Posts Tagged ‘hp lovecraft’
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks! I’ve had a huge string of parties to attend, performed my first wedding ceremony as a NZ marriage celebrant (on the stage at the best local bar, followed by a night of live metal – what an awesome night), have changed all the servers for all my websites, [...]
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What? Me? Excited? Oh hell no. In a slightly condescending post that references an old article of mine, Weird Worm gives us the 7 most metal places on earth. We are getting rid of our TV this month. I’m stoked – I’ve been wanting to do this for ages – even though we don’t watch [...]
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And lo, the third and final Lovecraft Mixtape, and the end of HP Lovecraft month. Next week I’ll return to regular, non-themed articles, and I have some beauties coming up, including a guest post that puts most of my writing to shame :) HP Lovecraft Historical Society – If I Were a Deep One Eviscerate [...]
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Lovecraft – like Stephen King – doesn’t translate well to screen. So much of his effect relies on the choices and shapes of words on the page, on the reader’s own interpretations of “unspeakable” horrors, that “seeing” the horrors in a film context renders them no longer frightful. Directors struggle to capture the mood of [...]
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“The text is a fetish object, and this fetish desires me. The text chooses me, by a whole disposition of invisible screens, selective baffles: vocabulary, references, readability, etc.; and, lost in the midst of a text (not behind it, like a deus ex machina) there is always the other, the author.”–Barthes, The Pleasure of the [...]
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Review: Kasium – Exhale
Linking Horn: A Quest Into the 77th Link
Review and Album Stream: Aborted – Global Flatline
Review: Avatar – Black Waltz
Gig Review: ABSU, Heresiarch, Nullifier and Exordium Mors at the Kings Arms
