This post/ blog is rededicated to the indomitable, inimitable, ineffable Horselover Phat. It's thanks to him probably more than any other detective on the web, and his many feats in data collecting, collating, and analysis (which stand as impressive as ever) that even a lazy sod like me could be incentivized to try to put together a cogent idea or two of his own. The following is mostly as an attempt to corroborate some of the champ's phenomenal findings. Mostly.
but just a few of the rainbow/ 42 connection culprits
It follows me around, I swear. For instance, I'm in a waiting room and there's only this old copy of The New Yorker. First few pages in and what do I see, but an advert for 42 (FORTY DEUCE) by some young rapper calling himself "Your Old Droog." I also learn the word droog is Russian друг (drug, “friend”)
Then here's me casually purchasing pieces I wanted from the Aphex album, Drukqs, and there IT is.
I had forgotten about this track, Afx237 V7, but seeing it brought it all flooding back. It was used in director Chris Cunnigham's short experimental film, Rubber Johnny, which stars Chris himself as Johnny, and also features a little dog named Elvis.
(Don't watch this.)
Heres a young Chris Cunningham working on a very familiar looking phallic number.
Yes, even the lovely Karen Straughan has to remind me.
Then here's me casually purchasing pieces I wanted from the Aphex album, Drukqs, and there IT is.
...and then with a price of only $7.77 for me to buy the complete album.
Fun Fact: Elvis Presley died at age 42 back in '77
Why not then venture on down for a note or two? Shall we?
(Don't listen to this.)
Ideals, principles, laws... or even perhaps, rules?
The wiki for the number 42 makes it clear as day; day, especially after a light rain.
ALIEN's interface 2037, plus Ripley's rainbow badge
and then there's the factorization variation at the very end while she's off in dreamland.
and then there's the factorization variation at the very end while she's off in dreamland.
Never tell me the odds.
With so many Kubrick movie references in Blade Runner, a backwards 237 on Deckard's door is no accident.
Story goes that Ripley singing "You Are My Lucky Star" was something Sigourney Weaver thought up on the spot for ALIEN. very much like Malcom McDowell's story of contributing "Singin' in the Rain" to A Clockwork Orange.
Lucky Star Wars
Clocking in 'bout where you'd expect, this is Stanley Kubrick's edit of "Singin' in the Rain"
Lucky Star
The customer ID changes, but not the 237 account number.
there's more 42 connection from Swayze through Donnie Darko
Now a smooth transition by way of a movie poster seen in Ghost...
2 "did the killing"
3 cars7 men
Ermey and Bell. Ermey gets a 237 connection from every Toy Story movie, Bell gets his from the second Saw flick.
multiple instances of a 237 from Pixar.
and then there's the memorable 42 from Finding Nemo.
As if there weren't enough SHiNiNG references in Pixar movies already.
Roy Scheider has a unique pair with 2010:TYWMC and Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.
Naked Lunch also having 237 resonant Ian Holm
widescreen edition of 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) allows us to see both a child's drawing of a rainbow hanging on the wall, and the most stubborn 42nd minute on the clock left of the TV screen
the scene is longer than 2 minutes, but that 42 stays put.
and then in another dreamlike scene immediately after...
and then in another dreamlike scene immediately after...
looks like Kubrick represents the Great Bear
Definitely not plugged in... And how are they getting reception in The SHiNiNG?
Using basic gematria (A= 1, B= 2, etc.),
T = 20
+ V = 22...
= 42
= 42 
Poltergeist (1982)
Might as well drag Terry Melcher's mother into this. He would.
237 instances of goddamn in Catcher in the Rye
"Even the cover looked like The Catcher in the Rye." - Jerry Maguire
Phase IV (1974) , the only feature film Saul Bass ever directed
Fun Fact: There are 42 different species of ants living in New York City
"What in the name of Jesus H. Christ are you animals doing in my head?"
During the special edition DVD intro, right as the executive producer of Sanctum says this version of ALIENS is 2h 37 min - which it's not - you have the the following image flash on by...
So, did the director of Avatar give the wrong runtime for his first ever ALIEN movie, just to make a reference to Stanley Kubrick's The SHiNiNG?
"...at 2 hours and 37 minutes, this is the ride that we intended you to take. So, enjoy." - Jim Cameron
It's worth pointing out.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Starman (1984)
the 237 for Starman goes all the way back to the original draft script, when the orange '77 Mustang II Cobra II was jade.
1969: Or How Black Rainbow Lucky StarMen Fell to Earth (and Became Mixed-Up Zombi II)
Blade Runner (1982)
Working Girl (1988)
The Fugitive (1993)
and keep in mind these are the hands of the 42'nd US President wife
Snarkhunt 42
a young George Lucas
Triangle (2009)Thomas Ince
