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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-40729825457701348482015-10-04T13:28:00.000-07:002016-05-01T15:37:00.535-07:00Tim Burton's 1982 short film: "Vincent"<div style="text-align: center;">
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-85627179448121904082015-02-27T19:28:00.006-08:002015-02-27T19:29:20.639-08:00Albert J. Bernstein: Narcissistic Vampires<div style="text-align: justify;">
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"Narcissistic Vampires have huge egos and tiny consciences. It's not they're actively trying to hurt people; they just never consider other people at all, unless they want something." ~Albert Bernstein</div>
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8. THIS PERSON TAKES ADVANTAGE OF OTHER PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE HIS OR HER OWN GOALS.<br />
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10. THIS PERSON OFTEN FEELS PUT UPON WHEN ASKED TO TAKE CARE OF HIS OR HER RESPONSIBILITIES TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, OR WORK GROUP.<br />
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13. THIS PERSON REVIEWS SPORTS, ART, AND LITERATURE BY TELLING YOU WHAT HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE DONE INSTEAD.<br />
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14. THIS PERSON THINKS MOST CRITICISMS OF HIM OR HER ARE MOTIVATED BY JEALOUSY.<br />
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-86131826720800769412014-06-29T15:37:00.000-07:002014-06-29T15:37:56.140-07:00The Vampire's Bite: Victims of Narcissists Speak Out<br />
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"...Focusing on the narcissist’s insatiable appetite for attention and admiration, narcissistic supply (NS) refers to anything in the environment that feeds the narcissist’s hunger to feel superior to others. And probably the most commonly used NS in the narcissist’s arsenal is their typically co-dependent, enmeshed, self-sacrificial partner. It’s no wonder that these routinely manipulated individuals describe themselves as “bled” or “sucked dry” by the self-absorbed narcissist, who initially so convincingly attached him/herself to them.</div>
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So, once narcissists have secured the relationship with their significant other, what invariably surfaces is their incessant drive to denigrate them, to assert superiority over them. As treasured as they may get their prospective spouse to feel prior to getting their commitment, that’s how devalued they make them feel once winning them over. This is a central theme in the testimony of so many disenchanted individuals who become the primary NS for their narcissistic partners—a subservient, demeaning role they never realized they’d signed up for..." ~<b><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201404/the-vampire-s-bite-victims-narcissists-speak-out">Link to article</a></b> on PsychologyToday</div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-34037097601868439142014-04-24T18:45:00.002-07:002014-04-24T18:45:46.753-07:001958 The Return of Dracula<div style="text-align: center;">
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-35742546596183153002014-03-02T18:22:00.002-08:002014-03-02T18:25:02.467-08:001962 Slaughter of the Vampires (1:18:30)<div style="text-align: center;">
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Thank you to <b><a href="http://thewebofnarcissism.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-vampire-and-ballerina-1960-lamanti.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Quinby54</span></a></b> for recommending this movie! </div>
CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-9131532218833193182013-12-11T18:01:00.002-08:002016-09-14T14:47:37.512-07:00 Mom, the Vampire (6:31)<div style="text-align: center;">
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-78187971542157451812013-07-20T10:47:00.000-07:002013-12-11T17:52:40.912-08:002012 National Geographic: Vampire Skeletons Mystery (45:00)<div style="text-align: center;">
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"National Geographic <i>Vampire Skeletons Mystery </i>2012 HDTV-Nowadays, vampires are a mainstay of TV, film and literature, but in medieval Europe they were a terrifyingly real prospect and omens of death and doom. Taking the archaeological discovery of mutilated medieval skeletons buried in the west of Ireland as a starting point, <i>Vampire Skeletons Mystery</i> traces the rise of the vampire from medieval folk terror to 21st-century fantasy. The fear of the undead seems rooted deep in the human psyche. But could a number of skeletons found buried in a quiet field really signal that vampires were once on the loose in Ireland? Using medieval texts alongside cutting-edge forensic science, a team of experts from British and Irish universities explains how these ancient burials fit into a belief system that spanned medieval Europe and still survives in remote rural communities to this day."</div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-49269539248762433962013-03-18T12:13:00.000-07:002013-04-28T15:45:10.691-07:00The Vampire and the Ballerina 1960 (L’amanti del Vampiro)<div style="text-align: center;">
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-63411908999708843832013-02-04T14:00:00.000-08:002016-05-01T15:42:51.896-07:00Purana Mandir 1984<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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"The story centers on Richard Dees, a deeply cynical reporter from a trashy supermarket tabloid called The Inside View. Dees' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire." <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Flier">Wikipedia</a></b></div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-22025658389012282942012-12-28T14:59:00.000-08:002012-12-28T15:00:55.451-08:00A Fool There Was 1915<div style="text-align: center;">
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Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste,</div>
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A fool there was and his goods he spent,</div>
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Honour and faith and a sure intent</div>
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Oh, the toil we lost and the spoil we lost</div>
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And the excellent things we planned</div>
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The fool was stripped to his foolish hide,</div>
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Which she might have seen when she threw him aside–</div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-92139742461518007052012-11-29T19:46:00.004-08:002013-02-23T22:24:54.321-08:002011 Fright Night (trailer)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>Fright Night</i> is a 2011 3D comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie. It is a remake of Tom Holland's 1985 film of the same name. ~<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night_(2011_film)">Wikipedia link </a></b></div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-6549946984913412942012-11-16T16:25:00.000-08:002012-11-16T16:25:45.235-08:00"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath<div style="text-align: center;">
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You do not do, you do not do</div>
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Any more, black shoe</div>
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In which I have lived like a foot</div>
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For thirty years, poor and white,</div>
