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I rewatched Interview with the Vampire last night and it just doesn't seem dark enough. Maybe that's a reflection of how my emotional self has darkened after Covid, rapacious politics, and so much social turmoil. But it seems to me that the story, the myth, of the vampire is dangerous because it is Dionysian and... Continue Reading →
The Old Guard is a vampire cliché without the fangs. Read about it here: splicetoday.com/pop-culture/garlic-and-bitters.
Source: https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/altered-carbon-s-love-affair-with-central-casting
So I finally finished Season 5 of Game of Thrones and I know I should be emotionally manhandled at this point by all the cynical backstabbery, but I'm not. Martin Scorsese once said that it's easy to get your audience to feel something—just put a puppy on stage and drop a safe on it. You'll get... Continue Reading →
The Writing Expedition 