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Movie News By Nathan Adams on May 17, 2012 | Be the First To CommentThese days we kind of take it for granted that Liam Neeson is the biggest badass on the planet. But, once upon a time, he was just a budding action star, an actor making a transition from the dramatic roles of his youth to the more throat-punching direction his career has taken recently. Then Taken happened, and suddenly he became the biggest action star on the planet. That modestly budgeted actioner took in $226m worldwide, becoming such a surprise hit that we now find ourselves in the position of eagerly awaiting the sequel. This week, "Entertainment Weekly" is taking advantage of the anticipation by debuting a few stills from the movie, as well as having a little chat with Neeson about what danger his character is going to face this time around. When asked about how Taken 2 ties in to the end of the first film, Neeson explained, "The action is supposed to take place about a year or a year and a half after the first story. It's a very clever sequel with the usual thrills and spills, but the ante is upped quite a bit in this one."
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Movie News By Nathan Adams on August 5, 2011 | Comments (4)A pretty interesting photo (which gets bigger if you click it) hit the Internet late tonight. It's a deleted scene from TRON: Legacy, giving us a glimpse of Anne Hathaway playing a small role as a program named Catturra. Okay, that's a lie. It's the first official look at Anne Hathaway dressed up as Catwoman for The Dark Knight Rises. As you can see, she's wearing form-fitting leather from head to toe, she's got a pair of high tech looking goggles on (which seem to be connected to something via Bluetooth, I hope she doesn't go into movies wearing those), and her hair is pulled back into a ponytail. That looks like a pretty decent getup for a cat burglar to me. Oh yeah, and seeing as that isn't actually a light cycle she's riding, I guess we can only come to one conclusion… she's stealing Batman's motorcycle! If I know Batman, he's not going to take very kindly to that. Most likely he's going to do whatever it takes to hunt her down, find his motorcycle, and engage in some sexually tense banter with her until she gives it back. And she will give it back. He's the Goddamn Batman. The picture comes from the film's official site, with a special nod to /Film for being the first one I saw to discover it.
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I work at the moment for The Money Advice Service. It's a worthy enterprise, and we're trying to bring the whole thing in to the 21st century - it's fun, and it's hard, and if we get it right, the people who really need it will get a lot of help. Which has to be a Yay.
Alot of the folk who work there don't come from a digital background. Those who do are immeasurably grateful that the brilliant enterprise that is GDS exists at the same time, as an agent for change because we get to point a big finger at the government (the government! My God! How did that ever happen :) and say look! If we emulate these people then we're doing ok, and it's all official n'stuff, so it must be good.
So I thought I'd write them a little note about why the ongoing discussion with regard to the appalling tragedy of the death of Aaron Swartz is important. Why what he was part of is important, putting it in the context of the UK. I personalised it, so that it didn't feel remote, and so there are aspects of it that may look like I'm aggrandizing a little. Apologies if that's the case. I was so proud to be part of things when I was younger and part of me is terribly frustrated that I'm not really now, apart from paying my ORG subs and writing to my MP when necessary. I hope I can gradually change the emphasis back, but I admit, it is more difficult to be directly involved if you're not a coder. What I mostly do right now is offer my support, and love, where it's needed.
Anyway. Got to get back to work, so I'm just putting it up here, in order to specifically award a hugely respectful round of applause to Mike Bracken. It's so important, at a time like this, that we stand up and be counted in whatever way we can. He has just done so in a way that I hope he will remember, and be as proud of personally as we are of him. (We were anyway, tbh)
It's not just about Mike though, it's about everyone, everywhere who is trying to change things. Do not ever do what Aaron did. People love you, and honour you, and will always be there for you. I will! Mail me! If I don't know you then I want to :)
...and remember that having a reason to change things, and make things better for everyone, gives you a superpower.
Hi guys,
Something to read when you've got a mo, over a cup of tea.
Something rather remarkable was published in the GDS blog last night. Several friends who are part of the movement to free information, open up govt and use the internet for the 'power of good' knew Aaron Swartz, whose name you may have read in the news in the last week, very well. His death is not only a tragedy for his family and friends, who loved him dearly, but is also a horribly visible reminder that the kind of work that geeks have been doing, ripping away the walls of misguided privacy around much tax paid information is very close to the edge of legal. Indeed, many years ago, I was to be found typing up a list of MP's fax numbers against a tidied list of their names to in some small way help www.faxyourmp.com in to the world – I'm 100% sure that someone, somewhere would have legally objected to that on privacy grounds! But without those baby steps, we wouldn't be where we are now. Without Faxyourmp, MySociety would not exist, and GDS would not currently be revolutionising govt online services.
But behind Faxyourmp was something called "Stand", which found a bunch of fighty nerds and geeks standing together to do everything possible to stop the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (we didn't manage it but at least we had a go, and realised in the process that we had given ourselves permission to 'Do Something' when we needed to). (Editor's note: this is not, by the way, suggesting that all of the same people were somehow involved all the way along the line. GDS is not, definitely not, filled with a bunch of 'fighty nerds'.)
In recent years, frankly I haven't contributed much at all to changing things – family and work has got in the way but those involved in particular with MySociety and ORG are continuing to do hugely important work. And any one of them could have been Aaron Swartz, facing years in the nick for liberating information, which has really hit home to all of us. In trying to modernise what is private, what is public and trying to empower everyone in the process, but the legal system has yet to really grasp these concepts, and has the possibility of lumping in people like Aaron with edjits who want to hack systems for blackmail and personal gain.
There is also something important here about the risk that fundamentally idealistic people have in being crunched up against the hard edge of the law. Where pragmatic people compromise, people like Aaron Swartz found the idea of plea bargaining an obscenity, and his personal integrity made it difficult for him to plead guilty to a 'crime' which was frankly, a nonsense.
Anyway. Mike Bracken and some other friends collaborated on a piece commemorating the idealism and hard work of Aaron, and also remembering another wonderful guy called Chris Lightfoot, who for reasons only known to him, killed himself several years ago now but whose creative understanding of the power of free data helped lead MySociety and therefore by extension, GDS, to where they are now.
Whilst all this may seem a bit 'geek/nerd/so what', the power of what people are doing for the public good here is extraordinary – and that same energy is being spread worldwide, helping in communities where access to information and personal independence and empowerment is even more restricted. Mike is so right to want to celebrate this, and mourn, publicly. So the message here is be the best person you can be – and that includes being a high profile representative of digital govt, publishing something like this:
Slightly long interruption there. Where were we...
I'm going to cover the bits that aren't my lower left leg, given that... well, it's the big finale but apart from that, if I talk about the 'blue' bits, it will help to explain the remedies that helped me to, vor example, not lose my left foot.
Top right thigh:
What this represents is three different plastic surgeon induced post-injury er... injuries? Not really injuries but not that my body would notice the difference. Collatoral damage. The two horizontal sections are skin graft sites. The one on the top of my thigh is still very sore all over (remember we're now nearly three months after the crash); the one on the side of my thigh over on my right hand side is still sore at the top.
