#the lost continent 1968

[zippocreed501]

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Furious Anger: Preachers, Priests Nuns and Missionaries in Westerns

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The Way West  (1967) 5 Card Stud (1968) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Cain's Cutthroats (1971) Buck and the Preacher (1972) God's Gun (1976) Pale Rider (1985) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

[dark-ethereal-visions]

Dana Gillespie in publicity shots for The Lost Continent (1968).

[internetmisfitsworld]

"What if Perseus is Makarov's father??" I said, jokingly.

And so begins my quest of finding whether or not how logical this theory could be.

And well...

I don't think it's a joke anymore lmao.

It really is unsettling how truly similar they are.

In certain ways.

Before we begin, let's clarify something here.

Since AV de-aged reboot Makarov, this theory only make sense if you pair Perseus with the OG Makarov. Why? Because Perseus died of cancer in 1983.

Since we have yet to know how old is the new Makarov, I'm gonna assumed he's around Price's age. At least I hope so. Idk how I'm gonna feel if they decides to make him late 20s. He's gotta be born either in 1985 or younger than that. At least that's what he looks like. So, there's no way Perseus could be his father.

Now, the OG Makarov though......

Let's go through this points by points.

He was born in 1970. October 4th, to be precise (at least according to Soap's journal). There's no indication or mentioned siblings in his record. Parents or whatsoever. I have my own personal HC on this but that's another essay.

Perseus himself doesn't have any canon date of birth and place of birth. Let's assume he was born in, maybe, around the year of 1918. I was gonna go ahead and make him the same age as Adler (1937). But according to this modelling mugshot pose he pulls photo,

If he looks this scrumptious old during 1960, then he's gotta be at least 42 years old. That would make him 52 when baby Mak was born in 1970.

"Isn't he a little old to be a dad at that age?" Uhhh not really. Especially given his situation, my dude was constantly on the move busy doing spy shit all over the world. He was young, patriotic. So, perhaps domestic life wasn't exactly on his mind at the time being or just haven't found the one yet. My guess is, he found someone in 1968/1969 yada yada fall in love yada yada get married yada yada and boom baby Mak was born in 1970. Whether they settled for one kid or more, that's up to your interpretation.

Now, in terms of looks, I don't think they're exactly copy paste. We know that Mak has Heterochromia. Perseus had blue eyes and Makarov's mama must've had green eyes.

If we want to compare their pictures, let's start with in-game model.

Ehhh I'd say they score about 75-80% in terms of appearance alikeness. Big ass forehead? Check ✅️

Now, if you put Perseus real life model and Makarov MW3 model..

Yeah okay score about 95%. Especially the eyebrow scrunch thing.

Perseus was 6 ft'2. Our boi on the other hand was 5 ft'11. My dude did not inherit the tall genes unfortunately.

Perseus and Makarov both had comradeship with Imran Zakhaev.

Zakhaev looked up to Perseus, claiming him to be "a mentor, having played a part in radicalizing his attitude towards the West."

As for Makarov, we know how much he looked up to Zakhaev. He did took him in during the lowest point of his life and gave him a purpose. Something he lost when he was forced to discharge from the military. Zakhaev's protégé. Zakhaev's executioner.

However, Perseus and Mak share one common trait; their methods were frowned upon by Zakhaev.

"Imran, however, soon realized the danger of Perseus's ideas. Believing Perseus's actions would turn the world against the Soviet Union, he prevented Perseus from taking control of a facility in Verdansk, where a chemical agent called NOVA-4 was produced."

"While Zakhaev was grateful to Makarov for saving his life on the day of his assassination attempt, he also kept him in check, possibly due to the fear of Makarov's extreme methods and ambitions, which later proved correct."

It boggles my mind that Zakhaev have the patience to continously kept Makarov's in check for 15 years of their partnership. He's aware of how terrifyingly brutal he is and even though it clearly bothered him, he still kept him around.

This is one of the key points that makes me wonder if Makarov is not just a nobody that he picked off the underworld. Maybe him being Perseus's son is what drives Zakhaev to mentor him and stick with it till the end. Well, at least as long as he could control him. I had no doubt that if Makarov push Zakhaev too far and shows signs of being too out of control, he'll be dead way before Price could wrung his neck.

