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Japanese poster for Antony and Cleopatra (1972) starring Charlton Heston and Hildegard Neil.
#antony and cleopatra#mark antony#marcus antonius#cleopatra#cleopatra vii#rome#roman republic#movies#shakespeare#charlton heston#hildegard neil
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A Touch of Class (1973) Melvin Frank
June 26th 2023
#a touch of class#1973#melvin frank#glenda jackson#george segal#paul sorvino#hildegard neil#k callan#nadim sawalha
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Bad movie I have Antony and Cleopatra 1972
#Antony and Cleopatra#Charlton Heston#Hildegard Neil#Eric Porter#John Castle#Fernando Rey#Juan Luis Galiardo#Carmen Sevilla#Freddie Jones#Enrique Alba#Peter Arne#Luis Barboo#Fernando Bilbao#Warren Clarke#Roger Delgado#Julian Glover#Sancho Gracia#Garrick Hagon#John Hallam#Jane Lapotaire#Joe Melia#Monica Peterson#Emiliano Redondo#Aldo Sambrell#Douglas Wilmer#Richard Johnson#Sergio Krumbel#José Manuel Martín#Manolo Otero#Juan Manuel Torres Gómez
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We sincerely apologize, dear Neil! Yes, this has been a thing for… a few years.
May I humbly add for your consideration:
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Like Bardcore is a thing and nobody was going to tell me about it?
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#neil gaiman#the loveliest troll#Youtube#video#hildegard von blingin#thanks bestie for introducing me to this many years ago#🫶#bardcore
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Pet Shop Boys' song picks for various radio interviews for Nonetheless
BBC Radio 2 with Jo Whiley (April 25, 2024)
Chris
Black Beauty theme (childhood song)
Bedsitter by Soft Cell
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now by McFadden & Whitehead (death song)
Neil
The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (childhood song)
Bedsitter by Soft Cell
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams (death song)
BBC Radio 6 with Lauren Laverne (April 26, 2024)
Chris
Was That All It Was by Jean Carn
This Time Baby by Jackie Moore
Native New Yorker by Odyssey
Neil
Borderline by Madonna
I Want You by Marvin Gaye
Born Slippy by Underworld
Greatest Hits Radio with Jackie Brambles (April 28, 2024)
Chris
Baby Love by The Supremes
For Once in My Life by Glen Campbell
Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap!
Neil
Girl Don't Come by Sandie Shaw
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack
BBC Radio 3 with Jess Gillam (June 8, 2024)
Neil
Ich Habe Genung (Cantata No 82) by J.S. Bach
Générique by Miles Davis
Symphonia Virginum: O Dulcissime Amator by Hildegard von Bingen
September Song by Kurt Weill; sung by Lotte Lenya
Tracks of My Years with Vernon Kay (June 9, 2024)
Chris
Stop! In the Name of Love by The Supremes
Fame by Irene Cara
Never Give You Up by Sharon Redd
Let Me Love You For Tonight by Kariya
A Love So Beautiful by Roy Orbison
Neil
I Am The Walrus by The Beatles
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone by The Temptations
Do Anything You Wanna Do by Eddie and the Hot Rods
This Is Not America by David Bowie
Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack
Artists in Residence - Queer (Nov. 11, 2024)
Homosexuality by Modern Rocketry
Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat
Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed
I Was Born This Way by Carl Bean
Dizzy by Olly Alexander
Shoot Your Shot by Divine
Menergy by Patrick Cowley
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
Never Give You Up by Sharon Redd
Hideous by Oliver Sim (ft. Jimmy Somerville)
In the Evening by Sheryl Lee Ralph
If Love Were All by Judy Garland
Artists in Residence - Producers (Nov. 12, 2024)
I'm So Hot For You by Bobby O
Hey DJ by Worlds Famous Supreme Team (Stephen Hague)
Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones (Trevor Horn)
I Like You (Shep Pettibone Mix) by Phyllis Nelson (Shep Pettibone)
Point of No Return by Exposé (Lewis Martineé)
Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer
Hold That Sucker Down - Builds Like a Skyscraper Mix by OT Quartet (Rollo)
Balcony Scene from Romeo + Juliet by Craig Armstrong
