The narrator in Thomas Bernhard's novel "The Loser," a pianist crazed with dreams of genius and obsessed with Glenn Gould, expresses the impossible longing to become the piano, to be at one with it.
You have to marvel at whatever crazed deviant scientist dreamed up the Pot Noodle back in the gastronomic mists of the mid-Seventies.
That film was Obsessed, a Fatal Attraction-like thriller in which he takes the Michael Douglas role, Beyoncé Knowles plays his wife and Ali Larter plays the misogynists' dream, a crazed blonde who wants to get into Elba's pants and ruin his perfect marriage.
What's even more astonishing (for adults anyway) is that Minecraft has none of the CGI faux-realism of the blockbuster computer games marketed by Electronic Arts et al. Players are not compelled to act out the crazed, violent, misogynistic scripts dreamed up for them by programmers working for multimedia conglomerates.
In fact, at this point, we can safely say that the crazed utopian dreams that have now been committed to steel and cement in China surpass anything Mao dreamed up during the Great Leap Forward, when China only had pots and pans and hoes to toss into the furnaces.
This is an entirely representative intertitle from The Forbidden Room, another crazed cheese-dream of early cinema from the Canadian auteur Guy Maddin – credited here with collaborator Evan Johnson – renowned for his freaky mashups and pileups of cine-fetish silent movie pastiche.
(In their dreams!) And films about macho men, masochism and crazed murderers, irrespective of whether they are male or female, are more likely to bring in the megabucks.
And it hasn't properly started with me yet". This is the only safe anchorage in the mad world of this book, this crazed cut-up collage of wanderings and wishes and the inevitable destruction of dreams.
López, who up to this point had been playing so far in the zone that he looked crazed (red-rimmed eyes bulging; teeth bared), suddenly had the demeanor of a man awakened from an Olympian dream of glory only to find himself rudely deposited back in harsh, humble reality.
