I am profoundly happy to be living in a time awash in loose-limbed weird fiction that fucks, kills, and eats.
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I am profoundly happy to be living in a time awash in loose-limbed weird fiction that fucks, kills, and eats.
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Typo in alt text: Juliet BERTO.
My last four watched on Letterboxd this week. LtoR: JULIET IN PARIS (1967) 3 stars (I was too sleepy for a feature length and it had Juliet Barto), SPEAKING PARTS (1989) 4 stars, EXOTICA (1994) 5 stars and * I gave Alex Ross Perry’s film studies dissertation VIDEOHEAVEN (2025) 2 1/2 stars. As a documentary anyway. If I was grading it as an essay, he’d probably do very well.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Alex Ross Perry’s postgrad thesis* mentioned SPEAKING PARTS, so I thought it was about time I investigated Atom Egoyan. I’m not a verbose viewer, but after that big reveal in EXOTICA, I gasped and clutched my pearls like it was Senior’s Tuesday at Hoyt’s.
It’s so hard seeing them distressed. 17 years! I’ve never had a dog live past 10. I’ve mostly had Labs or lab crosses and they’re not known for their longevity. Audrey had surgery a few weeks ago too. I found some lumps on her and panicked. They were nothing, but she’s 10 soon. Next week actually.
Skye, a white Australian Shepard, rests her head on her big sister Audrey, a black Labrador cross.
It’s really rewarding My youngest dog is a Double Merle Australian Shepard who is deaf and only partially sighted due to poor breeding practices. She’s extremely anxious, can’t be alone for long, scared of going out into the world. But because I’m at home all the time we’re a great fit.
I adore his videos that’s the dream isn’t it?
Left no crumbs slayed the house boots down etc.
And now, please welcome Black Phillip and the German Shepherds from John Wick! 👏👏👏
Post an iconic horror film scene.
WARKWARKWARK
That was IMMEDIATELY iconic.
Aw thank you! Made my day.
Meme of a large white goose honking. The caption reads: I AM UNCOMFORTABLE.
Deep breaths. Hello and happy #worldbookday. I don’t mention it much, but a few years ago I self-published the novel I wrote for my doctorate without even attempting the traditional publishing route because I’m a coward. You can get it here or at Barnes and Noble or wherever you get your ebooks.
My move has been delayed too so no goat until later this year most likely. I was looking at donkeys but I have to think of what I’ll be physically capable of doing. My various ailments are only going to get worse as I get older too so getting a young donkey at 43 probably isn’t a good idea.
- Celine Sciamma’s Carmilla
- Nia Dacosta or Eva Victor’s Lolly Willowes
- Josephine Decker’s Hangsaman
- I would like to see someone do a very gay Women in Love.
Guadanino? Strickland?
- and Jonathan Glazer or Panos Cosmatos’ The Great God Pan.
Do you have a donkey? I’m sure it was you who said you were going to get one.
NO! Actually yes, it does help because now I know to only brave it when I’m feeling a little less delicate. I’m certain it will be more upsetting than Funny Games. I can stomach humans in peril a lot easier than animals.
Same, I was most disappointed when I saw how much they are.
Oh no I’m so sorry! I’ve been too chicken to even watch EO yet because I’m certain it will destroy me as much as BALTHAZAR did. This year I’m determined to catch up on everything I’ve been putting off, so I’ll soon find out I guess.
Babes wake up, the pilot episode of CineFilth dropped on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Genevieve and Mitchell discuss the beginning of a beautiful friendship and the movies that bound them to one another.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3bxz...
Neither did I! I know nothing about perfume in general, but I saw a couple of these on Pinterest and fell down a rabbit hole. And I do love to share my silly midnight rabbit holes.
Les Parfums De Marcy Orange Art Deco perfume from the 1920s. This one works in a similar fashion to the Terrys chocolate orange in the sense that each wedge of the orange is a separate bottle of perfume. The white frosted glass makes them look quite realistic; the bottom half of the orange skin serving as the receptacle.
