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I think you really have to trust your own brain to do a sensory deprivation thing
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's a dark chamber with skin-temperature water that is salinated enough for you to float without effort. By removing your sense of sight and physical feeling, you're essentially put into a kind of womblike state that's meant to provoke deep reflection. There's no major, well-documented evidence that this does anything for you besides probably destressing you (or provoking a panic attack), but it sounds like a weird, unique experience. The best outcome is you'll have a nice half-sleep and the world will seem extra-vivid afterwards. The worst outcome is you'll suffer an extremely intimate performance of Beckett's Not I: So that's where Swans got the cover for Filth
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Mar 5, 2017 18:54
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Every few years I get reacquainted with that performance of Not I. So good. The thought of remembering all those lines and rattling them off like that without loving up is imposing to say the least.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:09
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I want to do a production of Beckett's Happy Days (arguably the best play ever written), with Not I in between the acts in place of an intermission.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:15
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Weird question since I just read Altered States: has anyone here tried a sensory deprivation tank before? I just found out there's a place near me that has one and I've been curious about it ever since first watching the movie back in high school, thinking of giving it a go.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:35
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Introducing: sensory overload tanks.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:36
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https://twitter.com/BBW_BFF/status/838446238919868416
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Mar 5, 2017 19:42
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I think if you have experience with meditation and visualization exercises you'll probably get more out of a sensory deprivation tank, otherwise you'll probably just fall asleep.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:49
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KC folks: the April schedule at the Drafthouse is nuuuuts. Two showings of Blade Runner—already got my ticket to one of them—plus 2001, Purple Rain, Sorcerer, The Wizard of Oz, Seven, 1984, Singin' in the Rain, Jurassic Park, Twister, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shawshank Redemption, and the big prize: a free Victory Rewards showing of Seven Samurai (about which I called them the minute I saw it posted, because you can't yet reserve a spot on the website). I'm gonna see Sorcerer at least, and maybe one or two others depending.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:51
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glam rock hamhock posted:I think you really have to trust your own brain to do a sensory deprivation thing Pretty much yeah.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:01
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glam rock hamhock posted:I think you really have to trust your own brain to do a sensory deprivation thing I think you're making sensory deprivation out to be more spooky than it really is.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:10
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[turns to the infinite eternal emptiness that smothers his isolated consciousness and whispers] "Oh, that? That's nothing."
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Mar 5, 2017 20:13
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I already hear with a cochlear implant so I get 2/3 of the way to sensory deprivation every night when I turn off the lights to sleep.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:16
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Criminal Minded posted:KC folks: the April schedule at the Drafthouse is nuuuuts. Two showings of Blade Runner—already got my ticket to one of them—plus 2001, Purple Rain, Sorcerer, The Wizard of Oz, Seven, 1984, Singin' in the Rain, Jurassic Park, Twister, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shawshank Redemption, and the big prize: a free Victory Rewards showing of Seven Samurai (about which I called them the minute I saw it posted, because you can't yet reserve a spot on the website). I'm gonna see Sorcerer at least, and maybe one or two others depending. Purple Rain and Twister are a must.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:18
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K. Waste posted:Purple Rain and Twister are a must. And wouldn't you know it, I've never seen either. I have a free ticket voucher from my birthday a couple weeks ago, so I'll use that on one of them. Gonna spend so much time in a theater in April.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:28
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I'd say Purple Rain, Sorcerer and Wizard of Oz.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:29
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'd say Purple Rain, Sorcerer and Wizard of Oz. Wizard is out if only because I've already seen that one in theaters. Ditto 2001 and Singin' in the Rain. The one I'm really on the fence about is Seven. Normally it'd be an easy yes but I can only justify going to so many and I've seen that movie a loooot. Same reason I've mentally eliminated Shawshank Redemption.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:32
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Criminal Minded posted:And wouldn't you know it, I've never seen either. I have a free ticket voucher from my birthday a couple weeks ago, so I'll use that on one of them. Gonna spend so much time in a theater in April. Denver's Alamo isn't that great. Blade Runner is there so is JP but no Twister. 
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Mar 5, 2017 20:33
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CelticPredator posted:Denver's Alamo isn't that great. Blade Runner is there so is JP but no Twister. Every once in a while, before I had my geocaching turned on, I used to accidentally end up on the calendar for one of the Austin locations and get suuuper jealous of some of the poo poo they did.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:36
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I wish I was there for C4GED. gently caress that would've be so special.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:39
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Are those 35mm screenings or digital?
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Mar 5, 2017 20:45
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Criminal Minded posted:The one I'm really on the fence about is Seven. Normally it'd be an easy yes but I can only justify going to so many and I've seen that movie a loooot. Same reason I've mentally eliminated Shawshank Redemption. Se7en is one of the best-shot films of the '90s (I'm half-tempted to say it is the best-shot). See it in a theater.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:46
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Criminal Minded posted:KC folks: the April schedule at the Drafthouse is nuuuuts. Two showings of Blade Runner—already got my ticket to one of them—plus 2001, Purple Rain, Sorcerer, The Wizard of Oz, Seven, 1984, Singin' in the Rain, Jurassic Park, Twister, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shawshank Redemption, and the big prize: a free Victory Rewards showing of Seven Samurai (about which I called them the minute I saw it posted, because you can't yet reserve a spot on the website). I'm gonna see Sorcerer at least, and maybe one or two others depending. 