Speaking of methods,

"Perseus' true plan was to detonate all the American nukes across Europe and have the United States take the fall. Perseus wanted to rebuild Russia from the ashes."

"Makarov's scheme was to initiate the global conflict of World War III, and that was accomplished by massacring a Russian airport and making it look like the US was involved. Later on, he would attempt to nuke all of Europe for Russia to fully invade and rebuild from the ashes."

See the resemblance?

Their speech pattern really parallel each other;

Perseus: Today, we reshape the world.

Makarov: Today, we show the world our true strength.

Perseus: Our motherland is lead by cowards and weaklings.

Makarov: Now our country is run by squabbling lackeys and politicians who can hardly be called patriots.

Perseus: The superpowers will fall, victims of their own greed and corruption.

Makarov: The corrupt talk; while our brothers and sons spill their own blood.

Perseus: We will rebuild Greater Russia from the ashes.

Makarov: Russia will take all of Europe, even if it must stand upon a pile of ashes.

Perseus: They sleep soundly at night, knowing they put on a good parade - but they lack the will to do what must be done.

Makarov: Our enemies believe that they alone dictate the course of history, but all it takes is the will of a single man.

Perseus: The others, however, are still out there. I will finish them off if I have to.

Makarov: I will not rest until I have killed or captured the men who killed Imran Zakhaev.

Perseus: (to Bell) You remember my face don't you?

Makarov: (to Vorshevsky) You know who I am?

Perseus: But have no doubt. These are but temporary losses. We are just getting started, my friend.

Makarov: The road to our future begins here, my friend.

So in conclusion, it seems that the possibility of them being father and son is really plausible so far.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Footnotes - Part 1

I don't want to post the whole book without the footnotes; but it seems obnoxious to put the footnotes in a bunch of tags, so that's why I'm only tagging this with the book title.

[1] Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariway write that before colonial contact nearly all traditional African societies were “anarchies,” and they make a strong argument to this effect. The same could also be said of other continents. But as the author does not come from any of these societies, and since Western culture traditionally believes it has the right to represent other societies in self-serving ways, it is best to avoid such broad characterizations, while still endeavoring to learn from these examples.

[2] “The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy,” Rolling Thunder, No. 4 Spring 2007, p. 34.

[3] Robert K. Dentan, The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979, p. 48.

[4] Christopher Boehm, “Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 3, June 1993.

[5] Amy Goodman, “Louisiana Official: Federal Gov’t Abandoned New Orleans,” Democracy Now, September 7, 2005. Fox News, CNN, and The New York Times all falsely reported murders and roving gangs of rapists in the Superdome, where refugees gathered during the storm. (Aaron Kinney, “Hurricane Horror Stories,” Salon.com)

[6] Jesse Walker (“Nightmare in New Orleans: Do disasters destroy social cooperation?” Reason Online, September 7, 2005) cites the studies of sociologist E.L. Quarantelli, who has found that “After the cataclysm, social bonds will strengthen, volunteerism will explode, violence will be rare...”

[7] Roger M. Keesing, Andrew J. Strathern, Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective, 3rd Edition, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998, p.83.

[8] Judith Van Allen “Sitting On a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women.” Canadian Journal of African Studies. Vol. ii, 1972, pp. 211–219.

[9] Johan M.G. van der Dennen, “Ritualized ‘Primitive’ Warfare and Rituals in War: Phenocopy, Homology, or...?” rechten.eldoc.ub.rug.nl Among other examples, van der Dennen cites the New Guinea highlanders, among whom warring bands would face off, yell insults, and shoot arrows that did not have feathers, and thus could not be aimed, while another band on the sidelines would yell that it was wrong for brothers to fight, and attempt to calm the situation before blood was shed. The original source for this account is Rappaport, R.A. (1968), Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People. New Haven: Yale University Press.

[10] “The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker,” The Catholic Worker, May 2008.

[11] Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004. Semai murder rate, p. 191, other murder rates p. 149. The low Norwegian murder rate shows that industrial societies can also be peaceful. It should be noted that Norway has one of the lowest wealth gaps of any capitalist country, and also a low reliance on police and prisons. The majority of civil disputes and many criminal cases in Norway are settled through mediation (p. 163).