So Hard - D Morales Red Zone Mix by Pet Shop Boys (David Morales)
The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud (Xenomania)
Say You Will by Kanye West (Andrew Dawson)
It's Automatic by Zoot Woman (Stuart Price)
The Meeting Place by The Last Shadow Puppets (James Ford)
Artists in Residence - Miserablism (Nov. 13, 2024)
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You by Stevie Nicks
One Day I'll Fly Away by Randy Crawford
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths
Baltimore by Nina Simone
Alfie by Cilla Black
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime by The Korgis
Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor
Parlez-moi de Lui by Françoise Hardy
By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Glen Campbell
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye
I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore by Dusty Springfield
I'm Not In Love by 10cc
Let's Stay Together by Tina Turner
I Can't Give Everything Away by David Bowie
Artists in Residence - Remixes (Nov. 14, 2024)
Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys Remix) by Blur
Young Offender - Jam and Spoon Trip-O-Matic Fairytale Mix by Pet Shop Boys
Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix) by David Bowie
Flamboyant (Michael Mayer Kompakt Mix) by Pet Shop Boys
Insanely Alive (Pet Shop Boys Radio Edit) by Wolfgang Tillmans
Miserablism (Moby Electro Mix) by Pet Shop Boys
Queen of Ice (Pet Shop Boys 7" Mix) by Claptone
I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore (Peter Rauhoffer's Roxy Anthem Mix) by Pet Shop Boys
Think Of A Number (Pet Shop Boys Magic Eye 12" Remix) by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Can You Forgive Her? (M.K. Remix) by Pet Shop Boys
Love Comes Quickly (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) by Pet Shop Boys
Dancing Star (Solomun Remix) by Pet Shop Boys
A Red Letter Day (Trouser Enthusiasts Autoerotic Decapitation Mix) by Pet Shop Boys
#pet shop boys#psb#ive been meaning to do this but then new interviews kept popping up 😭#anyway proof chris is also a romantic skjddk
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Bizarre Groom (Corpse Bride Parody) Cast
“Dark Choco Cookie (Isaac Robinson Smith) and Whipped Cream’s families have arranged their marriage. Though they like each other, Dark Choco is nervous about the ceremony. While he's in a forest practicing his lines for the wedding, a tree branch becomes a hand that drags him to the land of the robots. It belongs to Narciso Anasui (Howard Wang), who was turned into a criminal after eloping with his love and wants to marry Dark Choco. Dark Choco Cookie must get back aboveground before Whipped Cream Cookie marries the villainous Oogie Boogie (Ken Page).”
In loving memory of Ken Page, This is the last time we hear his oogie boogie song. 🐛
Dark Choco Cookie (Cookie Run) as Victor Van Dort
Narciso Anasui (Jjba) as Emily the Corpse Bride
Whipped Cream Cookie (Cookie Run) as Victoria Everglot
Iggy (Jjba) as Scraps
Choco Pearl Cookie (@sundove88) as Neil Van Dort
Dark Cacao Cookie (Cookie Run) as William Van Dort
Rose Cookie (Cookie Run) as Maudelina Everglot
Raspberry Mousse Cookie (Cookie Run) as Finis Everglot
Oogie Boogie (Disney) as Barkis Bittern
Milk Cookie (Cookie Run) as Pastor Galswells
Speedwagon (Jjba) as Elder Gutnecht
Foo Fighters (Jjba) as Maggot
Weather Report (Stand User) and Emporio (Jjba) as Themselves/Emily’s Friends
Aya Tsuji (Jjba) as The Black Widow
Polnareff (Jjba) as Paul the Head Waiter
Johnny Joestar (Jjba) as General Bonesapart
Gyro Zeppeli (Jjba) as General Wellington
Akira Otoishi (Jjba) as Bonejangles
Narancia Ghirga (Jjba) as Skeleton Boy
Trish Una (Jjba) as Skeleton Girl
Hermes Costello (Jjba) as Mrs Plum
Kakyoin (Jjba) as Mayhew
Illuso (Jjba) as Grandfather Everglot
Cappuccino Cookie (Cookie Run) as Emil
Blackberry Cookie (Cookie Run) as Hildegarde
Wizard Cookie (Cookie Run) as The Town Crier
Bruno (Jjba) as Gertrude
Abbacchio (Jjba) as Alfred
Various Stand/Hamon Users (Jjba) as Various Undead People
Various Human Characters as the Villagers
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The Dead Guy Death Match Bracket Is Here!
