In this issue: Re: Today in History -- Nov 09 RE: Today in History -- Nov 09 Re: Seeking origins of Vampires, Vampyres, Nosferatu checking original periodicals Sunday's Gemini awards Sunday's Gemini awards Sunday's Gemini awards Re: Sunday's Gemini awards Stephen's mail Re: Sunday's Gemini awards _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore RE: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Today in History -- Nov 10 Re: Today in History -- Nov 10 Re: Today in History November 10 Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Etext avail: Col. A Court Repington's "New wars for old" concluded Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Vampires A map of 'The Mysterious Island' Lupin Still Amazing After All These Years Re: Vampires For vampire lovers Re: For vampire lovers Chat: Illustration and stories -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:04:32 -0500 (EST) From: TFox434690(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Nov 09 Bob Are you sure Lee surrendered to Grant on this date in 1865. My recollection is that is was in May of that year. Tom Fox
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 09:24:01 -0500 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: Today in History -- Nov 09 Tom Fox wrote: > Are you sure Lee surrendered to Grant on this date in 1865. My > recollection > is that is was in May of that year. > April 9, 1865. An illustrated US Civil War timeline: http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/ Cheers, Jim
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 09:06:59 -0600 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Seeking origins of Vampires, Vampyres, Nosferatu Paul Barber's wonderful Vampires, Burial and Death is the best book I know of on the subject. It's widely available from libraries, and may even still be in print. Kiwi >>> <sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> 11/08/99 01:17PM >>> I received the following post this weekend, but am not sure what pointer to give this casual visitor to the Gaslight website. I'm presuming he read: "Vampyres and ghouls" (1871) http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/vmpghoul.htm Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca - ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 11/08/99 12:12 PM --------------------------- Subj: Vampires, Vampyres, Nosferatu Hi, I'm writing to ask about the article I read on your site. I've sort of made it my hobby to find out the origin of the vampire legend/myth. I was wondering if you guys might be able to point me in the right direction.
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 13:34:23 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: checking original periodicals Richard K. asks: >>Has anyone ever seen a copy of Dickens's ALL THE YEAR ROUND?<< I've looked at both _All the year_ and _Household words_ as well as other contemporary publications. They are usually to be found in libraries with larger collections, but bound into volumes. This process means removing the endpapers and any inserts (yes, there magazine inserts back then), so all you get to see is the meat of the issue: the articles and stories. Sometimes the special numbers, that is the Christmas and occasionally summer issues, don't even get collected in a volume. The surprise for me when I started reading these originals was how little Dickens wrote fiction for his own periodicals. It seems to have been common, tho, for authors identified closely with one publication, to sell to other publications just to bring in the money which kept their own publication afloat. _Argosy_ didn't publish everything by Mrs. Henry Wood and _Belgravia_ certainly didn't publish everything by Miss Braddon. Dickens took another route, however, by selling his novels in advance to the printers who published them in installments as short-lived series, and the printers added their own pages to carry advertising. A more gratifying read, when one wants advert-mediated examples of the current culture to provide a contemporary context, is to look at newspapers. The best example of all is the _Illustrated London news_. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:56:14 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Sunday's Gemini awards I watched most of the Geminis (Canadian TV awards) on Sunday night, and apart from not recognizing anyone who hasn't grown old and grey in the business, I found it very entertaining. Here's some highlights of interest to Gaslight members: An award went to Raymond St. Jean for his direction of _Out of mind: the stories of H.P. Lovecraft_. Never heard of the series. Meredith Henderson won an acting award for "The adventures of Shirley Holmes". I didn't see any awards go to _Emily of New Moon_ tho I would like to think some did. On a related subject, the third and final installment of _Anne of Green Gables_ should be showing up on fall TV. It's a strange brew tho, since Anne Shirley follows her beau, Gilbert, to WWI. The