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Postcard from Steptoe
Story Room consists of 3 individuals who don the geometric shapes sphere, tetrahedron and cube to mask their true identities. Sometimes lead singer Steptoe Butte is from Whitman County, Washington.
From the Uncyclopedia entry on Steptoe Butte:
“He was a striking-looking guy and he also bought weird records, which not everyone in the store did”, collaborator Pete StarBuck recalled. The two became friends and eventually decided to form a band.[1] StarBuck and Steptoe started writing music together;[2] at the time Steptoe also spent time in a local group named Raid.[3] The pair were soon joined by Bill Mills and Mike Berry and named themselves Murmur, a name Steptoe selected at random from the dictionary.[4]
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“Hucka D., clarify for me something. Wouldn’t Steptoe be the blue figure here?”
Hucka D.:
Sometimes.
bb:
Is he the yellow figure as well?
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
The red figure is the boss.
Hucka D.:
That’s Story Room.
bb:
I’m confused. I thought the name of the band was, or is, Story Room.
Hucka D.:
It is. (pause)
bb:
Where does Tom’s Petty High fit in[ here]?
Hucka D.:
Yellow. Lemon yellow.
bb:
Each… sorry.
Hucka D.:
Each rule over their portions of The Shining that come before or after. So Tom’s Petty High rules the psychiatrist-Danny scene. What have you renamed that recently?
bb:
The Story Room. Oh, wait. That’s — I know what you’re talking about now — that’s the Bear Pillow Scene, with all the little blips and sparkles, at least a handful that seem to mean something.
Hucka D.:
Sorry as well: actually Story Room rules that scene. So that’s why you have the word “strange” highlighted spoken by the doctor, and then the Duck just afterwards. The duck is both the lemon colored VW that protagonist [sic?] Jack drives to the Overlook Hotel to start the movie, and also Duck, WV, then. The presence of The Duck demonstrates the rule of Story Room, see.
bb:
Let’s see.
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Hucka D.:
Story Room had a lot of fun with that room.
bb:
Isn’t Story Room, though, the room in the exact center of the Shining with all the rainbow colors, Hucka? Rainbow man Hallorann lies in the middle. Soon to shine. [no answer]
January 13, 2014 · 10:38 am
Lemon > Burns
Part II: The answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magee,_Mississippi
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/01/dayintech_0127
The three astronauts knew they were looking at a potential death trap. Not long before he died, Grissom plucked a lemon from a tree at his house and told his wife, “I’m going to hang it on that spacecraft.”
January 7, 2014 · 7:32 pm
Who’s MUnck?
The Shining, Shot 437.
Probably nothing, but here’s a fellow named Carl Munck who formulated his code, sourced in the Giza pyramids, about the same time as The Shining was being filmed. I’ve checked through all of these pages in shot 437, and MUnck (Münck?) may be the most deviant variation of Jack in the prime sentence.
Remember that we’ve just seen a pyramid related object highlighted by a white speck in the shot before this (436), as well as a large red sparkle toward the end of the shot. This doesn’t seem chance. But what of the possible Carl Munck connection? Is Kubrick saying that Jack has become just as crazy as Munck with his huge matrix of geomantic number connections… page after page after page after page?
Also keep in mind here the thought that The Shining’s sno-cat, the rescue vehicle for Wendy and Danny, is a symbol for the Sphinx, which Munck claims in this video (1:48) is more a kitten than a full grown cat.
http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/shining_8am.htm
Rather than looking at it as crazy Jack simply having typed the same phrase over and over again in a fit of insanity, the repeated phrase is another expression of this deja vu and repeating patterns, such as in the world maze where we had the same repeating patterns ad infinitum. [my emph] This repeated phrase is, after all, a Kubrick invention. It did not appear in the King book.
January 7, 2014 · 9:35 am
Mythopolis! 02
Redlands.
We turn to blog spirit Hucka Doobie for help in this confounding new development.
Hucka D.:
Happy New Years Day baker b.!
bb:
Thanks! Same to you my old friend.
[they sing Auld Lang Syne for several minutes]
bb:
Phew!
Hucka D.:
Wowwy Zowwy!
bb: (wiping brow):
So we’re ready to get down to business?
Hucka D. (still catching breath):
In a moment.
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5 minutes later:
Hucka D.:
Okay I’m ready! (another breath) So… you know about Michael Tree now. Let’s see (checks script in his hand). We’re up to page 78 already. “Enter the Redlands”.
bb:
It’s a stunning return of Mytholopolis to mythological significance.
Hucka D.:
Mythopological.
bb:
So surely Michael Tree is not the same as Michael Too of Frank and Herman Parks?
Hucka D.:
No, not really. A different Michael. A Tree. You have clues in The Shining, no?
bb:
You mean the film mistake on the floor in front of Wendy, right on the red band where Halloran would later be axed.
Hucka D.:
This is the stacked rock village you discovered today… yesterday.
bb:
Not possible.
Hucka D.:
Never say that. Your find was coordinated… I mean, the 2 finds were coordinated across space-time. The finding of the rock village was predicted in The Shining oval flaw.
bb:
Michael Tree then lives in the middle of this squared circle. Because that’s what it is.
Hucka D.:
Yes. The circle (Hucka D. points to interior circle Wendy is exiting) and the square (Hucka D. points to the square, red band it’s centered within) at once.
Squared circle.
bb:
Same position on the square, huh.
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bb:
I’m trying to follow this further. So Halloran’s blood mirrors the red paint of the square band. Right when he steps on this band, Jack comes out from behind the column with his axe.
