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DODGING BULLETS
About 250 Words on Swingers
(not counting those.)
I can’t remember what happens in this film. It’s like it’s got a perception filter on it - my mind can’t retain any details, doesn’t want to get too close. I remember everyone in my life adopting the slang from the film, that’s for sure. Plot… situations… characters other than Favreau and Vaughn…? No idea. They go to Las Vegas and… commit crimes? Meet Peter Falk? No, that’s the other one. They meet prostitutes and then drink themselves dead? They get married in a trailer park? It’s just a mystery to me. And I know I’ve seen it more than once, because I’ve got this here DVD. It just doesn’t stick. It’s too of a piece with that whole time for me, that mid-to-late 90s, mid-to-late 20s, Club Yourself to Death Era. I can’t remember the film because it’s camouflaged by my real life. It blends into the jungle of time, of me. I’m so money and I don’t even know it.
I do remember one moment, though, and that’s the one I chose for the Babalon Project. Actually, because it’s a film, it’s the montage that I remember; I remember how perfect the cut was. That the elation of “Let’s drive to Vegas!” deflates and degrades to headachy tedium over the course of four hours droning through the featureless southwesterwasteland (although it was worse back then, urban sprawl finally being good for something) had not yet, to my experience, been addressed in film. Hell, Hunter S. Thompson only got over the hump by kidnapping hippies and dipping into the ether.
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I’m sitting in a corner under a stairwell, and every once in a while someone’ll notice me, and ignore it. The Doctor is right, people ignore things they don’t want to see. On the other hand it’s refreshingly cool here.
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Some days...
There are some days where I feel like I have a perception filter.
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*looks for TARDIS key*
*Note: This is not my picture.*
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EVERYTHING I ASK FOR
EVERYTHING I ASK FOR
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By the way, why did you bring your laptop? I bring you to a paradise planet, two BILLION lightyears from earth, and you want to update… TUMBLR.
-The Doctor
Eyup.
-Big Macintosh
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12 Days of Christmas: Doctor Who Edition
7 Perception Filters
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noticing new things in a place you drive by all the time...
perception filter
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Being a big blue box for most of my days, I don’t expect people to notice me all that much. Sometimes, I think that The Doctor leaves the Perception Filter on intentionally. At least I can pretend that I’m her imaginary friend. <3
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There’s apparently a room across the hall from me that I never noticed before.
Room 10 is empty.
Normal person’s reaction: well I guess I just never look right when I’m heading to my door.
My reaction: PERCEPTION FILTER.