original characters should have had kids who went to war, but so be it. Details can be caught at the Sullivan Entertainment website, along with mention of a new movie about the disappearance of Ambrose Small in 1919: http://www.sullivan-ent.com/ An evaluation of the as-yet-unseen Anne sequel, written by a fan of the books: http://www.nucleus.com/~dalen/newmovie.htm And a news article about how Sullivan Entertainment owes the Montgomery royalties as far back as 1985 (which may explain why one of the TV events of the year has yet to be given its broadcast date): http://www.canoe.ca/NewsArchiveJul99/candigest_jul6.html In an off-topic note, _Due South_ the program several Gaslight listmembers have admired, won a people's choice award as best TV series. The co-producer made a crack about it being the most popular Canadian television series, for which he expected to receive a letter from the Sullivans' lawyer. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:59:09 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Sunday's Gemini awards I watched most of the Geminis (Canadian TV awards) on Sunday night, and apart from not recognizing anyone who hasn't grown old and grey in the business, I found it very entertaining. Here's some highlights of interest to Gaslight members: An award went to Raymond St. Jean for his direction of _Out of mind: the stories of H.P. Lovecraft_. Never heard of the series. Meredith Henderson won an acting award for "The adventures of Shirley Holmes". I didn't see any awards go to _Emily of New Moon_ tho I would like to think some did. On a related subject, the third and final installment of _Anne of Green Gables_ should be showing up on fall TV. It's a strange brew tho, since Anne Shirley follows her beau, Gilbert, to WWI. The original characters should have had kids who went to war, but so be it. Details can be caught at the Sullivan Entertainment website, along with mention of a new movie about the disappearance of Ambrose Small in 1919: http://www.sullivan-ent.com/ An evaluation of the as-yet-unseen Anne sequel, written by a fan of the books: http://www.nucleus.com/~dalen/newmovie.htm And a news article about how Sullivan Entertainment owes the Montgomery royalties as far back as 1985 (which may explain why one of the TV events of the year has yet to be given its broadcast date): http://www.canoe.ca/NewsArchiveJul99/candigest_jul6.html In an off-topic note, _Due South_ the program several Gaslight listmembers have admired, won a people's choice award as best TV series. The co-producer made a crack about it being the most popular Canadian television series, for which he expected to receive a letter from the Sullivans' lawyer. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:56:00 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Sunday's Gemini awards I watched most of the Geminis (Canadian TV awards) on Sunday night, and apart from not recognizing anyone who hasn't grown old and grey in the business, I found it very entertaining. Here's some highlights of interest to Gaslight members: An award went to Raymond St. Jean for his direction of _Out of mind: the stories of H.P. Lovecraft_. Never heard of the series. Meredith Henderson won an acting award for "The adventures of Shirley Holmes". I didn't see any awards go to _Emily of New Moon_ tho I would like to think some did. On a related subject, the third and final installment of _Anne of Green Gables_ should be showing up on fall TV. It's a strange brew tho, since Anne Shirley follows her beau, Gilbert, to WWI. The original characters should have had kids who went to war, but so be it. Details can be caught at the Sullivan Entertainment website, along with mention of a new movie about the disappearance of Ambrose Small in 1919: http://www.sullivan-ent.com/ An evaluation of the as-yet-unseen Anne sequel, written by a fan of the books: http://www.nucleus.com/~dalen/newmovie.htm And a news article about how Sullivan Entertainment owes the Montgomery royalties as far back as 1985 (which may explain why one of the TV events of the year has yet to be given its broadcast date): http://www.canoe.ca/NewsArchiveJul99/candigest_jul6.html In an off-topic note, _Due South_ the program several Gaslight listmembers have admired, won a people's choice award as best TV series. The co-producer made a crack about it being the most popular Canadian television series, for which he expected to receive a letter from the Sullivans' lawyer. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:10:57 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Sunday's Gemini awards Was that a lapse into chronic historesis, as Dr.Who would say, or did we just get three copies of that? I would like to know about that H.P. Lovecraft series, myself. