Category Archives: Heroes
Frankenstein
It seems a natural segue from all this talk of my obsessive preoccupation with body parts to a story about putting those parts together to create something new. And as I suggested — even if a bit obliquely — in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Monsters, Movies, Music, Reflections
Tagged Antony & The Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, Carl Laemmle Jr., Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Frankenstein, Hope There's Someone, I Am A Bird Now, James Whale, Mary Shelley
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The Sea of Possibilities
For most socially challenged kids, high school becomes the final torment — a kind of ninth circle — at the end of an already unpleasant progression of mismatched interactions, rejections and instances of outright abuse. But somehow I really lucked … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Music, Reflections
Tagged Brian Eno, David Bowie, Horses, la mer (de), Land, Land of a Thousand Dances, Patti Smith
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