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Army of Darkness - Sam Raimi
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Camp horror schlock sequel to "The Evil Dead II", starring Bruce Campbell.
Which was, after it's fashion, fun, the effects are much the same, one noteworthy scene that I admired was when Bruce Campbell's character drops a mirror and upon seeing his reflection cast in a hundred shards is stunned to see the "mini-me's" jump out and begin to harass him...
All in good fun, of course, nothing to give you nightmares but a good B movie. Make sure to watch it with popcorn.
All work and no pay...
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makes Rod a dull boy.
Working lots, extra even, to try and pay down a few bills, only we're behind on a few paydays. And hence I'm behind on a few too many bills.
At home, enough tomatoes and onions and pasta for maybe 2 meals. Maybe. And the meds run out and I owe everyone and their dog money. Which - if paid - I would owe nobody money and so - this forever going without meals, cigarettes, well, it's getting to be a constant annoyance.
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Books, finally I'm done. The last of the books to the bookstore yesterday, I have a rather long list of what I'd read, now to organize it and ... ?? I'll get ChatGPT to organize a virtual library for me. The hall, largely empty of boxes now, the desk and windowsill overflowing with books I have yet to read, I'm back onto Sir Walter Scott's "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" - borrowed by the neighbour as she's convinced she's under some sort of Hex.
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And, today off, looking at what to do, what to do, $2 in my pocket, waiting on a payday so I can buy some meat...
I might need to find another job.
The Adventures of a Modern Occultist - Oliver Bland
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While confirming the fashion of Seances and Mediums our Author takes us in quite a few other directions.
HIs adventures - and some are adventures indeed, border on the absurd, preposterous imaginings that might inspire an "Indiana Jones" movie. Amusing, but hardly to be credited.
Read it online here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75900/pg75900-images.html
My Occult Diary - Cornelius Tabori
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40 Years of notes on the Occult Renaissance in Hungary, with travels to a variety of European Capitols.
Mostly his research consists of attending Seances and examining the Mediums, all the fashion in the day, and he dryly recounts the list of "Apported" objects, objects materialized from the Spirit world with the assistance of the medium, such materials include beans, crabs, mice, nails, insects, fish,, gramophone needles, lizards, etc, etc. You name it, provided it was small enough to be swallowed or concealed it would later be produced or regurgitated and held as "Proof" of life beyond.
While Seances were big, he also considers "Graphology" an occult science (not so anymore), hypnotism the same, and recounts a great deal of miracles that have taken place thereby, there's telepathy, PSI, PK, dreams and premonitions, apparitions, he often rejects one supernatural explanation in favour of another supernatural explanation, he talks about dowsing, astral-travel, lucid dreams, the anecdotal strings of incredible coincidences that may, in fact, be just that.
In his travels and adventures he meets Freud, Thomas Mann, Rhine (who invented the ESP deck), and many others.
A curious book that describes well the fashions of the time, less "Evidentiary" than simply a man with a taste for curious people and events.
He was murdered in 1944 by the Hungarian Nazis. The book was posthumously translated and published by his son.
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