Endless Blasphemy

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, ’Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:— ‘Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,’ he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

“The Listeners”
Walter de la Mare

This essay is 100% correct. The U.S. has always been like this. While we achieved some limited gains in franchising marginalized people in this country during certain occasions, the asymmetrical relationship between citizens and their investor / oligarchy captured government has not changed.

Things would be much better though.

Undoubtedly donor and ideological interests.

I really enjoyed it for what it is. Gimmicky, but entertaining. It gets kinda Lovecraftian towards the end.

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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
(Artist: Hans Woody)
Director: Terence Fisher

Breakfast in the Ruins still has one of my favorite top horror film lists. Well worth checking out. breakfastintheruins.blogspot.com/search/label...

As the first Dem president elected after the SCOTUS steal in 2000, he did nothing to protect the Voting Rights Act or ensure that elections would be conducted fairly in the future. On the contrary, he let the right destroy ACORN and appointed DNC chairs who eviscerated the 50 state strategy.

He kneecapped antitrust enforcement and helped set the stage for these giant tech companies taking over everything. Didn't try to roll back all of the horrible legislation passed under Bush including the Patriot Act and massive tax cuts.

A young girl runs through an empty field. In the distance, a warped grey house stands surrounded by stones and a fence.

a young girl sits in a decrepit room, next to a broken bicycle.

A young girl inspects a strange music player on the wall of an empty room. the floor is covered by lit candles.

A young girl stands in the hallway of her school, alone.

One of the great unsung / underseen horror movies is Paperhouse (1988). It's very close to a masterpiece. A young girl, ill with a fever, finds that whatever she draws is manifested into the empty fields of her dreams, exactly as she drew it. Unfortunately, this is not all it's cracked up to be...

Ah, that makes sense. I was taking a pass on this anyway despite my love of Tron. Thank you!

I don't subscribe to tic tok and couldn't play the video. What does she say?

Flower Travellin' Band - Santori Part II[Japan,psych/progrock]

Flower Travellin' Band - Santori Part II[Japan,psych/progrock]
https://redd.it/5nv7d1
https://youtu.be/ploqMlpJG9I

That's unfortunate. I just started playing the game and enjoy it so far. I wonder if the developers might fix this at some point?

Bram Stoker's Dracula by James Bousema #HorrorArt

Any SOI adaptation that doesn't go hard on the government raid of Innsmouth (can anyone see the parallels with contemporary events in the US?), is going to be lesser for it. Probably my favorite adaptations include Breccia's and Tanabe's.

That's probably true.

The whole fish people skinning human faces for masks seem
superfluous. Gordon's constant use of closeup shots takes too much attention away from the setting. Also, if he was going to include a sacrifice scene, why didn't they do it on the beach at night?

I rewatched Stuart Gordon's Dagon last night & continue to think that it's one of the mid-tier Lovecraft adaptations. Most of the changes he made to Shadow Over Innsmouth story did not benefit his film, with the exception of the inclusion of Uxía.We should have gotten a creepy bus ride to Innsmouth!

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🌑Begotten
🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
🩸Hellraiser II: Hellbound
📖In the Mouth of Madness
🚂Tombs of the Blind Dead
🖥️Evilspeak
🐓The Devil Rides Out
🥚Critters 2: The Main Course
👩‍⚕️From Beyond
🍖Texas Chainsaw Massacre

It's actually a fun watch. Typically the film gets bundled with TerrorVision, which is pretty incredible in its own right.

This has been my experience in just about every field. Mediocrity always rises to the top.

Fuck Derleth.

Dark blue ringed shot of a bunch of ghostly white, muddy naked people sitting and lying in a forest around an unconscious figure

A negative-colored image of a floating preteen girl is superimposed with a strongly magenta-colored aerial shot of a forest

A tree with a child's face growing in the wood

A naked and mud caked figure holds a cow head in front of its face, blood dripping from the bovine nostrils

Eyes of Fire (Avery Crounse, 1983)

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James Woods and Debbie Harry (on tv) chatting on the phone in a deleted scene from VIDEODROME (Cronenberg 1983)

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"

It's definitely worth tracking down. I believe it's on HBO Max.

4 Lovecraftian Horror Movies

Still an uphill battle to get folks to read, talk, and/or care about C. L. Moore, but I'm tryin'.

Cool to hear Steve Malkmus on the new Guerilla Toss LP.

Damn good list!