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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 12m

Update: I have searched for the outrage of my fellows and not found it. Clearly there must be a technical error of some sort on the sight

Seriously, everyone goes on about the videos to "Closer" and the Coil "Tainted Love" being in MoMA but this video is a real interdimensional masterpiece

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

Derwent village’s drowned church in Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire

two people looking at a church spire above the water level of a reservoir

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 39m

31 Days of Horror: Freaks (1932). A movie I love more and more as the years go on. It grows on me. I keep both releases because they have two different David J. Skal commentaries (one of my heroes RIP).

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Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · May 29

"Screen Kiss (from 'The Flat Earth') tells the story of British ex-pats in the Hollywood Hills, a ruminative vignette about displaced people managing expectations and understated tragedies as best they can"

A Thomas Dolby 10 on Toppermost today ... #thomasdolby

www.toppermost.co.uk/thomas-dolby/

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1h

Ballroom dancers from 1984 Actuel magazine. They are described in the article as "danseurs retros".

As Martika once sang, "It's true I did extend the invitation/I never knew how long you'd stay."

#SCD

A man moustachioed man in a frilly shirt and a kind of short cape trimmed with animal print fur, a cummerbund and black dancers trousers, striking some kind of latin pose, like maybe a paso doble thing with one hand at his waist and the other hand twirly-fingered and pointing aloft. He, presumably Jean-Raymond or Loic according to the caption ("Jean-Raymond, Isabelle et Loic Sandrine") is standing in a moquette-walled French living room with one of those wood coffee tables with ombre tiled surface, and a huge wood sideboard. He seems full of good humour.

A two by two array of other ballroom dancers Dider, Laura et Thierry, Claude et Karine), one couple in tarty pink and black latin outfits, one in midnight blue and black latin outfits, one in ballroom gear (tailcoat etc. for him, long foofy feathered blue dress for her), and one in ballroom outfits with a pink dress with white fur trim for the lady. Behind them the sitting-room decors are all dismaying in different ways, and I'm not strong enough to log all those details tonight.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1h

How dare there be a Thunderbirds-themed dance on movie night #SCD and it not be to International Rescue by Fuzzbox?

Now doubt Bluesky is already alive with other people bellowing the same outrage, but I can't just remain silent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0a...

Fuzzbox - International Rescue (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

www.youtube.com

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 11h

- The trees have ears
- The field has eyes
- Might hide in the cupboard before the rest of the Latent heave into view

#Bosch

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 12h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 23h

Nice to know there's life after 70s horror book jacket modelling

Cover of Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce, with a distorted pale face looming out of purple tinted darkness

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

That elusive horse chazzer in Cherencé was finally open a while back and I bought this from 1986. Love the z pages especially

A Dictionary of Devon Dialect by John Downes, the cover showing two pics of thatched cottages, one with a church spire behind it

Extract from one page: Zex, zax zax (a chopping tool used by slaters)
Zex sect (Church of England, Methodist etc.)
zhure sure, certain
zie, zieth a scythe
zill sell, 'Nort fet zill' - nothing to sell
xim to seem 'I zim' - 'it seems to me'
zin sun

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Lol I know I'm just in a very silly mood, pay no attention

Still haven't forgiven Randi for dissing dowsers haha

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 1d

Charlotte Riddell news
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Charlotte Riddell: Queen of Ghost Stories honoured with blue plaque in Carrickfergus

Her more than 50 stories explored moral ambiguity and an obsession with the supernatural in the Victorian age.

www.bbc.com

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I meant James.

I realize Steven isn't so far gone he's reviewing his own work

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Those aren't lapels Steven, can you please let go of me before I MeToo your arse

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Haha ok.

Get around sound,
Get around sound,
Where the metal sun's out
And the tawnies are loud

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 2d

Today's example of Mesopotamian pith (i.e. small words that stand for complicated ideas): the Hurrian (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians) word "abi," which Emmanuel Laroche's handy GLOSSAIRE DE LA LANGUE HOURRITE informs us means "a hole dug in the ground to communicate with the infernal powers."

