Archive for December, 2008
Rook #1
Rook #1, originally uploaded by John Grey.
Great photo of a rook on Flickr by John Grey. I love the sense of movement in it and the feeling it’s like a snaphot of something glimpsed out of the corner of an eye. Very Jamesian.
Christmas on Mars
Yesterday I saw Christmas on Mars, the Flaming Lips‘ film which has finally been released after a seven year gestation period. Going on my experience of the Lips’ music and shows I was expecting a piece of gentle psychedelic whimsy but this was altogether much darker.
The story focuses on a group of astronauts on a [...]
Christmas ghosts
Greenwich pathway blur #2, originally uploaded by reynard.
No sign of anything M.R. James related as yet, but BBC4 is promising Crooked House, a new short series of ghost stories written by Mark Gatiss, a writer in which we can every confidence. Sounds promising.