Round 1 will be split into 4 waves of 16 24 hour polls and each wave will be posted 24 hours after the previous. The first wave will start on Tuesday the 18th of April at 3pm BST
The matchups are listed under the readmore and will be hyperlinked to the polls when they go up.
The matchups were all randomised although I did make minor adjustments if I thought one was much too unfair.
Also tagging @tournamentdirectory as I haven't already
Wave 1:
Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane) Vs Gavroche Thenardier (Les Miserables)
Leif (Bug Fables) Vs Queen Serenity (Sailor Moon)
L (Death Note) Vs Jonny D'Ville (The Mechanisms)
Noah Czerny (The Raven Cycle) Vs Lee Everett (The Walking Dead)
Pat Butcher (BBC Ghosts) Vs Xerxes Break (Pandora Hearts)
Captain Orimar Vale (Skyjacks Campaign Podcast) Vs Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)
Diallos Hoslow (Elden Ring) Vs Rachel Amber (Life Is Strange)
Andrei Grandier (Rose Of Versailles) Vs Constance Blackwood (Ride The Cyclone)
Spock (Star Trek) Vs Maria Robotnik (Sonic The Hedgehog)
Kravitz (The Adventure Zone) Vs Sal Fisher (Sally Face)
Mari (Omori) Vs Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
Nate (Leverage) Vs Max (Sam and Max)
Owen Carvour (Spies Are Forever) Vs Vylad Ro'Meave (Minecraft Diaries)
Neil Perry (Dead Poet's Society) Vs Sayaka Miki (Madoka Magica)
Flapjack (The Owl House) Vs Maes Hughes (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Loki (Marvel) Vs Adam Faulkner Stanheight (Saw)
Wave 2:
Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) Vs Diggory Graves (Hello From The Hallowoods)
Hugo Oak (Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts) Vs Leonardo Hamato (Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie)
Chara (Undertale) Vs Magnus Chase (Magnus Chase)
River Song (Doctor Who) Vs Micheal Afton (Five Nights At Freddy's)
Catherine Earnshaw (Wurthering Heights) Vs Tara Maclay (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
Laudna (Critical Role) Vs Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy)
Mia Fey (Ace Attorney) Vs Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
Meiko 'Menma' Honma (The Flower We Saw That Day) Vs Claire Foley (Professor Layton)
Grelle Sutcliff (Black Butler) Vs Skelly (Hades)
Ethan Winters (Resident Evil) Vs Portgas D Ace (One Piece)
Polly Geist (Monster Prom) Vs Hua Cheng (Heaven's Official Blessing)
Avatar Kyoshi (Avatar The Last Airbender) Vs Galivar Kholin (Stormlight Archive)
Pink/Orchid (Animation Vs Animator/Minecraft) Vs Lewis Pepper (Mystery Skulls Animated)
Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) Vs Stoick The Vast (How To Train Your Dragon)
Evelyn Hooper (Less is Morgue) Vs Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango)
Kokichi Oma (Danganronpa) Vs Silco (Arcane)
Wave 3:
Eurydice (Greek Mythology) Vs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead)
Jack Twist (Brokeback Mountain) Vs Charles Vane (Black Sails)
