Category Archives: Lush Life

tag, I’m it.

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no, that's not me. But boy, would I look that smug if I lived there!So…five things you STILL don’t know about me, eh? Fine, I’ve got a lot of secrets; I could be doing these until the cows come home and not run out of material, particularly since I have never had any cows, so if they showed up they would still not count as coming home, so there.

Naomi and DefrostIndoors have both tagged me for the 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me meme, and I’ve put them off long enough. Here goes.

  1. the raven is my totem animal, and yes, I went on a spiritquest to find this out.
  2. I have always wanted to own Krak des Chevaliers and I’d live in it, too, regardless how primitive and drafty it was.
  3. I’d consider the Bunsen Lake power station an adequate substitute. Or Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. What can I say, I’m just not a cottage-y person.
  4. I have quite a thing for old, decayed mirrors that have gone all fuzzy, and once tried to have one shipped back from Indonesia. It cost me five bucks to buy, would have cost something like two hundred to ship, so no dice.
  5. My family used to own a haunted inn, and I was always jealous of people who could see the ghost; I only ever heard him.

So now I have to pass this along? Alrighty, then. I tag…hmmm, I’ll have to think about this. I’m running out of friends. While I’m thinking, you can read Geoffrey Chaucer‘s answers.

quiz: which art ism are you?

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This is just too good not to share, particularly in light of this answer from earlier today.

“La seule difference entre moi et un fou, c’est que je ne suis pas fou.”


You Are Surrealism

I Saw Three Cities


Dreamy and idealistic, you’ve created a world that is all your own. It’s very likely that you’ve either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy. You are always trying to push beyond the boundaries of your culture and society.You believe that art, love, and freedom can change the world.

What Art Movement Are You?

Listen to the Band: the Monkees psychedelic wonderland

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I’m feeling psychedelic today, and we’ve already had a jolt of fake sixties stuff, so let’s wash that down with this, the real thing: the Monkees performing Listen to the Band (written by Mike Nesmith, who was always shamefully underrated, right up until the time he made his first hundred million dollars). Nine minutes of lysergic insanity, from the heart of the Sixties. Vicus, I don’t care if you’re on dialup: borrow someone else’s connection and watch this, dammit!

And if you like that, you might also enjoy this version of “She Hangs Out“ with mutated Monkees visuals and Bleat performing the song. BoingBoing didn’t take it, but by god it beats those lame-o “Recycling from the Haunted Mansion!!!!” posts of theirs into the ground!

The Monkees sing “Listen to the Band“, which eventually turns into a psychedelic freak-out (with Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, and more)! Gets pretty weird near the middle and end, but overall still really cool!

Lyrics over the jump: Continue reading →

The Miskatonic Acid Test

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I totally have to see this. It looks awful!

It’s HP Lovecraft a-go-go in “The Miskatonic Acid Test“, the first feature from American Entropy Productions. It’s 1969, and cosmic horror infects a psychedelic rock “happening” in witch-haunted Arkham, Mass. It’s a zonked out brew of poetry, philosophy, cosmic horror, and 60’s-style acid rock; probably the first horror movie that’s more heavily influenced by the Monkees’ “Head” than by George Romero… This is the official trailer.

quote o’ the day: Julia Child

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Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?

Quite so.