Bad Zero

There are a large number of miracles attributed to the Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 - 1273) whose tomb can be found...

The Optera , a species of apterous butterfly who find safety in underground caves. They talk like comedy samurai and at the end of every sen...

Royal Trux song from 1988

Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell and Koji Wakamatsu's 1969 film Go, Go, Second Time Virgin have angry, confrontational reputa...

"I don't care about the audience" Lucio Fulci Even his fans often find Lu...

Lucio Fulci's 1972 giallo Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si Sevizia un Paperino) is not his first 'anti-clerical' film - bot...

A time for angry tears and regrets. In a speech to Khmer Rouge cadres on the Thai-Cambodian border, Pol Pot compared his Democratic Kampuche...

An Interview with Antonella Fulci Part One of four posted on you-tube.

My eyes with which I see so easily will become closed. My friendly heart will stop. I won't sit up. Nose me, soon you won't like it ...

1. Andrei Tarkovsky, while he worked in Italy on Nostalgia , attended a screening of Lucio Fulci's first and most celebrated horror fi...

Been watching Breakfast at Tiffany's . I had no idea... the wondrous horror of Mickey Rooney - not five minutes in - with his teeth from...

I blog so intermittently... I just can't seem to make a habit of it, the disciplined morning habit I once hoped to cultivate. What fox...

"I survived. Mum took me to my Gran and Auntie in a village near Hamburg. I've been clean for 18 months. It frightens me to think o...

"Everything is interrelated. This means that all things always have influence on one another. It further means that nothing can exist b...

I remember as a student walking through a sun-bleached park in London and having just bought a tape cassette of Dirty and it having made n...

A Yanömamö girl picks lice from the hair of a man with club-fight scars Last night I attended a focus group for Extreme Films Research and ...

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication. "Lenin" in Cambodian rhymes with quinine. The sic...

The pornography of a long black skirt and what aren't actually little white ankle socks. Kim Jong Suk as a partisan.

"There are no Sundays; there are only Mondays." further quotations from Pol Pot will litter this blog.

Screenshot from "Emanuelle in America" (D'Amato 1976) Only one m - from the cheap Italian imitations of the prestigious Emman...

Thoughts about porn inspired by the Porn Symposium and the examples of Different Maps , The Measures Taken, InfiniteThought , Beyond the ...

There was a puppet maker in 19th century Japan who lived with one of his dolls. They were effectively man and wife, and slept, ate and spent...

Belgian poet Paul van Ostaijen (1896 - 1928) described poetry as "a game of words, anchored in the metaphysical". I feel quite det...

from Eastern War Time by Adrienne Rich 4 What the grown-ups can't speak of would you push onto children? and the deadweight of ...

It was an icy day we buried the cat then took her box and set match to it in the back yard. Those fleas that escaped earth and fire died by ...