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:49:27 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Stephen's mail We all have email hiccoughs some time or another, and I would brand anyone who disagrees as willfully misrepresentative. My problem is that one of the college's servers is wonky which means I am still getting some of the weekend Gaslight email, altho yesterday I had already read the replies made by other Gaslight listmembers. I know what you're saying, "How can Stephen, the listowner, be the last to get a copy of the email by about 48 hours." Well, it's indisputable, but when it started coming thru I got several copies of each one by way of recompense. The triple bombardment of the Geminis you just received was not intended as a distinction of how worthy the post was, but rather it was caused by the server's inability to close my mail program after sending. Let it be remembered that I do not hold the record for consecutive respostings of the same email to Gaslight. After this little blip, I still hold my amateur status. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 18:56:54 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Sunday's Gemini awards but, three times? <G> Even in the TARDIS, we didn't have this problem. Linda At 04:10 PM 11/09/1999 -0700, you wrote: >Was that a lapse into chronic historesis, as Dr.Who would say, or did >we just get three copies of that? > >I would like to know about that H.P. Lovecraft series, myself. > >Deborah > >Deborah McMillion >deborah(at)gloaming.com >http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html >
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 20:31:35 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore I'm catching up on my Internet entertainment news and saw this tidbit from StudioBriefing: http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/1999/19991007.html >> 7th October 1999 A Little Fright Music Oscar-winning film composer Philip Glass (Kundun) has recorded a new soundtrack for the 1931 version of Dracula (1931/I), starring Bela Lugosi, the BBC reported Wednesday. Since audio mixing was only in its infancy at the time, music was used only sparingly in the original film, Glass observed in an interview. He said that he merely created a new element for the film that helps to heighten the suspense. The BBC said that the new version of the film, employing the Glass score is due to be released on video this month, presumably with a Halloween tie-in. On Oct. 23 and 14 the composer is due to conduct a live orchestra for a screening of the film at Royal Festival Hall in London. << Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 23:39:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore What, no more "Swan Lake"? I don't even know if I'll recognize the film. Let's hope Glass knows what he's doing. Bob C. On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA wrote: > Oscar-winning film composer Philip Glass (Kundun) has > recorded a new soundtrack for the 1931 version of > Dracula > (1931/I), starring Bela Lugosi, the BBC reported > Wednesday. _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robert L. Champ rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity Whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things Philippians 4:8 rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:16:01 -0500 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore > Let's hope Glass knows what he's doing. Glass is someone whose work you either love or hate. I happen to like him. I heard something of his performed at Tanglewood in the summer of 98, and the Sunday afternoon crowd, which tends to be somewhat conservative in its taste, really loved it. I think his style, which frequently uses repetitive phrases to build momentum and tension, lends itself to cinematic use. I look forward to hearing that score. Cheers, Jim
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:26:52 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Today in History -- Nov 10 Interesting things that happened November 10th: Birthdays on this date: In 1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist In 1794 Matthew Perry, U.S. Admiral, opened the East to Western exploitation In 1819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first transatlantic cable In 1827 Lewis Wallace, soldier, diplomat, novelist (Ben Hur) In 1829 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army In 1844 Sir John S.D. Thompson (C), 4th prime minister of Canada (1892-94) In 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, publisher In 1882 Frances Perkins, the first woman Cabinet member In 1883 Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher In 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer In 1903 Clare Booth Luce, journalist, diplomat In 1919 Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears) + George Fenneman In 1921 Chuck Connors, actor (Rifleman) Events worth noting: In 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling. In 1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America. In 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico. In 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa. In 1891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston).
