Spectres on a Graven Hill

"Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire."

2009-07-02T21:29:00.000-07:00

fun book finds part 1

2009-06-20T22:09:00.000-07:00

Do you "dabble" with tea leaf readings? Have you ever questioned the Lord's ways? Are you concerned about worldly affairs that might actually affect you? Are you concerned about animal rights? Have you ever masturbated? Have you ever thought ill will towards someone? Do you have "queer" friends? Do you like fantasy movies? Do you know who "Black Sabbath" is? Then this book is for you and you need it because you need to be set free from Satan's control!

Goddamn. Fuck me. I mean, this book was printed at least FIVE TIMES. Twice in 1988 alone. What's truly sad is that I'm sure people like this still exist. And are probably reproducing by like, the tons.

But shit! They combined evil shit with cute kittens. Can't be too mad about that.

Awww:

Aww! But you know, you don't even have to worship Satan to have one of those.

Sincerely, my familiar (whether I like it or not because he's fucking mean),

Shit, wait. I have to go get stoned real quick for committing an abomination of god. BRB!

Ok. Back.

This is what witches do like, every day of their lives when they're not sucking the blood out of new born infants tiny little veins and rubbing their unholy whore-holes:

On D&D:

"Defilement of fonts!!!"

The like, only other occult dude besides Anton LeVay that they've ever heard of:

No wai!!!

On ouija boards:

"Dead serious!"

On Necromancy:

"Dabbling" or "Meet me at the Crossroads (crossroads)."

...

I mean, do people actually base their lives off what people like this say? Let's take O'l Joan for instance.

Worked on the best-selling books, "Turmoil in The Toy Box" and "Devotion in Motion (should have been called, "Devotion in Motion: Fragrant Lotions and Emotions)." Co-authored, "The Great Pretender".

("I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.")

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord they God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the father upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20:5

Or how about ultimo-fun-killer Phil Phillips?

Dude's parent's reportedly said, "fuck you!" when they decided what to name him.

He was probably big shit to... someone because he was in mainstream, shitty publications. So, he's basically about as useful to me and everyone else as Gene Siskel was living, let alone a corpse.

"Cartoons, candy, games and toys of any kind, fun, art, music, and being imaginative or expressing creativity is directly related to SATAN!! YOU CAN BE SET FREE OF FUN!!

Never forget!:

and

Go Gonzoriffic!

2009-06-10T20:59:00.000-07:00

We've gone to every Cinema Wasteland in Cleveland for the last couple of years and we always have a blast. Three days of movies, sleaze, getting fucked up and hanging out with my boyfriend, horror, gore, meeting legendary actors/actresses, getting out of this town, cool distros, not working, crafts, magazines, and all around awesomeness. We don't really hang around there at night because it becomes this large, drunken, goth?, obnoxious shit storm, but that's ok. We also hit up awesome record stores and eat delicious Thai Food and usually come home with our assholes hurting from spending so much money but it's worth it. You can also find in just about every grocery store the Great Lakes Brewing Companies beer. They are so good and they have cool names like Nosferatu and Burning River.

Anyway. When you're at these conventions you're introduced to different people and filmmakers that you might not otherwise know about. Sometimes - actually most of the time - this is a good thing but a lot of the times it's not. Usually (and I'm sure you know the deal), you walk up to a table for a new movie by some independent folks to see what they've got, you flip the dvd over to read the back while they're standing on the other side of the table staring at you and gauging your reaction with pleading eyes and you can tell that this movie they put all this time and effort into (well, maybe not) is a giant, awful turd. The gore is stupid, the plot is half assed (if at all), the actresses are twats, and there's something ridiculous and offensive like, "MAKES LEATHERFACE LOOK LIKE A GAY CAREBEAR!! - this guy we met at Speedway" or something on the front. Then you have to put it back down (because there's no way in hell you'd buy this, let alone for $20) and they start to whimper, and you say something how it's not about them it's you and you'll be back later but you don't ever come back to buy anything but you still have to walk by their table 20 times a day for the next two days and you can tell that they hate you by the end of the weekend because you lied and fuck you anyway because they totally sold stuff and it's just gets kind of awkward.