[12] Robert K. Dentan, The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979, p. 59.

[13] Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Andrey V. Korotayev, Civilizational Models of Politogenesis, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000.

[14] Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy, London: Kahn and Averill, 1982, p. 98.

[15] Christopher Boehm, “Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 3, June 1993.

[16] The victories of the movement and the failure of the IMF and World Bank are argued by David Graeber in “The Shock of Victory,” Rolling Thunder no. 5, Spring 2008.

[17] The paragraphs regarding the Hill People and Southeast Asia are based on James C. Scott, “Civilizations Can’t Climb Hills: A Political History of Statelessness in Southeast Asia,” lecture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 2, 2005.

[18] Alan MacSimoin, “The Korean Anarchist Movement,” a talk in Dublin, September 1991. MacSimoin references Ha Ki-Rak, A History of the Korean Anarchist Movement, 1986.

[19] Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives, New York: Free Life Editions, 1974, p. 73.

[20] Ditto, p. 73. The statistic on Graus comes from p. 140.

[21] Gaston Leval, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution, London: Freedom Press, 1975, pp. 206–207.

[22] Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives, New York: Free Life Editions, 1974, p. 113.

[23] The criticisms of the this and the following paragraphs are based on an interview with Marcello, “Criticisms of the MST,” February 17, 2009, Barcelona.

[24] Wikipedia, “Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca,” [viewed November 6, 2006]

[25] Diana Denham and C.A.S.A. Collective (eds.), Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca, Oakland: PM Press, 2008, interview with Marcos.

[26] Ditto, interview with Adán.

[27] Melford E. Spiro, Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia, New York: Schocken Books, 1963, pp. 90–91.

[28] Robert Fernea, “Putting a Stone in the Middle: the Nubians of Northern Africa,” in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 111.

[29] Alice Schlegel, “Contentious But Not Violent: The Hopi of Northern Arizona” in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004.

[30] Melford E. Spiro, Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia, New York: Schocken Books, 1963, pp. 83–85.

[31] Gemma Aguilar, “Els okupes fan la feina que oblida el Districte,” Avui, Saturday 15 December 2007, p. 43.

[32] Natasha Gordon and Paul Chatterton, Taking Back Control: A Journey through Argentina’s Popular Uprising, Leeds (UK): University of Leeds, 2004, p. 45.

[33] William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte, Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex, Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1988, p. 5.

[34] Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002, pp. 183–187.

[35] Michael Albert, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, New York: Verso, 2003, pp. 104–105.

[36] Diana Denham and C.A.S.A. Collective (eds.), Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca, Oakland: PM Press, 2008, interview with Tonia.

[37] Ditto, interview with Francisco.

[38] Cahal Milmo, “On the Barricades: Trouble in a Hippie Paradise,” The Independent, May 31, 2007.

[39] Technically, human elders provide a reproductive function because they store obscure types of information like how to survive natural disasters that only occur once every several generations, and they can also serve to increase social cohesion by increasing the amount of living relations within the community — for example the number of people with the same grandparents is much larger than the number of people with the same parents. However, these survival benefits are not immediately obvious and there is no evidence of any human society making such calculations when deciding whether or not to feed their toothless grannies. In other words, the fact that we avail ourselves of the benefits of the elderly is a reflection of our habitual social generosity.

[40] Gaston Leval, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution, London: Freedom Press, 1975, p. 270.

[41] Neille Ilel, “A Healthy Dose of Anarchy: After Katrina, nontraditional, decentralized relief steps in where big government and big charity failed,” Reason Magazine, December 2006.

[42] Albany Free School website (viewed November 24, 2006) www.albanyfreeschool.com

[43] Natasha Gordon and Paul Chatterton, Taking Back Control: A Journey through Argentina’s Popular Uprising, Leeds (UK): University of Leeds, 2004, pp. 43–44.

[44] See chapter 5 in Uri Gordon, Anarchy Alive! Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory, London: Pluto Press, 2008.

[45] The description of the New Guinea highlanders in Jared Diamond’s book (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York, Viking, 2005), particularly the portrayal of their curiosity, wit, and humanity, does a great service to dispelling the lingering imagery of so-called primitive peoples as grunting apes or noble savages.