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

I really love music and sounds that are hard or impossible to distinguish from optical phenomena, like the effects in "Sunstar" by Miracle. Good times

www.discogs.com/master/33182...

Miracle - Fluid Window

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Fluid Window by Miracle. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

I don't mean a "nasty noisy pop-mongers get their comeuppance from the owners' ghosts" type of revenge plot, btw. More a look at what might occur when you have light engineers and sound engineers brought into very close range of one another, in a place that's already been in strange flux for decades

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Some more shots here. I once read that the Smithsons eventually left the solar pavilion in 1982 due to disturbances from "sound engineers" who'd moved into an adjacent property, which is sad but also the foundation of a really bomb weird tale.

hicarquitectura.com/2024/03/alis...

Alison and Peter Smithson > Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion Folly | HIC

hicarquitectura.com

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

I don't care what ruffian claims to own this house, I am the once and future incumbent of the Solar Pavilion. That doesn't mean I will be mowing the lawn of course.

Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 2d

Near Tisbury, Wiltshire.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

They tell me you can't fill a whole account with weird old stuff from churches so here are some snaps from a recent visit to this temporary exhibition of Dom Wattebled and co. at Avranches in the castle walled garden. Hoping to visit the Scriptorial properly when funds allow.

A thing of brown paper decorated with chalk, like a ragged butterly and also a town map, it's contours teld down with pale shells

View down the steps to the courtyard along the side fo the Scriptorial, where tall a tall dark evergreen tree appears to form the right half of the old stone archway into the lane. The houses are, I guess, 18th centry, with tall slate roofs and a bourgeouis look.The cloud above has a swooping quality like a bird in corkscrew flight

Another Wattebled butterfly drawing, this one in colour crayons - most of the colours - and, yes, upside down.

An ancient arch with stumpy legs and an elegant arch leads along the wall of the courtyard.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Though I don't recall any of those tales being such a tangle of different myths. Usually those writers would just pick one and give it a good work-out. Tovey doesn't give a f*ck. Chuck 'em all in. If myths were serpents this song would be a Medusa's head itself

Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 3d

Tovey's lyrics have the concise, deceptively casual vibe of the best of those tales. That opening couplet. Later, the strangeness of honeysuckle paired with autumn leaves, open doors in a cold season. "Now that hairdo with the snakes/I'm not that sure about". But it's definitely not stopping him.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 3d

Came upon a great drift of late-flowering honeysuckle at a field edge this evening and it reminded me of this, a kind of pop version of those modern-day myth/botanical stories from the Datlow/Windling dark fantasy and horror anthologies from the 90s

#FrankTovey

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2seF...

All That Is Mine

YouTube video by Frank Tovey & the Pyros - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 3d

These pics are a bit hopeless because by the time I'd finished gawping at the insides of the church it was getting dark, but here are the trees, or as much of them as would fit into the frame
#ThatsAHugeBitch

The trunk of the big knobbly one, absolutely fuckmassive. Just off to the left is the cleft tree and a wing of the church is on the right

The cleft tree, also very sizeable. I could confortably walk through the triangular doorway in it

The cleft tree viewed from within, looking up at the St Andrews cross of the metal struts to the needled branches above

IT'S SO AWESOME

A scatter of arils, fallen twiglets and dried-out golden needles resting in one of many undulating hollows of the cleft tree's bark. This badly-lit picture doesn't begin to convey how touchable the tree is, and I apologize in advance if that sounds creepy but you had to be there

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 3d

Wouldn't it be an absolute kick in the head if one or both of those yew trees, now reckoned at around 900 years old, changed gender to mark their real thousandth birthday. Like maybe they could just swap gender without telling anyone
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...

Berries show ancient Fortingall yew tree is 'changing sex'

The Fortingall Yew, an ancient tree in Perthshire believed to be thousands of years old, has partially changed sex to female.

www.bbc.com

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