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Anticlimactic duck poetry
“Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.” -Gary Larson When I was younger, I did something very out-of-character for someone like me: I entered a contest where you had...
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope was the first Siouxsie and the Banshees album I ever bought, and (possibly because of this) it’s also my favourite. It has this certain feel to it that I really love, sort of like the...
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Layer 09: Protocol
Conjecture has become fact, and rumour has become history. This episode alternates between the usual plot and voice-overs over stock footage, explaining how the Wired (possibly) came to be, its...
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Review: Was
I’m very interested in magic realism, a subgenre of fantasy where fantasy elements subtly become part of everyday life. Was is a realist novel, but it too explores how fantasy and reality intertwine,...
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Layer 10: Love
This episode is about love, in some ways. It doesn’t have much to do with who Lain loves, but rather with who loves her. It isn’t made clear whether anybody actually has any romantic feelings for Lain,...
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Richard Brautigan
“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.” Richard Brautigan is my favourite poet. He wrote many novels and short stories too, but they were all basically poems in prose form. Everything...
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Fade
Straining to fade, showing disdain under the shade. Straight shapes are mocking slate, greying at their edges. At the edges of hedges? Hedges have not defined themselves very well; there is no...
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13 animations I really need to watch
I love watching animated shows and films, but there are so many out there that I’ve still only scratched the surface, and there are plenty of great and imaginative cartoons that I still have yet to...
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Strange Girls: Angela
Angel-A is one of my favourite films. It is beautiful to look at, there are many perfectly-constructed scenes, and its overall message and themes moved me greatly. However, it is, at the same time, a...
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13 more songs for the Perky Goth
A while ago, I did a list of thirteen happy Goth songs. It was stupid, but I’m a stupid person. And that’s why I’m doing another list just like it. Because stupid people never learn from their...
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Edna Krabapple
Just recently, Marcia Wallace, voice actress for the Simpsons, passed away. On Saturday the 26th, at 70 years of age, she died of breast cancer, and so her character, Edna Krabapple, is to be retired....
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Nina Hagen
Reblogged from The Weirdest Band in the World:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIC0ZhyS_s&w=500&h=375] So it being Halloween and all, we were going to make some wacky costumed act our...
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Musick to Play in the Dark
“It’s just a phase we’re going through.” I doubt if there’s a more fitting time to talk about Coil’s magnificent octopus magnum opus, Musick to Play in the Dark. From October to December, there’s just...
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Is Eraserhead a horror film?
This post isn’t so much about Eraserhead itself as it is about how you define a genre. I’m not really that familiar with horror, but in many ways it seems almost as hard to define as fantasy or sci-fi....
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The mechanics of fiction
Recently, I’ve become fascinated with the inner workings of fiction, and of art in general, really. I suppose that, to a lot of people, this sort of thing would be pretty boring, and I can totally...
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David Lynch’s hair
In my blog post on Eraserhead, I mentioned that its protagonist, Henry, has rather weird hair. Nobody can deny this fact. However, despite its weirdness, Henry’s hair is still full of groovitude. (It...
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Daffy Duck
“You’re despicable!” I love Daffy Duck. As far as I’m concerned, he’s pretty much one of the most perfect characters in all of fiction, and he was definitely the cause of my fondness for cartoon ducks....
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So Young, But So Cold
Apart from experimental stuff, the main type of music I listen to is Goth, especially French Coldwave. I am more than a little obsessed with Coldwave at the moment (to the same levels that I am...
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The Walrus and the Carpenter
“Carroll had no preference as far as the nonsense was concerned.” -Martin Gardner Lewis Carroll, along with Edward Lear, Spike Milligan and Mervyn Peake, was one of the greatest nonsense poets to ever...
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Review: Betty Blue
Recently, I have discovered that I rather enjoy watching French films that are made in France, where everybody speaks in French. Betty Blue is one such film. And by that, I mean it is French. It’s all...
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