What do you mean we, mammal?

[greygirlbeast]

One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea.

— HPL, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1931)

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[matt-wallace.livejournal.com]

Futurama.

I had to stare at that subject line for like five minutes. It was killin' me, man.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Oh, this reminds me (in a tangent sort of way)
that i was browsing through a webpage full of mp3
blogs (music, film, podcasts-a mishmash)
and ran acoss, i think it may have been an mp3 or
even a pdf, of a paper written about "The Sex Life
of the PLatypus"

Will hunt it down for you if you like (it's a very long page under MP3) or you can scroll thru:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/stairways_to_he.html

They also had some Lovecraft stuff and a 1927? History of Witchcraft??
or The Black Arts???
narrated by William Bourroughs (sp?) as (a 20 Meg mpg)

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Ok, the link i found from a post on all those versions of Stairway to Heaven
and clicked on the MP3 blogs to find the other stuff.
"Superstition-Middle Ages, Then and Now" narrated by Burroughs, is downloadable (at least Part 1 is) Part 2 is on YouTube, i've never found a way to download the videos or even photos there. Weird, most of their stuff is *not* original content, people post videos from everywhere but you can only watch them online, you can't even retrieve them from your cache.
The first half of Part 1 is original surreal old footage, the rest is hilarious, done by some preacher, i guess, warning about sex, hippies, magic, etc, etc.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

The movie you are referencing is likely Haxan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/), which was released much later in the United States as Witchcraft Through the Ages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haxan).

It's worth a few giggles, not a bad movie to watch drinking a bottle of cheap wine while putting on makeup on a October night

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

I thought it looked familiar. I'd seen it at the Orson Welles Theater, i think, in the 70's in Cambridge. Though it didn't have that modern goofy after-talk/sermon/whatever as far as i know.

Modern witchcraft, etc, just wasn't well known yet to the general public
and they still got most of their ideas about magic, the occult in general,
and especially witchcraft from old out of date books (not counting the real books on ritual and
ceremonial magic which were always available)
They did show a few shots of neopagans in the live commentary part of the film tho :)

It's hard to find my cursor on this light gray background (mild grumble)

[styggian.livejournal.com]

"Shadow over Innsmouth", or some aspect of it, has been coming up in conversation a lot lately.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for posting that quote: I was scrabbling around for a title for a rather old Nyarlathotep track that Jeremy and I had done a few years ago, but which we're currently reworking to fit on the new album--and now I have it!

Incidentally, we're going to be giving the album away Completely Free on our website as soon as it's done...but we're going to actually be putting together some "special editions" with exclusive art and stuff like that for all our friends who've enjoyed our stuff for so long. You're most definitely getting one of 'em.