The Black Cat

The acting is horrifying in more than one sense. Just, wow.

"What's a nice owl...?" E. Baird (1968)

Today is my birthday. Joyce got me this amazing print. I love it!

Le Orme

Watched this last night. Amazing melancholic sci-fi giallo!?

Guitares naïves

Earth Religion News

Blessed be! Cool witch print culture here and here. Check the Pentagram Newsletter for reports on the Rollright Stones (not the Rolling Stones), reflecting witch balls, cat's cradle and other string figures, tree spells, mazing and ground-glyphs.

Vibration

Mary Beth Edelson

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Tomorrow's World

Themes and moods for documentary, scientific and industrial subjects. Boop beep.

Swimmy

Big thanks to Michael from Stopping Off Place for sending me this yesterday. A 1973 short film based on Leo Lionni's Swimmy. Casually amazing in the same way everything on Stopping Off Place always is. Go visit it right now! Don't get eaten by evil tuna.

Molecular Biology

eBay poetry

BEGINS

A naked woman wakes up in the woods.

A shapely lass, body shape exemplary of her (much healthier) time.

She’s a bit dopy, as if bemused as to her whereabouts.

Totters barefoot across fallen trees.

Of into the forest.

Stands with arms aloft with a leafy twif in hand.

Salutes the sky. Saluting nature? All very ‘Triumph Of The Will’ but
with no clothes.

She moves atround and does this salute again and again.

Totters along another tree trunk.

Lies down for a rest.

ENDS.

Jim Burrill

Private renfaire psych from northern California. This sounds a bit like a lost Mayo Thompson album. There are many lovable things about it: a song about Dr. Who, a band member named Joseph Sun-Bear, covers of English ballads of female highwaymen, and mostly the fact that Jim Burrill holds the guitar the wrong way. Also, the song "Lynn's Dream" is about Lynn Blessing from the band The Advancement. One gets the sense that Burrill knows a thing or two about Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Strangely listenable and likable.

Secret Ceremony

Watched this last night. Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow playing cat and mouse in a crazy Kensington art nouveau mansion. Great movie full of uncanny echoes and doublings from beyond the grave (Leonora resembles Cenci's deceased mother, Cenci Leonora's drowned daughter...) Plus I just love the name "Cenci." That long black wig!