Re:Occult Cinema and TV
Hardly boring; it’s very interesting, Corvina. Thanks.
And I’m back! After a vacation and the inability to visit this site (save by remote proxy) for quite a while, suddenly 150 messages about penis enlargement and offers for pills for erectile dysfunction started popping up in my sad email account (email down at the same time) which can only mean Sad is back for me! As for the emails, I don’t know who has been suggesting online that I would be a good candidate for such treatment (surely they wouldn’t send me such spam if they didn’t think I’d be really, really interested ;)), but since performing the puppetry of the tallywhacker ritual with a hundred naked virgins (while dancing around a Maypole) in order to summon the Great Phallus of Babylon from the nether regions of the netherworld during the Beltane Fertility Festival, it’s working just fine. After suggesting that it was probably just due to lack of energy due to atouch of anaemia, the underwordly Willy advised an iron-rich diet of fresh goat’s blood. It has indeed invigorated me.
By the way, I finally read Club Dumas while travelling. I really enjoyed it. I didn’t want to put it down (though may be that was due to my fairly newfound virility). The only real problem I had was the concusion; a bit anticlimactic and [spoiler — highlight to view] [color=black] I’m not sure why the man who performed the ritual didn’t realise the 9th illustration was a forgery in all 3 books. I thought the last engraving in each book was signed by the publisher who was burnt at the stake (I don’t have the book handy, took it out from the library) and not L.F. I may have missed something. [/color] [/endspoiler]
I really enjoyed the subjext matter — I love antiquarian books. Thanks very much for the recommendation, Sidhecafe. I really want to travel to Europe to check out the more prestigious libraries. I read a novel before with book restoration as a theme called The Sixteen Pleasures for school, and the info on that that it provided was what I enjoyed about the story.
One rather devilish novel I really enjoyed was Humans by Donald Westlake. And a film, comedy I thought was great fun was Bedazzled with Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. Haven’t bothered watching the remake.