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Exquisite Machines Bedtime for Robots.
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Exquisite Machines Bedtime for Robots.
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Music can enchant and instruct, open one's mind to an insurmountable sum of sensations. When one is receptive to the content, the truth bleeds through in copious globs.
The second episode of Michael Ferentino's Bedtime for Robots project, "Exquisite Machines" works in this marvelous manner. Its sounds and images lure in the way of Lewis Carroll, with Ferentino as their Mad Hatter host. It's where one is given a map to lost regions, so that one may find interpretive ones. It's a realm where understanding breaks through rampant terror, where monstrous revelation lurks beneath each deceiving, sugary tier.
To drive home this point, Episode #2's content cranks familiar and novel wavelengths. The eclectic result is a hard, psychedelic collision of the most potent kind:
Episode #2 initially visits primal pits, where sexy, snake people play. Their rituals needle into the ebb and flow of extra-terrestrial splashes and creepy growth. However, the cajoling effect is but a ploy, for on its heels comes an amorous session for those who make their lovers from scratch, once isolation reaches its insufferable max...
This fetish gives birth to a brave, new world, where an urban castle substitutes for a church, flanked by spectral, neon beams. Among this lurid landscape, one becomes nothing and everything, breathing within and without an ongoing, orgasmic dream...
Indeed, Ferentino's twenty-minute sojourn isn't for the meek. Instead, his anthology acts as a serviceable antidote to today's nauseating, closed-minded fluff.
Visit the crusade and you'll see what I mean at
https://www.facebook.com/mferentino/videos/10157389205387138/.
Michael Ferentino has re-entered the episodic domain with a new Bedtime for Robots sojourn, packaged by virtue of Mid-Sunday Midnight Movies Presents.
"Exquisite Machines" kicks off its first episode with an explosion of colorful images and electronic sound, culled from Bedtime for Robots' past, present and future.
Within its twenty-minute expanse, the connecting samples blend and flow like a tribal waltz captured within a lava lamp or a hefty, industrial craft set upon a rash river, splashing through places deemed forbidden. There's also a welcome heaping of hymn-like, homespun sentiment, followed by Bedtime for Robot's latest: a boffo tribute to the '53 classic, "Robot Monster".
The collective aura is as absorbing as any hypnotic, self-help tutorial jammed on YouTube, but more open-ended, allowing the viewer/listener to create his/her own vast, expressive formula. This installment is not, therefore, merely a companion piece to Ferentino's previous series, "After Hours", but a Rorschach variant of "Twilight Zone" and "Night Gallery", where any number of dark, blazing, infantile and mature concepts can spring: One fashions the stories and then customizes one's emotions to accompany them. (The results depend on one's mindset, what resides in one's heart and soul: everything that defines Bedtime for Robots.)
I'm grateful that Ferentino has given fans this specialized edition. May there be many more to come.
Experience Episode #1 at
https://www.facebook.com/mferentino/videos/10157335176027138/.
