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« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2011, 02:50:30 PM » |
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Lava lamps look like stoned out Shoggoths in pickle jars.
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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2011, 04:05:36 AM » |
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Lava lamps look like
stoned out Shoggoths in glass jars.
At night the mink come.
Nice alliteration, now it's 5-7-5 haiku too.
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« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2011, 08:32:09 AM » |
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That Seal of R'lyeh story I can totally picture as a 70s flick with a muscle car/penis-mobile driven by the main character wearing slightly "hip" New England preppy fashion, lava lamps and ceiling mirrors in his bachelor's pad, a round bed, the whole nine yards.
Wow, OldBook. You have just insured that I will never read anything Derleth ever wrote again without comparing it to an early porno movie. Actually, I guess that is an improvement.  Bob |
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« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2011, 10:27:22 AM » |
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The porn star 'stache as a "sign of wholesale regional decay"?
Works for me.
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« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2011, 10:59:47 AM » |
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I really wish I could grow a porn 'stache... I just have whispy hair and the closest I can get is like Egg Shen in "Big Trouble in Little China". Sad Bob |
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« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2011, 11:51:59 AM » |
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The porn star 'stache as a "sign of wholesale regional decay"?
Works for me.
Yes, but more art-film-like, so if you have a scene, say, of dead whippoorwills pelting the roof over your verandah, you make it last incredibly long, unreasonably so, and you use special effects to make the 'wills turn white as they pelt the screendoor and mosquito screens over the entire structure, then you pan out from inside the verandah across the war-torn landscape of fallen items on tables, perhaps a broken lava lamp or two, some eldritch tomes smeared with bird droppings and blood and some feathers floating around, until the camera's eye comes to rest on a single chicken egg in a traditional egg cup, and stays there at least 30 seconds while the sounds of the birdicane outside continues. This is what you would call "the money shot" in less artful films. |
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« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2011, 01:37:34 PM » |
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And it's all a metaphor for not having sex because the author - pardonnez-moi - the auteur is scared fo women?
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« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2011, 12:29:27 PM » |
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Derleth wasn't sexophobic afaik.
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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2011, 01:59:25 PM » |
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Oops - I was back to HPL again.
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« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2011, 09:36:59 AM » |
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That Seal of R'lyeh story I can totally picture as a 70s flick with a muscle car/penis-mobile driven by the main character wearing slightly "hip" New England preppy fashion, lava lamps and ceiling mirrors in his bachelor's pad, a round bed, the whole nine yards.
Strangely enough, there was a kind of trend in the '60s - early '70s towards adapting (read: ripping off) Lovecraft. There was "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Haunted Palace" of course, but there were lots of little ways Lovecraft was worked into flims, too. Fer instance, a famously awful movie called "The Touch of Satan" rips off some lines from "The Horror at Red Hook", presumably to try and give the film a Lovecraftian vibe. That whole "...Gorgo and Mormo of the thousand-faced moon." sort of thing. It doesn't really work, of course, but it's the kind of thing I keep running across in low budget horror movies from that time period. |
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« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2011, 10:32:57 AM » |
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That whole "...Gorgo and Mormo of the thousand-faced moon." sort of thing. It doesn't really work, of course, but it's the kind of thing I keep running across in low budget horror movies from that time period.
IIRC, Lovecraft himself cribbed that line from the Encyclopedia Britannica. So maybe it's a case of both HPL and the B- filmmakers ripping off the same source material. |
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« Reply #26 on: September 19, 2011, 11:33:10 AM » |
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IIRC, Lovecraft himself cribbed that line from the Encyclopedia Britannica. So maybe it's a case of both HPL and the B- filmmakers ripping off the same source material.
Plagiarize! don't ever shade your eyes that's why god made your eyes so plagiarize plagiarize plagiarize! ...But please to call it "research". (name that song?) |
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« Reply #27 on: September 19, 2011, 11:53:12 AM » |
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JulieH's Rag-Time Writer's Blues??  Bob |
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« Reply #28 on: September 19, 2011, 01:57:08 PM » |
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nah - "Nikolai Ivonovitch Lebochefsky" by Tom Lehrer
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[probably not spelled correctly]
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« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2011, 02:21:50 PM » |
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IIRC, Lovecraft himself cribbed that line from the Encyclopedia Britannica. So maybe it's a case of both HPL and the B- filmmakers ripping off the same source material.
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