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#absurdity

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Stand Up (2025)

What the hell have I done?

Buñuel, are you nesting secretly in my loins or something?

Here's a brief film about a comedian, a couple, and a bartender.

The concept here is that an unseen child and her mother are sole observers in this comedy club. Aka no character seems to actually see one another. Also, the wrestler appears to be in heaven, and I guess that's OK.

Also. I'm not sure why being in a fat suit prompted me to dance so much.

So, this is what Jumpin' Hip was supposed to be like.

Note, from comparing this to the film, that much of the absurdity was planned! Only minor stuff, like the sheep in Iceland and the stuff about the kissing a cat midair, was improvised.

BTW, I've written and recorded a second film.

And I'm currently writing a third.

Recently, it has dawned on me just why I've taken the time to watch so many films. I've seen so much, and now it's useful :-)

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Often an opinion, a custom, seems absurd when we are young, and advancing in life, we find the reason. Mustn’t we conclude that certain habits aren’t so ridiculous? One is lead to think sometimes that they were established by people who had read the entire book of life, and that they are judged by people who, despite their esprit, have only read a few pages.
 
[Souvent une opinion, une coutume commence à paraître absurde dans la première jeunesse, et en avançant dans la vie, on en trouve la raison; elle paraît moins absurde. En faudrait-il conclure que de certaines coutumes sont moins ridicules? On serait porté à penser quelquefois qu’elles ont été établies par des gens qui avaient lu le livre entier de la vie, et qu’elles sont jugées par des gens qui, malgré leur esprit, n’en ont lu que quelques pages.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 21 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/770…

From the LA Times reporter trying to add a bit of color to their reporting:

“[At] least 17 glass-covered light boxes surrounding the building had also been smashed, with broken shards of blue-grey glass covering the light fixtures. A dented metal can of non-GMO green beans rested next to one of the broken light boxes, after likely having been used to smash it in.”

Non-GMO green beans don’t kill people, but they’re hell on blue-grey glass light boxes.

#USpol#LA#Police

Once in a while it hits me again what an odd historical period we live in.

I recently bought a storage trunk. It's sturdy; we're happy with the purchase.

But why does a case & trunk company make How-To Videos? How to ... what?

Also - why does a firm that essentially builds boxes have 4 social media accounts? What kind of content are they putting up? (Now I'm almost curious enough to check them out.)