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DUSK ... Ode to an Elder What is it about the past?  Why do some of us yearn for what once was … … memories, like mental snapshots of sepia-tone and faded photographs.  People who used to walk with us and who are no longer there.  How we feel so incomplete.  How we yearn for what's missing - the embodiment of a bright and motivating spirit within such gentle, caring, sombre and wise demeanour. Why do we have to change the heritage, what is beautifully bequeathed to us, what is meaningful, what was blessed, our endowment.   Can the young and thoughtless leave things be and cease t

I have activated my tweets and that's now going to be the best way to monitor and track me ... I'm going to bed a bit annoyed because researching several topics earlier today, I chanced upon some information on a group setting up a Resale Rights Collection Management organization. I've got a few things to say about that ... but I'll do it after some needed sleep.

Okay, so it took Christopher Nolan 9-10 years writing Inception before it was finally released to the public in July 2010.  He wrote the 80-page treatment for the movie and had the idea presented initially in 2001 to Warner Brothers.  Financing eventually came when WB finally purchased his script in February 2009.  Eight years later.  He then started to shoot Inception through several countries starting June of 2009 and finalizing the shoots in November of the same year, so that's 5 months of filming through 6 countries.  The amount budgeted for Inception was US$160 million.  It went to gross over US$800 million worldwide with an additional U