[46] “Wikipedia survives research test,” BBC News 15 December 2005 news.bbc.co.uk

[47] “Editorial administration, oversight and management” Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org

[48] Patrick Fleuret, “The Social Organization of Water Control in the Taita Hills, Kenya,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 12, 1985.

[49] Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives, New York: Free Life Editions, 1974, p. 66.

[50] Ditto, p. 88.

[51] All the quotes and statistics in the paragraph come from Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives, New York: Free Life Editions, 1974, pp. 88–92.

[52] Ditto, pp. 75–76

[53] George Katsiaficas, The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. Oakland: AK Press, 2006, pp. 84–85

[54] The Stonehenge Free Festivals, 1972–1985. www.ukrockfestivals.com Viewed 8 May 2008.

[55] The Curious George Brigade, Anarchy In the Age of Dinosaurs, CrimethInc. 2003, pp. 106–120. The statistic from Ghana appears on page 115.

[56] Emily Achtenberg, “Community Organizing and Rebellion: Neighborhood Councils in El Alto, Bolivia,” Progressive Planning, No.172, Summer 2007.

[57] Although the author of this piece chooses the term government, the underlying concept should not be given parity with what in Western society is considered to be government. In the ayllu tradition, leadership is not a privileged social position or a position of command, but a form of “community service.”

[58] Emily Achtenberg, “Community Organizing and Rebellion: Neighborhood Councils in El Alto, Bolivia,” Progressive Planning, No.172, Summer 2007.

[59] All the quotes on Symphony Way come from Daria Zelenova, “Anti-Eviction Struggle of the Squatters Communities in Contemporary South Africa,” paper presented at the conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations,” at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 2009.

[60] Oxfam America, “Havana’s Green Revelation,” www.oxfamamerica.org [viewed December 5, 2005]

[61] Sam Dolgoff, The Anarchist Collectives, New York: Free Life Editions, 1974, pp. 163–164.

[62] This theory for the fate of Easter Island is convincingly argued in Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York, Viking, 2005.

[63] Eric Alden Smith, Mark Wishnie, “Conservation and Subsistence in Small-Scale Societies,” Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29, 2000, pp. 493–524. “As population density and political centralization increases, communities may exceed the size and homogeneity needed for endogenous systems of communal management” (p. 505). The authors also pointed out that colonial and postcolonial interference ended many systems of communal resource management. Bonnie Anna Nardi, “Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory: Biological Determinism vs. Self-Regulation in Studies of Population Growth in Third World Countries,” American Anthropologist, vol. 83, 1981. Nardi points out that as decision-making, society, and identity go from small-scale to a national scale, fertility control loses its effectiveness (p. 40).

[64] Bruce Stewart, quoted in Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words, White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2000, p.162.

[65] Jared Diamond, Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, New York: Viking, 2005, pp. 292–293

[66] For example, the United States and Western Europe, responsible for most of the world’s greenhouse gases, are currently forcing hundreds of millions of people to die every year rather than curtailing their car cultures and reducing their emissions.

[67] The ten percent figure and mention of the two attacks in Germany come from Nathaniel C. Nash, “Oil Companies Face Boycott Over Sinking of Rig,” The New York Times, June 17, 1995.

[68] Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York: Viking, 2005, p. 277.

[69] H. Van Der Linden, “Een Nieuwe Overheidsinstelling: Het Waterschap circa 1100–1400” in D.P. Blok, Algemene Geschiednis der Nederlanden, deel III. Haarlem: Fibula van Dishoeck, 1982, p. 64. Author’s translation.

[70] This analysis is well documented by Kristian Williams in Our Enemies in Blue. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004.

[71] In 2005, 5,734 workers were killed by traumatic injury on the job, and an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 died from occupational diseases, according to the AFL-CIO “Facts About Worker Safety and Health 2007.” www.aflcio.org Of all the killings of workers by employer negligence between 1982 and 2002, fewer than 2000 were investigated by the government, and of these only 81 resulted in convictions and only 16 resulted in jailtime, though the maximum allowed sentence was six months, according to David Barstow, “U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace,” New York Times, December 22, 2003.