Both of these were covered after the 'big' operation with large sized 'Mefix' which is kind of like the material you get around the edge of sensitive skin plasters (except it reacted with my skin, which was nice). After ten days (eleven, in my case) the mefix could be lifted off, given that the new skin should have grown underneath. Which is did. Mostly. Ask me if it hurts seeing chunks of your very tentative skin growth being ripped off on a massive plaster. Go on.
One of the oddest things about these assaults on my body was how much they "gunged out", as I put it at the time. The lack of skin produced an onslaught of lymph and goo (not blood), pouring from the open wounds in hospital, leading to my poor, numb and bruised thigh being wrapped in dressings designed to soak up 'exudate' (ie: gunge), yet still waking every morning to find the right side of the bed soaked through. To sum up the short-term situation: yeeeeuch. So these, each are about 2.5 inches across, and five or 6 inches long.
What do you mean, what's that long blue line? Ah well, you see. This is the bit that has continued to be numb for three months (and counting). This is the bit where they took out a 'working blood vessel'. This is the bit where they took a patch of skin and sewed in to my other leg... not to mention a large chunk of flesh. The line of rounded off by a perfectly round punctuation mark. A full stop, just above the knee, where a tube sucked gunge from underneath the scar, where it couldn't, presumably, 'exude'.
Bottom right calf:
Lower down, below the knee on the right leg there were a bunch of bruises which, in retrospect help to put bruises in to perspective. Extremely colourful and vivid, nevertheless these dispersed within a couple of days, it seems to me now. It just goes to show you. It's the deep, nasty invisible bruises you've got to worry about. Not these surface rainbow coloured affairs.
Bottom left calf:
Ok! What we have here is in three distinct sections:
1) Straight graft
2) The beach
3) The flap
4) The long side
There are some sub areas, such as 'the pit', but we may come to those. I'm going to talk you down the leg from the knee. You will remember that I have a hematoma on the inside right of my left thigh. Well it's not just that - the knee is entirely numb on the right hand side too, and has hidden, odd swelling that makes everything feel tight and stiff. In essence, the lorry when it clipped me off the bike, took my left leg and as it hit the breaks, dragged it along the road, before coming to a stop on top of it. The bruising and damage extended up to almost the very top of the left thigh on the inside but up at that level there were merely huge yellow and dark red bruises. As discussed above, these disappeared fairly quickly, leaving swelling, the skin laceration above the knee, the hematoma, the swollen knee and as we go below the knee, we reach I presume the skin and flesh the lorry lay on top of.
Part 1 - The straight graft starts as the knee stops, punctuated with a small red comma of lost skin just above it, as if an orbiting moon of the 50p sized scar above the knee. As you can see from the image, the missing skin (and onward) is pretty much the covering to the Gastrocnemius muscle. the very top of the calf, where the skin covers the bone, escaped the de-frocking of the surgeon's knife. So, first: a section about 2.5 cm's wide and maybe 3, and 3-and-a-bit, leading to 4 inches in height has a skin graft on. Only the skin was lost here - no flesh. The recovery of this area is amazing -you would not know it was a graft. The only difference is that it looks like an area that has been very bruised.
Part 2. The beach. There is a thick curve around the edge of the first graft area, after which a section of comparable size looks like nothing less than a light purple lunar landscape. Graft, placed in top of bare muscle. I lost all my flesh on the side of the leg from this point on. I have a fairly big problem with this area. Well. I have a practical problem with this, which is that when I moisturise the skin (which I do, daily), some of the lotion gathers in the deep crevasses, and it is impossible to get it out, or moisurise it in. My second poblem is... fuck, it looks ugly. I mean really damn strange. It's not like this stuff is unobtrusive, either.
Why is it called 'the Beach', you ask? The skin growth granulated strongly, in to many nobule things called 'Fibroplasts'. these are basically overgrowth of collagen, amongst other lesser bits of your (basically) 'underskin'. The bit that needs to be there so that your thin and wispy but super important epidermis can grow on top. Consequently, there are many, many nobbly bits.
Part 3. The flap. Now, do you remember the long blue line? What you have to remember is, the skin and flesh is missing along the inner side of my left leg from about two thirds of the way up. Graft covers the muscle initially but as the leg moves dow toward the ankle, things get a little more hairy. It's not just the flesh that's gone. The vein that goes from the foot back up the leg is damaged and failing. If that fails, the foot fails. not only that but as my poor husband will attest, the bones in my ankle are exposed to the air. Bones don't tend to like that sort of thing.
So what they did was this. First of all, a lozenge shaped piece of my right thigh skin is cut out. It's really huge! They also stretched it a bit on the leg before sewing it on but basically we're talking about a piece 2.5 inches wide and 6 inches on one side, 5 on the other, sew on... well, three sides sewn on... well, two and a half sides sewn on (you can only stretch skin so far) to my leg above my ankle. What does it look like? Somewhat like a home-mended soft toy. I am left with a permanent reminder of Woody and his home sewn arm in Toy Story 2. the half a side that wasn't sewn was left to its own devices, and the triangular portionn that was missing (basically) gradually skinned over. I called that 'The archipelago'. The archipelago really didn't want to heal, for ages.
Moving around from the archipelago was 'The Cliff'. this was the fourth side of the flap. The bit they didn't sew. The bit, in short, which consisted of a large, raw section of my thigh, with no skin on, a fair approxumation of which is drawn above. I could actually see the layer of subcutaneous fat underneath the skin (reassuringly thin ;) before the flesh started. It looked like a fresh chopped roast, wrapped in its own skin, ready for the oven. It was awful. Fascinating, but beyond imagining. I will not be able to describe the taboo nature of this well enough. You are looking at the inside of your leg. On the outside. Everything in your body screams that it is wrong. I have been thinking about that, in conjunction with thoughts about 'Crash' by JG Ballard and want to write a muse in a few days.
The last nicknamed piece is 'The pit'. This is at the bottom of the right hand side of the cliff (from my position). It is a tip-of-the-thumb sized dip, which whilst it was raw I wouldn't have dared touch, but now, I can stick my little finger in to moisturise it. Its where all the gunge and 'exudate' would collect. As well as blood. Even though I was standing up sometimes at least, nevertheless I would find it full. Also full of piles of cheesy dead skin cells. A delight!
Referring to the image above, what's the story with the chopped bit then? That's... er... kind of. Chopped? When it was all entirely raw, it looked as if someone had taken a machete to my leg. In reality, the difference was hugely exaggerated due to the flap at the bottom sticking out so far, but it still looks depressingly weird. How could it not.
Lastly, the bottom section in fact runs along the length of the injury from the flap upward. It received no grafts and the difference is clear. It is still dark red and blotchy; it has areas of thickened skin which feels tight. It's a little odd, but there's no indication it won't gradually get paler over time.
More granular detail to come, plus, nearly time for an actual photograph! I would have had it a week or so ago, but an annoying blistery bit came up on the beach which then burst. Lovely. Nothing nasty, just a red and open bit. As soon as it heals we can contemplate going swimming! just how much of an ordeal will that be? God knows.
Adam Yauch died at the end of last week and it felt very like a punch in the chest. When Yauch was diagnosed with cancer, the boys put up a video recorded in their studio, all together, explaining why the promotion for, and the release of their new album, 'Hot Sauce Committee Volume 1" was now not going ahead.
