Wednesday afternoon I saw my first rainbow of this brutal summer. When I stepped out of my guitar teacher’s house in north Austin, it started raining, real rain, but by the time I got in my car it had already stopped. As I headed home on the elevated freeway that follows the trail the first Anglo settlers used to travel between the valley of the Colorado and the more rugged country of the Balcones Escarpment, the full arc of a rainbow was there to the northeast. You could see the big rain behind it, a storm that was probably twenty miles away. A rain that eludes you, and gets you thinking that when the rain finally comes, it will be the kind of rain that never stops.
Hi there. Loved this post. I saw The Last Wave years ago in an art theater, then again a few years ago. Also Picnic At Hanging Rick. Both mysteriously apocalyptic. Dream time. Jeff Nichols’s intense Take Shelter Is very similar to TLW.
Weir lost his weirdness after those two. But still made some great films afterwards. Waldrop’s The Ugly Chickens reminds me of the recent sighting of an ivory bill woodpecker again. You never know.
If you enjoyed After London, you might also like "A Scientific Romance" by Ronald Wright (best known from his nonfiction - "Short history of progress" and "Stolen Continents: The New World Through Indian Eyes") - its inspired by After London (and Well's Time Machine) - here's a brief review from internet - https://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/scientificromance.htm
Hi there. Loved this post. I saw The Last Wave years ago in an art theater, then again a few years ago. Also Picnic At Hanging Rick. Both mysteriously apocalyptic. Dream time. Jeff Nichols’s intense Take Shelter Is very similar to TLW.
Weir lost his weirdness after those two. But still made some great films afterwards. Waldrop’s The Ugly Chickens reminds me of the recent sighting of an ivory bill woodpecker again. You never know.
If you enjoyed After London, you might also like "A Scientific Romance" by Ronald Wright (best known from his nonfiction - "Short history of progress" and "Stolen Continents: The New World Through Indian Eyes") - its inspired by After London (and Well's Time Machine) - here's a brief review from internet - https://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/scientificromance.htm
wonderful read. Thanks