[72] These are widely available statistics from US Census bureau, Justice Department, independent researchers, Human Rights Watch, and other organizations. They can be found, for example, on drugwarfacts.org [viewed 30 December, 2009].

[73] Wikipedia “Seattle General Strike of 1919,” en.wikipedia.org [viewed 21 June 2007]. Print sources cited in this article include Jeremy Brecher, Strike! Revised Edition. South End Press, 1997; and Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, Perrenial Classics Edition, 1999.

[74] Diana Denham and C.A.S.A. Collective (eds.), Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca, Oakland: PM Press, 2008, interview with Cuatli.

[75] Alan Howard, “Restraint and Ritual Apology: the Rotumans of the South Pacific,” in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 42.

[76] Both observer quotes from Jamie Bissonette, When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: a true story in the movement for prison abolition, Cambridge: South End Press, 2008, p. 160.

[77] One can’t help but compare this to the British spreading opium in China or the US government spreading whiskey among indigenous people and, later, heroin in ghettos.

[78] Natasha Gordon and Paul Chatterton, Taking Back Control: A Journey through Argentina’s Popular Uprising, Leeds (UK): University of Leeds, 2004, pp. 66–68.

[79] Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 73–79. The cross-cultural study is M.H. Ross, The Culture of Conflict, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

[holycatsandrabbits]

55 years ago today (Sept 2, 1968) divers discovered the Bimini Road, which is sadly not part of the lost Atlantis. But you can read all about Phantom Islands and get writing prompts on my Weird Wednesday blog!

Atlantis: no survey of phantom islands can be complete without this most famous of lost lands. The idea of Atlantis, an island (or continent) with an advanced society, which sank beneath the waves in a great catastrophe, traces back to Plato, and was probably always fictional. That hasn’t stopped people from looking for it, and putting it on maps pretty much anywhere there’s enough water to cover it. To my mind, one of the most interesting pieces of the Atlantis saga is the Bimini Road, which is a natural geological feature that resembles a human-made stone road. It was discovered beneath the sea near the Bahamas, close to (or by some sources in) the Bermuda Triangle. Some claim it’s part of Atlantis itself.

Check out the blog post for more and some mysterious writing prompts, such as:

Putting the phantom in phantom island. Perhaps a certain island is a gathering place for phantoms of all kinds: ghosts of the drowned from vessels lost in the area, sea monsters, wormholes through space/time, zombies, or demons. Perhaps someone has literally cursed the place, or maybe it’s the site of an evil relic or graveyard of the damned. It could even be the home port of the ghost ship Flying Dutchman.

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[stupittmoran]

The Lost Continent (1968)

The captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter-all of them with dark secrets to keep-find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed.

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i dont think it's a coincidence that the more confident i get on my new meds the more all witch media appeals. there's a fantastic retrospective analysis of sabrina the teenage witch (a favorite show when i was a kid). at the age of 9 or so, i had no idea it was intentionally and subversively feminist, at least in the first season. sabrina is shown reading "the bell jar"! the studio wanted sabrina's mom to be dead but the creators insisted she should be pursuing a high level anthropology career on another continent. the show often portrays that the solution to problems is solidarity between women. the creator apparently regrets the lack of more diversity but the show did have two guest star roles (one may have been a temporary main cast member) played by black men - alimi ballard and donald faison. i haven't gone back to see the quality of the writing there but i did see a kiss between donald and melissa joan hart in the linked video. for context, 1968 was the airing date of THAT kiss on star trek when an interracial kiss was such a threat to studios that they filmed an alternative scene without the kiss to air. by the 90s, tv was starting to work through (sometimes in clumsy ways) the need to bring POC into mainstream programming enjoyed by typically white audiences. fresh prince and steve urkel (family matters) were hits in their own right and broader interest in r&b/hip hop would lead in part to n*sync/boy band mania. the video notes that in successive, post-s1 seasons, the studio pushed for more gags, stunts, and visual gimmicks, so some of the subversive elements got lost. but the retrospective 100% explains why the show had such a special place in my heart. it wasn't about a simple fantasy of having magical powers, it was about the relationships between the central women characters, the sometimes layered or clever humor, the excitement of the quirky witch/warlock/supernatural characters that would sweep in and shake things up, the sweet romance between harvey and sabrina, and we can't fail to mention the EXTREME erotic tension between sabrina and libby.

what a show, guys

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58) 6/6- Where Are Your Boys Tonight? 