The video said everything you need to know about the Beasties to understand them. Great friends, relaxed with each other and jokey with the camera on, even then. They welcomed you in as fans. They always seemed to feel that they were on some great project *with you*, because you loved them. I once read a lovely post on their bulletin board on beastieboys.com. Just some guy, who had called up when he bought an item of clothing from Grand Royale, and he realised that it was Yauch who had answered the phone. Amazed and overjoyed at such normal, everyday stuff. It was their thing, so they helped run it. No pop-star fuss involved.
I have many, many memories associated with the Beasties. Buying "Licenced to Ill' and my older brother (a cool hero in my eyes) looking at me bemused - why was I listening to this crap? Heh. So they were *mine*, not his! Then, rushing after college to buy Paul's Boutique on the first day I could get it from the Slough branch of 'Our Price'. Gatefold sleeve, woohoo! Got it home and it nearly blew my head off. What the hell was THIS! And having been brought up on The Clash, I guess, that genre bending guitar band, who dabbled with reggae and funk, worked with rappers and enhanced their music's potential no end as a result... yeah. I really fucking loved it. And pogoing... just pogoing around like a nut at I don't know how many gigs. Not enough. Never enough... damnit.
Now, I realise that the guys were only four years older than I was, and so their world vision and mine moved ever closer. While 'Check Your Head' kind of felt like an extension of Paul's Boutique to me, when Ill Communication came out, you have no idea of the sense of total vindication I smugly felt. The whole of hip London, that tried so achingly hard to be cool, suddenly cottoned on to one of my favourite bands. My then boyfriend had a poster for 'Sabotage' on his wall. And if you look at the imagery surrounding the record, it was reflecting cultural ironies of our generation - the stuff we secretly rather loved: the pisstake Starsky and Hutch video and the gorgeous, sweeping, joyous roar! Fucking A!
Oddly, it's not that album I turn to most. My favourite albums are the comparatively low key 'To the 5 Boroughs' and 'Hello Nasty', partially in the latter because the guys allowed themselves to be as all-out geeky as they liked and just funked the funk out (also including the overwhelmingly joyful Fatboy Slim remix of 'Body Movin' which as I recalled on the weekend, I would, for a whole summer, simply press 'Play' on to keep it on the headphones for hours at a time). The post 9/11 'To The 5 Boroughs' was thoughtful and gave you time to think about what they were saying - showing their hearts on their sleeves at last but still, containing one of my favourite stupido Beasties rhymes of all time, courtesy of Mike D in 'Ch-check it out', brought to life by a totally awesome and ridiculous video, directed by one Nathaniel Hornblower. That Gawker link does a really good job of summing up why just one side of Adam Yauch was so cool. And by extension, the ludicrous, perfect joy that he brought to the Beasties. You were in on a brilliant joke. The best music, made by the best guys, accompanied by the best fun you could possibly have whilst making a living.
Scratch that surface and you found a guy who loved films, had begun to really get in to producing excellent, intelligent movies, and whose personal energy was behind a huge increase in interest in the loss of rights by the Tibetan peoples after the Chinese occupation. There's a lot of good in Buddhism, though I have problems with it too but it definitely veers to the good side, and MCA's respect for it only really came through lyrically on 'To The 5 Boroughs'. He seemed to always be the moral heart of the band though. he was the one who admitted that they'd been teenage dickheads writing songs like 'She's On It', and I well remember standing applauding at Reading festival, listening to him mumbly-drawling out his explanation as to why calling a song 'Smack Your Bitch Up' just wasn't cool in the Beastie Boys universe, when The Prodigy had been on earlier in the day. Of course you couldn't call a song something so stupid, and expect not to be called out about it.
When he couldn't make it to the 'Hall of fame' ceremony, I was worried and assumed that he was too sick to go. And so the news came more as a horribly sad moment rather than a shock. I hope that the peace that Buddhism would have given Yauch in his life helped him through his exit, and I feel desperately sad for his family, and his two best friends.
I don't tend to say 'RIP' because it seems an odd phrase to an atheist, but I think if anyone should deserve it to be said, it's Adam Yauch. RIP.
Somehow it has taken me six weeks to get back to the writing of this post. I think perhaps that might be indicative of something psychological, don't you? What on earth could possibly be problematic about explaining the injuries that have left me permanently scarred, with a fucked up leg and at present, deep, nasty pains which won't go for months, if not years?
Here's the executive summary:
Would you like detail? Why certainly.
1. Left buttock
How awkward, to have to wrote the word 'buttock'. While I was on the floor under the lorry, the lovely woman who looked after me said "I have to tell you, I can see some of your fat cells on your bum", at which I asked her not to tell me anything else. I cannot begin to imagine how this happened, but this injury was a deep cut, which was relatively small on the surface. How deep? An inch or two, maybe? I don't know but what I do know is that it caused a lot of hard scar tissue (known as hematoma) which is still there, three months later. It was the injury that everyone forgot about. After all, comparatively boring compared to the groovy plastics challenge of saving my foot. But I would not be lying if I said it's one of my most irritating injuries. It gave me dreadful stitch when I first started walking; if I sit too long in one position, deep bruised hurt flares up.
2. I need to break the above the knee injuries down a little bit.
The red portion shows the deep bruising that's all over the area - as the rest of my leg has become less swollen, it has left a large amount of 'numb' with sort of deep swelling that won't go away (I assume for an absolute age), which surrounds my knee. There's actually a swelling on the outside of the knee, just below, which when it really swells, looks somewhat egg-like.
The grey portion shows the hematoma. Which is horrible, to be frank. It swells out way further than the natural shape of my thigh, it's numb and feels like clay. Heavy. As if someone had inserted a sugar bag sized lump of clay on the inside. Toward the end of the day, gravity starts to pull it down. Hurty, obviously but more than that. Extremely uncomfortable. And it's not going away any time soon.
The 'raw' patch was a skin laceration which was rather odd, in that when I first saw it, it was very heavily bruised skin. Utterly nasty to look at - deep, rich, dark purple blood had inundated the skin. It didn't look much like skin, frankly but that's what I was told. Later, I was told that it was an open patch, which made more sense looking at the visual evidence. It was (and still is) completely numb so it hurt no more or less either way. It did heal, and grow more skin fantastically well over a couple of months and now has a thick scar which is a patch a little bigger than a 50p piece. Like all scars, it will take some years to resolve itself in to its long-term 'look and feel'. At present it looks shiny, lumpy and dark red. Just the way the boys like it.
...part 2 coming tomorrow: the feature presentation. Looking forward to that, I'm sure.
...and I used to think five hours was pretty long!
I felt sick the night before. I felt sick in the morning. I had felt sick in the patient transport driving between the two hospitals which makes some sense being weak but travel sickness? For 12 hours? In reality, I was petrified.
Eight long hours of poison being pumped in to my system. I knew all about long ops, and anaesthetics made me puke, endlessly, for 24 hrs afterwards as a child. That alongside a feeling of ugly brain fug which would only lose its grip the next day. Awful. The truth of the matter is, my having had many anaesthetics has made me hate them ever more vehemently, not inured me against them.
