and the darkest hour

is just before dawn

- aura hysterica
- dazzling shadows
- hallucinations
- scintillating scotoma
- black spot

my bloody valentines.

IV. The Game of Dangerous Unreality

where the woodbine twines

m a g i c k

✟ c e l i n e ✟



✟ z o e ✟


✟ other magicks ✟

the devil, watching by our sickbeds, hissed
old smut and folk-songs to our soul

this world is as bad as you please,
but if only you can get beyond the moon

more magick ok?

o c t o b e r

use your powers for evil.

+ thank you forever emily for bringing m.m. into my life.

+ night of the hunter flickering (most dear to my heart)

s i g h

paris 1970

just like witches at black masses

shivers

mary mary

30 july 1921
astral journey. revisited the alchemical plane, the cave with water.

new haus

... it's ghostly mostly.

The white bees came at evening ... whirling in soft flights, swinging him on their wings ... his hair would be full of them ... he did not see them come; but they hung over him, as though the roof were open, a Danaan shower. Then they went away. The great swarm passed, leaving only stragglers to sit on his hot eyelids. Days passed without them and nights. One evening they came as he had never seen them, and all night the bitter room had blazed and swung with their soundless ecstasy. That was the last time. One night he dreamed that he had found one dead and brittle on the blanket, and woke crying.

today is a bad dream.

sevens

la cravate

off with your head.

creeps, cemeteries, funerals, + bones

patience and prudence - tonight you belong to me
fando y lis (cemetery scene)
funeral parade of roses
the ossuary by jan svankmajer (has since disappeared but can be seen here)

moongazy

there is a full moon tonight.

ether (spirit): akasa, a black egg.

+ black moon

+ blood on satan's claw (most especially linda hayden's nose)

guy + nicolle

+ nicolle meyer - nowhere bei mir

+ i came across a wounded crow - flapping frantically amidst a tangle of thorny bushes. i captured it ... he became terribly upset. this was a bad omen! "ca va porter malheur!" ... my beautiful jet black crow was the ultimate bearer of bad luck ... it's cawing announced the arrival of death.

+ making us backtrack for miles to toss a broken mirror into the mississippi river to ward off the spell of bad luck that might had befallen us if we had not.

+ a cut out polaroid, a screeching crow, a glossy puddle of nail polish blood, his black cadillac ...

(their dizzying road trip through the south)

but do not deliver us from evil

+ malign forces of the occult - the caretaker

+ we are magick.

... + on meine birthday, too.

+ L.A.Y.L.A.H.

send me the pillow

the one that you dream on

+ girls in bows
+ long lost love letters
+ secrets shared with another girl

six six six

death + filth + laughter

jean painlevé

+ the witches dance

it's better when you're dead.

same. old. madness.

everything + nothing

(+ all that jazz)

everyday

too many creeps.

elvish (everything old is new again)

anyone who knows what love is will understand