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It has no beginning or end, and no divisions, making it the perfect symbol of completeness, eternity, and the soul.

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Artworks by Luka Samkharadze

[oil-eclipse]

David Lynch, An Absurd Encounter With Fear.

A short film from 1967 shot on 16mm, staring then-wife Peggy Reavey (also in numerous other shorts) and longtime friend Jack Fisk (who later married Sissy Spacek).

[cosmonautroger]

The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999

[tedchaough]

"No, you can't help me. No one can help me."

The Straight Story (1999) dir. David Lynch

[classicfilmpunk]

The Straight Story (1999)

[petertqrk]

Pete Burns and Morrissey for Smash Hit’s October 1985 issue, photographed by Paul Cox and interviewed by Ian Cranna

[snigskitchen]

John Grant's 1980s playlist

Singer songwriter John Grant presented a Radio 6 show where he chose his favourite music from the 1980s. With a strong synth pop showing, this is a selection of classics, and some unexpected gems.

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John Grant's 1980s playlist

Based on John Grant's Radio 6 Music show, this is his favourite music from the 1980s. With a strong synth pop showing, this is a selection o

Track list:

Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Brothers

Soft Cell - Memorabillia (Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version)

Pseudo Echo - Listening

Vicious Pink - Fetish

Blancmange - Feel Me

Depeche Mode - Photographic

Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately

Sade - Your Love Is King

Culture Club - Time (Clock Of The Heart)

The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You

Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes

Visage - The Damned Don't Cry

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Dead or Alive - Misty Circles

Thompson Twins - Love on Your Side

The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened

Eurythmics - Paint A Rumour

New Order - This Time Of Night

Naked Eyes - I Could Show You How

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Madonna - Lucky Star

DEVO - Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth

Shannon - Let The Music Play

Lene Lovich - Blue Hotel

Nina Hagen - New York New York

The Motels - Only The Lonely

David Bowie - Let's Dance

The Flirts - Calling All Boys

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Erasure - The Circus

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - War

Divine - You Think You're A Man

Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay

[electra-y]

Dead Or Alive - Misty Circles

[zorya]

Son of the White Mare / Fehérlófia (1981) dir. Marcell Jankovics

[prophetic-memory]

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

[yearofillness]

I realized that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unraveled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery. The sight of the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in the Moonlight made me see how ridiculous that is. The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

[stayhomereading]

“The World feels complete and whole, and I, its Child, fit into it seamlessly.”

Folio Society's insanely beautiful release of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. Jaw hit the floor when I first opened it.

[metamorphesque]

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

[constanzarte]

Painting by Odd Nerdrum.

[wraeththuaesthetics]

[fragrantblossoms]

Man Ray. Lydia and Wooden Figures, 1932.

[sovietpostcards]

A 30-piece Matryoshka doll made at “Igrushka” wooden toy factory in Semyonov. Photo by V. Izvolensky (1966).

[tits-n-trix]

Don’t talk to me or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter ever again