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Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.</div>
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Daddy, I have had to kill you.</div>
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You died before I had time--</div>
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Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,</div>
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Big as a Frisco seal</div>
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And a head in the freakish Atlantic</div>
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Where it pours bean green over blue</div>
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In the waters off beautiful Nauset.</div>
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I used to pray to recover you.</div>
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Ach, du.</div>
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In the German tongue, in the Polish town</div>
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Scraped flat by the roller</div>
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Of wars, wars, wars.</div>
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But the name of the town is common.</div>
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Put your foot, your root,</div>
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I never could talk to you.</div>
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The tongue stuck in my jaw.</div>
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It stuck in a barb wire snare.</div>
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Ich, ich, ich, ich,</div>
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I could hardly speak.</div>
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I thought every German was you.</div>
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And the language obscene</div>
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Chuffing me off like a Jew.</div>
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A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.</div>
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I began to talk like a Jew.</div>
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I think I may well be a Jew.</div>
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The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna</div>
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Are not very pure or true.</div>
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With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck</div>
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And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack</div>
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I may be a bit of a Jew.</div>
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I have always been scared of you,</div>
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With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.</div>
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And your neat mustache</div>
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And your Aryan eye, bright blue.</div>
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Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-- </div>
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Not God but a swastika</div>
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So black no sky could squeak through.</div>
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Every woman adores a Fascist,</div>
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The boot in the face, the brute</div>
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Brute heart of a brute like you.</div>
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You stand at the blackboard, daddy,</div>
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In the picture I have of you,</div>
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A cleft in your chin instead of your foot</div>
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Any less the black man who</div>
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Bit my pretty red heart in two.</div>
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I was ten when they buried you.</div>
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At twenty I tried to die</div>
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And get back, back, back to you.</div>
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I thought even the bones would do.</div>
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But they pulled me out of the sack,</div>
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And they stuck me together with glue.</div>
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And then I knew what to do.</div>
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I made a model of you,</div>
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A man in black with a Meinkampf look</div>
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And a love of the rack and the screw.</div>
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And I said I do, I do.</div>
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So daddy, I'm finally through.</div>
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The black telephone's off at the root,</div>
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The voices just can't worm through.</div>
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If I've killed one man, I've killed two--</div>
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And drank my blood for a year,</div>
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Seven years, if you want to know.</div>
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Daddy, you can lie back now.</div>
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There's a stake in your fat black heart</div>
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And the villagers never liked you.</div>
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They are dancing and stamping on you.</div>
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They always knew it was you.</div>
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Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.</div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-17743810946410190742012-11-06T23:32:00.002-08:002013-02-23T22:23:04.607-08:002000 Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire (1:22:54)<div style="text-align: center;">
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-63786702658155170002012-09-22T14:56:00.001-07:002012-09-22T15:00:35.490-07:00Apologies to Kostika Collaku (Dracula 1931)<br />
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I received a note from Kostika Collaku about the Dracula film posted on my blog. I had inadvertently failed to credit Kostika Collaku for writing the music for <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_film)">Dracula</a></b>. This required some research on my part, the result of which explains a brief history of Dracula 1931.</div>
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The original film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi, did not have a musical score because of technical difficulties in film making during 1930-1931. I must have watched this film ten times, never realizing an original soundtrack had been added in 1999, after commissioning <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass">Philip Glass</a></b> to compose a musical score played by the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_Quartet">Kronos Quartet</a></b>.<br />