Howard Hamlin (Better Call Saul) Vs Jason Grace (Riordanverse)
Nora Hildegard (The Vampire Diaries) Vs Gerard Keay (The Magnus Archives)
Manny (Swiss Army Man) Vs Matoro (Bionicle)
Wen Ning (Mo Dao Zu Shi) Vs Kikyo (Inuyasha)
Yuri Nakamura (Angel Beats) Vs Simon Kain (Pathologic)
Deep Throat (The X Files) Vs La Signora (Genshin Impact)
Esmeralda (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Novel) Vs Ursula Zandt/Silhouette (Watchmen Comics)
Nageki Fujishiro (Hatoful Boyfriend) Vs Tuba (Infinity Train)
Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice) Vs Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption)
Oda Sakunoske (Bungou Stray Dogs) Vs Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)
Duncan (Dragon Age) Vs Junpei Yoshino (Jujitsu Kaisen)
Quincey Morris (Dracula) Vs Connor Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen)
Deadman (DC Comics) Vs Breakdown (Transformers)
Draal The Deadly (Troll Hunters) Vs Castiel (Supernatural)
Wave 4:
Matsuri Kanroji (Demon Slayer) Vs Midori (Your Turn To Die)
Kelsier (Mistborn) Vs Peter 'Parker' Yang (Malevolent Podcast)
Tadashi Hamada (Big Hero 6) Vs Noriaki Kakyoin (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Erik (The Phantom Of The Opera) Vs Matthias Helvar (Six Of Crows)
Tigerstar (Warrior Cats) Vs Boromir (The Lord Of The Rings)
Joel Miller (The Last Of Us) Vs Pedro Madrigal (Encanto)
Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End) Vs King Arthur (King Arthur)
Bunny Corcoran (The Secret History) Vs Lenore (Nevermore Webtoon)
Sliver Of Straw (Rain World) Vs Bow (Inanimate Insanity)
Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) Vs Nicholas D Wolfwood (Trigun)
Tiso (Hollow Knight) Vs Okudera (Yakuza 5)
Koki Kariya (The World Ends With You) Vs Horst Cabal (Johannes Cabal)
Mr Boddy (Clue) Vs Garret Jacob Hobbs (Hannibal)
Eddie Kaspbrak (IT) Vs Emily (Corpse Bride)
Ash Lynx (Banana Fish) Vs Ophelia (Hamlet)
Eddie Munson (Stranger Things) Vs Kili (The Hobbit)
#tournament updates#tournament dates#round 1#tournament bracket#tournaments#dead characters#spoilers#also just like the elimination round i refuse to tag every series and spoiler in this post#but i will on the actual polls
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
Director: Basil Dearden | UK, 1970 Starring: Roger Moore & Hildegarde Neil
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S03 Local People No. 16-17: Knight Rider
Anthony 'Neds' Needham
Magic Car: Kit 2000
Magic Car Driver: David Hasselhoff
Favorite Producer of Mid-80s Trash: Glenn A Larson
Favorite Ginger: Charles Dance
Favorite Boss-Eye: Gwen Ffrancombe-Davis
Tristram 'Tris' Shapiro
Magic Car: Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Magic Car Driver: Caractacus Potts
Favorite Producer of Mid-80s Trash: Aaron Spelling
Favorite Ginger: Nicolas Witchell
Favorite Boss-Eye: Hildegard Neil
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Do a Hal playlist, please!