Just before going down in the morning, the plastics team came up to say hello. I have to say they were a formidable bunch. Looking at these sharp faces around the bed, I was struck with the realisation that they were probably together, the best in the country. I felt happy about the op in terms of outcomes. Just the physical action of the anaesthetic made me feel a bit panicky. Somehow, the two debridement ops earlier in the week did not bother me at all. I knew they were short (comparitively), so could not have the heavy, appalling poisoning effects that four or five (or eight) hours would.
The anaesthetist had already introduced himself upstairs. Now we went through the usual rituals of drug taking: confirming name and date of birth. He listened attentively when I explained my reactions and told me that he was going to administer anti-emetics and was also going to make liberal use of a form of nerve numbing using ultrasound. Given that my last heavy ops had completed twenty years before, this was all new to me. From what I can gather, the effect is somewhat epidural-esque. All very interesting but then the anaesthetist told me he was administering a pre-med through one of my cannulas (that's intravenous needle palced in a semi-permanent position in a vein so that drugs and fluids can be administered quickly). I was horrified, "But pre-meds make me si..." before I'd even got to the end of the sentence I knew I had seconds. Luckily they got a bag, and those tiny sips of illicit water came right back up and 'pleasantly' out of the way before being knocked out. He looked slightly bemused but also a little more "Ok, I believe you". Then... knocked out.
...awake. I will never get used to that instantaneous zonked/wake thing. For those who don't know, you don't feel yourself falling to sleep when they drug you, and you wake up apparently super quick thinking "When's the op going to start?"
There I was AWAKE. Feeling like Me, not some half zombie drug addict. My God. Hello? Clear as a bell. Here came a lovely specialist recovery nurse, Louise. How was I feeling? Well... er... fine, to tell you the truth? Obviously on Morphine but... but head completely clear. Amazing. Eight hours... how the hell did they do it? The anaesthetist came to see how I was after a while. I shook his hand and thanked him. He did an *amazing* job.
I couldn't go up to the ward because they needed a specialist nurse who wasn't on until 7.30. So I talked to Louise about the subjects that fascinate me (ie: mostly asking her questions as to why she was a nurse, why she specialised in recovery nursing and then moved on to Life, the Universe and Everything). I knew that wonderful McK was waiting, exhausted and anxious upstairs but still we couldn't go up. Eventually at half past eight, we left. To a bed with all manner of specialist equipment keeping my newly operated on leg warm and my right leg moving, to prevent blood clots. 'Woken' every half an hour for the ward nurse to perform a doppler test to see if my newly reconstructed ankle with its brand new vein, pretending to be an artery from now on (cut out of my right thigh, where presumably I wasn't using it - er, heh) was still doing the blood pumping throb. And It did. All night. And the next day. And the day after.
And so it would seem appropriate to tell you what they actually *did*.
Saturday morning. Straight in to theatre for a good dig around to try and work out what the hell to do, and what was wrong, and right. I am very vague about times except to say that I was back in the ward in the afternoon. Cutting through a ew days and non-essential events, I phoned my boss and friend, Mikey on Saturday afternoon and after I had told him I had gone under a lorry, then laughed down the phone, he said "Are you on morphine?" Mike was the only person who said to mr "Be careful, you'll come down with a crash". Yeah yeah yeah, says I. Aha. He spoke truths.
Another op on Tuesday, and in between, lovely friends to visit. How wonderful that I was able to email my friends and tell them what had happened. Next thing, there's a visiting schedule starting up and I'm just sitting in bed following everything on email and Twitter. For the social media specialists amongst you (and don't you tell me there aren't) it might interest you to know that it didn't even occur to me to jump on to Facebook and announce the crash to an un-edited audience -though I did eventually, once I'd got home.
The Tuesday op was a full on 'debridement'. Let's see what that word might mean, shall we? Extraordinarily gendered, isn't it. It means scraping away all the necrotising skin and flesh. Isn't that nice. And just in case you weren't sure about the word 'necrotising', in short it's the bits that are dead. Going off. Beginning to smell (alright, alright...).
So by now I had met my Plastics consultant, a very nice bloke from St Thomas' called Naveen, who was trying to get me in to have my long operation at St Thomas', where the Plastics ward and specialisation is. He couldn't do Thursday, but there was a possibility of Friday.
The wards at King's were an odd mix of completely new, where the Gynae unit was and I had an utterly splendid room to myself, with a window that opened (unheard of in any hospital) and an aspect that bathed the room in golden hour light in the mornings. From there, I was shuting in to general Obs , which had low ceilings and tiny unopenable windows. The difference in wellbeing was huge. People coming in an preaching with patients, comodes behind flimsy curtains.... agh. There is no room for humility or indeed, personal space, on the ward.
THe people at Kings were fabulous, but tere I was, leaving that tiny hut like ward on Thursday 23rd Jan, on my way to St Thomas' for the longest operation of my life. Operation 'Save the leg'.
I will bring you up to date with the whole story, I promise, but using the blog in a 'diary' function (how novel), I just want to jot down a few "How are you feeling?" notes. None of this will make much sense because I haven't explained the inuries yet, but I mostly started writing this up to give myself an outlet for *moaning like a grumbly old bastard* to be frank. Because there's only so much Twitter-moaning one feels one can subject one's friends to on a daily basis. Not to mention email lists and other friendly outlets.
So. How am I feeling?
Well for the last two days the rebuilt 'flap' ankle has ben hurting like a viper. Why? I have several theories, one of which may be true.
What is it? God knows, but the official dose for Codeine is 30-60mg 'if needed'. Before now, 60 in one go made me go verrrry doolally. So, I thought well, how about taking 30 every couple of hours as opposed to taking a massive dose every 4? I've been suffering slightly from the peaks and troughs of pain relief cycles so, a more constant stream of the lower dose? Seems to make a difference. A bit.
Shattered though. An afternoon of pain. Still. The District Nurses came earlier on and I noticed when the main nurse was wiping down a particular bit of 'the injury', the feeling of numbness was very slightly reduced. I've been in the position of feeling nothing on the open surface, but I could feel pressure from about a centimetre and a half in. Really odd. That sensation was far closer to the surface. So. potentially good news. Who can tell. About the only thing I can tell is that this is going to take a long, long time.
The paramedics had been on the scene for... well, an amount of time which was not short. It's very difficult to have a full grip on reality when you're experiencing the 'now' through several filters. Extreme pain and morphine, not to mention varying degrees of raging hormones.
I'd fogotten, yesterday that there was a point, after the paramedics arrived when I talked about my kids - they were keeping me talking, for obvious reasons. And for the first time, I cried. I cried because of the effect this would have on them. That I wasn't going to be putting them to bed and snuggling up for a night time kiss, and what it would have meant to them if I was dead right now. And, my 'watching this all from above' objective self told me that the adrenalin might be wearing off a bit, leaving a giant emotional hole in its wake, waiting to be filled with tears.
...but no time for weeping and wailing. Off I went to hospital and was deposited straight in to their 'most urgent' setting, at Kings College Hospital in Camberwell. I had time to look at the Paramedic who had been looking after me and told her "You were awesome". Because I'm an internet citizen, of course, the A word must be used. And she was, she really was. I have a mind to drop off some Christmas chocolates to the Paramedics at Kings every year from now on.