But! Thankfully, sometimes you get lucky. And I was that lucky girl this last trip! This was one of the times I bought blindly and was not burned at all, and also became a huge fan in the process. Witness, Gonzoriffic Films!

Go Gonzoriffic

NO budget, silly, gory, ego-free, girl positive, and original. I ended up spending $20 at the table and got 4+ movies, and they were all really nice people.

I'm so glad they put up a trailer for I'm in the Basement because this is definitely my favorite so far:

I'm In The Basement (Trailer) from gOnZoRiFFiC on Vimeo.

So, these girls are having a slumber party. Which you can tell they're just in a tent in one of their living rooms and they're all wearing wigs and being beyond silly.

They're (obviously) making fun of teenage girls and they're all really funny. There's a bunch of good quotes ("If I have a cock in my mouth, or in my asshole, I just couldn't be happier.") And the ending is original and funny. Most of their movies are shorts, and that's ok. More people should probably realize that they should just cut out all the bullshit and make their movies only like, 15 minutes and save us all precious, precious time.

I also got Blood Witch.

This movie is about a 17th century witch and evil shit and bloody, punk rock lesbians, which, I was sold on immediately. The dialog is catty and funny, and this is also nice and short.

(Countess Samela: shitty roommate, taking a break from ouija boards and working on her used-pad quilt)

I also got Cannibal Sisters.

This is silly because it's a remake of a movie that they already did, and that's a selling point, which is hilarious to me for some reason. That's just funny to me. This one is about a guy who attempts to assault the wrong lady and she and her bizarre siblings fuck him up.

And lastly, the full length, Fake Blood. This one is probably my second favorite.

The lady on the cover plays an aspiring actress who's excited to be in a low budget movie. As the movie goes on though, she gets a serious attitude and becomes a horrible, evil bitch. You want to punch yourself in the face because she's so bitchy but at the same time she did such a good job and is so obnoxious that it's hilarious.

Summary: All these movies are a total good time. I like what each person brings to each movie, and I hope I see a lot more of them. They have a bunch of old movies that I didn't know about that I'd really like to check out, too. You should really see them.

p.s. if you read this before I edited it, please excuse my terrible spelling and run on sentences and poor grammar. Yikes! It was worse than it usually is.

Handmade soaps!

2008-11-13T16:16:00.000-08:00

Here are a bunch of soaps I finished recently. They have apricot and various scented oils in them. These are the first ones I made.

I used some stickers to hold the saran wrap down. p.s. I HATE saran wrap.

After I made those, I started to experiment. So I went around the house and took some dried flowers and dried lavender stems and put them in the wax. There's also dead leaves and pine needles in some of them.

I didn't use any dyes in these but they are scented and have apricot as well. I also think it's kind of neat how the color from the plants ran.

These are the Halloween soaps that I unfortunately did not get out in time for the season, but thankfully, and really, who cares. Everyday is Halloween.

(this looks way more orange than it actually is.)

High Priestess box

2008-11-13T15:59:00.000-08:00

I just finished this one. That is an image of a High Priestess from Robert M. Place's tarot deck, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. You should check out his illustrations and if you feel so inclined, order them.

This is the same kind of box as the winding vines one posted before. There is twine around the border and on the spine. I was nervous about putting the image shown on her scroll and book cover because I just could not get it to look right. And I thought that maybe if someone does buy it and wanted me to put something personal on it I could.

This is the spine. I cut each piece individually and hot glued them on. Unfortunately, that space is there because I couldn't glue over the hinges. I might work on that some more because it looks a little weird. Well, lets be honest. That looks pretty bad.

And this is the inside. I hot glued felt down and I painted the "pages" dark green. The borders and back are solid black, though.

