born a cop in uniform, in black vinyl gloves i don’t hate you for your steel-toed boots or your handcuffs you are the way you always were you like your cruel games but i am not so quick to break i count my gain in blood and pain
i like it when it hurts like hell there’s nothing you could do to me i wouldn’t do to myself i’ll be bound to you in leather and chains i’ll be your sister, your young bride your angel, your slave
Have you ever heard of Bomber, the 1970 Len Deighton historical novel about a fictional RAF raid in 1943 that goes terribly wrong? In 1999, BBC 4 aired a 3½-hour full-cast radio adaptation, narrated by Tom Baker, that plays out the events in real time, punctuated by snippets of interviews with British and German veterans and civilian survivors. Engrossing, if gruesome, and possibly of interest on several levels. You can find recordings online pretty easily.
Amsterdam’s Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (AKA “The Ritman Library)
houses more ths 25,000 occult texts, covering “Hermetics, Rosicrucians,
Theosophy, alchemy, mysticism, Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Sufism,
Kabbalah, Anthroposophy, Catharism, Freemasonry, Manichaeism, Judaica,
the Grail, Esotericism, and comparative religion.”
The library has begun to scan and post its core collection to an online archive called The Hermetically Open Archive.
The project was underwritten by Dan Brown in thanks for the library’s
contributions to his books “The Lost Symbol” and “Inferno” (the library
houses the first illustrated edition of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” from
1472).
Though the scans are all in the public domain, the library uses
Javascript tricks to try to block scraping, though, according to Maika
at Haute Macabre, there are plans to enable downloading in the future.
Haute Macabre has assembled a kind of highlight reel of the collection, which has some gorgeous illustrated texts in it.
Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963.
The world of H.P. Lovecraft collides with the Jim Crow South in Lovecraft Country, a new HBO series from executive producers Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams and showrunner Misha Green.