With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
August 25, 2003 - 11:32 p.m.
I’ll start with the important news. These are the standings for my baseball league for the week ending Sunday August 24.
- Nashional Batnoses
- Dorney Park Leafs
- P.U. Stinkers
- Baltimore Chops
- Loose Cannons
- Conventional Warheads
- Athens Talisker Swillers
- Mordor Balrogs
- German Kamels
- A2004 Crack Half Milers
- Bomb Squad
- Phoenix Asteroids
Yes the team you all root for the Batnoses won a week. For that accomplishment I win a big $11. For the season I’m in 10th place but we won’t talk about that.
Tonight I went to see Q – The Winged Serpent at the Two Boots Pioneer Theatre. Even though I had to go downtown I eschewed the Williamsburg Bridge and paid the $3.50 toll on the tunnel. I just couldn’t bear to sit through the traffic jam that has been on the bridge since the made it so that only two lanes go into the city. I was able to get there in half a hour via the tunnel. It would have taken me that long to just cross the bridge.
Two Boots is an interesting establishment. It is a pair of restaurants/pizza places, a video store, and a revival theater. There also used to be a live performance space that might still be there. I ate in the restaurant which meant that I got free admission to the film.
Larry Cohen the director of the film was supposed to be there but he is ill and couldn’t make it. I was very disappointed, he is a hero of mine. Seeing him was my main reason for going, I have the film on video. I didn’t regret it though. Before the film they ran a short that Larry shot giving his regrets for not being able to make it.
The film was released in 1982 but it still holds up. The audience loved it. It is still witty, and original. The special effects were done on the cheap but it conveys the story and that’s what’s important. The cast does a great job, Richard Roundtree of Shaft Fame, David Carradine , Candy Clark, Malachy McCourt, and Michael Moriarty who steals the show. In the intro Larry Cohen said that Moriarty gave the greatest performance ever in a monster movie. I might have to agree.
There was one nervous moment when the film grinded to a halt. I was afraid it was fried but after ten minutes they got it running again.
When the film ended it got a huge ovation. I heard some people talking and I wasn’t the only one in the theatre that had seen it when it came out originally. I also over heard that many of the people there were filmmakers in their own right. As I was leaving I talked to the person who was running the show and knows Larry Cohen. I asked him if there was a chance that Larry could make it another time and he said yes. I gathered that he knows Larry personally so I asked him the question I was going to ask Larry. Was Sam Fuller a big influence on Larry. He is the director he most reminds me of. What I got as an answer was that the house where Larry now lives used to belong to Sam Fuller, so there certainly is a connection.
The film was shown as part of the Howl: the Festival of East Village Arts. So how many people can figure out why they chose the name “Howl?” Here is a hint, it is to honor someone. Give up? I’m sure some of you got it. It is named for Allen Ginsberg’s most famous poem Howl. I usually give the texts for poems but this one is long so I’ll just give a link to it. Howl
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile August 25, 2003