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:49:14 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Nov 10 Another birthday of exceptional note (at least to me) Emily Dickinson, born 1830. cheers, phoebe "And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'" - John Wing
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:16:26 -0500 (EST) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History November 10 >In 1794 Matthew Perry, U.S. Admiral, opened the East to Western exploitation< Bob, your date is way off. Also Perry was a Commodore My records show the Perry first went to Japan in 1853. He returned in 1854. The Treaty of Kanagawa was signed March 8, 1854. Perry was authorized to spend $20,000 to buy presents for the 'Emperor. Perry brought with him a complete set of John James Audubon's BIRDS OF AMERICA and QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA. Also a case of firearms made by Samuel Colt, a daguerreotype camera, and a telegraph machine from Samuel Morse. Most impressive of all was a quarter-scale (steam) locomotive which ran on a 350-foot circle on a narrow-gauge track. The Japanese delegation line up for hours to take a ride: and as they were unable to reduce themselves to the capacity of the carriage..they betook themselves to the roof and, clinging to its edge, went whirling round, their robes flapping in the breeze, grinning with intense interest. Pat Barr, THE DEER PARK PAVILION, A STORY OF WESTERNERS IN JAPAN, 1868-1905 Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com www.focdarley.org
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:47:57 -0800 From: Robert Birchard <bbirchard(at)earthlink.net> Subject: Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------5DC4E1BB7B0F7B4FF9B0A623 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since the newly-scored "Dracula" has been a subject here of late, I thought I'd re-post my impressions which were first sent to alt.movies.silent on November 1, 1999. ***** I confess! I went to UCLA last evening to see/hear the live Glass/Dracula event--however, my principles (such as they are) remain only slightly compromised because the tickets were free and I did not contribute to the dastardly cause. [NOTE: The reference here is to my long-standing opposition to altering movie sound tracks, which I believe is akin to colorization] To advertise this event as being Dracula with a score added is a misrepresentaton. It would be more accurate to state that it is a concert piece during which the musicians are sometimes obscured by a picture dancing on the screen in front of them. The effect was not unlike watching a film on a screen in the dark confines of your living room only to have your mother, wife, girlfriend or significant other march in and open the window shades on the window behind the screen and then turn on the stereo to listen to something entirely unrelated to what you were watching. To be honest, the audience reaction in general was quite positive--partial standing ovation. I was the only one in the theater shouting BOO. What disturbed me more than the concept (whch I have gone on about at some length here and elsewhere) was the fact that Glass and company took every opportunity to say Look at US, Listen to US, WE are the Show. The score (and I do like much of Glass's music) was pathetic. Repetitious (you'd expect that from Glass) but often in the vein of a bad "hurry music" pastiche in homage to J. S. Zamecknik. [NOTE: J.S.Z. composed generic movie themes in the early silent era--many of the now-cliched "hurry" themes we associate with early silents were written by him] No attempt was made to synchronize the score with the picture, in fact every opportunity was taken to call attention to the music. So, the music would pick up right in the middle of a line of dialogue, play through dissolves and fadeouts, end before the climax of a scene. Glass made no effort to clear any of the dramatic moments in the sound track. Dracula's off-screen cry as Van Helsing pounds in the stake, for example, was virtually drowned out by some rather monotonous sawing from the ensemble. The print itself was beatuiful--the best I have seen on Dracula--but it was hard to judge because every time there was a scene with some visual complexity or camera movement the lights would go up backstage with red, blue, green gels--usually in opposition to the mood of the scene--and one would get the effect of this cloud of musicians sweeping across the screen. Interesting in a music video, maybe--but distracting if you were really trying to watch the film. To be sure, Dracula creaks as a movie--in many ways it is a photographed stage play--and there are moments that are more hilarious than horrific for audiences today. But it is