Last one for tonight: The Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
Avon Fairytale Frog Sweet Honesty Cologne from the 1970s. There is a beautiful, soft watercolour illustration on the box of a happy green frog sitting on top of a yellow mushroom. The bottle itself is the same design, the mushroom is clear glass displaying the amber liquid inside and the frog sitting on top is gold. It looks significantly less happy than it does on the packaging.
Avon Small Wonder Charisma Perfume from the 80s. This one is shaped like a little inch worm made from clear frosted glass. Its head and antenna are gold and double as the cap/stopper.
Avon Swiss Mouse Bird of Paradise Cologne from the 70s. This one is a little gold mouse sitting on top of a clear frosted glass wedge of Swiss cheese.
Avon Curious Kitty perfume from the 70s. The bottle is clear glass and shaped like a fish bowl. There are two goldfish swimming inside the perfume. They look three-dimensional but I can’t tell how the illusion was done. My guess is they’re solid glass but it might be some kind of three-dimensional etching technique too? Anyway, there’s a big yellow cat peering inside the top of the bowl.
Avon critters! Even though I’m a little too young to remember these, they feel nostalgic. I bet they smell amazing and not at all like a Glade plug-in.
Perfume bottle designed by René Lalique for Molinard called ‘Le Baiser d’un Faune’ (1932). A circular glass bottle with a fixed panel in the middle featuring a frosted glass design of a naked lady kissing a faun. The area around the panel is hollow and contains the perfume itself.
Perfume bottle from the 1930s designed by Lucien Lelong for Mon Image. This one seems to be part of a series which involves an art nouveau nude clinging desperately to the glass bottle in some way or another.This one has a gold lady with long hair, her arms wrapped around the stopper, head down, body looking like she will blow away with the wind if she were to let go.
2) Late 19th to early 20th century Art Nouveau. Not necessarily “weird” but noteworthy.
A Palais Royale Perfume carriage. This one is a fancy gold and purple carriage with a lid that opens to reveal space for two bottles. The carriage is being pulled by a horse and there’s even a little driver sitting at the front holding the reigns.
A Palais Royal Pefume carriage from the 1800s. This one is a small cart being pulled by two golden goats. The bottle that sits inside the cart is round and made of what looks like a kind of pearlescent /frosted glass, with gold stars and a gold stopper.
AU DE COLOGNE, BALTHAZAR! A Palais Royal Pefume carriage from the 1800s in the shape of a donkey. Looks like it was once gold but it’s now tarnished. The bottle sitting in the little cart is enormous compared to the donkey. Again a kind of pearlescent glass gold trimmings. The donkey has its ears back and it looks sad and tired. Ghastly.
A Palais Royal Pefume carriage from the 1800s. This one is gaudy as hell. A gold filigree chariot being pulled by three Pegasus. The part of the chariot that surrounds the Pegasus(?) has little pink beads dangling from it. Sitting in the chariot is a bright pink perfume bottle with a gold stopper.
Weird Perfume Bottles of Yore:
1) In the 1800s Palais Royal made a series of ‘scent carriages’ where you could have your fancy perfume carted about your vanity table by a beast of burden of your choice!
The YouTube algorithm just hurled an Udo Kier song about Mr Klein in my face that I thought was still considered lost media, but apparently this copy was recorded off the radio by someone in Odessa circa 1985 and uploaded some time in 2023.
This is very sad news. Ken Trodd was a titan of television drama and an incredible character. RIP.
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to the bard of Wyrd Britain, Arthur Machen (1863), 'A Voyage to Arcturus' author David Lindsay (1876) and to the creator of the anarchic boarding school 'St Trinian's', Ronald Searle (1920).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #arthurmachen #davidlindsay #ronaldsearle
Front gatefold of Mitski’s new album ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’. A white cat with heterochromia sits on a rug, unaware that it is about to be attacked by a Tabby cat who can be seen mid-pounce, jumping off a table and knocking over a vase of flowers.
Inside gate fold cover of ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’. A sepia-toned line illustration of the inside of a house with old-fashioned floral wallpaper. There is a small desk sitting next to a window. On the wall above the desk is an oval portrait of a woman…
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IT’S SHIRLEY JACKSON! (Close up of portrait from inner gatefold).
Mitski Miyawaki and Shirley Jackson will return in SHE’S SO ME: ENDGAME.