Morbid Curiosity magazine

2008-10-19T20:17:00.000-07:00

Stolen from her website, because I couldn't have worded it better:

Called "The learned person's approach to all things dark and lovely" by the Azrael Project Newsletter, for 10 years Morbid Curiosity magazine presented true, first-person accounts of unusual experiences. Morbid Curiosity was an annual journal published and edited by Loren Rhoads.

I recently came across these wonderful magazines and they are one of the things that prompted me to want to start a book distro. Sadly, issue #10 was the last one done, and issues #1-4 are out of print. The lovely Loren Rhoads is one of the nicest people I've ever had the good fortune to do business with. These magazines (various essays by different authors) are full of the kind of content that I can't get enough of. Seriously. Look at that shit.

Issue #5

Subjects:

Alzheimer's disease
Casting a curse
Cruising
Drunk driving
Fireworks
First communion
Freedom
Funeral homes
Graveyards
Homophobia
Imprisonment
Kali
LSD
Messages from beyond
Multiple sclerosis
Museum of Death
Mutter Museum
Nursing the dying
Occult studies
Princess Warrior
Religious choice
Rhinoplasty
Rossyln Chapel
Sleeping in a casket
Spinal injections
Starring in porn
Terrorist bombings
UFOs
Why we're like this

Authors:

Emlin Adeniken
Kelly Gunter Atlas
Shira B.
Kathleen Camplin
Forestter Cobalt
Kalifer Deil
C. R. Dendy
Dean Estes
Dana Fredsti
Gravity Goldberg
Dalton Graham
Bill Hayes
Brian Hodge
Mark Hodgetts
Mike Hunter
Alex S. Johnson
Nancy Kilpatrick
Karen Kruse
Hugues Leblanc
Melanie Leger
John Maclay
Jennifer L. Moore
George Neville-Neil
M. Parfitt
Christine Quigley
Claudius Reich
Loren Rhoads
Jasmine Sailing
Brian Thomas
Kimberlee Traub
Geoff Walker
Bruce Young

Issue #6

Subjects:

Anarchists in Paris
Big Brother
Buying a gun
California Coast Guard
Channeling spirits
Genoa protesters
Getting mugged
Ghost hunters
Ghosts
Hallucinating naturally
Haunted houses
In the nuthouse
LSD
Medical experiments
Night terrors
NYC subways
Occult shops
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Police brutality
Prisoners in America
Raccoon invasion
Racism in the family
Skinning road kill
Slaughterhouse skulls
Street violence
Suicidal boyfriends
Suicidal thoughts
Vienna Burial Museum

Authors:

Shira B.
Greg Bauder
M. Christian
Forestter Cobalt
Jeff Dauber
Suzanne Dechnik
Kalifer Deil
Garry Erwin
Dean Estes
Roy K. Felps
Drew Feuer
Dana Fredsti
William Grace
Gordon A. Graves
Chad Hensley
Mason Jones
Clay Kenyon
Peter Lewis
Dan McQuillan
Jennifer L. Moore
George Neville-Neil
M. Parfitt
Loren Rhoads
Robert Shuster
Lee Smith
John Sulac
Jill Tracy
Kimberlee Traub
Vale
Mehitobel Wilson
Lilah Wild
Willow

Subjects:

Amityville
Art from blood
Art from bones
Body fluids
Car accident
Childbirth
Congenital abnormalities
Dead witches
Egyptian gods
Graveyards
Halloween shoppers
Hitchhiking in Oklahoma
Industrial sailing
Invasive medicine
Lyme disease
Malaysia
Miscarriage
Office voodoo
Nicotine dreams
Nursing
Rabies
Shamans
Serial killers
Silent spring
Surfing
Television stardom
Terminal cancer
Testicular injury
Torture instruments

Authors:

