Saturday, October 6, 2012

The Clock and the Cat

"Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat."
Émile-Auguste Chartier


I was channel surfing last week and landed on the climatic scene of Back to the Future where Doc Brown is trying to send Marty home.  As the lightning illuminates the Tower I noticed the presence of this large cat.



The following day I'm doing the house work and Hot Tub Time Machine comes on the TV.

 

I'm only half paying attention as I do my chores, but it get's to point where the group of guys arrive at the hotel which will become their portal to the past.  As they enter the hotel one of the characters says,

"This place stinks of cat piss"

My mind automatically connects Doc Browns cat statue atop the Clock Tower to the cat piss hotel, and I think "Sync!"

But what on earth do cats and time-travel have in common?  My mind is a blank.

The caretaker of the Hot Tub Time Machine is Chevy Chase. 


I look him up on the net and find Chevy Chase connected to the Clock Tower, the Hot Tub...and now the Dog.

I'm thinking Chevy Chase...Time Travel...Dog

What do Dogs Chase?

The Cat.

And now I'm curious.

So last night I find a dodgy copy of Looper and stream if off the net.



While watching Looper, probably my favorite movie this year, my thoughts wander to the series of Time Travel/Cat syncs from last week.

It's not long before the penny drops.

I had time-traveling Joseph Gordon-Levitt connected to the Cat so where did Bruce Willis fit into the pattern?

 

It turns out I'd already made a video to help answer my own question!




Feeling like I'm on a roll I start thinking about other actors who syncs with these themes.


Bill Murray gets caught in a Loop in Groundhog Day and he's also voiced Garfield.


Mike Myers traveled back in time in Austin Power and he was of course...


There's more I can add to this but I've run out of time.  If I get a chance I'll do an update tomorrow.

Part 2:  Through the Looking Glass


Bill Murray and Mike Myers both have a strong 'Stripey' vibe going on in the images above.  Garfield is a striped cat and the Myers posters speak for themselves.

If we use this as a jumping off point then we can take these syncs into the realm of Aztec mythology.


Tezcatlipoca was the Mayan deity who embodied the energy of the Cat.

According to Wiki he is associated with a wide range of concepts, including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife.


TezCAT was often depicted with Stripes running horizontally across his face.

It's one of his defining features.


His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as "Smoking Mirror".

Smoking


Mirror


Here we have Bill Murray emerging from the Smoke, with emphasis on the Stripes.


Tezcatlipoca is a deity associated with the North.


On a clock face North would be represented by the Midnight hour.



In the night sky you can find the North Star by following the Big Dipper, which looks like a Frying Pan.  This is one of the first things my dad taught me about the stars as a kid.  Look for the Pan in the sky and it'll point you towards the North Star.


So if we combine some of these elements, Tezcatlipoca the Smoking Mirror, the Pan which points North, and Midnight, we arrive at a 1970s group called Flash and the Pan.


I checked out the Midnight Man music video and found some strong Tezcatlipoca syncage going on inside.


 



 According to one source Tezcatlipoca was responsible for the creation of the Big Dipper, or Pan:

The Great Bear Constellation, or Ursa Major, is believed in Aztec tradition to be the single footprint of Tezcatlipoca. The Great Pole, or North Star, was considered a place sacred to the gods, and Tezcatlipoca, not being an entity of goodness, was unable to approach it, but hopped around the Pole Star on his single foot creating the Great Bear Constellation.


Tezcat points to the North Star which in turn points to the Center, or the Whole, so it makes sense that he should be a strong sync-attractor.  You can go as deep into his pattern as you like and you'll never reach the end...but that's beside the point.



For now let's follow the darn cat and see we it takes us.

Back in 2009 I kept seeing synchronicites involving the Cat and the Train so compiled all the syncs and put them intp a post called Keeping Track of the Cat.

Here's one of images I used which shows how the CAT associates with the Pyramid or Mountain.



The journey to the North Pole begins at Midnight.

Now I'm not going to take this post to oblivion, been there, done that, worn the T-shirt, but what I do want to touch on is the Cat's relationship with the North.

I live in the North of Scotland, as far North as you can get without getting your feet wet in the North Sea, and the vikings who landed here a long time ago decided to call the area Caithness, which means 'Land of the Cat's'.

The Cat syncs with the North, and the North syncs with Tezcatlipoca, and here we see the Midnight Man doing his best 'walking on water' impression.


If you're aligned with North you're technically 'walking on the water'.


Sean Bean played a character named Loki in the movie Far North.  Here we see him standing on ice aka walking on water.


Sean Bean (Loki) also starred in NORTH County alongside actress Charlize THERON, whose very name encodes the word NORTH.


Jake pointed out in Lometheus Rising that Charlize THERON/NORTH has the letters LOKI on her kitty cat T-Shirt:

Sean Bean, who syncs with Loki and now the Cat, was King of NORTH in the awesome TV show Game of THRONES.