The Rules
Isaac//Bear's Den Loved Me Wrong// Allie X Violet Hill//Coldplay Run Boy Run//Woodkid Song of the Lonely Mountain//Neil Finn The King's Affirmation//Iniko The Man Who Sold The World//David Bowie Prince Hal's Dirge//Loudon Wainwright III Bohemian Rhapsody//The Forest Rangers I See Fire//Sol3 Mio It's a Sin//Hidden Citizens Paint It Black//Hildegard Von Blingin' Blood Upon the Snow//Hozier Broken Crown//Mumford & Sons Blood On My Name//The Brothers Bright Lazarus//David Bowie Mother, Please Don't Be Sad//The Flaming Lips Viva La Vida//Coldplay (Orchestral Version) Bonus Tracks Long Distance Call//Buck-Tick (The dead mother song. As in genuine trigger warning) Thank U// U-Know (Has anyone done an organised crime Lancaster au? Because if not someone definitely should...) Happier in Hell//Royal & The Serpent (This has been one of my go to Hal songs for the modern au) Peasant's Throne//Lilith Max (I personally consider this a Philippa song, but it applies to all of the Lancasters) Mad as a Hatter//Larkin Poe (I am always very pro Hal being aware of his mortality and afraid of turning out like his father/cousin/great-grandfather) Numb//Linkin Park (Bardcore Version) (The 'dad why don't you love me' song)
#Henry V#Cirque's Playlists#Yes I'm making that a tag I talk about them enough#(believe me when I say I love making playlists. People just rarely take me up on it. Spiritually I'm always giving people mixtapes)#rip to my 8tracks account (I mean it's still there. It just doesn't work very well anymore)#I tried to make this both cohesive and chronological#From childhood (Isaac and Loved Me Wrong)#To Richard's death (Violet Hill)#etc etc#(and if I say Paint It Black is about Thomas' death-- *is shot*)#I debated about using the Sol3 Mio version of I see Fire because it is so incredibly kiwi (literally starts with a haka...)#(I think it was for the rugby world cup)#but it is by far the best version. And definitely has victorious battle vibes#was genuinely shocked Mumford & Sons and Hozier weren't on the banned list... like they definitely should be but I will cheat a little bit#Also pour one out for me who forgot just how sad the lyrics of Long Distance Call are and had to pause to have a multi-day breakdown
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S2 Ep4
Tina Hobley & Husband Oliver
Brian Blessed & Wife Hildegarde Neil
Gary Lucy & Partner Natasha
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THE LOST CONTINENT (1968) – Episode 180 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“Silence! Am I not El Supremo, the direct descendant of Jose Quintero? And was not Jose Quintero the Almighty’s right hand when Cortez carried his word to the Mexican heathens? In interrupting me, you are interrupting God!” You never know when you or someone you’re with might want to signal someone by lighting a match. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr with guests Richard Klemensen (Little Shoppe of Horrors Magazine) and Bill Mulligan – as they take a leaky boat on a perilous, Hammer-sponsored trip to The Lost Continent (1968)!
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 180 – The Lost Continent (1968)
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The captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter – all with dark secrets to keep – find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed.
Directed by: Michael Carreras; Leslie Norman (uncredited)
Writing Credits: Michael Carreras (screenplay) (as Michael Nash); Dennis Wheatley (novel, Uncharted Seas, 1938)
Produced by: Michael Carreras (producer); Anthony Hinds (executive producer) (uncredited); Peter Manley (associate producer)
Music by: Gerard Schurmann (as Gerard Schürmann); Carlo Martelli (uncredited)
Cinematography by: Paul Beeson (director of photography)
Editing by: Chris Barnes
Special Effects by: Robert A. Mattey
Selected Cast:
Eric Porter as Capt. Lansen
Hildegard Knef as Eva Peters
Suzanna Leigh as Unity Webster
Tony Beckley as Harry Tyler
Nigel Stock as Dr. Webster
Neil McCallum as First Officer Hemmings
Ben Carruthers as Ricaldi (as Benito Carruthers)
Jimmy Hanley as Patrick, the Bartender
James Cossins as Nick, Chief Engineer
Dana Gillespie as Sarah
Victor Maddern as Mate
Reg Lye as Helmsman
Norman Eshley as Jonathan, the Prisoner
Michael Ripper as Sea Lawyer
Donald Sumpter as Sparks, the Radioman
Alf Joint as Jason, a Crewman
Charles Houston as Braemer, a Crewman
Shivendra Sinha as Hurri Curri
Darryl Read as El Diablo
Eddie Powell as The Inquisitor
Frank Hayden as Sergeant
Mark Heath as Customs Man
Horace James as Customs Man
Maxwell Craig as Crewman (uncredited)
Sylvana Henriques as Traveller on Boat (uncredited)
Cynthia Myers as Native Girl (uncredited)
A bit of a Hammer oddity, The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras, is a blast! Richard Klemensen, publisher/editor of Little Shoppe of Horrors: The Journal of Classic British Horror Films, and the voice you hear in the commentary track of the Scream Factory Blu-ray of this film, joins the Classic Era Grue Crew for this one. Bill Mulligan, co-host of DoH 70s and DoH 80s will also make the cross-DoH jump. Now we’re talking fun! The composite crew covers everything from seaweed to monsters to El Supremo to balloons, including Dana Gillespie.