The Docs took the neck brace off thank god and then a most peculiar and eyebrow raising event occurred. A lady leaned over me to talk:
"Hello, Cait? Channel 4 are filming the A&E at the moment and I just wanted to know if it's alright if they film you"
"Uh? What? Er... yeah, whatever". Remember, this is morphine talking.
So this is what was happening. Channel 4 at present produce a show called "24 Hrs in A&E" which is filmed at Kings. They are - or were, in February, filming the new series. After the Doc who had asked my permission left, I noticed that there were cameras embedded in the ceiling, on the sides, you name it. Shortly afterwards, a bloke appeared, looking like 'practical I work in media' (ie: cameraman type) and put a variant of a tie-mic on the cabinet next to my pillow! It was Insane. I was told I could withdraw my permission afterwards and the TV people shrank in to the background.
I've been on TV, just by way of context for this bizarre occurrence, *far too much* for someone who does not have a career in television (or want one). Quiz shows as a kid, Top of the Pops when my Dad worked there, Sky News Internet Expert (woohoo) back in the days when I had blonde hair and was a size 12. I even appeared on ITV News at 10 reading out the court judgement which had arrived by internet on whether Louise Woodward was inocent or guilty. Not by choice, I might add. So, I tend to walk in the other direction when I see cameras. They have a nasty habit of picking me out in crowds. And here we are, with the inside of my body being revealed to the Ch4 audience. Bizarre, but also in my case, one of those 'fate' like coincidences that happens a little bit too often.
And Mackay! Mackay came. He was there. My God I needed him. Well, actually, by then I was so doped out of my mind I was chatting away merrily to anyone who would listen. But him being there meant things felt more solid. I heard the Policeman on the phone saying precious words: "Non-life-threatening, Non-life-transforming" to the station, or local press, or... someone. Meanwhile, the A&E guys had a quick look at my leg to try and tart it up a bit. I had not looked and would not look. Poor Mackay had to look because it was... there, really. At a point, they lifted a paperish dressing thingy off my ankle and I saw Mackay go green and utter tranditional minor swear words at whatever lay undereneath. I was slightly more concerned by the point that it HURT LIKE A BUGGER to even lift a tiny piece of paper off my leg. I asked him to take a photograph, because I thought, in six months time I might be able to look at it, through my fingers.
At various points, McK and I were left alone for a few moments and we talked. I have a feeling that I sounded fairly normal, because the morphine was so hefty but of course, I have yet to see the Ch4 footage. I may be laughing my head off half the time. Who knows. I will give an update to this section when the programme is on. They told me they'd send me all the footage on DVD beforehand. I'll believe it when it happens.
They put a temporary plaster of paris cast on the leg with some sort of splint type bit at the bottom, holding my foot in place because as it turned out, there was a hole by my ankle that was deep, and apparently made my bones visible. Hence Mackay went green.
Operation in the morning so they could assess what the hell was salvageable, meanwhile I was packed off to a spare bed - Women's Gynae, would you believe. Mackay left (and it turned out, took several hours to get home because the doors to the hospital were locked) and I crashed in to sleep.


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Hi, just got my Beta copy of the game, and spending time building characters with/for our group. Wanted to make sure we did this right.
Our idea was to create a group of force-sensitive characters who are being hunted (all start with a Bounty Obligation). Since we have 6 players, they all start with a base Obligation of 5 according to what I read. One player suggests that he be allowed to start with 10 (allowing him to buy 10 more for Resources, since he wants maximum resources… this seems fair to me, but I don't know the game yet. I've said "Yes", since this is the only way he can start with maximum resources.
I've obligated no character to take Exile Force User, but am allowing them to do so. Here are the character concepts so far.
The Obligation 10/20 character is playing a Mercenary Soldier who killed an Emperor's Hand 2 months ago. On the Emperor's corpse was a list of "targets" who were to be terminated for being Force Sensitive. None of the targets are even aware that they are Force Sensitive at the time (well… one was, but the rest aren't). The Soldier decided to find these targets and try to figure out what they have in common that the Emperor wants them dead for, that, and hopefully together, they can increase their chances of survival. He's gotten a ship (10 of his 20 Obligation are Debt), and together, they're trying to avoid the law while surviving.
The second character is an Assassin who enjoys pitting his skill against others in one-on-one combat. When he discovered that there was a bounty on his head, it was his contacts that helped get the ship for the Soldier.
Next up is a teenager who is also the most Force Sensitive of the bunch. He's the only one aware of the fact that there even is a "Force", and he does his best to hide the fact that he can do things people aren't suppose to be able to do. He works as the Mechanic on the ship and tries to stay out of the path of anyone else on the ship.
Next up is a Droid (not Force-Sensitive of course, and the only non-human), who acts as the Slicer of the group. It came with the ship, and seems to have an emotional attachment to the ship not unlike that of a boyfriend/girlfriend…
After that is a Force Sensitive Pilot who is unaware that he has Sense Powers. He has an uncanny sensitivity to Astrogation, and is happy to be doing something other than hunting down womp rats…
Lastly there is a very Charismatic Politico who acts as the "Face" of the crew. Worked as a mediator on the Outer Rim in a desolate corner of the galaxy, and now puts his skills to use aquiring things the crew needs.
Human Mercenary Soldier : Obligation 20 (10 Bounty, 10 Debt for Resources)
All Stats are 2.
Skills: Athletics 2, Discipline 1, Brawl 2, Ranged (Light) 2, Leadership 1, Gunnery 2, Pilot (Space) 2, Knowledge (Outer Rim) 2.
Talents: Command, Confident, Second Wind x2, Point Blank x2, Toughened.
Gear: Armoured Clothing, Heavy Blaster Pistol with Filed Front Sight and 2 Spare Energy Packs, General Purpose Scanner, ElectroBinoculars, CommLink, DataPad, Glow Rod, Thermal Cloak, 3x Stim Patch
Human Assassin: Obligation 10 (10 Bounty) +5 for Resources)
All Stats are 2.
Skills: Athletics 2, Coordination 2, Stealth 2, Brawl 2, Ranged (Light) 2, Pilot (Space) 1, Perception 1, Survellance 1.
Talents: Stalker, Dodge, Grit, Lethal Blows, Precise Aim, Jump Up, Quick Strike, Quick Draw.
Gear: CommLink, DataPad, Padded Armour, Heavy Blaster Pistol with Filed Front Sight, Brass Knuckles, 2x Stun Grenades, Bola.
Human Mechanic (Force Exile): Obligation 10 (+5 XP)
All Stats are 2.
Skills: Computers, Coordination, Mechanics, Perception, Pilot, Ranged (Light), Skullduggery, Stealth. (All 1)
Talents: Uncanny Senses x2, Convincing Demeanor, Sense Danger, Street Smarts, Force Rating, Move Basic Power.
Gear: Toolkit, Utility Belt, Emergency Repair Kit, Data Pad, CommLink.
Android Slicer: Obligation 5
Brawn 1, Agility 2, Intellect 3, Cunning 2, Willpower 1, Presence 1.
Skills: Astrogation, Computers, Mechanics, Perception, Pilot (Planet), Coordination, Surveillance, Knowledge (Education), Knowledge (Underworld): at rating 2.
Talents: Enduring, Technical Aptitude, Bypass Security, Codebreaker, Defense Slicing.
