Area 52 - Southland Tales Reviews: 32 of 52... The Book Of Revelations...

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The cult-classic movie… Southland Tales vs. The Book of Revelations…

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This week’s viewing ended up being a real train wreck.

I just started working on another feature film called The Darker Path. It’s another shoot with a six-day workweek. Granted this one is in town so I get to sleep in my own bed, but the days are longer and there is a bit of a commute, so pretty much my time at home is only meant for sleep.

This Sunday… September 22nd was my first day off. I got home at 7:30 in the am and I had to be back on set at 8:00 in the am on Monday the 23rd. This meant I had to fit two sleep cycles within a 24 hour time period.

I decided to say, “fuck it,” and stopped at the grocery store to buy buffalo chicken nacho fixin’s and enough booze for two drinking cycles in case I wasn’t able to pull off the all-nighter I was planning.

Again, this was the first 24 hours I had to myself so I didn’t want to waste a minute of it.

Right away I started on the drinks and nachos.

A homemade pile of nachos… that should not have been eaten in one sitting…

There's something that I love about starting to drink on a Sunday morning hours before most people even begin to think about getting out of bed.

As the food sat in the oven I sat at my computer trying to think of my angle for this week’s review.

That is when I fell into a YouTube hole where I watched a video of the Olsen twins singing about pizza, $5 Dollar Wrestling, that crazy Chipotle commercial, and a video of cats knocking shit off of tables.

I’m kind of fuzzy on all the steps that lead to this, but I was well fed, medicated enough to watch cat videos, and had enough blood of Christ running through me that I thought it would be a good idea to listen to a Book of Revelations audiobook that I found while in that YouTube hole.

I remember having memories at the time.

Being that Southland Tales is supposed to be a retelling of the Book of Revelations I figured I would take notes for things to look out for when I watched the movie.

I don’t know if it was the bible talk or the booze, but I failed so hard at cyphering this tale of the end of days.

I did wake up to some notes!

(So you know I usually have a good memory so my note-taking handwriting is super sloppy and my notes usually consist of keywords and sentences meant to trigger the memories that I need.)

Let’s see if you can figure out where I blacked out!

  • I am alpha and omega, the fist, and the last. (I wonder if this has anything to do with, “I am a pimp and pimps don’t commit suicide?)

  • 7 candlesticks… 7 stars… 7 angles… 7 churches… (There sure are a lot of 7s in this book. I guess I’ll have to start counting things in Southland Tales.)

I have no idea what these pages of notes even mean.

  • Eating of the tree of life.

  • These things say is the…

  • But now are rich.

  • Half an ear.

  • Many.

  • A name.

  • Jesse is of a potter.

  • I wilt come on thee like a thief.

  • I will not block out his name.

  • Ear talk again.

  • New Jerusalem.

  • Shut it (not sure what words I wrote here) and open (more illegible handwriting.)

  • New Jerusalem.

  • New name.

  • Lay autisians (?)

  • Thou aren’t cold nor not blah, blah, blah.

  • 14:38

  • 7 is a big deal.

  • Lots of beasts… not one 6 headed beast…

  • There’s a Book of the Power

  • There are four elders and four good angels… or something.

  • Redhorse = red ball.

  • Four Horsemen four colors of orbs.

  • All the powerful cowards hid.

  • There’s some kind of sensor.

  • The angels kind of reminded me of the UPU officers.

  • Key to pit… open pit.

  • Don’t hurt green.

  • Angel trumpet.

  • (It looks like) Folar angels.

  • We’re on chapter 9, I see no connection maybe I don’t get the language.

  • Space.

  • Opondoth (?)

  • Give me the little book…

I can’t read my own writing at all anymore.

  • (Something, something, something) revelations ad transcribed it, liked it.

  • (A bunch of illegible words that have been crossed out.)

  • Right hand.

  • The dragon man child.

  • 7 headed dragon.

  • Dragon was going to devour a child… Mandy Moore’s?

  • Don’t see a seven-headed dragon… unless Booger belongs to the seven head.

  • The man child Seann William Scott?

  • Is BOR

  • He stood on sand, sand maze beast no beast (a word that looks like gnovells.)

  • See an should go here but now (? That’s what it looks like, but I know that’s not what it says.)

  • He that kills with sword killed by sword.

So that’s apparently what I thought about the Book of Revelations.

I’m not fully sure whether or not I made it through the whole reading, but when I woke up at 7:30 in the pm I fired up Southland Tales without any memories of what I was supposed to keep an eye out for.

So even though I failed to put together a coherent, researched review, whether or not I gain any new insights for the film, Southland Tales’ viewing days have become the most fun/eventful day of the week for me.

I have a feeling next week’s review is going to be just as rushed. I’ll be just as exhausted and at a loss for what my angle will be, minus time to do the reviews that I really want, but I also know that I’ll figure something out, and I’m sure it’ll be fun.

Can’t wait to see what happens!

See you then. 

My chicken scratch handwriting…