# a touch of zen such films are awesome but often not immediately according to local bass legend researchers swanson and scarf stayed up late into the bleary morning to watch it both of them were heavily into taoism at the time ('that was zen; this is tao' ba-dum tish) they first saw it on bbc 2's now legendary tv program kung fu night (all hail bert qwok) 'a touch of zen' is important in big science as it allows researchers to clearly identify any future occurrences of the type of situation in which there's a fleeting electronic aesthetic one of longish periods of boredom not necessarily terminal just everyday mundane say waiting for a number three bus into town in light yet insistent rain along in five minutes hopefully to buy a postmdodern comic this is often followed by an odd prophetic visionary shimmering on the keen edge of manifesting locally 'in scene' an intense zen like ouch meaning / non meaning nonthing much happens in the film for long while then right toward end there's intense build up of internal chinese martial arts action resulting in a scene in which the head monk of the secrete mountain monastery is dispatched by this persistently evil badass staggering to the top of nearby hill to die while bleeding pure gold the last thing the monk does is point to the faded west at which point swanson and scarf both say 'oh wow that was so zen' ouch what gives (a smiling buddhist monk just appeared out of nowhere and whacked us both awake on the shoulder with a flat stick) this intense fleeting sense field is often experienced whenever one reads online biographies of electronic artists swanson tries to remember a famous electronic artist that might be of the same dull universe they inhabit see also and compare with the flat hollow vhs nothingness of un-rewound vhs classic tequila sunrise // republic of bob