"Steal My Sunshine" is a song by Canadian band Len. It was released in July 1999.
February 12, 2021
February 7, 2021
Tumblr blogs
Tumblr blogs - Retro horror, SF, fantasy, weird
https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/
January 10, 2021
Long-Legged Fly
Long-Legged Fly by W.B. Yeats
That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the pony
To a distant post.
Our master Caesar is in the tent
Where the maps are spread,
His eyes fixed upon nothing,
A hand upon his head.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
That the topless towers be burnt
And men recall that face,
Move most gently if move you must
In this lonely place.
She thinks, part woman, three parts a child,
That nobody looks; her feet
Practise a tinker shuffle
Picked up on the street.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
Her mind moves upon silence.
That girls at puberty may find
The first Adam in their thought,
Shut the door of the Pope’s chapel,
Keep those children out.
There on that scaffolding reclines
Michael Angelo.
With no more sound than the mice make
His hand moves to and fro.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/long-legged-fly
Featured in the preface of the book The Queen's Gambit by Walter Trevis
January 5, 2021
Arthur Machen
Books include The Great God Pan (1894), The Three Impostors (1895), The White People (1904).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen
https://amershammuseum.org/history/people/20th-century/arthur-machen-amersham/
Downloadable books
https://freeditorial.com/en/books/filter-author/arthur-machen
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons
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December 24, 2020
Movie posters - formats & sizes
US
One Sheet : 27” X 41" — 69 X 104 cm — vertical
Half Sheet : 22” X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal
Three Sheet : 41” X 81” — 104 X 205 cm — vertical
Insert: 14" X 36" — 35 X 91 cm — vertical
Lobby Card: 11" X 14" — 28 X 10 cm — horizontal
UK
Quad: 40" X 30" — 101 X 76 cm — horizontal
One sheet: 27" x 40" — 69 X 101 cm — vertical
Half Sheet: 22" X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal
Lobby Card: 10" X 8 — horizontal
AUSTRALIA
DAYBILL: 13" x 30" — 33 X 76 cm — vertical
BELGIAN
14" x 22”. horizontal or vertical.
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https://movieposters.ha.com/poster-sizes.s
https://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cineamericanstyles.htm
https://www.mauvais-genres.com/en/content/45-movie-poster-size
https://postercollector.co.uk/articles/common-movie-poster-sizes/
November 1, 2020
Movie Watch
A few genre movies I watched recently:
It Conquered The World (1956)
Director : Roger Corman
Lee Van Cleef, Peter Graves, and Beverly Garland
Not Of This Earth (1957)
Director : Roger Corman
Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Producer : Roger Corman
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her.
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
A doctor, a sheriff and a biologist pursue a creature hanging around a lighthouse.
Tormented (1960)
When Tom's ex-lover, Vi, threatens him to breakup with his current girlfriend, she accidently slips from the lighthouse and Tom leaves her to die. Soon, Vi's spirit returns to avenge her death.
The Flesh Eaters (1964)
The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
Bela Lugosi. Based on a story by Edgar Wallace
Death Drums Along the River (1963)
Based on a story by Edgar Wallace
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river and ends up uncovering a plot involving diamond smuggling and the local indigenous tribe.
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September 12, 2020
Gert Wilden
Gert Wilden (1917 – 2015) was a German film composer. From 1956 through his retirement, he scored music for 50 feature films in numerous genres. However, he is perhaps best known for his music for erotic films in the 1970s, especially the Schoolgirl Report (Schulmädchen Report) series. (wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Wilden
Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat" swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum-work that sounds like tap-dancing pile-drivers. Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge -- there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily-mangled surf music, and whatever else can be jammed in and will stick. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand.
https://lorihajitura.com/2017/02/15/go-wild-with-gert-wilden/
July 24, 2020
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode
French dancer of the Belle Époque.
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July 7, 2020
The Starlost
The Starlost
The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series created by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called Earthship Ark, which has gone off course. (wiki)
June 22, 2020
Here's to You
The song was written by Baez and Morricone themselves. The lyrics are only 4 lines of text, sung over and over. (wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_to_You_(song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc
April 28, 2020
Brigitte Montfort
Brigitte Montfort is a journalist who lives a double life as the spy BABY. Over 500 Brigitte Montfort stories were published between 1965 and 1992 written by Lou Carrigan.
Author: Lou Carrigan
Cover artist; Jose Luiz Benicio
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April 23, 2020
Ernst Schäfer
Ernst Schäfer and the 1938-1939 German Expedition to Tibet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%E2%80%9339_German_expedition_to_Tibet
Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Christopher Hale.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609310.Himmler_s_Crusade
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April 21, 2020
Tropical Amsterdam
Documentary by Alexa Oona Schulz.
The Dutch Burgher community occupy a unique place in modern Sri Lanka. Once a privileged class, their exalted status vanished on independence. Despite this, a small group stayed. Their story is a fascinating insight into the wicked and glamorous world of colonialism and its legacy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781040/
https://alexaoonaschulz.wordpress.com/portfolio/tropical-amsterdam/
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April 18, 2020
Eric Brown - SF author
Threshold Shift by Eric Brown
This unique collection of science fiction stories focuses on the human emotions that have no place in a world made unrecognisable by science and technology. Three stories that deal with the Kethani aliens—a group that has come to present-day Earth offering life after death via technological resurrection—are included, as is “The Children of Winter,” a lucid tale of doomed love between alien species on a far-off world in the distant future. As characters are pushed to their moral thresholds, they attempt to deal with the unforseen consequences contained in fascinating new technologies.
