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What’s the Strangest, Weirdest Piece of Fictional Media You’ve Seen?
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01.14.2022 | 6:25 PM ET
It’s called “Crash”. No, not the ****** oscar-bait from 2006, the one from 1996. It’s a psychological (horror???) erotic film about a guy who joins a group of ‘Symphophilliacs’ which are people who have a fetish for watching car crashes and purposely cause car crashes to jack-off. Yes, this is a real movie. Yes, Roger Ebert gave it a glowingly positive review. No, I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m absolutely adding that **** to my Blu-Ray collection just to say I have it and tell my friends about it.
This got me curious: what’s the most wild piece of fictional media you guys have ever witnessed?
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01.14.2022 | 7:59 PM ET
Im not sure what the wildest fictional media I've seen is.... Maybe Texhnolyze, Ichi The Killer, some of the SAW movies, Ergo Proxy, Paranoia Agent, Kakegurui or Warhammer 40K books and media
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"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
01.14.2022 | 8:03 PM ET
WastelandWanderer
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01.14.2022 | 8:04 PM ET
"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
01.14.2022 | 8:05 PM ET
"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
01.14.2022 | 8:05 PM ET
"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
01.14.2022 | 8:12 PM ET
Weirdest fictional media? Ehhhh. Hard to say. A few come to mind. The Red room in the original twin peaks is very ******* weird and disturbing, I'll say that. You have to be a little bit...I don't know If I want to use this term, but 'psychic' to get it. It's probably the best thing Lynch ever did. To get the strange dream-like speech sounds in the dialogue exchanges, he actually had the actors learn their lines backwards, then played them back in reverse. It's very clever and effective.
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01.14.2022 | 8:38 PM ET
Baldric Eggling
Ah a fellow Twin Peaks fan, excellent choice. Frankly, I have seen things more wild than Crash, but it did inspire this discussion. Probably the most bizarre I’ve seen is one of those ****** up Doujinshi mangas edgy doomers reference nowadays. Legitimately horrifying ****.
01.14.2022 | 8:50 PM ET
That said, I do like some POMO things, like Ren & Stimpy, and even some surrealists (not sure Surrealism is POMO necessarily) like Dorothea Tanning, but I'm a modernist at heart. Never tell me that Fifty Shades of Grey is the same Artistic achievement as Dubliners by James Joyce--or that one doesn't have more value than the other.
Sometimes there's a crossover. My favourite Artists is an American guy called Robert Evans. He paints what is loosely referred to as New Objectivism' or sometimes it is referred to as magical realism. It's quite a tight rope-walk between realism and surrealism, and hardly anybody can do it well. His paintings are strange but it's hard to describe why, exactly, because nothing especially abnormal is happening in his scenes. Hes like Wyeth, I suppose. I've been following him since my university days and can remember when you could buy one of his works for under 2K. If only I'd pulled the trigger and bought some of his work back then!
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01.14.2022 | 8:57 PM ET
"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
01.14.2022 | 9:27 PM ET
01.14.2022 | 9:45 PM ET
Baldric Eggling
One of my favorite artists has always been Gian Galang (Basic ***** choice, I know) but I also enjoy the works of George Atherton, Thomas Alen Kopera, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Seguru Takana and Alex Ross.
01.14.2022 | 9:45 PM ET
Baldric Eggling
01.14.2022 | 10:08 PM ET
I like Kris Kuksi a lot too. He's a sculptor who makes this demented kind of Bosch-esque rococo/gothtc revival/ futuristic dioramas. Cannot even imagine the amount of hours that go in to one of these things. Every piece is handcrafted. Very talented guy.
01.14.2022 | 11:39 PM ET
Baldric Eggling
01.15.2022 | 12:14 AM ET
01.15.2022 | 1:47 AM ET