Please excuse the technical issues we struggled with, but after rescheduling twice, we decided to forge ahead, We hope you have as much fun viewing/listening as we had recording!
At the time of this writing, The Lost Continent is available on physical media as a standard Blu-ray format disc from Scream Factory.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is I Vampiri (1957, Lust of the Vampire), directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava. Bill Mulligan from Decades of Horror 1970s and 1980s will join us because, well… Bava!
Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]
To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”
Check out this episode!
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Dear Caroline:
Two years and half have passed since you made these requests, and I imagine some of the topics might have lost personal relevance to you (the China stuff, for example, as you no longer dwell in Hong Kong). Nevertheless, and myself being a rather obsessive bookworm, here go some ideas. I imagine you will also be having in the future, after the gruelling court preparatory work you must be in right now, much more time to read than in the past.
-In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth, by J.P. Mallory
This book might be a little bit outdated (last edition is from 1991, I think), but is a very informative read, and mixes together linguistic, archeological and mythological sources for a quite engaging exploration of our ancestors and their language.
-Cambridge history of China, volumes 14-15
This is the best work of scholarship on the topic, and the last two volumes cover everything from the Communist takeover to about 1982. I would recommend the earlier volumes more - those about the Pre-imperial age, the Han, the Six Dynasties and the Tang, but I suspect our interest in Chinese history is orthogonal, you being focused more on the recent and the present.
-Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jon Halliday and Jung Chang
An interesting biography (although it has been accused of being too negatively biased towards its protagonist) that will illuminate a lot of modern Chinese politics, which still feeds a lot on parts of his thought and practice. Also, a very salutary portrait of the evils of a powerful and amoral figure who treats people as means to his ends.
-I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai
An inspiring autobiography, all the more so if you are a teacher and believe in the power of education, or if you are a woman. Really moving!
-For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture, by Alice Feiring
The Georgia in the Caucasus has a very old, wine-making tradition that has been included in the Unesco Intangible Heritage List. The use qvevris (clay fermentation vessels) to make it. and the book also explores the country, the people and the changes they experience.
-De raptu Proserpinae, by Claudian
I don't quite get your interest in this myth, but anyway, Claudian is a late Roman poet (370-404) and 'obstinate pagan' in the words of Orosius, who wrote an incomplete epic poem on the topic. You have some very old, and old-fashioned English translations. If you are into this sort of thing, remember also that Lucan's Pharsalia includes the woman that inspired Héloise.
-The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, by Neil Stephenson
Very good science fiction + girl-coming-of-age story. I am pretty sure it would be to your liking if you haven't read it yet.
-The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare
Long (not really) poem with strong political overtones, and with a protagonist that really fits the bill for 'really stoic and put-together'.
-Lady Sarashina's Diary. This is the memoir of a c. 1008 AD nerdy, bookish lady at the Japanese Imperial Court who prefers the worlds of fantasy to the real. There are two English translations: one by Ivan Morris (As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams) and the other by Sonja Arntzen (The Sarashina Diary).
-Hildegard von Bingen, Sei Shōnagon and Sappho. Although not centered on just Hypatia, Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age paints a very lively portrait of the triumph of Christianity in late Rome and the expulsion and persecution of science and philosophy you might enjoy.