Hucka D.:
Michael Tree has been axed[ as well]. Think about that.
Hucka D.:
Michael Tree is the top [rust red] rock of his temple, a variation of Michael Too’s Norris Temple. That’s him… axed.
bb;
Yet they’re not the same.
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
Axed means fired?
Hucka D.:
Kind of. Axed through the heart. Heart Line.
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Hucka D.:
Let’s go back the the missing scene of The Shining. Killings and disappearances have been going on for 70 years within that Fowl Mouthed Hotel. That’s not elucidated in the movie.
bb:
It’s in the scrapbook.
Hucka D.:
Redlands is an engineered landscape. Carefully planned out in space-time. Michael Tree may be Michael Treed.
January 1, 2014 · 3:12 am
Twins
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/blessedlady/?xjMsgID=275816
This is a favorite place of mine. I’m sure that some people don’t even know it’s hidden in the depths of Port Ludlow. The entrance is between two small islands called The Twins that open onto a bay about the size of Quest Stadium. Anchorable depths provide for two, maybe three boats, but I was there alone. The dense woods on the steep shores are only moderately punctuated by the gardening of the homes that line the bay, so it’s still a relatively idyllic setting.
Another Dart besides 3 already blog recorded (Washington). Historical, however:
Matching Oklahoma/Texas set (reversed from above):
December 20, 2013 · 1:53 pm
Additional Wendy-Danny Tree Stuff
More twins from the collage before Gila 09 discussed in the Wendy-Danny Trees post just below, in this case Frank Zappa and Ringo Starr from the movie 200 Motels.*
Like the Grady Twins and Wendy-Danny from The Maze, they appear to be holding hands, or perhaps sharing one hand between them (Ringo’s left, Frank’s right). In the collage, they jointly start at a miniature version of the Marge beech grove positioned atop two opposing heads that are pressed together by two giant fingers. These fingers, along with a more realistic presentation of Marge, reappear in the following Gila collage already under discussion: “Head Inside”.
It also seems important to mention here that a mirroring crop circle (another twin!) appeared beside this beech grove’s twin Patty (*another* twin!) shortly after Edna and I returned from England this past summer. Never had a crop circle formed nearly this close to Marge before, nor her sister groves Patty and Selma. Just to note that all of these groves appear near each other on the same ridge, and are all basically convey the same shape, size and appearance.
Now the current state of “Head Inside,” newly reinstalled in Fal Mouth Moon. As you can see, the projecting dogwood branch doesn’t really do any aesthetic harm to the collage, and even adds to it in ways. Note that it appears to, by virtue of its 3-dimensionality, *block* Baker Bloch’s vision of McCartney’s head within Marge.
The truncated column in the back of the Table House discussed in the first post on this subject is found to exist at the very corner of VWX Town, Essence, or just within the part of the town that will be kept in January. A meter or two south or west and the column would lie within VWX Town, Indulgence, the part that is to be abandoned. Note also that the southernmost or “5th” column lies in VWX Town, Indulgence. 4 will remain; the 5th will not.
I also think this “missing” column represents the missing 199th tree of the Rubi Forest, the one that, when removed, makes its Lucas sequence resonance harder to identify. This was done on purpose — by The Woods itself?
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* See here for strange tie-in between this movie and Cube-Brick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey:
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/200_Motels.html
The 2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith
From: Patrick NeveI just snagged this neat-o little piece of trivia from the internet movie database. Anyone know if it’s true? Where exactly does it appear?
200 Motels Trivia: Filmed in the same studio as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The black monolith from that film is visible.
From: Clyde200
Yep… I’ve wondered about it too. Although it’s been quite awhile since I last viewed the movie … I can see Ringo (with the lamp) and Theo. B. in front of the object which is on the right of the screen.
From: OnlytheSky
Not to mention during Penis Dimension sequence Dick Barber-as-the-vacuum- cleaner shoots a wad at it.
From: Patrick Neve
Oh, that’s it. I also just spotted it in Don Preston’s laboratory as he pushes the vile foamy liquids onto the unsuspecting Martin Lickert.
From: TTrocc7007
In the complete (unfilmed: see True Story Of 200 Motels for details) version of the original shooting script for 200 Motels, we actually see the monolith quite a bit more. It looms throughout. At the very end of the film (as written), the extreme close-up of FZ’s eye is supposed pull back so that we see the monolith behind him. As the monolith comes into focus we see for the first time that it is in fact FZ’s Marshall amp and speaker cabinet stack! He reaches over, flicks the stand-by switch, and the credits roll.
From: Patrick Neve
Very interesting.. Does that in any way discredit the “trivia” that the monolith in the movie is the one from 2001? Sounds like it may have been kicking around the studio so he wrote it into the script. Yes?
From: TTrocc7007
It sorta sounds logical that way until you realize that the script had to completed well in advance of shooting. It is possible an early trip to Pinewood studios WELL in advance of the shoot date may have turned up the slab, but I expect it was written and concieved BEFORE the excursion to the UK for actual shooting.
From: Jason M Arvey
A long time ago, someone asked a trivia question about the cover of 200 Motels, essentially looking for the three elements on the cover that are references to other films. I effectively found The Shadow above the newt on the building on the left hand side of the cover/poster. At the time, I had noticed a fetus sucking its thumb just to the right of The Shadow, but didn’t know what to make of it; I knew it wasn’t from 200 Motels, but couldn’t place it. Well, I looked back on the poster today, and, shucky- darn, if that ain’t the Monolith from 2001 sitting right there behing the penis dimension march.
December 15, 2013 · 6:35 pm
Sunklands 