also an iconographic film. So much of its imagery and mythology has become common in our culture that we forget all of this was once new and fresh to audiences unfamiliar with Stoker's novel. By treating the film and score the way he did, Glass effectively dismisses it as a quaint artifact unworthy of anything but ridicule and dismissal. Whatever Dracula's weaknesses as a movie, however, it was still the attraction that brought people to the theater. How would Glass score the film? What would the impact be on the film? Will the film be more or less scarey with the new music? I believe Glass understood this, and it pissed him off. No matter what he did, he and his music would play second fiddle to Lugosi's legendary presence--and so he set out to say: Look at ME! I'M the important one here! This film is unworthy of your attention. MY music is more important tan the picture. He succeeded. But, standing ovation to the contrary, in the process he created one of the most dreadful evenings in the theater that I have had in a long time. - -- Bob Birchard bbirchard(at)earthlink.net http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/Guest/birchard.htm - --------------5DC4E1BB7B0F7B4FF9B0A623 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="bbirchard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Robert Birchard Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bbirchard.vcf" begin:vcard n:;Bob Birchard x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 email;internet:bbirchard(at)earthlink.net note:http://mdle.com/ClassicFilms/Guest/birchard.htm x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Bob Birchard end:vcard - --------------5DC4E1BB7B0F7B4FF9B0A623--
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:47:07 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Etext avail: Col. A Court Repington's "New wars for old" concluded From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 11/10/99 07:47 AM To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca cc: Subject: Etext avail: Col. A Court Repington's "New wars for old" concluded (NEWWARX1.HTM) (Nonfic, Chronos) Col. A Court Repington's _New wars for old_ (1910) newwarx3.non This article completes a series of three written by Col. A Court/ Repington for _Blackwood's magazine_ (1910) in which he predicts the alterations which will be made to warfare because of the introduction of submarines and dirigibles. This 3rd part consitutes a rebuttal to critics who scoffed his ideas in various newspapers of the day. To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA with no subject heading and completely in lowercase: open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca get newwarx1.non get newwarx2.non get newwarx3.non or visit the Gaslight website at: http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/newwarx1.htm and follow the links at the bottom of each article to reach the next one. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:55:09 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore >I was the only one in the theater shouting BOO. Balletomanes and Dracula purists unite in one cause: Keep Swan Lake! Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:18:28 -0600 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Heavens, Phillip Glass? Now that will REALLY make it a horror movie. Someone once tried to get me to see Koyanisqaatsu (sp?) but I told them the only way I could get through the film would be if they tied me to my seat, blindfolded me, put in earplugs, AND gagged me. Glass did once have the honesty to admit that his classmate at Juillard, Peter Shickele, is much the better composer. As PDQ Bach, Shickele wrote a magnificent parody of Glass, titled "Einstein on the Fritz". It's full of ostinato, has a section of violins doing bowing exercises, and at one point, the conductor has to say "Koy-hoty-totsy". Shickele would do a MUCH better job with Dracula. Nah...keep the swans! Kiwi
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:34:42 -0600 From: athan chilton <ayc(at)UIUC.EDU> Subject: Re: _Dracula_ gets a new filmscore Glass? Hmph. Give me dear old Bela, unaccompanied, any day. Conceivably there are composers who could write a score that would complement, not obscure, that film. Not Glass, though. On the other hand, a bit of Claudia Schmidt playing the pianolin wouldn't be amiss. Check out her song 'The Darkening' on her 'Midwestern Heart' album (yes, it was vinyl--maybe tape--but as far as I know, no CD version). The pianolin is an exceedingly rare instrument; there are less than 200 of them around. They were invented in the 30s, I believe, and combine autoharp-like strings with a set of strings that are bowed. It's not particularly easy to play, and a real bear to tune. But listen to Schmidt play the thing, and imagine Dracula. It fits. Athan (eternal Dracula fan, but then, with a name like Athan, it's only appropriate!) ayc(at)uiuc.edu