Gear: Slicer Gear
Human Politico: Obligation 5
All Stats 2 except Presence of 3.
Skills: Charm 2, Deceit 2, Leadership 2, Negotiations 2, Vigilance 2, Ranged (Light) 2, Knowledge (Education) 1, Coerce 1.
Talents: Kill with Kindness 2, Plausable Deniability 2, Grit.
Gear: Light Blaster Pistol, Commlink, DataPad.
Human Pilot: Obligation 10 (+5 Resources)
All Stats 2.
Skills: Perception 2, Coordination 1, Pilot (Space) 2, Vigilance 2, Astrogation 2, Pilot (Planet) 2, Stealth 2, Ranged (Light) 2.
Talents: Galaxy Mapper x2, Uncanny Senses, Sense Force Power.
Gear: Padded Armour, Heavy Blaster Pistol with 2 Batteries, Commlink, Datapad, Scanner Goggles.
Hope that's readable… I've gone over the numbers, it all "looks" right to me, hopefully didn't miss anything from the Errata/Changes. Anyone see any glaring mistakes? (Would have been nice to have had an example of character creation to check against…)


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This is not the quality I have come to expect from Samsonite. I will be returning the bag as it has holes/ tears after one trip flying to and from DC.
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i travel quite a bit for work and my clubs normally travel with me. Simply put this bag only lasted a year. While it protected my clubs and never had one damaged, the bottom of the bag is worn through and bag is beyond repair after only 1 year.
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This is my first travel bag and I plan on traveling a lot with it to play in Qatar, the Philippines, the U.S. The only problem I have is that the picture should show black and navy color bags, not black and gray. Other than that, it's great. The shoe bag fits my size 10 1/2 shoes. The duffle is a great travel size for overhead compartments or for a gym bag if you already have a roll bag for carry on luggage. The travel bag itself is perfect. When my stand bag, with 13 clubs are laid into the travel bag, they fit perfectly even with full golf ball sleeves, bags of tees, and gloves are in the stand bag with the club towel clipped to the side. There is extra padding that wraps around the club heads and clips to hold your stand bag steady and in place inside the travel bag. The wheels roll fine. The bag can be rolled up when not in use and takes us less room for storage. It has sturdy, bulky, and great handles for carrying/rolling as well as a comfortable strap for carrying. I feel like I underpaid for this set because the bags are of good quality and it's cheap for the brand.
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This is a great 3 piece bag set. The material it's made from is durable and it is manufactured very well. Haven't had it shipped anywhere yet, but plan to use it later this summer on vacation. I believe it will hold up nicely. The shoe bag and duffel are nice additions and appear to share the same top notch quality. I was able to fit my full size cart bag with 14 clubs just fine. I still have all of my accessories in the bag too (towels, gloves, tees, etc.). The top of the bag is padded and completely encases the club heads with the padding and has adjustable straps that keep the club heads surrounded. Overall, a great travel bag for the price. A bonus that you get the other bags too. Oh, and the wheels roll nice and smooth too!
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SCHATZ SIZZLES AT ATTICA FOR ADVANCE AUTO PARTS WORLD OF OUTLAWS WINBy Brian Liskai (Attica, OH) Donny Schatz has been so close to the victory lane so many times this year, only to come up just short. The Fargo, N.D. driver drove around Nashville, Tenn.hot shoe Paul McMahon on lap 11 and went on to take the 40-lap Kistler Engines Classic at Attica Raceway Park Friday night, May 30. It was the second Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws victory of 2008 for the two-time and defending series champion. Schatz is currently second in World of Outlaws points, as he chases his third consecutive title. He is in his first season behind the wheel for two-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart. Schatz was looking forward to calling his boss after picking up the win on Friday night, before heading to Eldora Speedway tomorrow, which Stewart also owns. "He is pushing us, as he should be and that's no different than my dad would," said the second generation driver of his car owner. "My dad is pushing us too. I'm glad to have that. That says a lot when you get pushed. That's what we need. That's what these guys need and that's what I need. We're going there tomorrow and will try to get out of there with a victory." Saldana earned his seventh top-five finish of the season aboard the Budweiser/Open Joist Mopar-powered JEI. After lining up fourth, he was engaged in a number of battles over the course of the 40-lap event, including with 20-time series champion Steve Kinser, Jac Haudenschild and then Chad Kemenah in the late going. "It was a good run for us," said Saldana, driver of the Kasey Kahne Racing entry. "We had a driver error in qualifying and I had to redeem myself inthe heat race. We got up through there in the (Crane Cams) Dash. In the feature, we kind of fell back and stuck with it and got going. I thought Iwas catching him with five to go. I was catching him off of (turn) two, but catching him is one thing and passing him is another. It was definitely a good run for us." Stewart earned his third top-five finishi n the last four events, driving a Steve Kent-built machine for the Roth Motorsports team. He also wrapped up the title in the Qwik Liner Cup, after turning the second fastest lap in time trials, to take the crown over Craig Dollansky by a single point. He will be awarded the Qwik Liner Cup at Knoxville Raceway next weekend. "It was a great race," Stewart said. "We don't get to see that many tracks that are slick from the top to the bottom like that. Generally when they get that slick they take rubber, but the guys here at Attica did a great job. We were steady all night. We weren't spectacular but we were good enough to get up there. It was another strong finish and I'm happy with it." As is usually the case at a high-banked bullring like Attica Raceway Park, the leaders were in traffic for a majority of the race. This allowed several drivers to make up ground late in the race. Saldana was able to close in a little bit on Schatz in the late going, but also had some trouble getting around a few of the lapped machines. "We were running a different line than they were," noted the native of Brownsburg, Indiana. "The biggest problem for me was that my car was so tight that I had to run the top and the guys that I was trying to pass were sliding across the top. Every time I would get a run on them it was hard for me to get underneath them. It was a tough race for us as tight as we were." Shane Stewart used restarts on the 27th and 29th laps to gain a number of positions. He first got around Jason Meyers on a restart, and then on the final restart he charged past Jac Haudenschild and Chad Kemenah both exiting the second turn. "I found a little bit of moisture coming off of (turn) two," Stewart shared. "You had to go in there so slow and it was a restart thing. I was fortunate enough to get a few cars on each restarts. I just inched my way up to the front. I think once I got to third that was about as far as I was going to do. I don't think I had anything for (Donny) Schatz or (Joey) Saldana." After an accident in the second heat race, Daryn Pittman was taken to a local hospital for precautionary reasons after having pain in his back. After observation, he released and will return to action on Saturday night. In the Service Drive Solutions UMP Attica Late Models, Brad Eitnear scored his first career Attica win in the rain-shortened feature over defending track champion Ken Hahn, Jeremy Canada, Michael Stiltner and Ryan Missler. Attica Raceway Park will be back in action on Friday, June 6 as Burns Electric presents the Mid-Season Championship with double points for the 410 sprints, 305 sprints, late models and dirt trucks. For more information log onto www.atticaracewaypark.com (Tony Veneziano, World of Outlaws PR Director, contributed to this report) Attica Raceway Park (5-30-08) Qualifying Heat 1 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature) Heat 2 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature) Heat 3 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature) Heat 4 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature) Crane Cams Dash (8 laps, finishing order determined first 10 starting positions of A-feature) C-Main (10 laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main) B-Main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature) A-Main (40 laps) - Starting Position [#] Note: Tim Shaffer and Jason Sides used World of Outlaws provisionals to start the A-Main Lap Leaders: Paul McMahan 1-10, Donny Schatz 11-40 Chicken Hawk Hot Lap Award: Paul McMahan Penske Power Position: Shane Stewart KSE Hard Charger Award: Tim ShafferService Drive Solutions UMP Attica Late Models Heat 1 - Tin Lizzy Collision (8 laps) |
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NLP Essentials: Neuro-Linguistic Programming Strategies for Personal Power and Influence (2 Disc Set) With the clearly explained ideas on this two DVD set, you can create remarkable personal transformation in your own life, and truly impact other people. Learn to influence others, successfully – naturally! Create personal power in business settings, interpersonal relationships and more! NLP techniques can help you become a more effective communicator, develop instant rapport in social situations, and create a winning mentality. In a practical and easy to use format, these NLP training DVD's will teach you: How to use NLP techniques to change your life How to "read" people like a book How to use cutting edge language patterns to influence people How to develop instant rapport with a new person How to develop personal power to reach your goals How use "swish" patterns for change Use of submodalities, meta patterns and representational systems Understand eye accessing cues How to end past patterns of failure for future triumph Richard K. Nongard is a psychotherapist, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a professional entertainer and an NLP trainer. His programs have helped thousands of people end their addictions, create business success and experience personal happiness. He is a passionate teacher and for over 20 years, he has trained professional groups and individuals how to make positive life changes, use NLP, and create unstoppable power and influence in both personal and professional relationships. Richard is the author of dozens of training books and videos, including the "Quit Drinking with Hypnosis" program and the "Teach Yourself Self-Hypnosis" DVD.
