Surrealdom (A surrealist's side quests)

So, where were we since the last time we saw each other? Right, the rapture and shit like that.... Back in October, in Flashes From Everywhere , we dove into this, and here it is being put into motion since the beginning of the month (perhaps?). On the latest Stereolab single, we now have an instrumental version of Flashes from Eveywhere , with the new title Flashes in the Afternoon . Once more, this made me think of Maya Deren's film Meshes of the Afternoon , so I thought it could be fun if we tried to have our own little  Dark Side of the Moon over The Wizard of Oz experience, by stiching them together and completed by  Aerial Troubles , the instrumental version exclusively available on the Japanese version of Stereolab's  Instant Holograms On Metal Film as bonus track , and lastly by a third instrumental from their single Spool of Collusion  titled Forensic Itch . Old films... I've mentioned this last May on this blog. The events in Fritz Lang's Metropolis ...

  Let's kick start the defection with our dearest Ted Joans by following this link . I wrote that I would watch it and eventually did, thanks to Tubi TV (if you are like me - almost penniless - although Tubi is owned by the Fox Corporation, it's entirely free... and while you're there also check out Scared of Revolution with Umar Bin Hassan). Speaking of documentaries, have you seen Soundtrack to a Coup d’État ? Our friend Gabriela Trujillo wrote a review  about it in En attendant Nadeau . If you didn't know, this online magazine started in 2016 when former collaborators of La Quinzaine littéraire (a bi-monthly where surrealists such as José Pierre, Jean Schuster or Gérard Legrand contributed many articles to following the fractioning  of the parisian surrealist group in 1969) decided to build a platform to "promote free and independent critical discourse on current intellectual publications and to address the world and society through reviews of works in literat...