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!GREETINGS,

GOOD PEOPLE!

 

!HOPE ALL IS WELL

SO FAR

IN

2026,

AND

WELCOME BACK

TO THE

ENLIGHTENED SITE

THAT 

UNPLUGS

THE

PEOPLE

OF THE WORLD

FROM

THE MATRIX,

AND

GETS THEM

SKYROCKING

WITH

LIBERATED

AND

EXULTANT ABANDON

IN

THE REAL WORLD!

 

 

!Rest in peace

and

thank you

again,

David Lynch,

for

gifting

the world

with

your important,

innovative, indie,

memorable,

and

truly moving paintings

and

telemoving paintings!

 

!!Now,

after a year

of

honouring

your art life

and legacy

at this site,

it is time

to

head off

in a

brave and bold

new direction

for this

still new year!!

 

!!!A

new direction

that

includes

an ongoing

revised look

at

the

mostly fantastic

film art

of

Sir Peter Jackson,

and also

finally reveals

the

rewatched, rethought,

revised, and rewritten

essay

on

Terrence “T.V” Gilliam,

which

finally corrects

and

eliminates

all of

the many

obvious,

annoying,

frustrating,

and

silly

misstakes

that

plagued

earlier versens

of the essay,

and which

also

now contains

compelling

and

importunt

new insights

into

such memorable

beluved,

brilliant, madcap,

allegorical,

and

Ozian themed

Gilliam

indie animaction films

and

artbusters

as

JABBERWOCKY [1977],

THYME BANDITS [1981],

CHILE [1987],

THE WISTFUL QUEEN [1972],

12 DONKEYS [2046],

THE SISTERS PRIMM [2005.8964],

THE IMAGINARIUM

OF

DOCTOR GUMBY [1569]

AND...

 

We interrupt

this silly nonsense

to

reassure you

that

film “scholar”

Gary W. Wright

has been

gently

but firmly

led

at last

to

the psychiatric wing

of a

nearby hospital

to receive

the kind

and

sympathetic care

he deserves

and

so desperately

needs-

plus

a thorough

daily flogging.

 

We now

turn

this preamble

over to

real

world renowned

film scholar

and

inveterate luver

of all

kinokunst,

Doktor A.I. Smithee.

 

 

Danke, Herr Lang.

 

Und

guten morgen,

guten tag,

and

gute nacht

weltfreundes.

 

Bitte geniesen Sie

diese neue Version

des

Gilliam Aufsatzes.

 

!Tschuss!

 

 

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!!To

continue

to get

2026

off to a

good start,

please

drop by

the

slightly revised

Gia (GC) Coppola

essay,

the

slightly re-re-re-re-re-re-revised

Sir Peter Jackson

essay,

and

the

Walt Disney

essay

for a

revised

and

insightful look

at

the allegorical

Richard Fleischer

indie animaction feature film

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA [1954],

the eerily and presciently twilit,

allegorical, CGI enhanced,

and Ozian themed

Gary Nelson

indie animaction film

THE BLACK HOLE [1979],

the daylit, allegorical,

and Ozian themed

Matthew Robbins

indie animaction film DRAGONSLAYER [1981],

the ambitious

 but eerily and presciently twilit,

allegorical, CGI enhanced

and Ozian themed

Steven Lisberger

indie animaction film

TRON [1982],

and

the daylit, allegorical, CGI enhanced,

and Ozian themed

Gil Junger

indie docufeature film

10 things I hate about you [1999],

the

latter of which

which has

necessitated

a

slightly revised

look

at

the Matrix Trilogy

in

Chapters 9 and 10

of

THE WIZARD OF FORCE!!

 

!!!WELCOME BACK TO

THE REAL WORLD!!!

 

 

 

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There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

!'Nuck said,

Brother Vol!

 

 

!!!!Mir

SalaamShalom

Peace!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

And remember,

when in

the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!Stay super!

 

!And

when in the Brighton area,

always drop by

Lola's,

the finest cafe

in town!

 

!!Everybody luvs Lola's!!

