Scandieurorussian Old World stuff eh

LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 12: Singer Adele, winner of the GRAMMYs for Record of the Year for “Rolling In The Deep”, Album of the Year for “21”, Song of the Year for “Rolling In The Deep”, Best Pop Solo Performance for “Someone Like You”, Best Pop Vocal Album for “21” and Best Short Form Music Video for “Rolling In The Deep”, poses in the press room at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

1999 Alan Rickman stars in the new movie “Galaxy Quest.” Photo Dreamworks

Programme Name: Socrates: Genius of the Ancient World – TX: 12/08/2015 – Episode: Socrates: Genius of the Ancient World. (No. 2/3) – Picture Shows: Bettany Hughes – (C) BBC – Photographer: Tim Knight

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Mary Anning was a leading fossil collector, Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester, England, Britain
Dorset, Britain – Aug 2011

Winnie The Pooh arrives at The Los Angeles Premiere of “Winnie The Pooh” held at The Walt Disney Studios on July 10, 2011 in Burbank, California.

1963 — British director and producer Alfred Hitchcock promoting his movie The Birds. — Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis

ORG XMIT: S11ABC5EB_WIRE (FILES) File picture taken in 1963 shows British film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) during the shooting of his movie ‘The Birds’. Hitckcock directed his first film in 1925 and rose to become the master of suspense, internationally recognized for his intricate plots and novel camera technique. Hollywood will celebrate 13 August 1999 the centenary of Hitchcock’s birth. AFP PHOTO FILES IMF25
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DURAN DURAN PERFORM ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA OUTSIDE OF THE ABC TELEVISION STUDIOS. NEW YORK CITY. 12 OCTOBER 2004. PICTURES DENNIS VAN TINE/LFI

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17/11/05-CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS-Christopher Hitchens, a controversial British-born, U.S.-based journalist; former left-wing, now a conservative, was in Toronto on Thursday to speak at the Grano Speakers Series. He spoke to the Star in his hotel room in the morning.(Photo by Peter Power/The Toronto Star)pmp (Photo by Peter Power/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

 

The Beatles: Paul John Pete and George: they played many covers of rock and roll songs and were influenced by Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and of course Elvis.

The Beatles, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, have their hair combed by stylists on the set of their first movie production, “A Hard Day’s Night,” at Twickenham Film Studios in Middlesex, outside London, England, on March 12, 1964. The hair stylists, who have parts in the film, are, from left, Patti Boyd, 19, Tina Williams, 17, Pru Bury, 22, and Susan Whitman, 17.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Tim Curry (right), 1993, (c) Buena Vista

 

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UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 08: Photo of BEATLES and Brian EPSTEIN; L-R. Brian Epstein, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney arriving back at Heathrow from their Far East Tour ending in Manila (Photo by Cummings Archives/Redferns)

if you are only going to read one book, make it one of the versions of THIS ONE

The Definitive Work: Edith Hamilton

    

Tom Jones – the singer, not the play

one of the reasons I loathe Twilight is that Stephanie Myers bragged about doing no research about vampires and to me, what she demonstrated is that going up in a ghetto community, such as Mormon and other religious clusters
is that you end up not being as culturally literate as children of mainstream mixed multicultural societies such as Canada.
Seriously, The Count on Seasame Street reflects the Slavic vampire tradition of the counting obbession – thus being able to defeat the vamp with a sprinkling of a large number of rose thorns on the walkway to one’s door – more than there is anything vampire in Twilight.
so what are your fave research and classics in the spookynatural genre?

the world of the writer vs the worlds they create for us
people say write what you know, but that’s a terrible limit to imagination
your thoughts on how often writers where sickly children and set apart in intellectual pursuits instead of more social things like sports?

Varney vs Dracula –
The Penny Dreadful bypassed by the novel – but the Penny Dreadfuls set the tone for later American pulp fiction
thoughts on the technical publishing side over the ages to online delivery and freeing writer from publishers entirely?

