Category: But I Digress – A Film and Lit Podcast Hosted by Damien Riley

Damien: I like it. I look worried yet determined. That’s how I felt living as a bipolar writing and publishing this book. I like the Herman Hesse hat and Havana unbuttoned shirt. Relaxed me. It’s more about showing what I’ve done with this diagnosis. I’m out to be real and show how I’m still making it and having amazing vision for my life and influence in my present time.  It’s not a drawback to life, no matter how worried you may get. Put your hat on your head boy. Unbutton that shirt and go boy go INTO THE EARTLY REALMS and just be. As a high functioning Bipolar Professional one can press on and blow everybody away with their contribution, sometimes more than a normal brained professional can. Plus it often accompanies unbridled genius in cases like Vincent Van Gogh, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Dreyfuss … it’s a huge and growing list et al. Google famous people with Bipolar disorder. This book though is for anyone struggling with haunting unfulfilled dreams fettered by the human condition. It’s not just for bipolars. I’m living an amazing life in the present moment. It’s pretty great typing right now. Buy my book, I tell my fans. Support me and my 3 kids. Support more books.

Dad: be very careful.

Damien: Always dad. I love you. This is a book I needed to write. Don’t worry. I got this. Thanks for the DNA and moral support. You’re the best dad in the world. No hyperbole.

Dad: 😎

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Horror worth mentioning!

Do you ever have the problem I have with some movies? You start them and something doesn’t feel right so you turn your nose up and stop watching only later to keep thinking about it and what was going to happen next? That’s what happened to me with this film “Resurrection” starring Rebecca Hall who has done some top notch stuff. The thing that sticks out most in my mind is her film “with Joel Edgerton and another “Christine” where she portrays a very disturbed news anchor. She specializes in disturbed characters in a way. She’s a good actor all around but it’s those disturbed characters that she really seems to fit, for me anyway. No offense to her, I think I could play disturbed quite well myself. This film is a study in control, the way it flows to and fro from one to another in a relationship. This particular relationship is opaquely insane. It’s hard to tell who’s crazier and mor importantly, who was insane first. 

Tim Roth plays her earlier love interest. He controlled her. I’ll leave it at that. You’ll have to see it to see what I mean. It’s almost impossible to explain anyway, but as you know I avoid spoilers here. The film starts out 22 years after she left him and she is set up in the big city with her college aged daughter who is really worried about her mom. It’s a study in control, the way I see it. It can be seen as a metaphor of how we control others and they us. The power play goes back and forth through the latter half of the movie when her ex shows up and starts messing with her mind … again. The details of the plot are sheer madness. You can look up spoilers if you want but I recommend you don’t. 

Have faith in this horror film. If you like horror and odd horror open to interpretation, you’ll love this. It smacked of “Birdman” with Michael Keaton a few times as the camera slowly focused on Rebecca Hall’s eyes: hollow. What is happening here? You can tell us all in the comments. I was blown away by this movie. It’s so good I went back to it after the first quarter has sort of turned me off. This also has one of the best penultimate acts I have ever seen … period. See it! It’s on Shudder and Hulu. What a fucking ride.