12 groundhogs (cloud gate) ten years after

so horsemouth watched source code last night. jake gyllenhaal does that,

‘this is the story of a man marked by an image.. The violent scene, whose meaning he would not grasp until much later, took place...’.

this is of course precisely the thing narrative cinema is set up to do (it is the thing chris marker manages with sound and static photographs in la jetée by means of a voice over).

horsemouth has an expanding list of these movies (in a way even usual suspects is one of them), there are books like it - william golding’s pincher martin for example.

through the time reassignment rather than time travel procedure of source code jake gyllenhaal can fight terrorism - in the end he escapes with the girl he meets along the way and they both stand hand in hand reflected in british artist anish kapoor's cloud gate in chicago.

gyllenhaal gets to repeat eight minutes - a groundhog 8 minutes - but does he get to change the future? it could be objected that his character is derelict of his duty in the war on terror (but the film takes care of this objection).

horsemouth is delighted with his title - 12 groundhogs - see what he did there? but he worries that he is turning into science fiction author and parodist john t. sladek, a man capable of giving you a pun or slight gag for every situation (just read his the new apocrypha). indeed sladek even has a walk on part in a science fiction novel about spontaneous human combustion as a man who can’t help the protagonists (but is capable of giving them a pun or slight gag for their situation).

in any event - soon it is groundhog day (again).
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horsemouth has been going through people’s rubbish again (in search of stuff to read). he has found a copy of the FT magazine for september 2nd/3rd - with a series of articles

ten years after the financial crisis - where are we now? 

alistair darling (the then chancellor) was on holiday in mallorca, sent out to get milk he picks up a copy of the FT, ‘buried’ in there he finds accounts of regional banks failing in france and germany, ten years later dennis grainger a former employee of northern rock, a north of england regional bank where there was no pension scheme and staff were encouraged instead to buy company shares, is still searching for justice. in the states, after a few years surfing holiday, the sellers of subprime mortgages are back at work, ‘nonprime has a nice ring to it’ , the super rich took a hit (but they have since more than recovered), we, the non-rich, on the other hand, have not, with the youth taking a disproportionate hit.

banking sector pay has however recovered (so that’s alright then).

in honour of ray thomas of the moody blues (RIP january 4th)  horsemouth will end out with them - his parents had two of their albums (and later horsemouth bought more), he always though they were a very under-rated band.