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Archive for July, 2008

Hair today, gone tomorrow (I hope)

 
Last night, I dreamt the following:
 I am at a hair salon, sitting low to the ground, but not on the ground. I am facing another woman, who is sitting at my level, but her back is to me. I cannot see her face. The woman has just gotten her hair done by a female stylist. [...]

The Duality of the Dark Knight

“What is it about bats?” I wondered as I sat fixed on “The Dark Knight” last Saturday. Even though I know most bats are not the fang wielding blood suckers most of us have learned to fear from watching Dracula movies, they’re still creepy. There’s something prehistoric and other worldly about them. After all, they [...]

Hancock — A Mystical Marriage

Last weekend I saw Will Smith’s new movie “Hancock.” At first I thought I was watching just another fantasy superhero movie, but as the relationship between between Smith’s character (Hancock) and Charlize Theron’s character (Mary) unfolded, I realized I was watching an aborted “mystical” or “divine” marriage — a failed attempt to bring the archetypal [...]