[Image by Kaatje Vermeire via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien] Just a poem for today. Birthdays by Kalyiel Do the dead ever remember their birthdays, I wonder? Does the sleep and the darkness surcease for a moment To reveal a candle stuck anonymously in the pink white brown Icing of a one two three layered cake …
Elusive Memorabilia
Here's doing something I've been postponing for a while: trying to track down the origins of old postcards/photographs. I've recently bought a new batch of memorabilia at the local market, but these ones seem to be even more mysterious than the ones I've picked up before. I'll start with those easiest to pinpoint, I guess. …
Of Perverse Pleasures and Murder Mysteries
I remain quite baffled that, apparently, most of the stuff I enjoy is either out of print/stock or really difficult to come by. I went through this when I was looking for Angela Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman", which, for mysterious reasons, was reprinted by Penguin (with an absolutely horrendous cover, if …
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Haunting Displacement: Conceptual Art by David Rushton
I'm generally not a big fan of Modernist art, myself, but every once in a while I happen to stumble upon a an expressive little exhibition that leaves a mark upon my consciousness and of which I find myself thinking for days afterwards. So now please let me urge you, if you happen to be …
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Trapped in the Obsession: Jan Svankmajer’s Short Films
With each passing day I'm starting to think I might be going for a film studies degree next. xD It just seems that my blog is half filled with film reviews, and rereading my posts makes me kind of wish I'd gone for a joint degree in the first place... Oh, well, here goes another …
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Shadow Puppets: ‘Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Grey’
This 1932 silent horror was truly a delight to my 6th sense, the sense for all things uncanny. 🙂 Loosely based on Sheridan LeFanu's now almost legendary cult piece, 'Carmilla', Carl Theodor Dreyer's film follows the steps of Allan Grey (played by baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, better known under the stage name of Julian West), …
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Tag: Twenty Things I Like
Why, hello LiveJournal, I haven't seen you in a long time. I guess tumblr is much handier for slackers such as I. Oh, the effortless posting of selected images/videos/music/quotations with little to no comments about them! But thanks to Ram @ people versus people I am now officially back and willing to bore whomsoever might …
Miss Nina de Silva, Actress
I've been thinking of posting about this for quite a long time now. It all started when I was presented some old postcards, some months ago. They were all pretty and, of course, held the charm of all vintage items - little discarded treasures, keepsakes that no one wants anymore - but one of them …
A Mad Factory of Dreams (?)
Being sick and generally morose, all I've been doing all day has been daydreaming and blogging. I would honestly have read a crapload of manga, but I wasn't in the mood to make the effort of looking for something enjoyable enough to lift my spirits. So, that being said, I miss Kaori Yuki-san's work (I …
Of Old Filmings
I've stumbled upon a nifty little website via La Carmina's blog. It is, actually, an online vid archive storing 20th century films and it's quite fascinating to observe the old news filming styles. But it's even more interesting when you find vids about your own country. Both instructive and entertaining, I should say. Some of …
Encyclopaedia Vanitatum 