Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Hall > Date: August 9, 2011 7:33:30 PM EDT > To: Post to New Media RXH > Subject: re. emulator link post > > decimals of pi as an issue of verisimilitude…?

Possibilities/Probabilities become certainties = Nash Equilibrium?

Good subject for book?

Way better than expected. So moody, strange, dreamlike, illogical, sometimes artsy, sometimes campy, tintinesque.

me: watching second half of ET not so great as i remembered also i’m realising that i was totally captivated by the California style house and all of his early 80s toys like that must be all i paid attention to when i saw it felt like the tribe pointing at the chicken! “did you notice anything strange or alien about the movie?” “yes! his toys! the garage!” “what about the characters…?” “yes! they’re were teens! they ORDERED a pizza!!” jessicaberenblum: hahaha me: “the pizza STUCK to the top of the box!” jessicaberenblum: thats totally all i noticed too! yes!!!! i remember that! me: yeah! jessicaberenblum: that seemed really alien and weird and significant to me. me: that was like a deep mystery to ponder for weeks like i never saw the world in the same way again haha like really the first ten minutes are the most important part jessicaberenblum: yes! me: reese’s pieces blew my mind too pizza was most mindblowing, then the nut-shaped coin bank, and the shark grabber stick the nut blew my mind cause i wasn’t quite sure if it was edible i smell potential term paper! Sent at 9:03 PM on Thursday jessicaberenblum: oh no the shark grabber stick that was the most significant and moving. me: “fish eat fish food, shark eats fish, nothing eats shark” also, just watched the scene where mom looks in closet and ET remains perfectly still so he looks like a toy and it feels like he is acting and now I just realize that they were just not moving the puppet like easiset scene to shoot ever jessicaberenblum: ahahaha Sent at 9:07 PM on Thursday me: and also mystery of “feelings” like the fact that elliot and et were connected by feelings seemed most weird cause i was like what are these “emotions” being discussed what an “adult” topic, how deep I guess maybe it wasn’t such a bad movie actually, maybe its just only “deep” for children Sent at 9:10 PM on Thursday jessicaberenblum: oh yeah that’s true!

Inception, Yojimbo, Armageddon, Wages of Fear, (Han Solo) As opposed to “entrepreneurial” heist movies

Robinson Crusoe / Minecraft (serious, building, zany?) Gulliver’s Travels / Katamari (humorous, collecting, objectizing, changing scale) Why compare the four? Similar stage in “new” media? Mark Essen and retro games as “gothic” explorations of “old” worlds