There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see; Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was - and then no more of THEE and ME.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
I very much enjoy traipsing through the woods; Communing with nature; Atrophy; Antique stores; Listening to lovely music; Watching horror films;Forensic photography; Baroque period art; Pre-Raphaelite Movement; Paganism; christian iconography(especially old prints you find in antique stores and flea markets); Travel; Victorian textiles; Daguerreotypes; Androgyny; Abandonment(for death is all around and within us); Nighttime; Thrift stores; Romanticism; Sally Mann; Julia Margaret Cameron; Lady Hawarden; Caspar David Friedrich; Waterhouse; Eugene Atget; Life; Death; Everything in between and so on...
The irresistible fascination with the inorganic
Hitler was seen in World War I ecstatic before a corpse refusing to move...
The Coplas on the Death of Merton
~Ernesto Cardenal
All the kisses given or not given. That's why the swans sing said Socrates upon your chest the fan still turning
We love or are only when we die. The great final act the gift of one's whole being.
The Coplas on the Death of Merton
~Ernesto Cardenal
Individuals who get "it"...life...and appreciate it. Those who are most genuine and unafraid to be themselves.
We are the center of the great search.
Sally Mann...
Timothy "Speed" Levitch, from "The Cruise"
Bill Borchardt, from "American Movie"
Be Real!
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Black metal--doom--gothic--depressive--forest--folk--dark wave--death--thrash
Some recommendations are...
Alucarda; JSA:Joint Security Area; Memories of Murder; Tesis; Ninth Configuration; [George Romero's Season of the Witch; Martin; Dawn of the Dead; Night of the Living Dead; Day of the Dead]; Slaughterhouse Five; Dead Zone; May; Begotten; Looking for Mr. Goodbar; Eyes of Fire; Barbarian Invasions; Harold & Maude; Ganja & Hess; Altered States; Creepshow; From Beyond & Re-Animator(Brian Yuzna); The Beyond(Fulci); Fulci's Zombie(anything Lucio Fulci); Kichiku; Marebito; [Dario Argento's Opera; Demons; Inferno; Suspiria] The Hunger; Driller Killer; [David Cronenberg's Videodrome; Shivers; The Crazies; The Brood] Farenheit 451; Soilent Green; Roman Polanski's Repulsion & The Tenant; Nosferatu; Ravenous(anything starring Guy Pearce), Deathwatch; The Thing(w/Kurt Russell; Paper House; Closet Land; Trouble Every Day; Being There; plus many more.
My parents.