Two of Eric Brown's stories included in Threshold Shift won British Science Fiction awards: "Children of Winter" (2001) and "Hunting the Slarque" (1999).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(writer)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173695.Threshold_Shift
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December 30, 2019
The Profumo Affair
Scandal (1989)
Michael Caton-Jones’s well-reviewed film starred Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler, Bridget Fonda as Mandy Rice-Davies, Ian McKellen as John Profumo and John Hurt as Stephen Ward.
A Letter of Resignation (1997)
Hugh Whitemore’s play follows Harold Macmillan’s reaction to Profumo’s resignation and the fallout from the affair.
Stephen Ward (2013)
Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s musical directed by Richard Eyre received mixed reviews and ran for just three months before closing.
Reckless (2014)
William Nicholson’s novel, which is partially about the Profumo affair, was praised for its addictive storytelling although some found his re-creation of the Ward set unconvincing.
The Crown (2016-)
The glossy Netflix drama has had two tilts at the scandal. In series two it suggested that Prince Philip may have been involved, and in series three it implied that Anthony Blunt helped him by purchasing drawings made by Ward of the prince.
July 8, 2019
How to price your art
https://theabundantartist.com/pricing/
https://theabundantartist.com/5-art-pricing-lessons/
https://lachri.com/how-to-price-your-art/
https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/how-to-price-consistently-for-art-sales-success
In this "Art and Soul" episode, Leslie discusses some approaches to help you work out a price for your art.
https://youtu.be/o5G-1M-X0gs
How to Price Your Artwork by Cedar Lee
https://youtu.be/y0MzlcQ00MY
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December 11, 2018
Micro Leyendas
Micro Leyendas and Micro Misterio are Mexican comic books.
The size is 4.5 x 3 inches.
December 4, 2017
Family history - UK & Australia
United Kingdom
The National Archives UK
Births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales
The FreeBMD Database
Researching your ancestors from Great Britain and Ireland
Catholic Parish Register
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Australia
Major Archives
Victoria's Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages for a birth, death or marriage.
The Public Record Office Victoria website for digitised records and indexes (early immigration, wills and probate).
The National Archives of Australia's collection (military or immigration post-1923).
Trove's digitised newspapers database for a newspaper notice or article that mentions the name of your chosen person.
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Family History Research Wiki
SLV family history research guides
SLV — Explore our collection
SLV — Search
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover
Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Get a birth certificate
Researching your Victorian ancestors
State Library Victoria newspapers
An index to marriages can be searched for free on the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages website from 1853 to 1942.
Indexes to births, marriages and deaths
Public Record Office Victoria
Indexes to Victorian divorce records can be searched on the Public Record Office Victoria
Wills and probates — Victoria
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Cemeteries
Australian Cemeteries
The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust
http://www.gmct.com.au/deceased-search/
Southern Metropolitan cemetery Trust (includes Springvale Cemetery, St Kilda Cemetery and Bunurong Memorial Park)
Geelong Cemeteries Trust
Ballarat Cemeteries
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Immigration
Passenger records and immigration
Victorian immigration and emigration
Index to unassisted passenger lists 1852 to 1923
Index to assisted passenger lists 1839 to 1871
Index to Outwards passengers lists 1852-1923
Passenger lists for intercolonial ships (travelling within Australia) that arrived in Victoria have been reproduced on the Findmypast Australia website for the years 1852 to 1924.
passenger lists
Arrivals from 1924 onwards
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Directories & electoral rolls
Victorian electoral rolls
Directories & almanacs
Victorian rate books
The largest collection of Victorian directories are the Sands directories:
Sands & McDougall post office directories from 1860 to 1974
Public service lists provided details of employees in the Victorian Public Service.
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Employment
Teacher records (1863-1959)
Railway employment records (1859–1990)
Victoria Police employment (1853–1973)
Ships' crews (1852–1922)
Australian War Memorial website
Register of male and female prisoners (1855–1947)
Melbourne street directories 1912-1952
Melway street directories 1966-1999
Australian schools directory
Government schools
Asylum and hospital records victoria
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Twitter
Using Twitter for Genealogy
@HicksShauna
Liz Pidgeon
Jill Ball
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The Rootsweb website has one of the largest online message board
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Misc Links
Researching your multicultural ancestors
Researching your ancestors from Great Britain and Ireland
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA (PROV)
The NAA's A–Z for researchers page
Cyndi’s List for Australia and other regions
CoraWeb websites for Genealogists: A great collection of Australian and UK websites, including births, deaths and marriages, cemeteries, convicts, occupations, pictures, shipping and maps.
For more information about how to use Google effectively, read Google your family tree on the Findmypast website.
State Library Victoria’s Family History Feast
FamilySearch Learning Center
RootsTech Conference
National Archives UK
November 14, 2017
Family history research — India/Burma
The British Library holds a huge amount of material relating
to the India Office.
to the India Office.
India Office Records and Private Papers
The British Library — Railway employment India
The British Library — India Office Family History Search
Indian Army personnel — The National Archives UK
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The National Archives of India
Anglo Burmese Society website
FIBIS (Families of British India Society)
The Family Search website (they have digitised a number of collections relating to India)
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FindMyPast links relating to India
British India Office Army — Navy Pensions
British India Office Births — Baptisms
British India Office Deaths — Burials
British India Office — Marriages
June 24, 2017
February 27, 2017
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