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[Michael Bailey]

watching footage with Farley:

the "raiding party" is wearing ski masks "machine-knit in
reindeer and cone-bearing tree motifs"

so, a sort of festive look...I predict not much
will come of enlarging frames of the faces...

"It was weird to Doc watching now, weird beyond
easy imagining, that somewhere inside the place,
invisible, he was lying unconscious, that with an
X-Ray Specs attachment of some kind he could be
looking at himself inert, next door to dead, and
that viewing this film of an assault that was
just about to begin might qualify as what Sortilege
liked to call an out-of-body experience."

things that strike me:
he's lucky he was knocked out...
it would be wrong to underestimate the
impact of this film on him.  He's not a
cold, dispassionate person, not a
just-the-facts guy.  The reference to X-Ray
Specs is nostalgic color, and also a grasping
on his part to kid-stuff manageable technology
(which was toys and didn't really work -
but what if they did!  Well, if they did, he would
see himself missing a firefight by being
as Frank Zappa put it, unconcho...)

so, if we wanted to be emblematic, we could
see our 60s hippie already on his way to evolving
into a PI, sidelined in "big biz v. idealism" writ small,
unable to prevent idealism getting abducted and
put back into its seraglio...

and having lived to watch the tale told on film,
as he will probably play it again in his head
(like Zoyd, he does revisit stuff and think it over,
I think the pot helps him do that, if you constantly
in the short-run have to process a bunch of propaganda,
which you know is wrong, you
actually have to forget that stuff to function...)

but I think it's a good sign that he's weirded out
by it.

"They're, gonna put me in the movies..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg67-CIasMg





-- 
--- "Can't say it often enough -
change your hair, change your life."
- Sortilege