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Dear Readers,

Ha ha ha Psyduck! I like this video because Farfetched just keeps smacking Psyduck in the head over and over and then Psyduck gets madder and madder and madder until BAM Psyduck wins. Psyduck was always one of my favorite Pokemon. But I also like Zubat and Rattata. Ha ha ha. I used to watch the cartoon and play the TCG. (Trading Card Game)



There's something so appealing about the Teletubbies. The gentle colors, the slow shots, the soothing comforting easy to follow plot, the ryhthm of Teletubby life, the very small conflicts easily resolved, the exploration of a wonderful world and the exploration of a wonderful set of bright-colored bodies... it's all very soothing and lovely. Teletubbies is the opposite of John Wesley Powell's trip through the Grand Canyon.



I remember my older brother telling me about the Negative Zone in the original Super Mario Brothers, how it was a secret glitch the video game designers didn't want you to know about. And maybe I have a foggy memory of seeing him get to the Negative Zone... The funny thing about the Negative Zone is that there's no where you can go- you're trapped, the time just runs out and you're dead. It's like James Joyce's Dublin.

But I also remember my older brother telling me that there was a way to run out of fireballs, like maybe you got a thousand fireballs, and if you just kept throwing and throwing them, you would stay in your special FireMario outfit but you couldn't shoot fireballs anymore. I think that's just a myth, though. I don't think you can really run out of fireballs. I saw my brother try it and it didn't work. He just died.

But this video is proof that the Negative Zone is real.



I like all the old fashioned electronic stuff in this video making really cool noises in a really cool way, and the film editing is top-notch in my opinion, and I play the video again and again, so there must be something to it, but who am I to say that my taste in videos is any better than somebody else's taste in videos? I like it. That's all I can say.



Harry Smith was an anthropolgist, ethnomusicologist, collector, artist, animator, filmmaker, um... he was an eccentric guy who lived in Oregon and Colorado a lot and traveled a lot... he put together The Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've heard a lot of and which influenced the 1950s and 1960s folk music revival: Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc... He was a wild, wild guy, but I like him and I like this video. I'm not sure if it's creepy, per se. I'm not afraid of it. Why should we be afraid of the images that come out of our minds sometimes? I've watched quite a few videos like this one, abstract animations by Harry Smith. I've watched them sometimes when I get up in the middle of the night to feed my baby. My baby watches it, too. I hope it doesn't mess her up. This video kind of reminds me of the last part of Dave's trip (pun intended) from the moon to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey.



Here's a video to cheer you up.



Sincerely,
Telemoonfa