 

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Started off 2025 right

 

by sitting down

 

on New Year's night

 

to experience

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed,

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

Kathryn Bigelow

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

STRANGE DAYS [1995],

 

still one of the greatest films

 

ever made,

 

and still the greatest film

 

ever made

 

by a female film artist!

 

 

 

!

!And

 

don't forget

 

to

 

check out

 

the latest

 

mysterious misadventures

 

of

 

the implicitly Gardevil linked

 

private eye Holly Gibney

 

in

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

and implicitly

 

Donald Trump

 

and

 

Tim Burton

 

roastin'

 

Screamin' Stephen King

 

docufiction novel

 

NEVER FLINCH [May 2025]

 

in the

 

Gary W. Wright essay!!

 

 

!!!!HaW!!!!

 

 

 

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THE SMART PHONE

HAS BECOME THE NEW RETINA

OF THE MIND'S I.

 

THUS,

THE MEDIUM

IS THE TEXT MESSAGE

THAT CONVEYS

THE PERMANENCE OF TRANSIENCE.

 

- Doctor Brian O'Blivion

 

 

 

****

 

 

"I often say

that there are two languages:

the words that I wrote-

the words you can understand-

and behind that,

there's a silent language."

 

- Jon Fosse,

winner of the

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

 

 

 

****

 

 

"It sounds silly,

but when people talk about

Jane and Finch

or Downsview,

certain images

come to mind,

and a lot of those images

don't have the beauty...

There's so much history

and impact

that comes out of our community

that gets overlooked

because of media narratives

that have been there

for decades."

 

- Kayode Brown,

CEO of BGRAPHIC,

TORONTO STAR,

Together section,

Sunday, January, 21, 2024,

p. A16.

 

 

 

****

 

 

SRV

 

FVR

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Quite the movie fan

is Holly Gibney

(although she hasn't been in

an actual theater

since the previous spring),

and she enjoys

Hollywood tentpole movies

every bit as much as art films.

One of her faves

from the eighties

is Conan the Barbarian,

and her favorite line

from that film

is spoken by a minor character.

"Two or three years ago",

the peddler says of Set

and his followers,

"they were just another snake cult.

Now they're everywhere.""

 

- a paragraph from p. 17,

 

and another misquote from p. 326

 

"...Holly channels The Empire

Strikes Back.  "Everything

means something, it does.""

 

and still another quote from

 

the all too fittingly

 

and

 

ominously twilit p. 382

 

"..."Excuse my husband, " Emily says.

"He's upset and it makes him

garrulous.""

 

and

 

this Fourceful and final one

 

from p. 389

 

"...I have a bad feeling about this,

 

Ba."

 

from

the allegorical

and

implicitly Stan and Joan Lee roasting

Stephen King

indie docufiction novel

Holly [2023]

that affirmed

the implicit link

of

lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and mystery solvin'

Holly Gibney

to

equally lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and allegory crackin'

Gary Wright.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Then

when we in turn

write, speak

or do things,

we release our ideas

out into the environment,

where they can infect

new brains.

Ideas,

like viruses,

thus proliferate

at prodigious rates,

changing at prodigious rates,

as they do so."

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...Received opinion

is

often wrong

and

usually boring;

the text is yours

to interpret...

This ability

to read symbolically,

to view

the very world around us

symbolically,

is at the heart

of

the whole literary

[and cinema games].

To accept things

at first glance

to be

as they appear

on the surface

is to be trapped

in the literal.

To be able

to see

symbolic possibilities

allows one

to begin to make

connections

between things

that at first

seem to have

little to do

with each other."

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

of disappearing.

It hasn't changed

since I became

a Hero for fun.

In other words,

I am having no effect

on society.

I'm not sad about that.

I do this for fun,

so I just need

to satisfy myself."

 

- from

the intriguingly garish,

twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

One and Murata Yusuke

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

with

"...his lifeless expression

to his bald head

to his unimpressive physique"

[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

2026

 

Kirsty Duncan

Gunner Sebastian Halmagean

Charlie Hebdo victims ten years on

Piper James

Catherine O'Hara

Tumbler Ridge 9

Kianna Underwood

James Van Der Beek

 

 

 

 

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