59) 6/10- Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978    

60) 6/16- Love in the Void   

61) 6/18- Bright Dead Things

62) 6/20- Washington: A Life 

63) 6/22- The Beauty of the Husband 

64) 6/23- Flyboys 

65) 7/2- Dangling in the Tournefortia

66) 7/3- The British Are Coming: The War for America 

67) 7/6- Sleepless Nights 

68) 7/11- Lessons from Stoicism 

69) 7/14- Transit  

70) 7/17- Flags of Our Fathers 

71) 7/17- Ernest Hemingway: A Biograophy  

72) 7/18- Seduction and Betrayal 

73) 7/19- Howl  

74) 7/21- The First Wave 

75) 7/21- Let Me Tell You What I Mean  

76) 7/26- Where Men Win Glory 

77) 7/30- Red Doc> 

78) 8/4- Glass, Irony and God 

79) 8/4 - Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know 

80) 8/5- The Book of Disquiet 

81) 8/6- Crush 

82) 8/8- Against All Odds  

83) 8/12- Fierce Ambition 

84) 8/13- The First Four Books of Poems 

85) 8/13- One Day I'll Remember This  

86) 8/16- Valiant Women 

87) 8/18- The Greatest Generation Speaks

88) 8/18- Something Bright, Then Holes 

89) 8/18- A Disaffection 

90) 8/19- Travels With Myself and Another   

91) 8/25- Sellout  

92) 8/27- Wandering 

93) 8/28- Well-Kept Ruins 

94) 9/1- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway 

95) 9/2- Lust and Other Stories 

96) 9/5- Death Of A Naturalist 

97)9/6- The Monuments Men  

98) 9/12- Pitch Dark 

99) 9/12- An Army At Dawn 

100) 9/16- The Things Our Fathers Saw 

101) 9/17- War Is A Racket 

102) 9/17- Memorable Days 

103) 9/29- The Day of Battle 

104) 10/4- Meet Me in the Bathroom 

105) 10/4- Lost Children Archive 

106) 10/5- Vita Nova 

107) 10/5- An Unquiet Mind 

108) 10/8- Burning The Days  

109) 10/11- Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire

110) 10/15- Nothing Ever Just Disappears  

111) 10/20- Meditations 

112) 10/15- Nobody Knows My Name 

113) 10/27- Illness as Metaphor 

114) 10/28- When Books Went to War

115) 10/31- Attempting Normal  

116) 11/5- Stigmata 

117) 11/9- Washington's Immortals 

118) 11/10- Wherever You Go, There You Are 

119) 11/18- Humanly Possible 

120) 11/20- Felicity 

121) 11/22- Savage Continent 

122) 11/23- Tell Me How It Ends  

123) 12/3- John Adams 

124) 12/7- The Freaks Came Out to Write 

125) 12/8- Wild Houses 

126) 12/9- A Ghost in the Throat 

127) 12/12- Hitler’s Furies 

128) 12/20- Dream Work 

129) 12/20- Poems 1962-2020 

130) 12/22- Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 

131) 12/24- Churchill: Walking With Destiny. : Walking with Destiny 

132) 12/28- The Lost Weekend

133) 12/28- The Deserters   

134) 12/30- Code Name: Lise 

135) 12/31- Lifeform 

[stellabystarlight12]

Suzanna Leigh in THE LOST CONTINENT, 1968

[zippocreed501]

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

The Summoning:

The Devil Rides Out (1968) The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Evil Dead 2 (1987) Hellraiser (1987) Candyman (1992) Wishmaster (1997) Ouija (2014)

[parkerbombshell]