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:06:04 -0500 From: Jack Skoda <jskoda(at)lucentctc.com> Subject: Vampires Hi folks, I have constructed a timeline of vampire myths for a mythology class. Vampires are a favorite topic of mine and I read almost anything that has a vampire in the plot, no matter how "mass-market" we all have our fault, non? The time line accompanies a 28 pages essay on the myth and the myth of the myth. Modern vampire stories are myths of the original myth. Fangs and neck biting are modern contrivances and not representative of the original vampire myth. Included in the timeline is a mixture of vampire fiction, vampiric historical figures, and real vampire research. There are stories of blood drinking creatures that are before 1163. The eldest is an image of a female form drinking blood from the chest of her lover from a shard of pottery found in Sumeria and dated around 4000 BC. In some respects the anchient myth is tied closer to the modern sexually agressive female archetype where the Medieval European vampire is more like a zombie or ghost. 1994 Interview with the Vampire movie 1992 Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola 1992 Forever Knight television series 1987 Near Dark movie 1987 The Lost Boys movie 1985 Fright Night movie 1976 'Interview with the Vampire' published by Knopf 1973 Anne Rice writes 'Interview with the Vampire' and is rejected, secures agent in '74 1966 'Dark Shadows' television series 1949 John George Haigh is tried and executed 1941 Anne Rice is born 1931 Bela Lugosi plays Dracula 1931 Peter Kurten is tried and executed 1925 Fritz Haarmann is executed 1922 'Nosferatu' directed by F.W Murnau 1912 Bram Stoker dies 1897 'Dracula' Bram Stoker 1872 'Carmilla' Sheridan Le Fanu 1854 Near Norwich, 2 brothers are exhumed and burned for causing consumption in the family. 1853 Sakoku ends, Admiral Perry lands in Uraga Japan 1847 Placedale RI, William Rose exhumes daughter and cremates the remains to stop consumption epidemic in his family. 1847 Bram Stoker is born 1846 'Varney the Vampire: or the Feast of Blood' attributed to James Malcom Rymer 1827 The word revenant enters the English language 1824 Lord Byron dies 1819 'The Vampyre' John Polidori 1816 Stranded by a storm in the home of Lord Byron, Byron, John Polidori, Percy and Mary Shelly tell ghost stories, thought to be the birth place of Frankenstein and 'The Vampyre' 1813 'The Giamour' Lord Byron 1800 End of the Vampire craze in Japan 1795 John Polidori born 1788 Lord Byron born 1772 End of the Eastern European Epidemics 1746 Treatise on the Vampire of Hungary and the Surrounding Regions Don Augustine Calmet 1734 The word Vampire enters the English language 1731 Visum et Repertum the case of Arnod Paole 1728 Dead men that chew in their graves Ranft 1728 The case of Peter Plogojowitz 1701 Vrykolakas De Tournefort 1679 On the Chewing dead Rohr 1672 Beginning of the Easter European Epidemics 1638 Sakoku begins Japan closes it?s borders to everyone but China and Holland 1631 Dead lover urban legend recorded in Paris 1614 Countess Elizabeth Bathory dies 1611 Countess Elizabeth Bathory is imprisoned 1603 Tokugana Ieyasu becomes shogun, founds Edo shogunate, ends the Civil War era in Japan 1591 The Shoemaker of Silesia 1573 The parliament of D?le allows hunting of Loup-Garou 1560 Countess Elizabeth Bathory is born 1501 Beginning of the Vampire craze in Japan 1477 War of Onin ends (Japan) 1476 Vlad Tepes is killed 1467 War of Onin begins, marks the beginning of the Civil War era in Japan 1431 Vlad Tepes born 1136 William of Newburgh begins chronicles British revenantsfor a mythology class. - --+---------------------------------------------------------- - -- Jack Skoda <jskoda(at)lucentctc.com> Lucent Technologies - -- - -- "Those that would trade essential liberty for temporary - -- safety deserve neither" ... Ben Franklin
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:08:09 -0500 From: Jack Skoda <jskoda(at)lucentctc.com> Subject: A map of 'The Mysterious Island' Hi folks, Does anyone have a map of the Mysterious Island from Mr Verne's novel of the same name? I have been surfing and searching the Vernes web sites with little luck - -- - -- Jack Skoda <jskoda(at)sover.net>
