Have you ever looked at a video cover at Blockbuster like a million times, seen tv guides written in Basque in Spain? Completely indecipherable. Walked past a tv playing a commercial for a rerun of Beethoven? In short, this is the most hyped movie I have seen in my mind since forever I can think of. I mean this movie came out when I was 16 and I haven't gotten round to watching it til now, age 45. Since it's set in (white) suburbia middle America, 1992, I can guess it's about a starry eyed filmmaker flying in to NYC from China, he wants a Hollywood hook up and writes a letter to Beethoven. He ends up with William Blake's wife, Katherine, instead. I mean I have no idea what this movie is about except Beethoven is a Saint Bernard puppy that grows huge. I don't really know, it's before BLM and super white. Maybe it will be cancelled, maybe it will continue flying under the radar, living a charmed life in a parallel universe. My kids seem to like it.
Saw some documentary on the Prince of Monaco and Monaco in general after that, looks like a cool place. I wonder how they can afford to have zero income tax, what their revenue is.
Well if you were ever able to meet the real Beethoven I'm sure he would have made for interesting philosophical conversation although he probably was too busy writing his music out. Although I did very well in grade 7 music myself, playing saxophone and able to read and write music very well, unfortunately I've forgotten everything but having a lot of time in the bus, especially when it's empty; I generally keep myself entertained with music I hum to myself which is always some music I feel inside myself, generally calm and pleasant. Typically I use nonsensical words to describe various melodies. I don't know how to write it out as I still can't hear a note and know which note it is anyway. So no ability to write. Not sure what there is to Blake's art but clearly he was very passionate about it and he and his wife Katherine were English people living in England, of a philosophical bent. Unlike Beethoven (who lived in Germany).
Another English woman came along a few decades after Katherine Blake, from northern Wales. Mary Firth. She doesn't bother pretending to be a philosopher much and is not given to engravings with acid and the like, like William Blake, neither music only hummed or otherwise, but is an outright ceremonial magician. I am not a ceremonial magician and almost feel more inclined to Blake's description of heaven if I can grasp it in a spiritual sense meaningfully (like an atmosphere in my home or an atmosphere outside projecting the spirit around and about, feeling an awareness of place, as it were), keeping in mind I do not have visions like Blake and Swedenborg, although I did have some in Bulgaria but they were all negative and a result of mental illness there and trauma, feeling disgusted by the nastiness of Bolshevik society, disgusting. Anyway this Mary Firth is one to watch, she wasn't an attention seeker and really took magic very seriously:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fortune
She's a bit of an unknown quantity, not a big Hollywood celebrity, but very interesting.
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