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Gay Marriage Advocate Griffin Touts Equality Campaign At Clinton School
As supporters of same-sex unions around the country celebrate recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, activists are continuing the fight to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states.
At the Clinton School of Public Service Monday, Hope native Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign spoke of his organization's efforts to challenge laws banning gay marriage.
He called for Arkansas' elected officials to support a civil right he says would mean equal treatment for more citizens.
"We need the leadership of those who are elected in this state, in Washington, to be with us on this issue," said Griffin. "Some of the elected officials here are undecided or at least haven't publicly expressed their views on these issues and we need them. Both of the Senators of this state, quite frankly, should be supportive of something that's such a basic fairness."
Griffin said his organization will push for an amendment to overturn Arkansas's gay marriage ban while promoting a nationwide bill that would end workplace discrimination against homosexuals.
"So you're going to be hearing a lot more of us in this state because as we make progress on that bill, we're going to be in communities and states across this country where our members of congress have to go on weekends — every single weekend — and face their constituents. And they need to hear from all of you," said Griffin addressing a standing-room-only crowd in Sturgis Hall , during the discussion moderated by former State Representative Kathy Webb.
Arkansas's Economic Development Director Grant Tenille joined Griffin and other advocates in supporting same-sex marriage at the Capitol on Monday morning.
He told KUAR News the state would benefit economically by legalizing gay marriage because it would show companies that Arkansas is friendly to a valuable workforce.
"We're not talking about inconsequential companies," said Tenille, "we're talking about major brands in the United States. And I think that increasingly, companies make decisions about where they want to locate based on where their employees will be the happiest."
Arkansas remains one of 37 states that bans gay marriage.
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Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky's unmistakable gift for crafting mystical imagery from naturalistic properties cannot be better exemplified than in his last film of the 1970s, Stalker. Intelligently drawing from the psychological aspects of writers like Philip K. Dick and neo-realism of cinema idols Robert Bresson and Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky subversively demonstrates his interest in the inexplicable effects of one's environment instead of well-ascertained threats. Due to this elusive emphasis, Stalker unfurls much like his other 150-minute-plus masterwork, Solaris, in a two-part sluggish, poetic and boundless manner. Loosely adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, the film reveals the story of a nameless geological guide or "Stalker" and his two clients, "Professor" and "Writer," who traverse a conscious shape-shifting wilderness known as "The Zone." By excluding official character names, Tarkovsky severs an emotional link with audiences, but in exchange, he personifies landscapes in unconventionally beautiful manners. Utilizing both color film stock and sepia tone (captured with a high contrast brown monochrome filter), Stalker highlights the many shades of a unfamiliar environment's adverse or auspicious relationship to the human psyche and the physical act of survival within it. In many regards, the film emerges as a post-modern dystopian Wizard of Oz update.
Analysis of The Zone is an indefinite, impenetrable and multifarious process as the concept in the film itself. Throughout the course of its two parts, Stalker attempts to portray The Zone as a kind of humane entity with possession of a vision and will of its own. At the first part's conclusion, he makes several allusions to possible classification. "The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish..." Moments later, he nearly negates his own musings by declaring it as a deadly and "complicated system of traps.... The moment someone shows up, everything comes into motion.... Safe spots become impassable. Now your path is easy; now it's hopelessly involved. That's The Zone." Each of these notions, however, is united by the idea of a consciousness beyond rational explanation. In a final first act remark to Writer and Professor, Stalker speculates that The Zone "lets those pass who have lost all hope." These implications are instantly transferred to his two envoys who immediately take extreme caution when roaming the potentially treacherous wilderness, yet each of them remains utterly reliant on his advice. In the film's second part, Stalker more intricately develops the mystical nature of The Zone through rambling philosophies complementary to the director's subtly surreal camera methods. In response to Professor's desperate attempts to destroy a mystic section of The Zone with a bomb, Stalker describes a former stalker named "Porcupine" who vanished when he wandered The Zone with ulterior or dubious motives. The unrelenting discussion of The Zone as a physical yet unidentifiable presence rather than an extension of nature is a testament Tarkovsky's calculated processes. Beyond that, the director probes the realm of psychoanalysis by including a celestial place called "The Room" within The Zone itself, which supposedly grants human wishes. Its functionality remains unclear in the end, but its mere nature suggests a revelation of the innermost self (or the "id") that may awaken dormant truths of the human spirit. Additionally, it's possible that conceptualization of The Zone is derived from a core ideology of Zen Buddhism, a favored philosophical outlet for Tarkovsky at the time of constructing the film.
The cyclical nature of Stalker is equally reliant on movement of images and colors as well as the moral deliberation of its three characters. The film begins in the brown sepia tone of a post-industrialized-apocalyptic society and hurtles through an obscure lore about the creation of The Zone through a catastrophic meteorite that burned a settlement and effected human disappearances. The shift to a green palette of color in the last sequence of the first part suggests an optimism that is obscured by foreboding silence. Sepia once again intrudes the film when the characters encounter exhaustion and initially impassable areas in part two. Stalker clings to faith from the New Testament ("Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing."), and Writer rejects technology in favor of artistic pursuits ("Technology is a crutch and artificial limb. Mankind exists in order to create works of art"). Professor is more reserved in his musings, although he expresses a will to destroy "The Room." "This place will never bring happiness to anyone... As long as this plague lies in the open, accessible to any scum, I get no peace, no sleep," he affirms. Professor regrettably changes his mind as he deems The Zone part of nature and therefore a representation of hope. Ultimately, though, it's the overarching aspects of Stalker's musings that dominate the film; through the amorphous and perilous landscape, the unification of human faith between the three characters emerges as a cornerstone of survival. A sense of irony arises as Stalker remains as indefinite and speculative as the other men yet intends to lead them to certain glory. It's this ethical and vulnerable interplay that promotes the characters' completeness and augments the sense of intellectual filmmaking. While perhaps not intellectual in a strictly essay sense, Tarkovsky's films, unlike those of Jean-Luc Godard, are often statically meticulous visual poetry rather than hyperactive barrages of juxtapositions.