‘Elvis Has Left the Building’ New Book Out Now: The new book ‘Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died’ by author Dylan Jones is out now.
The description notes … ‘The King’ departed this world during the month of punk rock’s apotheosis. Punk had set out to destroy Elvis, or at least everything he came to represent, but never got the chance. Elvis destroyed himself before anyone else could. Nearly forty years after his death, rock’s ultimate legend and prototype just won’t go away and his influence and legacy are to be found not just in music today, but the world over. Elvis Presley has permeated the modern world in ways that are bizarre and inexplicable: a pop icon while he was alive, he has become almost a religious icon in death, a modern-day martyr crucified on the wheel of drugs, celebrity culture, junk food and sex. In Elvis Has Left the Building, Dylan Jones takes us back to those heady days around the time of his death and the rise of punk. He evokes the hysteria and devotion of The King’s numerous disciples and imitators, offering a uniquely insightful commentary on Elvis’s life, times and outrageous demise. This is a fresh account, written with the author’s customary panache, recounting how Elvis single-handedly changed the course of popular music and culture, and what his death meant and still means to us today.
Reviews so far are varied, with the book’s sometimes tenuous connections between Punk and Elvis discussed. The UK’s Independent review includes.. “When asked, shortly after the death of his only client Elvis Presley, what he would do now, “Colonel” Tom Parker was brutally sanguine. “Why, I’ll go right on managing him,” he replied, doubtless secure in the knowledge that he would be earning more in the future than he had
during the star’s declining years. As showbiz cynics were quick to acknowledge, Presley’s death was a great career move, revitalising a brand that has continued to generate more income since his death than prior to it.
The accepted showbiz wisdom is that stars should live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse, but Elvis failed in all three respects. He may have begun his career as a blazing comet of transformative cultural energy, but as soon as he made that revolutionary, miscegenate breakthrough of marrying black R&B with white hillbilly music, he ceased being creatively curious (in the manner that kept successors like Dylan, Bowie and The Beatles engaged and interesting) and retreated behind the walls of his mansion..
…. Jones concludes the book with his own annotated selection of favourite Elvis songs in chronological order, from 1954’s “That’s All Right” to 1977’s “Way Down”, which with some relief restores music to the foreground, as well as confirming the author’s belief that in two brief decades the singer had gone from being “the avatar of US cool to the embodiment of American excess, his life a metaphor for the post-war consumer American dream”. Indeed, it’s unlikely any other person will ever represent the country’s hopes, dreams and failings as fully as Elvis. Part Huckleberry Finn, part Jay Gatsby, part Citizen Kane, part Moby Dick, he was a walking, talking, hip-shaking allegory of a nation. Remember him this way.
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Compassion: This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously wounded, the bull did not attack Munera. May we all support the welfare of non-human species.

 

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1. Goliath
2. Delilah
3. Oscar
4. Tiffany
5. Lily
6. Miko
7. Romeo
8. Dorothy

 

Family Sagas
Gudrid is my ancestor.
Our family sagas reconnected in the late 1970s.
Some Erik descendants moved into the house beside ours. So we got along in this generation line LOL

Hot Money and the Politics of Debt – I’ve had this book since 1992
I was going to make a board game based on it
it’s all about Meyer Lanski, Ponzie Schemes and the magical power of Bearer Bonds.

fried egg chilli chutney sammich

Ra-ra-rasputin russia’s greatest love machine

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Paranormal-Paul-Chambers/dp/0713727632
Book review – I read this book many years ago and it explained a lot about social sexual anxiety, sleep disorders and how social panics about the supernatural end up creating myths like succubus and old hags to explain very simple biological things
like wet dreams and sleep paralysis
which also lead and connect to alien abduction delusions

Old Hag’ Syndrome is a terrifying sleep disorder that many people suffer from. Also known as ‘sleep paralysis’, sufferers often wake up in the middle of the night, unable to move or scream, but able to see, hear, feel and smell. It is often accompanied by strange smells, frightening sounds, apparitions of shadows or people, and a weight on the chest, making breathing difficult if not impossible.