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I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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ajj - christmas island
arcade fire - funeral
the beach boys - pet sounds
beck - mellow gold
björk - big time sensuality
björk - debut
björk - fossora
björk - greatest hits
björk - medulla
björk - post
björk - selmasongs
björk - telegram
björk - vespertine
björk - vulnicura
bright eyes - cassadaga
bright eyes - every day & every night
caroline polachek - desire, i want to turn into you
cat power - the greatest
chris isaak - heart-shaped world
depeche mode - 101
devendra banhart - the black babies
emmylou harris - wrecking ball
fiona apple - when the pawn
florence + the machine - lungs
hildegard von bingen - circle of wisdom
indigo girls - come on now social
indigo girls - indigo girls
indigo girls - nomads, indians, saints
indigo girls - retrospective
indigo girls - rites of passage
indigo girls - swamp ophelia
iron & wine - our endless numbered days
iron & wine - the shepherd's dog
iron & wine - woman king
jolie holland - escondida
lana del rey - norman fucking rockwell
lucinda williams - car wheels on a gravel road
lush - lovelife
massive attack - mezzanine
mazzy star - she hangs brightly
mazzy star - so tonight that i might see
m.i.a. - kala
miles davis - 'round about midnight
mitski - puberty 2
neil young - harvest moon
neko case - fox confessor brings the flood
neko case - the worse things get, the harder i fight, the harder i fight, the more i love you
nirvana - unplugged in new york
portishead - dummy
purple mountains - purple mountains
rose melberg - homemade ship
sade - the ultimate collection
shana cleveland - oh man, cover the ground
silver jews - tanglewood numbers
sneaker pimps - becoming x
the softies - the softies
sufjan stevens - the avalanche
sufjan stevens - illinois
sufjan stevens - javelin
sufjan stevens - michigan
tarcy - happy hours
tom waits - mule variations
tracy chapman - tracy chapman
xiu xiu - tu mi piaci
yo la tengo - & then nothing turned itself inside-out
taking a CD inventory rn
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The Legacy (1978)
"I want to know... I don't know how to ask this... I want to know if you're involved in black magic, the occult?"
"If you'd like to call it that, yes."
"So are you, dearie. Don't look like that! It's just another way of life. I mean, we don't ride around on broomsticks or anything. We've got the helicopters, um, Rolls-Royces... Quite nice, really."
#The legacy#horror film#british cinema#richard marquand#films i done watched#1978#Katharine Ross#sam elliott#roger daltrey#John standing#Charles gray#Lee Montague#Hildegard Neil#Marianne Broome#Margaret Tyzack#Ian Hogg#jimmy sangster#Patrick Tilley#Paul Wheeler#Michael J. Lewis#A bit of a mess of a brit horror film from the graveyard years of the genre (by this point Hammer and Amicus were more or less done)#Hammer stalwart Sangster provides a script which has the skeleton of a very good (if hardly original) idea. The flesh is weak tho. There's#A lot going on and not all of it makes much sense. It is tho quite a lot of fun in a nonsense kind of way. Americans Elliott and Ross are#The likable protagonists and they have a lot of chemistry (unsurprisingly; it was on the set of this film that they began a relationship#Which is still going strong today). A clutch of great brit character actors pull focus including Gray and Montague both playing foreigners#With outrageous accents. For sheer incredulity however the film is stolen by Roger Daltrey as the sneering winking sleazy music mogul who#Inexplicably speaks like a grandma calls everyone dear and has an incredibly drawn out and uncomfortable scene in which he chokes on a#Piece of ham (or is it... A chicken bone... Unbelievably that is actually a plot point in this film. I just. What). A big silly mess but#Well worth 90 minutes of your time if only to see John Standing throwing his entire theatrical might into a scene in which he wears a#Novelty store style monster mask complete with googly eye
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The Man Who Haunted Himself | Basil Dearden | 1970
Hildegard Neil, Thorley Walters
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