunter is my least favorite version of WoD rules. There's just something about being on the bottom end of the supernatural pecking order that dosn't help my enjoyment of fantasy. For awhile I've been thinking about setting up a Mage game, just because I've seen how the other people in my RPG group play Mage, and it just seems so, I don't know, not how I would do Mage. I think there is really room for really cool and weird stuff in Mage: The Awakening, like turn it into an Alejandro Jodorowsky movie. The thing is, I'm probubly going to be the only person that would get all the weird stuff. Consider the following...

NPC1: Welcome to the Consilium.

PC: Why is there a camel?

NPC1: Pardon?

PC: A camel, you have a camel beside reception.

NPC1: Yes. Yes, we do.

PC: Why is there a camel?

NPC1: (blank stare) Why shouldn't there be a camel? Are you feeling alright?

NPC2: It's alright, they've just awakened. They don't realize the Universe basically runs on symbolism.
NPC1: Oh, God. That's right. Takes me back to when I thought seeing a naked woman with a snake in each hand was impressive. My, how far we've
come.

So, yeah that would basically be my Mage campaign. Mind you, I'd work in a whole bunch of stuff about the Eternal Battle in the Supernal Realm and fighting the Seers of the Throne and stuff like that, but I'd do it in as esoteric a way as possible, because something in Mage: The Awakening tells me that that is the way Mage is supposed to be played.

In the University Department, I have a week to finish an essay on Arranged Marriage among Hindus in Canada. I've done little in the way of research, but I do have two sources, one of which is what appears to be a book bent on describing South-Asian Arranged Marriage in as complete a detail as humanly possible. I'm hoping my Mom and I can look over this tomorrow when I go home. By then I should have a thesis and the first paragraph done. It would also be nice if I could get the final paragraph done so I have some idea of where it will be going.

One of these days I also plan on sitting down and watching "El Topo" again. I can't remember when was the last time I saw it exactly, but I figure I should watch it again sometime. Probubly over Reading Week. It would be a personal thing, as this movie only really appeals to me. My sister Delila has some strange bias against Surrealism for some reason, she prefers Futurism which I find boring, mechanical and full of Facists. Surrealism has the potential to be more fun, even if Andre Breton was a bit of a dick.

Upcoming Events

This is an interview Alejandro Jodorowsky made for his upcoming movie King Shot, which looks like it will actually come about.

And this is a little taster of what is going to happen in the next season of Lost.