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show #380

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show  Mondays 12 noon EST , 5pm BST , 9am PDT bombshellradio.com Archival Shows: bombshellradiopodcasts.com COBWEBS AND STRANGE #380 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (All The Young Dudes, 1973) - The Cult - (She Sells) Sanctuary (Love, 1985) - KEELEY - A Doorway to Another World (Beautiful Mysterious, 2024)* keeleyband.bandcamp.com - Electronic - Forbidden City (Raise The Pressure, 1995) - clipping. - Run It (single, 2024)* clppng.bandcamp.com - The KLF -  Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent) (Solid State Logik 1: KLF Communications 7” Hit Singles 1988-1991, 2021) - T. Rex - Jeepster (Electric Warrior, 1971) - Johnny Thunders - You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory (So Alone, 1978) - The Blasters -  So Long Baby Goodbye (The Blasters, 1981) - Rudi - When I Was Dead (Big Time: The Singles 1978-1982, 2021) - Jim Trainor - Better Than You Do (single, 2024)* jimtrainor.bandcamp.com - Thee Strawberry Mynde - Reflections (single, 2024)* theestrawberrymynde.bandcamp.com - Porter & Hello Seahorse! - Cora (single, 2024)* - Fantastic Negrito - Son Of A Broken Man (Son Of A Broken Man, 2024)* fantasticnegritomusic.bandcamp.com - Thee Sacred Souls - One And The Same (Got A Story To Tell, 2024)* theesacredsouls.bandcamp.com - Ambar Lucid - Get Lost In The Music (Get Lost In The Music EP, 2021) - The Stranglers - Genetix (The Raven, 1979) - HENGE - Ascending (Journey to Voltus B, 2025)* - A Place To Bury Strangers - Plastic Future (Synthesiser, 2024) - The Golden Cups - This Bad Girl (single, 1968) - Flu Flu - Volveras (Furia, 2024)* shorediverecords.bandcamp.com - Father John Misty - She Cleans Up (Mahashmashana, 2024)* - Gut Health - Uh Oh (Stiletto, 2024)* guthealthband.bandcamp.com - Panda Bear - Defence (Sinister Grift, 2025)* pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com - The Armoires - Green Hellfire At The 7-11 (Octoberland, 2024)* bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com - 20/20 - Back To California (single, 2024)* bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com - The Jack Rubies - Phantom (single, 2024)* bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com - Halsey - Lonely Is The Muse (The Great Impersonator, 2024)* - The Howl & The Hum - Same Mistake Twice (Same Mistake Twice, 2024)* - Tilli -  Dreamy (single, 2024)* tilli.bandcamp.com - Stick In The Wheel - Can’t Stop (A Thousand Pokes, 2024)* stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com - Blodwyn Pig - It’s Only Love (Ahead Rings Out, 1969) - Whitey - DON'T BE A CAN'T (ALL YOUR LIFE) (MENTAL RADIO, 2024)* musicglue.com/whitey - Goat - Goatbrain (Goat, 2024)* goat.bandcamp.com - Ed Ryan - Fine Art To Letting It Go (Along For The Ride, 2024)* edryan.bandcamp.com - Ex Norwegian (as X-Dirty Norwegians) - Talk Dirty (Sing Wistle Tunes, 2024)* shop.exnorwegian.com - Aursjoen - Nytår (Strand, 2024)* aursjoen.bandcamp.com - Nymphs - Sad And Damned (Nymphs, 1990)  Inger Lorre (born Lori Ann Wening) - Liam Payne - Strip That Down (Acoustic) (single, 2017) - Mitzi Gaynor - Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair (South Pacific, 1958) - Ka - Bread Wine Body Blood (The Thief Next To Jesus, 2024)* - Miss Mary Jane - Thriller (single, 2024)* Read the full article

[photoglophia]

Dana Gillespie in THE LOST CONTINENT (Michael Carreras, 1968).

[tealeavesandthorns]

//I have watched two films today where the plot was wild and barely made any sense.

The first was The Lost Continent from 1968 a hilarious b-movie that just lurched from one thing to the next

And then Fantastic Beasts:Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) - honestly I didn't mind the 2nd movie too much but this one was just bad and wild. I miss the fun of the first one. These movies should have just been fun shenanigans with oh a bit of horrible shit in the background.

They should have been about Newt and Magical Creatures and not goddamn Dumbledore and Grindlewald manipulating every fucker around them.

[docrotten]

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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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

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 feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!” 

Check out this episode!

[pbwells3]

"Journey to the Center of the Earth"

A full menu binge of "The Land That Time Forgot," "The People That Time Forgot," "At the Earth's Core" and Hammer's 1968 "The Lost Continent" were major contributors to this idea.