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Curson McCullers - The Heart is a lonely hunter

By Liria • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Reviews, Books

Carson McCullers was born in 1917 in Georgia, in the American deep south of the province, the plantations, the gospel of the Negroes, the heat that melts the railway sleepers.
The South, which was the background to the literature of Gothic ཚ years, of which she and Faulkner ( 'The Sound and the Fury' 1929) were the most distinguished leaders, where the oppression of [...]



Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow

By Liria • July 16th, 2007 • Category: Web Links

"Sideshows and the Elephant Man, Victorian ladies were tattooed, strange medical exhibits, dime museums and East End shows, the cult of death and the funeral rituals of the lower classes, pubs, bars and saloons, public executions,

Titillating Scandals Involving death and betrayal, morbid legends such as Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, the penny dreadful, Victorian [...]



Alejandro Jodorowsky

By Liria • Apr 1st, 2007 • Category: Articles

As one of those subtle honeyed creations in limbo between life and art, Alejandro Jodorowsky is certainly a figure that even if viewed with skepticism just curious, is inevitably attractive.
Quite complex to delineate personality, a genius devoutly and often uncritically adored.
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a writer, filmmaker, cartoonist, thinker, was born in Chile in 1929 but comes [...]



Prickie.com - Unique Button Badges: pins Totally addicted!

By Liria • January 11th, 2007 • Category: Web Links

Prickie.com since 2004 is an ingenious part of the network, an online store with the absolute most bizarre and original gallery of pins showcased a wide range of artists and designers.
A site that gives everyone more or less hidden talents the opportunity to promote and sell their art (to participate [...]



Neural.it: Hacktivism - EMusic - New Media Art

By Liria • January 11th, 2007 • Category: Web Links

Cyberculture at a site entirely in Italian (and also available in print edition), a virtual paradise for those who worship all kinds of experimental electronic music, rich in reviews, net extravagance, futuristic art and the latest news and multimedia digital age.



Frida Kahlo - the suffering and passion

By Liria • August 22nd, 2006 • Category: Articles

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in a suburb of Mexico City, three years before the Zapatista uprising, the peasant struggles and schemes of Diaz and Carranza. She considered herself the daughter of the revolution and New Mexico enough to postpone his date of birth to 1910.
Was stricken with polio at age six but [...]



Funprox.com - underground music and more Rewiews

By Liria • May 25th, 2006 • Category: Web Links

Abbreviation for "Funeral Procession", a site Funprox.com is extremely rich in material: reviews, articles, events - on art and underground music.
Despite an increased focus on Industrial, Neo-Folk, Gothic, are reviewed, linking and extensive musical genres less conventional and commercial and mentioned initiatives and artistic creations of a darker nature as defining the [...]



[The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories] by Tim Burton

By Liria • May 9th, 2006 • Category: Reviews

(recommended in the original language edition) ed. Einaudi, 1998
Tim Burton is not directing films and writing poetry, his extraordinary gift is to create the fantasy upside already enchanted paradises, where the protagonists are people who flee from unnatural and obscure doodles of spirals from conventional schemes to get lost in a world of [...]