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Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
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Favourite Directors
Dario Argento, John Carpenter, The Coen Brothers, Larry Cohen, Roger Corman, Guillermo Del Toro, Brian De Palma, Federico Fellini, Walter Hill, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Sam Peckinpah, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Francois Truffaut, Paul Verhoeven, Orson Welles, Ed Wood
My all time favourite actors are Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro and Jacqueline Bisset. I could easily live for the rest of my life just rewatching any of their films.
There are, however, also a bunch of other actors that are often very close behind in my estimate. I have even set up a little private web site dedicated to some of my favourite ladies, the Girls from the Hammer movies.
Actors:
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Humphrey Bogart, Nicolas Cage, David Carradine Alain Delon, Clint Eastwood, Richard Harris, Boris Karloff, Klaus Kinski, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Steve McQueen, Roger Moore, Jack Nicholson, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed, John Wayne, Bruce Willis,
Actresses:
Ursula Andress, Monica Bellucci (My current favourite!), Julie Christie, Cameron Diaz, Kirsten Dunst (My heart stops a beat everytime I think of *that* scene in Spider-Man), Pam Grier, Famke Janssen, Sylva Koscina, Dina Meyer, Julianne Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Ingrid Pitt, Charlotte Rampling,
Honorary Mention:
Bettie Page (I know she wasn't strictly speaking an actress, but - Hell! - she was Bettie Page!)
24, The Avengers, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who (only the current series, not the old ones), Frasier, Friends, I Spy, Malcolm in the Middle, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Melrose Place (No comment!), Mission Impossible, Moonlighting, The Persuaders, Red Dwarf, The Saint, The Sopranos, All things Star Trek, but especially the classics and the Next Generation, Remington Steele, Third Rock From the Sun, Tru Calling, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, UFO, Will and Grace, The X-Files
Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential/A Cook's Tour, Henri Charriere: Papillon, Mikhail Lermontov: A Hero of our Time, Pete McCarthy: McCarthy's Bar, Georges Simenon: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, Stendhal: The Red and the Black, Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel
Anything by: Isaac Asimov, Dan Brown, Mikhail Bulgakov, Giacomo Casanova, John Case, Michael Crichton, Raymond Chandler, Dostoevskij, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Ian Fleming, Walter Gibson (The Shadow), Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Peter O'Donnell (Modesty Blaise), Arturo Perez-Reverte, Edgar Allan Poe, Sax Rohmer (Fu Manchu), Mickey Spillane, Jules Verne, Francois Villon, Oscar Wilde, Cornell Woolrich, John Wyndham