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To watch other YouTube videos, visit Kostika Collaku's <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/draculauploader">YouTube Channel.</a> </b>You can also listen to the soundtrack <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldZZEkZLJw&list=UU6Ed38s2Ten-k_E87Rmsd8Q&index=10&feature=plcp">composed by Collaku on YouTube.</a></b> It is <i>beautiful! </i><br />
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-61123262553405879702012-08-15T15:07:00.002-07:002014-04-22T19:21:06.173-07:00BBC Drama 1977: Count Dracula<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the famous novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired in December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.</div>
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CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-25538578300840187792012-07-13T14:16:00.003-07:002012-07-13T14:29:57.362-07:00Vincent Price: Mystery Guest<div style="text-align: center;">
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This was too fun! A clip from "What's My Line?" in the 1950's. Vincent Price starred in a vampire film listed titled <b><a href="http://thewebofnarcissism.blogspot.com/2011/01/last-man-on-earth-1964.html">The Last Man on Earth (1964).</a></b> It's similar to apocalyptic zombie movies today.<br />
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<i>The Last Man on Earth</i> was remade as <i>The Omega Man</i> and recently, <i>I Am Legend. </i><br />
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<b>Visit: <a href="http://thesoundofvincentprice.blogspot.com/">The Sound of Vincent Price Blog</a></b><br />
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<br /></div>CZBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575206236892096611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977544232690188578.post-5439311135457019752012-07-07T19:16:00.002-07:002012-07-07T19:16:44.601-07:001969 Fangs of the Living Dead (original title Malenka)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>"12 different versions of Vampire – an image of a naked woman with long, wild red hair bent over the dark head of a man whose face is buried in her breasts. Her sharp nose is above his neck and her teeth are presumably buried in it. The background and the subject vary – it is dark and threatening, it is a woodland glade, the woman is more and less animal, the hair is wilder or softer. The effect on the onlooker is to make the image more fixed as it is repeated – there is an archetypal vampire, this is how she is; you can represent her in this way or that but she is constant."</i> ~<b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/edvard-munch-ghosts-of-vampires-and-victims#start-of-comments">AS Byatt</a></b></div>
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One of the most sensational and shocking images in European art, Edvard Munch’s painting of a man locked in a vampire’s tortured embrace – her molten-red hair running along his soft bare skin – created an instant outcry when unveiled a century ago. Some believed the Norwegian artist’s anguished 1894 masterpiece, <i>Love and Pain</i> – since known as <i>Vampire </i>– to be a reference to his illicit visits to prostitutes; others interpreted it as a macabre fantasy about the death of his favourite sister. Some years later, Nazi Germany condemned it as morally “degenerate”.</div>
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<i>Vampire </i>has become one of Munch’s most sought-after and reproduced images, despite remaining in the hands of a private collector for the past 70 years.</div>
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The painting will go on the open market, The Independent can reveal, and is anticipated to smash the $31m (£17m) auction record for a Munch work. <i>Vampire</i>, which is often seen as the sister of <i>The Scream,</i> completed just months earlier, will be sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for an estimated $35m.</div>
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The painting was part of Munch’s seminal 20-work series <i>The Frieze of Life,</i> which included <i>The Scream</i>. It is the most significant version of four <i>Vampires</i> he completed in 1893 and 1894, and was first exhibited in 1902 in Berlin, where his works caused shock and awe.</div>
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<i>Vampire </i>was sold to the avid Munch collector, John Anker, in 1903, and is the only work from the original series in private hands. It was acquired by a private collection from Anker and his wife, Nini Roll, in 1934, and has since remained there – albeit loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until last year. <i>Vampire </i>has not been since in Britain since 1974. Simon Shaw, head of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s in New York, said: “There have been past Munch works to be sold in recent times, such as a wonderful group of works in 2006 and a painting earlier this year, but this one is a real, knock ‘em dead masterpiece.”</div>
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<i>Vampire</i> caused a sensation when it was unveiled, touching on turn-of-the-century fears about women’s liberation. Some critics were outraged by its perverse, almost sado-masochistic depiction of passion. Mr Shaw added: “It was shocking to Berlin society just as it is shocking today.” Munch, however, always insisted it was nothing more than “just a woman kissing a man on the neck”.</div>
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The work also became the basis for several pastels, woodcuts, lithographs and prints, one of which will be sold at Sotheby’s in London on 2 October, entitled <i>Vampire II</i> and estimated to fetch up to £400,000. The painting will be on view in London from 3 to 7 October, and then in Moscow, before it is sold in New York on 3 November.</div>
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"...a virtual movie of the legendary French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 -- 1867) reading his poem "Le Vampire" (The Vampire) The superb reading is by Alain Cuny Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857;The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; "Little Prose Poems") was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Known for his highly contraversial, and often dark poetry, as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire's life was filled with drama and strife, from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy. Long after his death many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice: Others see him as being the poet of modern civilization, seeming to speak directly to the 20th century." ~<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4c3q9tmI7ag">YouTube link </a></b></div>
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Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,</div>
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Dans mon coeur plaintif es entrée;</div>
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Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau</div>
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De démons, vins, folle et parée,</div>
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De mon esprit humilié</div>
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Faire ton lit et ton domaine;</div>
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— Infâme à qui je suis lié</div>
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Comme le forçat à la chaîne,</div>
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Comme au jeu le joueur têtu,</div>
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Comme à la bouteille l'ivrogne,</div>