Emlin Adeniken
Michael Arnzen
Dana Fredsti
Gravity Goldberg
Rain Graves
Andrew Henderson
Mark Hodgetts
Jennifer E. C. Humphrey
Keith Lowell Jensen
Alex S. Johnson
Brian Keene
Clay Kenyon
Allegra Lundyworf
Leon Marcelo
A. M. Muffaz
M. Parfitt
Ashley Phelps
Claudius Reich
Alison Renner
Timothy Renner
Loren Rhoads
Stephanie Rose
Joseph M. Shea
Alma Sinan
Paul Stansfield
Mary Ann Stein
Karen Switzer
Brian Thomas
Karen Toensfeldt
Beth Touchette-Laughlin
Mason Winfield
Simon Wood

Subjects:

Anesthesia awareness
Artistic injuries
Body Worlds
Cemeteries
Convicted murderer
Crazy neighbors
Cross-dressing coeds
Dead bird
Dead relatives
Epilepsy
Fever dreams
Firestorm
First autopsy
Fredericks of Hollywood
Full-body tattoos
Grandmarama
Great Dismal Swamp
Hauntings
Hellraiser Gopher
Hurricane survivors
Hypermobility
Idle hands
Internet dating
Knife attack
Mensa
Needle exchange
Punk girls on coke
Rabies
Rotten fruit
Rozz Williams
Small-town jailers
Spontaneous miscarriage
Student pilot
Suicide aftermath
Trannies after dark
Unidentified abdominal mass
Wildlife in the home
Working in the madhouse

Authors:

Melinda Adams
Christopher R. Bales
Trey R. Barker
Timothy Blaszka
David Booth
Sherilyn Connelly
Jeff Dauber
John A. Domeier
Joe Donohoe
Skip Forest
Jude Gibson
T. M. Gray
Jennifer Gwirtz
Michael Hemmingson
Katrina James
Alex S. Johnson
Dorian Katz
Allegra Lundyworf
Miranda S. Padgett
M. Parfitt
Claudius Reich
Loren Rhoads
Shauna Rogan
Jeanne L. Rogers
Melissa Sak
Gene Santagada
William Selby
Lorelei Shannon
RuthAnn Spike
Paul Stansfield
Beth Touchette-Laughlin
Will Walker
Chris West
Lilah Wild
David Niall Wilson
Simon Wood

Subjects:

Balinese homunculus
Blindness
Blood drinking
Collyer house
Colonoscopy
Dancing with the homeless
David Bowie
Dead cat
DIY Funerals
Down's syndrome children
Emergency childbirth
Eye surgery
Guardian angel
Gypsy boys in Spain
Hammer Murderer
Homeless in Manhattan
Hurricane Katrina survivor
Incubator baby
Insanity defense
Invasive medical procedures
Internet rape
Knee surgery
Loch Ness monster
Man under the bed
Mother Love Bone
New Orleans
9/11
Our own monsters
Pompeii
Possible hijacking
Sky burial
Survival Research Laboratories
Temporal lobe seizures
UFO sighting

Authors:

Aldyth Beltane
Raina Bird
Alan M. Clark
Sherilyn Connelly
Becca Costello
Patricia Cram
John Everson
Seth Flagsberg
Amanda Frink
Karen Harper
Seth Lindberg
Keith Lowell Jensen
Bryan Marchese
Nina Morrison
Miranda S. Padgett
M. Parfitt
Ethan Port
Loren Rhoads
Shade Rupe
RuthAnn Spike
Lena Strayhorn
Beth Touchette-Laughlin
Will Walker
Lee Weinstein
Chris West
Simon Wood

Things I've made so far:

2008-10-01T19:51:00.000-07:00

I'm still working on it and these aren't great but they also didn't turn out mind-blowingly disapointing.

The Blood Splattered Baphomet! It is 3x5" and has twine glued on the back so it can be hung up.

(SOLD) This is a box. It is about 8x6", and the inside is lined with red felt.

(SOLD) This is a Memento Mori wood plaque. It is 7x5" and has twine glued on the back so it can be hung up.