FUTURE, n.
That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
Music
Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave (The Birthday Party & The Bad Seeds)...
Movies
The Mirror (Tarkovsky), Akira, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Apocalypse Now, Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead, Suspiria, Inferno, El Topo, The Manchurian Candidate, Naked, Nosferatu (Murnau & Herzog), Lektionen in Finsternis, Videodrome.
All the lovable B-movies one spent too much time watching on late night TV in the pre-school years. Yes Lucio Fulci, I'm talking to you.
About me: This is the MySpace extension to the Between Death and the Devil website. BDD is dedicated to the works of filmmaker Richard Stanley, and is operated by Shadow Theatre Films irregulars.
Who I'd like to meet: My paternal grandfather for the wisdom, my maternal grandmother for the love, their respective doctors for an explanation.
Austin Osman Spare for the vision, H.P. Lovecraft for the words, Jean Cocteau for the dreams.
James Ellroy for the creeps, Stuart Gordon for the rush, Francis Bacon for the wild.
Genesis P-Orridge for the voice, Arhippa Perttunen for the verses, Johann Sebastian Bach for the notes.
Robert Graves for the observations, William Blake for the preservations, Maya Deren for the presentations.
Aside all others, the one who appears shrouded in time, gowned in matter, diluted by shine.
I have been off-line for some time but am pleased to report I have been granted stewardship of some land at the base of the mountain and a cottage and bunkhouse to serve as a base of operations in the Zone. Hope to have full wi-fi by September. In the meanwhile I am back in London trying to pull 'VACATION' together and doing script duties on the new Takeshi Miike movie 'Secret History'. The devil makes work but i wouldn't have it any other way...
Wishing you and yours a bountiful solstice and a merrie old midsummer
.......Fans of Nightbreed we need to prove once and for all to the studios that there is a dedicated fan base that has been waiting for the director's cut of this film to reach DVD for years. With your support we could well influence a DVD release as a pure commercial decision, but we need to figure out just how large that audience really is. A small but noisy group will not make a difference here - we need to see just how many people would actually put down their hard-earned money for this... ..Remember, there isn't a Region 2 DVD release at all and the Region 1 release is a bare bones version missing the 25 minutes of footage that Clive would love to get back into the movie - a song, some violence, some structure... There's also the prospect of a commentary and hours of potential bonus content... ....What do you think? ....If you're interested in showing the size of audience or demand for an extended version of Nightbreed, please either e-mail us at philandsarah@clivebarker.info or send us a Tweet to @philandsarah (find us at our Twitter page here). ....Just your name or screen name is fine but please feel free to add your country of residence and / or a sentence or two on why this would be a great idea.
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round, because I see his shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church"
♠It is a strange thing, love. Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man♠
♠Die Lieve ist eine merkwürdige Sache. Nur um der Liebe willen hat der Hund seine wunderbare Freiheit asugegeben und zum Diener des Menschen geworden♠
♠C'est une drôle de chose, l'amour. N'était-ce pour l'amour, jamais le chien n'aurait recononcè á sa merveilleuse liberté, pour sa faire le serviteur de l'homme♦
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