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2004-05-29 - 9:58 p.m.

The Day After Tomorrow = 9/11, through the looking glass.

Instead of columns of smoke billowing through the streets, we've got water. Instead of perishing in flames, the New Yorkers in the film freeze to death. And instead of making excuses, the government (represented here by a Dick Cheney-like V.P.) apologizes and promises to learn from its mistakes and do better.

Maybe this film will do for climatology what The Da Vinci Code did for gnosticism and symbology.

About 30 minutes into the plot just as things were getting very tense and my Brooklyn audience was all keyed up and "yo, yo!", the lights in the theater came on, the film stopped, and a pair of policemen trolled through with what looked like a witness or victim of a crime. They were looking for a thug who escaped into the theater, I suppose. It was alarming and of course for the first second, everyone assumed it was global warming-related.


Have been listening to a lot of Syd Barrett lately. Why has it never occurred to me before how much Beck sounds (and often writes) like Syd?

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