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[lenoblepierreuniverse]

Teaser Nadia Bel et Roland Karl Fête à Crouy Pierre Lenoble report

[dailyfatecharlemagne]

Day 7

Today we have a guest appearance from the Knights of The Round Table!

[chaplinlegend]

"The Great Dictator" (1940). Charlie Chaplin.

Cinematography: Karl Struss & Roland Totheroh

Photo by: William Wallace.

[yorgunherakles]

düşünmek yalnızca aydınlara, üniversite gibi kurumlara bırakılamayacak kadar ciddi bir meseledir.

althusser - filozof olmayanlar için felsefeye giriş

[miramisaki]

33(???) days until Charlie...

[jonnyconsequence]

“Well, who do you think built the pyramids?”

Stargate (1994) Directed by Roland Emmerich Cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub

[rolandrockover]

Blackin' the Void Well

I can't say for sure whether Kiss had a master plan to do everything in their power to give Psycho Circus a proper The Elder touch, only that quite a few clues could give that impression to no small degree.

And I don't know if Gene could have possibly foisted some old vocal verses on Ace, or if it was just a little Fuck You from Ace himself that he smuggled in because he wasn't exactly happy with the process of recording Psycho Circus. Whether these are just figments of my imagination or whether one of these little scenarios could possibly have taken place will probably remain a mystery forever.

After all, I only suspect this because once you notice that Mr. Blackwell and Into the Void inextricably share almost identical vocal verses, then such guesses inevitably and almost automatically arise. What makes Into the Void the fourth notch on Psycho Circus's Elder tally stick, thus Psycho Circus takes the leading position of all Kiss albums with Elder references. At least as far as I can see.

The only thing that is certain to me is that, no matter how the stars may have aligned for Kiss with Psycho Circus, it seems that all roads must have always led them to The Elder.

Kis(s)met?

And like a star in the dark night, I have illuminated your way to the verses and highlighted both links.

Into the Void (1998)

Mr. Blackwell (1981)

[rwpohl]

die engel von st. pauli, jürgen roland 1969

[movie-titlecards]

The Red Circle (1960)

My rating: 5/10

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching [101 Shorts Edition]

23. LES SOUFFRANCES D'UN OEUF MEURTRI Roland Lethem Belgium, 1967

22. CATHARSIS Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Belgium, 2000

21. PANDROGENY MANIFESTO Aldo Lee and Dionysos Andronis Greece / France, 2005

20. THEOCORDIS Serge Cotret Canada, 2007

19. PANTELIA Micki Pellerano USA, 2007

18. PINHOLE FLAMES Amy Schwartz Canada, 2007

17. BURN Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley USA. 2002

16. WESTERN SUNBURN Karl Lemieux Canada. 2007

15. CONVULSION EXPULSION Usama Alshaibi USA, 2004

[dailyfatecharlemagne]

Karl states that such claims are ridiculous.

Charles gave no comment and simply stares with a small polite smile.

Charlie said that therapy is awesome and is one of the few willing to go.

Bradamante states that her and Ruggiero going to couples therapy would be a fun date idea.

Roland displays the same reaction to being told to go therapy as being told to not strip in the middle of a mission.

Astolfo is Astolfo

[sinoeurovoices]

早安台灣！——德國師生臺灣之行錄（三）

德國師生團來了！ 對普通德國百姓來說，對年少新奇的中學生來說，特別是對德國萊茵馬斯職業高校的師生來說，計��飛赴遙遠的異域，特別是被歐洲媒體稱之為「台海戰爭是真實危險」的台灣，之前充滿未知。這也是德國教育部拒絕批准該校組團訪台計劃的原因，但最終他們還是突破障礙，御風而行，堅持成行。12月4日清晨6點半，師生們抵達桃園機場，在「我們與台灣站在一起」的橫幅前歡呼雀躍。 卡爾（Karl…

[yorgunherakles]

başkalarının arzu dedikleri şeye foucault iktidar demektedir.

baudrillard - foucault'yu unutmak

[cyancherub]

do you have any book recommendations for us :D

MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!

well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!

SO books i have coming in the mail:

surrealist novels:

the woman in the dunes by kobo abe

the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington

the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:

the third policeman by flann o'brien

nadja by andre breton

(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)

horror, gothic, etc:

bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach

the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans

floating dragon by peter straub

classics, short stories, etc:

french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer

in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust

selected short stories by balzac

icefields by thomas wharton

some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:

ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)

carmilla by le fanu

nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham

a king alone by jean giono

twilight of the idols by nietzsche

transparent things by nabokov

dark water by koji suzuki

selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)

trolled my goodreads for more recs

books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:

the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza

the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)

crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

carolina ghost woods by judy jordan

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien

disgrace by j m coetzee

goth by otsuichi

books i enjoyed from last year:

the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson

the vegetarian by han kang

rosemary's baby by ira levin

piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)

the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)

starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)

the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson

the devil's larder by jim crace

monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova

and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).

ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind

[rolandrockover]

It's Cold Void Time Again

Kiss fans are true expressionists and they come in all the colors of the rainbow. The anniversary of Psycho Circus this year demonstrated this quite well once again. The frames of everyone's own parameters were practically spread everywhere and consequently the likes and dislikes shot in all directions. With this album pretty much everything is in it, from obsessive idolization to allergic reactions and abysmal rejection. Reason enough to dedicate myself to at least one of its titles today, but more on that in a moment.

I'd like to remind myself beforehand how Psycho Circus was released 25 years ago. Of course, I was in possession of a CD copy on the day of the release, read all available reviews weeks before the release, and as a great friend of the Revenge/Carnival of Souls line-up, I didn't really ride the great wave of euphoria of the 1996 reunion. Accordingly, I set my expectations for Psycho Circus relatively low, at least as a precaution, despite anticipation (0). And that was the sticking point for me at that time. These rather low expectations could hardly be exceeded at that time, and only in cases of individual songs (1).

But, that was a very long time ago. In the meantime I even like Psycho Circus as far as possible, and as often as I get the chance, I call it the Crazy Nights of the masked Kiss (2). And with that, I should slowly face Into the Void (3), though using a small but nice loophole, in the form of a hint of a self-quote. That little standout interlude somewhere in the middle or after the solo, and who wouldn't have recognized it, of course it's our dear old and ever reliable friend Cold Gin.

Side Notes:

(0) Because, after all, I am a Kiss fan. I can't get out of my skin that quickly in that respect.

(1) Like Within, for example, which remains one of my absolute favorite Gene songs to this day. And of course, I will be more than happy to talk about this song in the not too distant future.

(2) I also had a hard time with Crazy Nights for years, probably even decades, but very similar to Psycho Circus this has turned into a single pleasure. They are simply two good Kiss albums with good Kiss songs. Nothing more. And nothing less. The rest just depends on taste, tolerances and the degree of commitment of the respective bean-counting, and I know quite well with bean-counting.

(3) Probably the one song on Psycho Circus I've been most disappointed with, but even that has subsided over time. It used to be the chorus that I always found repulsive, which for me was mostly due to its downright mediocrity and uninspiredness. But the song itself is even a good one, and Ace's vocals are top notch. For me, the opening riff and to some extent the verses definitely stand out most positively. The chorus, however, to add a little resonance to my dislike, could have been written in the middle of the night on the toilet, but even that doesn't necessarily make Into the Void a bad song, because you can have one or two good ideas on the john. These simply don't always have to please everyone.

Into the Void is highlighted, Cold Gin starts from the beginning. Have fun with both:

Into the Void (1998)

Cold Gin (1974)