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Mar 5, 2017 20:47
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K. Waste posted:Purple Rain and Twister are a must. Twister is great on the big screen. It was one of the first movies I remember seeing in a theater (I think Lion King was the first) and it blew 7-8 year old me away.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:49
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Timby posted:Se7en is one of the best-shot films of the '90s (I'm half-tempted to say it is the best-shot). See it in a theater. Chungking Express would like a word with you.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:52
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I'd probably do Purple Rain and Sorcerer. I somehow still haven't seen Purple Rain On the topic of theater chat, what are some of the best movie theaters in the country? I'm always moving and it legitimately factors into where I go... Cinefamily in Los Angeles is far and away the best I've ever been to. The number of special events / speakers they have there is insane, despite it being such a small space. I was going nearly once a week when I lived in LA, but probably the best was an all night (free!) screening of Goosebumps episodes... Also I talked to an ex cult member after a screening of Holy Hell. One of the weirdest conversations of my life. I'm actually considering moving back to LA because I miss it so much (LA sucks) Belcourt in Nashville is pretty good, Roxie in SF has a great selection but its a dump SpiritOfSanDimas fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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Mar 5, 2017 21:00
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Chungking Express would like a word with you. My dude.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:08
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Lurdiak posted:I think if you have experience with meditation and visualization exercises you'll probably get more out of a sensory deprivation tank, otherwise you'll probably just fall asleep. I meditate pretty regularly. Sensory deprivation sounded spooky to me when I first saw Altered States as a teenager but it sounds fun now.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:13
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I'd like to make a horror film that's just a sequence of unrelated domestic scenes punctuated by extreme violence and terror. edit: I put on a Simon and Garfunkel playlist for background music and it took me about fifteen minutes of half-listening to Sounds of Silence to realize I'd had song repeat on. It'd be great to see a remake of Dawn of the Dead where an early plot point is them trying to figure out how to shut off the mall's muzak. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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Mar 5, 2017 21:24
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I want to do a production of Beckett's Happy Days (arguably the best play ever written), with Not I in between the acts in place of an intermission. I prefer Endgame to Happy Days myself. I also caught John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape a few years ago and that was a loving masterpiece of performance
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Mar 5, 2017 21:33
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Are those 35mm screenings or digital? Usually digital, but sometimes they're 35mm. Depends on if they get them or not. I bought tickets to a 35mm screening of ANOES, but they couldn't get the print in on time, so they just showed the digital.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:39
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WeAreTheRomans posted:I prefer Endgame to Happy Days myself. I also caught John Hurt in Krapp's Last Tape a few years ago and that was a loving masterpiece of performance Endgame is great too, I just love the conciseness of Happy Days. The Robert Wilson production of Endgame looks loving cool though:    It sucks that his Shakespeare Sonnets production isn't on DVD, I watched a TV rip of it in German and it was amazing. He's like a weirder Roy Andersson. CelticPredator posted:Usually digital, but sometimes they're 35mm. Depends on if they get them or not. I bought tickets to a 35mm screening of ANOES, but they couldn't get the print in on time, so they just showed the digital. I wish 35mm screenings were more common, it's fun seeing a good movie in rep with a big crowd but a digital projection somehow takes something away.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:49
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It's weird to say but 35mm is distracting to me now despite seeing every film in that format until I was in my late teens. I forgot the flickering. But I'll still see a film in 35mm though if I can. The Hateful Eight looked drat good, though. It wasn't quite as flickery as Interstellar was.
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Mar 5, 2017 21:51
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Endgame is great too, I just love the conciseness of Happy Days. The Robert Wilson production of Endgame looks loving cool though: That does look cool as hell, although I like it with all the post-apocalyptic grimeyness. When I saw it there was heaps of dirt all over the stage
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Mar 5, 2017 21:56
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CelticPredator posted:Usually digital, but sometimes they're 35mm. Depends on if they get them or not. I bought tickets to a 35mm screening of ANOES, but they couldn't get the print in on time, so they just showed the digital. ANOES?
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Mar 5, 2017 22:04
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A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:04
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Yeah, that doesn't really look like Endgame to me. I really wish there was a video recording of McKellan and Stewart's Waiting for Godot.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:05
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I meditate pretty regularly. Sensory deprivation sounded spooky to me when I first saw Altered States as a teenager but it sounds fun now. Same here. I found a local place and im just waiting to get some extra cash together to go do it. Make sure you report back on your experience!
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Mar 5, 2017 22:06
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CelticPredator posted:A Nightmare on Elm Street. Thanks, that was going to bug me all day.
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Sorry about that. I've been using ANOES for a long, long time now. Usually in the context of a horror discussion it makes more sense.
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