i was thinking about birds as i often do but filtered through the film the birds which was not so much about birds as about human fear and most of the birds were fake or superimposed by sodium light but that's not the point the point is the shrillest moment i find is when tippi hedron slaps the hysterical woman in the diner who says tippi brought this war of the birds to their quiet hamlet, her and her caged love birds and of course she has to slap her back to reality that's how they do it in hollywood but hitchcock master showman used our fears to make spectacles of our unconscious as only a foreigner could mainly, and the hysterical woman said that, that tippi was a Stranger, and Evil. oh god the pressure dropped and the sky closed and a big ass storm is coming.

the bird kingdom with serfs of dragonfly.

calling our end or near enuf.

conference of the birds.

dragonfly swallow starling gullible.

for james reid sheaffer just arrived yesterday. a kiss.

film lonely.

marnie. i don't know why i dialed the color out since marnie was splendidly colored but i was watching tippi in the birds and i always think of that as back and white though i'm watching it in color or maybe it all flows from psycho which was clearly black and white even in my mind except there was one thing that was red or maybe that was in my head.

ornitheology without the bird.

silence is tricky too.

a tale told by a fool.

war of the birds.