In Thrones he lost his head, in a BIG way.


Here we see Sean Beans decapitated head mounted on a North pointing spike.  This is the Midnight Hour, or the Witching Hour, when everything aligns perfectly and our sacrifice grants us a much higher vantage point.  This is the moment we arrive at the Pole.  Or North Pole.


I'm not even going to get into the whole Bigfoot thing, it just get's too weird.  All we need to know is that it has something to do with the journey that our Sole/Soul makes up the K2 mountain, and we'll leave it at that.


Now usually a break is considered a BAD thing, especially if you're trying to reach the Summit and your leg suddenly gives way.


Which brings me back to the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca, who only had one leg.  Apparently a giant fish swam away with his other one.

Not many people want their head on a spike, or their leg to break, but in this sync-context it's actually a good thing.  It's like breaking the old habits, or old cycles, or the chains that keep us from moving forward.


Sometimes the shackles need to come off and 2012 seems to be the perfect year for it.


Now what does any of this have to with Time-Travel I hear you ask.  That's how I got caught up in this loop in the first place so I'll try and round this off with one last sync.

Catman Bruce Willis and Elijah Me and my Cat Wood both starred in the movie North.


Bruce Willis time-travelled in Looper and 12 Monkeys while Elijah Wood started his career in this movie.  He's the young kid who watches Marty showing off his skills as a 'CRACK shot'.


Better go now.  Got a train to catch.  Funny how time McFlies when you're having fun.


Thanks for reading.

R

13 comments:

  1. Anne Hathaway also voiced Haru (English version)
    in the anime movie 'The Cat Returns'.
    She was also in the movie 'Havoc' with
    Joseph (Leo)nard Gordon-Levitt,where she played a character named Allison Lang
    ("Auld Lang Syne"?).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne

    Hathaway was also in 'Brokeback Mountain' with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal
    (Donnie Darko,Source Code).
    Hathaway also voiced the voice of Jenny in a Simpsons episode titled "Moonshine River",a parody in some ways of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2289606/

    A movie famous for a cat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8

    " Moonshine River" is the first episode of season 24 (42 reversed ?)and aired on
    September 30, 2012.
    The episode featured guest voices Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah Silverman, and Zooey Deschanel.
    It was dedicated to Andy Williams, who died five days beforehand. "
    Ledger and (commissioner.-)Gordon-Levitt
    were both in the movie
    "10 Things I Hate About You",as well.



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  2. schrödinger's cat !
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

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  3. "Anne Hathaway channels Audrey Hepburn for Vogue"

    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-10-19/gossip/27078647_1_trust-issues-raffaello-follieri-adam-shulman

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  4. Cheers for the info Darren.

    I like how you mentioned Breakfast at Tiffany's. Just had another look at the Sync Whole banner and noticed the sneaky cat for the first time. Funny how you miss the obvious sometimes.

    JP, schrödinger's cat, that's some loopy shit! Alive and dead at the same time...hmmm

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  5. Re:
    "...noticed the sneaky cat for the first time"

    I only noticed it when you mentioned it in the above comment.
    I knew there was a picture of AH,whether it's the photo shoot of Anne Hathaway as Audrey Hepburn,I don't know,so I'll just refer to whoever it is as AH,and I can't go wrong.-)

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  6. I saw a twitter feed on the right that said -
    " Dreamed last night that I was asking my partner's permission to take his youngest son to tea time with "the Queen"--presumably of England."

    Anne Hathaway plays the White Queen in Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" and Burton's wife Helena Bonham Carter plays the Red Queen.Helena also plays Queen Elizabeth in 'The King's Speech'
    and Anne Boleyn in 'Henry VIII'.

    Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
    I've been down to London to visit the Queen.
    Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you do there?
    I frightened a little mouse, under her chair.

    Hathaway is noted for playing royalty figures as well as cats.She is also starring in the upcoming Les Misérables with Helena Bonham Carter,Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman.
    So there will be the cat,the Queen,the Crow(e)and the wolf (Jackman) all in one movie about revolutionary France.
    Hathaway also voices the roll of the Little Red Hiding Hood character out of Hoodwinked.
    Crows are also linked with time - Chronos.

    " A modern notion of the relationship of time with Saturn or Kronos is that the association may have originated due to the confusion created by similar-sounding words ("Kronos" and "Chronos"). The image of the Grim Reaper bearing a scythe is believed to have derived directly from Kronos. Both of these modern figures...Father Time and the Grim Reaper...are sometimes accompanied by a crow and there is speculation that the word "Chronos" and the subsequent associated God may have actually been representative of this bird, which was symbolic of both fertility and death. However, this hypothesis could again be as a result of confusion concerning similar-sounding words since the Latin for crow is "cornix." By the Middle Ages there were many engravings of the Grim Reaper which depict a skeletal figure holding a scythe and hourglass with a crow nearby."

    http://www.novareinna.com/festive/oft.html

    I'm not really into astrology,but everyone seems to be raving on about the fact that
    Saturn is transiting through Libra at the moment.So there is a bit of food for thought in the above comment as far as cats,crows/time,Queens and
    "off with their heads" goes.
    Make of it what you will,I guess?

