Tunnels

[catalog]

 

[luka]

what about them

 

[catalog]

i've been through a few recently. Some observations:

Often graffiti at the edges, but none inside.

Under motorways and train tracks.

Glistening walls due to water runoff, which reflects the trees and leaves, therefore green slime feel

 

[luka]

how will you distinguish from this thread?

Into the Sewers

I've been interested in underworlds recently, both in the Xibalba/Hades sense and the general idea of a world beneath the world, and the other day I learned there was a specific term for the descent - katabasis. Anyway for whatever reason it got me thinking of Trump and the fact that with him...

dissensus.com

 

[catalog]

splish splash as you walk through

 

[luka]

if you tread on his toes he's going to be spitting tacks

 

[catalog]

i've not read it but they are probably related. but sort of not as well, cos im not really talking sewers. maybe i should read it.

 

[catalog]

i know version will go mad wont he, he gets really angry about these things

 

[sufi]

Films in tunnels, they tend to be horror

• there's one about the Paris catacombs
• another about a group of women potholers who encounter murderous troglodytes
• and isnt there one about tunnels under a mayan temple and hapless tourists?
• one brit fillum about an older being underneath a church which ends up with the protagonists getting claustrophobicly digested by the hill iirc
• there's one appalling yugoslav film about the war and a train tunnel i think, probably the only one worth watching

 

[luka]

he's staked out the entire Underworld as his conceptual territory and this is a trepass upon his domain. he won't be happy.

 

[catalog]

but this is the beauty of shift work

 

[sufi]

i have perhaps gone on before about how the command prompt is a tunnel?

only for the bravest

 

[catalog]

i was thinking of starting a thread called 'suggestions' and it would be things like - could we be on a shift rotation, so we all get to hang out with each other. this would necessitate you, luka, agreeing to do a few graveyard shifts, 3-7am. and version would have to do the 10am-2pm shift

 

[catalog]

i have perhaps gone on before about how the command prompt is a tunnel?

only for the bravest

eh?

 

[luka]

i used to do a lot of graveyard shifts at the time when i had a massive drug stash. recently ive been recovering from having had a massive drug stash so no more graveyard shifts.

 

[catalog]

sometimes doing the graveyard shift can lead to amazing mystical experiences, such as this mix

 

[Mr. Tea]

• there's one appalling yugoslav film about the war and a train tunnel i think, probably the only one worth watching

I caught this by accident late on Ch4 one night a long time ago. I think it's just called 'Underground'. Really liked it. It gets heavily magic-realist towards the end, IIRC.

 

[sufi]

read the rest at

BARNEY -- thrill zone

2000ad.org

 

[sufi]

eh?

it's a long dark tunnel leading to the mystical underworld called the internet, only special dark dwelling troggies can go there

 

[catalog]

oh i see.