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:04:48 -0500 (EST) From: Richard King <rking6king(at)netscape.net> Subject: Lupin Still Amazing After All These Years I believe this week's story is Maurice Leblanc's "Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!" and since no one has started on it yet I thought I'd try to get the ball rolling. Though I am a bit bewildered as usual by Lupin's detections (how does he do all this?), I am impressed by Leblanc's ability to develop and sustain the action in an exciting (or perhaps melodramatic) manner. From paragraph to paragraph things happen, mental leaps are made, fast-paced decisions occur. Often I wish Leblanc would slow down a bit, tell me what the weather is like, if the birds are singing, what the people on the streets are doing (I usually get this sense in Sherlock Holmes stories, that there are rich descriptions being made by Doyle, or whoever wrote the Canon). But Lupin is certainly a detective of action, who says: "These are cases that require much more intuition than redaction" (did Holmes ever use much intuition--he seems to base his conclusions on reason, deduction and science, less on intuition). As you can see, Holmes's contemporaries always bring comparisons to my mind. I won't say much more now, other than to recommend the story as being a fun one, with its gunshots, poor murdered victims, unusual stabbings, and Lupin's amazing intuitions. Richard King rking6king(at)netscape.net ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:53:07 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Re: Vampires Jack, there is a little known but thoroly charming addition to the vampire lore recently created in France in a children's book. I could send you details, possibly even scans, if you are interested. It's Martin Matje's _Le buveur d'encre_ (transl. _The ink drinker_ (1998)), and it has a companion story, _A straw for two_. The story involves a young boy whose father runs a second-hand bookshop. The boy sees a strange character glide into the shop and surreptitiously drink all the ink from the pages with a straw. Compulsively, he follows the man back to his graveyard home, and... Well, it turns out to be a vampire who is tired of blood after so many centuries. Perhaps this just seems a novelty, but it is the most refreshing take on the genre that I've found. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:56:13 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: For vampire lovers A new book coming out in December by Edgar Allen Poe called DEAD BRIDES (a title after my own heart) and illustrated by lithographs from symbolist artist Odilon Redon is certainly worth a look see. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:23:01 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: For vampire lovers Deborah: Have you ever illustrated a book that might be available? I love your web page and think, when reading certain books, how you might have drawn that scene. Sorry to bother Gaslight with this, but hey- she's great and ought to be in books! <G> Linda Anderson At 04:56 PM 11/10/1999 -0700, you wrote: >A new book coming out in December by Edgar Allen Poe called DEAD >BRIDES (a title after my own heart) and illustrated by lithographs >from symbolist artist Odilon Redon is certainly worth a look see. > >Deborah > >Deborah McMillion >deborah(at)gloaming.com >http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html >
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:01:42 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: Illustration and stories >Have you ever illustrated a book that might be available? Well, thanks! I am working on that project now as a matter of fact since I have a break from the gallery. I have done some recent book covers for fellow Gaslighters' ASH TREE PRESS series of ghost story book which usually illustrate a specific story. My last show featured an illustration of "Rose DeDe" which absolutely no one got. Only a very few people 'got' another painting, "The Bridge To Tarrytown", mostly the local librarians who come for the literary references. This brings up a topic for me that I've wanted to share with Gassers. How much to do you explain? Most of my paintings have bits and pieces of the books I read, names, incidents, and absolutely no one gets the obscure references. I have been told repeatedly to please put explanations up next to them but I think this is condescending. I'd rather someone get their own interpretations out of it than hitting them over the head. My recent show had an excellent review from someone who didn't have a 'weird-lit.' background and they made some pretty interesting interpretations that I thought were just fine. However, it is frustrating sometimes. Is there a way to introduce people to the strange and unusual (I have a bad enough reputation with all the tombstones that gnaw at the edges of the so-called Contemporary art scene) without bringing into it weird Victorian literature. Thanks for any pointers to this ongoing dilemma. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #112 ******************************