I saw it on March 16 in ZIP 23666 (I don't have to tell you; in addition to
the obvious direct mystique, those digits add to 23...) in a theater with
24
screens (add one for the eye in the triangle to 23, and of course you get
24
.... ). Well, it's hard to say how good it is. You could say it's
supposed
flaws are campy or whatever, or that if you really find the 23 enigma
sufficiently off-getting, then so what, etc. I enjoyed it, but of course
I
am a 23 nut. (Born in a year divisible by 23, that many years after the
late
great Robert Anton Wilson, and my first car, gotten that year, was a 78
NOVA
(that reminds me, 2001, of 9 + 11 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 fame, is 23*87), went to
"The University of Virginia," ("...in March 1825, the University of
Virginia
opened to serve its first 123 students.") etc etc. I just had to
appreciate
how much (to me) Dr. Sirius Leary resembled RAW in ~ the mid 90s.
The review below was not enthusiastic but undercut its own putdown by
pointing out lots of 23 coincidences *about* the film:
http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/movies/story.html?id=327878ee-5234-4498-9439-d94b41499bbd&k=61632
Too bad poor old Bob didn't get to see it - or did he catch an advance
screening or precuts?
In any case, whatever the hell that means, taking that 16 up there and
reminding myself that 23 in base 16 is "17", a number also mentioned in
connection to all this weird crap:
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
(including the exclamation mark, 23 characters!)
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