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  7. bring it on richard. love it. thanks.

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  8. whoa.. synk :)

    trains have been synking super heavy for me for like the past year.. longest synk string i've encountered yet..

    also- i been thinking on the connection between the black cat and black holes. besides both being connected to mystery and doors to the unknown, "cat" is one of my favorite slang terms for the vagina, and i also connect the vagina to the black hole.. door to a new world..

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  9. @toure
    You would probably like the cover photo on "The Klaxons" album "Surfing The Void" then -

    http://www.klaxons.net/music.php

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  10. TOTALLY LOVE IT DAWGSTAR!

    First time I see the Kit Kat Vid (or at least NOW feel like itTHE FIRST TIME ..- God so AWESOME!

    Too much to write just now.
    Going to post a reply on the blog - this comment grew and grew till it got ridiculous to post.

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  11. BrilLLianT IN-siGht(s) !! -))

    CaT vs DoG = hmm ?? -)

    >> C(3)A(1)T(20) = 12 'in' 30 = 42(6) = 21 + 21
    "IN a cAT's eYe, all thINgs beLOng to CatS" -English ProVerB
    = IT's ALL LOVE/42 + JoY + [insert superlative adjective(s) 'here'] !! -))
    >> D(4)O(15)G(7) = 15 'in' 47 = 62(8) = 31 + 31
    "A dOg is the only thIng on eARTh that loVes yOu mORe than he lOvEs himSelf." -Josh Billings
    = WE've bEEn GiveN EverythinG (8,infinity), g-IV-e IT ALL aWAy, witHout AttachmenT ... ExpEriEncE it ALL witHout JudgmenT, BE tHe B-rIDge ... mayBE ?!!? -))

    21 = U = yOu ... so a 'cAt' is, yOu too !!
    31 = 11th [PR]i'ME

    LokI = ok 'in' LI = o/15+k/11 'in' L/12+I/9 = 1511 'in' 129 = (51+11) 'in' (2+19) = 62 'in' 21
    62 = 31 + 31 (D O G) "&" 21 = 1/2 (C A T) = 62 + 21 = 83 (=HaT) = 11
    FaR NortH = 100 = 0 'in' 10 = 10 = 1
    NortH COuNT-R-Y = 191 = 9 'in' 11 = 20 = T = the CroSS = 2 = a CO-m-bININg of duality (1+1)


    S. JacksoN + B. WilliS ph-ONE # 555-2401 = 555+2401 = 2956 = 95 'in' 26 (=Z = zEUs(8))
    95+26 = 121 = 11 X 11
    121 = 2 'in' 11 = 13 = the # on the T-rAIn in, 'tHe WitchinG H-ouR' ComiC bOOk CoveR.
    (13 = ascension = WE st-ART-ed oUt as OnE/1 + WE aRe NoW a fIVe/5 + WE aRe nEEd to g-ET to S-eVe-N/7)
    ((fIVe = H(uMa)N [see u-a = 121] = fIVe fingers + toes + senses WE cAn USe by "default"))
    ((S-eVe-N = C-enTer-D = MaiN Ch-ARK-aS = the PatH IN-wAr-DS [sIx/6 dIRectiONs OUTsIDe [[=forWARds,backWARds,UP,DOW-n,lEFt,RiGhT]] with tWo EyeS '&' oNe/1 dirECTion INsIDe [[dOWn tHe R{a}BB{i}T w-HolE]] wITh !! -]

    = tHe ST-aIr-WaY to S-eVe-N.

    121, w-HERE 2 = a B-ridge-in-G of dUAl-it-Y
    ... dUAl-it-y = 11 = 5th [PR]i'ME)

    TEZ-CAT-LIPOCA = 5 = 'trying' to BE a CaT/6 = w-IS-DO-m ? -)
    vo-WE-ls: 5 1 9 6 1 = 9 'in' 51+61 = 121
    coNsONaNts: 2 8 3 2 3 7 3 = 2 'in' 283+373 = 658
    121+658 = 779 = 7 'in' 79 = 7 'in' 16(7)[=P. = P.R-i'ME] = 23
    23 = 9th PR-i'ME = MJ (MicheaL JordaN #23 + MaGiC JohnsoN #32, MicheaL JacksoN, M JaY FoX, MarrY JanE, MicK JaGGeR, MiSS-IS J-oNEs, )

    ... i nEEd to finish taking IN tHIs 'amazing' synch post
    i'm really spinning = a bIg MercI ! -))

    BE HappY ! -))
    ... its choice, aLL-WaYs available NoW ))

    sincerely,
    a gREaBEaR

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