Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty.
Witch-moon that turnest all the streams to blood,
I take this hazel rod, and stand, and swear
An Oath-beneath this blasted Oak and bare
That rears its agony above the flood
Whose swollen mask mutters an atheist's prayer.
What oath may stand the shock of this offence:
"There is no I, no joy, no permanence"?
Witch-moon of blood, eternal ebb and flow
Of baffled birth, in death still lurks a change;
And all the leopards in thy woods that range,
And all the vampires in their boughs that glow,
Brooding on blood-thirst-these are not so strange
And fierce as life's unfailing shower. These die,
Yet time rebears them through eternity.
Hear then the Oath, witch-moon of blood, dread
moon!
Let all thy stryges and thy ghouls attend!
He that endureth even to the end
Hath sworn that Love's own corpse shall lie at noon
Even in the coffin of its hopes, and spend
All the force won by its old woe and stress
In now annihilating Nothingness.
Aleister Crowley - The Book Of Lies
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Independent american, french, korean, chinese, japanese, german and austrian, swedish, danish and generally foreign when the opportunity occurs. Anything new presented in film festivals, retrospectives and the likes.
Old school hollywood black and whites, especially film noir, and classics such as Casablanca and the Third Man. Some newer hollywood, such as Clint Eastwood, Ridley Scott, Peter Weir etc.
Horror, gore, fantasy, epic and related, even just for laughs.
And documentary films - nature, animals, history and archaeology mostly.
Stewart and Colbert - because we lack that kind of cutting edge humour here unfortunately.
24, Without A Trace, The X Files, Millennium, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Law & Order, The 4400, Heroes, Detective Monk, House Md., CSI (& Miami & New York obviously), Prison Break, Lost, and if anything new and exciting comes up I'll be sure to check that out also.
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Those who endure the stupidity of others, managing in the process not to revert to the old and trustworthy procedure of actual vomiting.