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Comme aux vermines la charogne</div>
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— Maudite, maudite sois-tu!</div>
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J'ai prié le glaive rapide</div>
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De conquérir ma liberté,</div>
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Et j'ai dit au poison perfide</div>
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De secourir ma lâcheté.</div>
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Hélas! le poison et le glaive</div>
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M'ont pris en dédain et m'ont dit:</div>
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«Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève</div>
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À ton esclavage maudit,</div>
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Imbécile! — de son empire</div>
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Si nos efforts te délivraient,</div>
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Tes baisers ressusciteraient</div>
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Le cadavre de ton vampire!</div>
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You who, like the stab of a knife,</div>
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Entered my plaintive heart;</div>
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You who, strong as a herd</div>
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Of demons, came, ardent and adorned,</div>
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To make your bed and your domain</div>
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Of my humiliated mind</div>
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— Infamous bitch to whom I'm bound</div>
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Like the convict to his chain,</div>
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Like the stubborn gambler to the game, </div>
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Like the drunkard to his wine, </div>
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Like the maggots to the corpse,</div>
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— Accurst, accurst be you!</div>
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I begged the swift poniard </div>
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To gain for me my liberty, </div>
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Alas! both poison and the knife</div>
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Fool! — if from her domination</div>
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Your kisses would resuscitate</div>
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The cadaver of your vampire!"</div>
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You, who like a dagger ploughed </div>
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Of my dejected soul have made</div>
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Your bed, your lodging, and domain:</div>
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To whom I'm linked (Unseemly jade!)</div>
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Or as the gamester to his dice, </div>
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Or as the drunkard to his dram, </div>
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I curse you. Would my curse could damn!</div>
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To win for me my freedom back. </div>
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To help my cowardice. Alack!</div>
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My cowardice, and seemed to say</div>
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You imbecile! since if from her empire </div>
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Our fascination with vampires seemed to increase in the late 20th century with popular television series like "Buffy: the Vampire Slayer"<i> </i>and Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" saga. </div>
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Gareth Schott and Kirstine Moffat edited a new collection of essays in a book titled "Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire".<br />
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Chapter Four in this book was contributed by <b><a href="http://www.feministfrequency.com/about/">Anita Sarkeesian</a></b>, feminist pop media critic and her co-author Jennifer Jenson. Their chapter, "Buffy vs. Bella: The Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine in Vampire Stories"<i> </i>"...explores the differences between Buffy Summers...and Bella Swan from the <i>Twilight </i>saga. This chapter further explores how the narratives of each fictional universe can limit or expand the way fans interact with each character." Anita Sarkeesian has generously offered a free download by visiting her website, <b><a href="http://www.feministfrequency.com/">Feminist Frequency.</a></b> </div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/FANPIRES-Audience-Consumption-Modern-Vampire/dp/0984583211">From Amazon.com:</a> </b>"This collection of essays addresses the renewed interest in the cultural resurgence of the vampire, evident across a broad range of literature, film, television, graphic novels, and games. The appeal of vampire mythology and its associated folklore for modern audiences is examined in an age characterized by the transformative possibilities of the internet with both its low barriers to artistic expression and the erosion of the boundaries between author and audience in terms of the construction of narrative, character and fictional universes. This collection examines how audiences respond to and "use" the vampire in their own practices.<br />
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"From evil villains to tragic heroes, modern appropriations of the vampire, evident in popular manifestations such as the Twilight saga and the televisual adaptation of The Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood) are noted for their focus on the everyday. These vampires are found nested within communities, seeking to temper their urges and coexist with humans. "Drifting silently into harbour, the vampires arrived in Western Europe scarcely two centuries ago. Since then, they have become a new folklore. The rich fan cultures addressed by vibrant emerging scholars from around the English-speaking world gathered in Schott and Moffatt's collection are the true heirs of this uncanny invasion. The mix of glamour and disgust, aestheticism and dread vampires evoke offers metaphors for every form of anxiety and unholy yearning: a bloodstained laboratory for social experiment.<br />
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"This collection opens new corridors into the chambers of the undead, and casts an eerie light on the subterranean worlds of fans and vampires alike." -Sean Cubitt, Professor of Global Media and Communication, Winchester School of Art, UK. "<i>Fanpires </i>offers the preeminent collection of scholarly approaches to this immortal shape shifter. This compilation of insightful essays not only reflects the omnipresence of the vampire in popular culture, but it identifies the pivotal role of fans in revitalizing the life of the vampire." -Wendy Haslem, Professor of Screen Studies & Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne.</div>
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Beware of books titled <i>Bite</i>, pomegranates, vampire Kings and bored housewives...<br />
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