The Return of Mr Kim

Today I ate bread made from apples and tapioca. Tomorrow I'll eat bread made by a company set up by Terence Stamp. Interesting man. He was good in The Hit, with John Hurt. Another interesting, leather faced English actor.

It's reassuring that there's a place for existential rough diamonds in this world. Anyway, Terence Stamp... he's a coeliac . I remember seeing footage of him when he was on something like Wogan {80's knee-touching Chatshow hoast}, and he was painfully slow in his response to questions - tranqued to the eyeballs apparently.

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Terence Stamp had a brush with Fourth Way philosophy - that might explain his intense 'not quite all-thereness'. He played a Russian Prince in that film about Mr Gurdjieff.. It's one of those films that are really compelling, and yet nothing actually seems to happen. David Lynch made a whole career out of them. Although I quite liked Twin Peaks.

Saw Midnight Express again recently. John Hurt plays folk-guru-playwright Jay Brierley. Another leather-faced Brit / Fourth Way film. There should be a genré devoted to leather-faced upper-class Brits / obscure psychological-philosophical movements.

In The Hit, Stamp plays a reformed mockney gangster who becomes oddly philosophical in his retirement years. So there's another one.

'iF....' and 'O' Lucky Man!' with Malcolm McDowell. More of the same. Anarchy. Probably a bit nihilistic.

The Prisoner: Patrick McGoohan / existentialism / anarchy.

Rasputin: Alan Rickman . Clairvoyance and Politics.

Kafka:Richard E. Grant / Ralph Fiennes. Existential Dread...

But what to call this genre? BritPhil? Cinema Britphil?

Rollo Kim

"Water from clear mountain springs and streams has beautifully formed crystalline structures, while the crystals of polluted or stagnant water are deformed and distorted.

Distilled water exposed to classical music takes delicate, symmetrical crystalline shapes.

When the words "thank you" were taped to a bottle of distilled water, the frozen crystals had a similar shape to the crystals formed by water that had been exposed to Bach's "Goldberg Variations" (see right) -- music composed out of gratitude to the man it was named for.

When Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" was played to water, the resulting frozen crystals were split in two.

When water samples are bombarded with heavy metal music or labeled with negative words, or when negative thoughts and emotions are focused intentionally upon them, the water does not form crystals at all and displays chaotic, fragmented structures.

When water is treated with aromatic floral oils, the water crystals tend to mimic the shape of the original flower. At right, water crystals were exposed to aromatic essence of chamomile.

...you can see the results of taping the words "You Fool" to a container of distilled water. Interestingly, the pattern made by "You Fool" was almost identical to the pattern that emerged when heavy metal music was played. Masaru Emoto wonders in his book whether perhaps heavy metal musicians look upon people as fools."

The work of Masaru Emoto

Rollo Kim