I'm afraid that I wrote a comic strip that was even more obscure than usual. So offer this clarification.

CC111: Koyaanisqatsi (Stomach out of Balance) by israphael 4-03-02

In a world where man's handiwork has displaced nature's beauty... Cinematographer Godfrey Reggio and Composer Phillip Glass bring you... Koyaanisqatsi. For God Sake! Will someone stop this movie before I have a nervous breakdown!

Koyaanisqatsi is film without words or a plot. Purely through the use of imagery the film conveys the premise that man has so changed the world that it is now out of balance with natural order. The soundtrack was composed by Phillip Glass who writes repetitious minimalistic music. Both the imagery and music starts slow but build in pace as the film progresses. At the end, the film is an assault on your senses.

I went to see Koyaanisqatsi with my then-girlfriend. Near the end of the film, the onslaught of images and sound made her physically sick. She had to lay down with her head in my lap for the remainder of the movie. I never did hear the end of her complaints about 'That Movie'.

An (Almost) True Story by israphael 4-03-02

I don't think I can take much more of this. The frantic imagery and loud repetitious music is giving me a bad case of sensory overload. I feel like I'm going to hurl. If you don't mind, I'm going to rest my head on your lap until I feel better. While you're down there... Don't even.

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

Damn it, you just had to make that joke before anyone else, didn't you?

Koyaanisqatsi is brilliant, but the male choir doing the monotonal "Koy-aan-i-skat-see" started to get on my nerves. To this day, years later, my wife and I both start chanting "Koy-aan-i-skat-see" whenever a repetitive song is getting on our nerves. :)

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