I am aware it looks like I've been lured "to the other side", also known as "the great and frightful RL". Sadly - or happily, depends which way you look or squint at it -, however, I am still here, somewhere, stalking better updated blogs and other such online haunts. But yes, I have been …
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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Of Infernal Desires and Oneiric Machines
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter I don't often do book reviews (though this little affirmation is open to debate, since all or most of my academic essays can be said to border on book reviewing), but since the term is over, and I (finally) got the chance to finish reading …
Encyclopaedia Vanitatum 