Videodrome

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> Not a sad song but still a movie I'd recommend (sans the double barrel 
> purple microdot which I had the pleasure of accompanient my first trip 
> thru this flick, know what I mean?).  One of Cronenburg's best.  Check 
> out Rabid with Marilyn Chambers, too.

This was on the SCIFI channel Saturday night.

> 
> Just starting The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. 

An amazing book. Have you read the account by Euclides da Cunha? He
was a junior officer on the punitive expedition. It's called Os Sertaos.

> 
> Has anyone read The White Rainbow by A Harrington that Steely mentioned 
> in  a previous post?  Love those morbid Tex-Mex stories.  Mr. Samsel?  
> end of Blood Meridian--at the jakes, the judge and the man, then the 
> dance--remind you of a bit of Poe--Masque of the Red Death?

Indeed.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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