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Beyond The Wychelm, Beyond The Veil
I am fascinated--and I mean deeply fascinated--by the darker aspects of Britain's ancient past and how it saturates the landscape and bleeds into the present. How it hints at the sinister and...
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Tony Bastable v John Noakes
cover illustration by Alan ParryTony Bastable v John Noakes. It's the name of a song by my old friends The Dentists, from their 1985 LP Some People Are On The Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now....
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I-Spy: Trees
"Pagans worshipped the trees because wood was a magical substance, feeding the fires that cooked their food, supplying materials to make weapons and construct shelter."-- Rob Young, Electric Eden:...
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They found the truth in the flowering tree: "Glastonbury" by People (Deram,...
"Glastonbury" by People, included on the compilation Staircase to Nowhere, Volume 12 in Bam Caruso's Rubble series. Per the liner notes on the inner sleeve:"People were essentially a squeaky-clean...
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The Suns of Easter Island
Several months after this post at Mounds and Circles piqued my interest, I've finally had the chance to watch Pierre Kast's 1972 metaphysical odyssey The Suns of Easter Island.The plot is minimal and...
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June Book of Strange Stories 1972
This turned up in a junk shop in Galveston, Texas, although it seems, originally, to have been the property of a young girl called Iona from Wales.The prospect of "strange stories" initially got me...
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Mid- to Late 70s Margaret Drabble Penguin book covers, with photography by...
A Summer Bird-Cage (1975 reprint) and The Millstone (1977 reprint) are my scans (although I'm aware that they appear elsewhere on the web. The Ice Age (1979 reprint) is via Keir Hardie (scatterkeir on...
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Weird Wooden Things In Wake Wood
I recently watched Wake Wood for the first time, and I was quite struck by the rough-hewn wooden items used by the villagers.The rhythm sticks and rattling drums played during the ritualistic...
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Neither The Sea Nor The Sand
I recently re-watched Neither the Sea nor the Sand, AKA The Exorcism of Hugh (1972), directed by Fred Burnley and starring Susan Hampshire and Michael Petrovich. Ostensibly a horror film, it's most...
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Golden Sands Holiday Camp (Date Unknown)
A suitably atmospheric vintage photo found in a curio shop in Brighton, May, 2012. My friend Stephen spied it first, but i was more than happy to pluck it from his reject pile after he made his final...
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There's a new mix available at my Mixcloud page. It's been in the works for some time now. It's at least a little bit magic, I think.A foggy dock in the early hours of morning. A dark shape begins to...
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Ysbrydion Cymru
Just a wee pamphlet found in an antique bookshop in St. Andrews, Scotland...
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The Cosmic Bicycle (1972)
I*HATE*THIS*FILM's Vimeo channel is a source of many wonders. As a fan of collagist Sätty's work, I was pretty excited to experience IHTF's most recent upload, The Cosmic Bicycle (1972), with art and...
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Things To Come (1976)
Here are a couple of goofy promo photos for a 1976 sci-fi/sexploitation film that I recently found in Austin. It looks so low-budget it almost hurts. Magus Film Group was a San Antonio, Texas outfit...
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The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by Kemper Norton, Ix Tab and Hacker Farm...
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