Just a head’s up: Here’s what’s in store on #LaEsoterica, #MusComEnt, #RetroView and #SatMat in December+ I’m also hosting #BaroqueSun on December 14th w/sacred Baroque-era music and #SymSat on December 20th w/Holiday Pops!

Thanks for tuning in! If you can join me tomorrow when #MusComEnt a double feature of “The Great Mouse Detective” & “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (info ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/115568321722460821).. #LaEsoterica will return on December 16th with our annual Winter/Holiday episode! Enjoy the rest of your week💕

Yeah, sorry about how faint and tiny the english subtitles are. Normally, I’d be cool with inconveniencing English knowing Westerners but this is kind of annoying
#LaEsoterica #TheManFromBagombo

@MatthewTitus88 the landscapers at the cemetery where my uncle is has some really badass ones. One of them informed us that he chased down some teenage jerk who tried to steal the solar powered cross on Pedro’s space. We bought that dude a Whataburger giftcard as a thank you
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#laesoterica The multiverse is an odd place.

Our final piece is the Serbian short film “Čovek iz Bagomba” AKA “The Man from Bagombo” directed by Serbian director and film curator Igor Stanojević (https://youtu.be/icAURge2XnY?si=mg8Ix17USsE_IqaB) and based on the stories in “The Bagombo Snuffbox”-Vonnegut’s 1999 collection of stories he wrote in the 1950s and early 1960s. You can read the collection for free here (https://archive.org/details/bagombosnuffboxu00vonn)
#LaEsoterica #TheManFromBagombo #IgorStanojevic #KurtVonnegut

Landscaper at a cemetary would be a weird job. #laesoterica

#LaEsoterica #BetweenTimeAndTimbuktu #Slaughterhouse5 #KurtVonnegut

“What a weird place!”
#LaEsoterica #BetweenTimeAndTimbuktu

@rsmon77 They were waaay off with what his Handicap™️ would turn out to be
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#laesoterica “What are people for?” To be eaten by aliens?

Is he talking to the cat or to god? (a trick question really)
#LaEsoterica #BetweenTimeAndTimbuktu

#laesoterica “Cyanide is more manly.”

@rsmon77 it’s what Martha Graham would have wanted *decisively nods*
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@analgesicsleep Armie Hammer? Wow, that really is from 2018! #LaEsoterica

There’s also a 2009 short film titled “2081” that’s based on “Harrison Bergeron” and features a memorable ballet scene. You can watch that here (https://youtu.be/dEgOuZzjI8o?si=mM8T5WDPEAPtYNuz)
#LaEsoterica #HarrisonBergeron #kurtvonnegut #scifi

#laesoterica You know, most interpretative dances should end with more random old ladies interrupting them with gunfire.

And both the character Harrison Bergeron and the Vonnegut concept of Handicaps come from Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron”. You can read the story in his 1968 story collection “Welcome to the Monkey House” here (https://archive.org/details/welcometomonkeyh0000unse) /listen to it here (https://youtu.be/PsGEHJ5_XeY?si=_TVXpv6hpGUnyNnV) OR you can watch the 1995 film adaptation starrring Sean Astin here (https://youtu.be/82GB1g2xNh0?si=Od6RF5mj2GoMm6rG)
#LaEsoterica #KurtVonnegut

#laesoterica That’s what happens when you read AI-generated news copy.

@rsmon77 This seems like one that would be more of a hit with the film festival crowd than the general public. #laesoterica