The intermittent and sparse utilization of music in Tarkovsky's films can often be misconstrued to suggest that his view of the medium is one of ignorance, when in actuality it is related to the distortion of the visual image. While Tarkovsky often stresses that musical tones alter the emotional qualities of images, his artistic inspiration is lifted from the works of classical composers like Bach and Beethoven. Because classicism adds a timeless quality, he believed this period of music strengthened the overall resonance of cinema as a young art form. Ironically, in Stalker, Tarkovsky enlisted composer Eduard Artemyev to develop a comprehensive orchestral score that he ultimately rejected. To adequately complement the surrealist leanings of the film, Artemyev thereafter developed a non-thematic soundtrack illuminating the coexistence of Eastern and Western music, as he describes in an interview on the Kino DVD release, primarily written for the tar, a traditional Persian instrument. The end-result is a mystically new age non-intrusive droning; it initially plays over the title sequence and gently and sparingly recurs in the remaining 150 minutes. Artemyev further utilized the instruments and improvisational philosophies of Indian classical music, like the tambura and block flute, to create the remainder of soundtrack, which perhaps unintentionally (and unknowingly to Tarkovsky), distorts Stalker's sense of time and place; Artemyev's world influence remains an asset to the prevailing dazed mood while maintaining a sense of comfort.
Most remarkable about Stalker is the sense of nostalgia and warmth it generates while remaining detached from usual conventions. The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue by Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie reports that the average shot length in the film approaches the one-minute mark (152), which leaves the impression that entire sections of the film were made in a single uninterrupted shot. These methods provide Stalker with a distinctive immersion that allows audiences to reciprocate the nameless characters' concerns about their treacherous terrain. Rather than producing a montage of different viewpoints, Tarkovsky, akin to his previous films, usually prefers to objectively showcase environment. While the less personable approach can remove emotive elements, Tarkovsky's presentation of characters remains genuinely compelling and authentic. It's actually the image of humanity and family that initially propel the film rather than a detached still-life of a horizon. While the familial impressions are broken rather quickly, the film is careful to return to those same consoling images by its end, aligning with the vast beauty of landscape and poetry of Fyodor Tyutchev as read by Stalker's wife. True to the neo-realists before him but diverting from their focuses, Tarkovsky proves that he doesn't need an exorbitant budget to craft a mysterious and technologically-oriented film. It's nature that bestows the illusions, and Tarkovsky's ability to manipulate it with his rare gift of concentration lends a tremendous sense of emotional and literary power to the work. Perhaps the idea of wish fulfillment in Stalker is an extension of cinemaphiles' desires to witness another filmmaker as profound, poetic and real as Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Great review. This is one of those movies I love that I can't recommend to many people because hardly anybody is going to sit through it. But if you're ready to sit and meditate on a film, this is it. That goes equally for Solaris as well.
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Both are excellent films, but I recently saw The Mirror, and it's even better than these two films mentioned.
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I knew that Krista was going back earlier this week for a checkup and was drawing a little concerned when we hadn't heard from my Aunt. We all received this email to follow last night.
Dear precious friends and family, Thank you so muchfor being with us in spirit, in mind, and in prayers. Today was a big day as today is the day Krista had amasectomy.. The doctor removed the breast as well asseveral lymph nodes (that she said were cancerous.) We were at the hospital at 6 am. and Krista completedthe operation by about noon. The doctor said she wasvery pleased with the operation and that it wentbetter than she thought it would. We are so relievedand Thankful that this big step is over. Within 2weeks she will return to chemo therapy for anythingthat was not removed with the chemo, then on toradiation. The doctors decided to do this at thispoint as it appears that the 2 chemos she has been onwere not effective and since the tumor had nosubstantial shrinkage they decided it was time toremove the tumor before it became unoperable. WE arethankful for that dicision and feel without a doubt itwas the right choice. Thanks to each and everyone ofyou for your continued support. I cannot tell youhow much it means to all of us. We continue to beBlessed with the progress and will continue to workfor full recovery. Krista was in good spirits tonight(despite being on morphine for the pain.) I know sheis feeling positive. Thanks for the love and prayers. Love to all, Audrey

So, now we wait again. I just wanted to share with all you how just how much your prayers and thoughts are helping my family! I know it means the world to my Aunt and Cousin. So from the bottom of my heart once again, thank you!

Thanks for the update. Krista and her family continue to be in my families prayers, as well as the prayers of the ladies I work with(2 of the moms at my preschool are breast cancer patients so we sarted a special prayer circle). Keep us posted, I'm sure thing will keep going her way.
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Dear wonderful family and friends, Another update onour girl--The surgery was Friday--the surgeon met uson Saturday and again said she was surprized that thesurgury went so well. The tumor and the lymph nodes(8-10) that were removed were not attached to muscleand all slid out easily. She said that was a goodsign. No muscle had to be removed. She did not haveto have skin grafts as we througt she would have tohave. She removed only the right breast. The doctorsaid it would probably we wise to remove the second onin the future, but at this point she would lose toomuch blood and it would delay Krista getting back intochemo or radiotion--that will happen in 10-12 days. Krista is in very good spirits and very relieved thatthis process is past. We plan to bring her hometoday. We are thankful for all your support andprayers. Many of you have asked what you can do so Iwill tell you about her project coming up. The cityof Palmer is the cabbage growing capital. Krista wastold by her doctors that cabbage is a super cancerfighter, so she has been juicing and drinking acabbage every other day. She says it tastes betterthan it sounds. ANyways, Palmer is having only 10people build and decorate 3 foot diameter cabbagesthat will be displayed in Palmer for the summer, andsold at an auction the end of the summer. Kristasubmitted per proposal for a cabbage that will bedecorated with pink beads in honor of all the womenand families that have been touched by breast cancer. She was excited to find that her proposal was one ofthe ten selected for production. Anyways, if any ofyou would like to send some pink beads that she canput on her cabbage as she creates it, that would benice. And if any of you are artistic and have ideas,please send them on. None the less, we greatlyappreciate the love, prayers, calls, and all theprecious thoughts and healing prayers that have beensent to us. We are blessed to have all of you in ourlives. It sure makes one realize what is important. Blessings and love and deep apreciation, Audrey & Gary

Talked to my Aunt last night on the phone and she was on her way to pick Krista up from the hospital and bring her home. Although Krista wasn't feeling all that good (which is understandable), she was really looking forward to coming home and being with her children. My Aunt sounded completely exhausted, but hopeful that this successful surgery will be the answer we've all been looking for.


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