Interstellar was made by Christopher Nolan of Batman fame. The film was okay to watch but was too ridden with necessary and partially controlling narrative features and symbolic placements. The film is sentimental in a properly gooey fashion and carries with it a message that does nothing other than make a statement of the current …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
today it is music
I start the car to get to the shops and as is my habit I turn on the radio. It is tuned to radio four. The sound gets on my nerves. I press the preset button for radio three. I enjoy the music. Now on one hand I am lucky perhaps, I find myself listening …
agony of circular thoughts
I am bereft of belief in the uniqueness of the weft. I was sitting quietly at the back of the meeting looking at the sleeve of my sweatshirt top.The stitches were so fine, I was fascinated and started wondering how fine stitches might be made by hand? Could they be as small as this? Did …
iSiS?
Two things I want to write it down concerning ISIS. Firstly, I don’t find it particularly difficult to understand why young men and young women might choose to travel to fight with ISIS. Despite coming from a privileged background myself I was aggressively favourable towards the IR A in the late 1970s and early 1980s. …
today is a mirror too
Walking through the Sheffield I pass a man who is often busking in the town centre. He plays sometimes a guitar, today, I think, some sort of small stringed instrument, perhaps, or was it a small keyboard. He plays them like I might play them at times, just making noise using the machine on his …
Zizek (again)
As I listened and watched “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” Zizek’s second full-length film with Sophie Fiennes. I’d tried watching it one time and had found it frustrating purely because I had heard many of the philosophical anecdotes in other lectures by Zizek. Yesterday evening I watched it the whole way through and enjoyed it …
of ants and men
So I was discussing this notion of thought not taking place before action but being some sort of ephemera taking place as an explanation rather than being part of a decision making process. My friend Steve listened to me talking about this yesterday evening and pointed out that such an idea was in itself a …
i can do this…
So this is a cartoon from Ella – shows what she’s thinking about wouldn’t you say?
buster and gemini
Lovely afternoon walk with Ella, Lottie and Kai taking two dogs from an animal rescue centre for a walk in the Mayfield Valley – general good humour prevailed only overshadowed by the proverbial rainbow just visible in the picture.
101
I am a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. I was at meeting for worship in Sheffield this morning and heard R, a prominent Quaker I’d say, speak about her love of passage 1.01 from Advices and Queries. Here it is: As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which …