DISMANTLE WHARF

Hi friends!

In honor of @joni's 40th birthday, we are going to be watching the extremely rare 1987 Japanese animated film THE FLYING LUNA CLIPPER at 7PM PST tonight. The "Finnegans Wake of movies-only-available-on-laserdisc," it's a lush 8-bit early computer animation experiment about an airplane that flies a bunch of anthropomorphic fruit and one snowman around the world so they can fulfill their dreams.

We will be watching it on our Plex server, and we invite you to join!

All you have to do is make a free account here:

http://plex.tv/sign-up/

PM or email @joni the email address you signed up with to make the account and he'll send you an invite to our watch party! We can watch simultaneously and maybe even post on the board about the movie?!

It’s on YouTube! Watch it on your own time and we can talk about it here

https://youtu.be/P2TNZyCWA-Q

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p.s. @joni the smileys don't work either

Update: this computer-animated odyssey/oddity is worth a watch! A tight 55 minutes of head-scratching fun. It would be generous to call it a "movie," but it's a visual feast! For fans of 8-bit graphics, video art, Polynesian history, aviation, and sexy bananas.

Thanks for sharing this strange art gem. Indeed, there was a strong showing of sexy bananas—love the very detailed twerking animations.

Did you get a Theme to Eraserhead vibe from the song about gravity during the baby- and diving-piece? It was like an inspired by version, “in heaven, everything is fine” but about gravity.

I love the hyper surreal, dreaming style of narrative used to tell the Pacific Islander stories. The anthropomorphized islands and mountains were so sweet. And the drumming sequence was bad ass!

So strange and charming!

Don't judge me, but I've never seen Eraserhead. There's a fan of our band in Philadelphia that asks me every time we pass through town on tour if I've watched it yet; every time I promise that I will before we play Philly again. I love everything David Lynch has ever made and yet I can never motivate myself to watch it. Why??? Perhaps I'm afraid of spoiling my own future treat.

Anyway the Pacific Islander stories in Flying Luna Clipper are so unexpected and cool. I'd love to learn more about Polynesian history and navigation. A guy I follow online who's big into sailing shared a link to this (free PDF) book about Polynesian navigators recently, I might dig into it over Xmas as a mind-escape:

https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu ... 885/114874