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bsc \/\/ japanese ghosts and my brown underpants

By chicken flava

The Japanese have a very distinct tradition of the supernatural; it is a spectral world that holds no prisoners. Young, old, rich, poor, man, woman, upper class, lower class, if you were Japanese, you could potentially be a victim of some sort of ghoulish haunting. And their ghosts did NOT look like sweet harmless... »

dogface boy \/\/ ……in case you were wondering.

By dogface boy

.. . Antony Hegardy o Is the reason ghosts love the rain. “The Lake” Edgar Allen Poe Reinterpreted by Antony Hegardy In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot To which I could not love the less So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound And the tall trees that towered around But when... »

the happy phantom doesn’t need an umbrella

By eileen garcia

the happy phantom is not like most ghosts, she loves to sun bathe, dance under the sky, and even take off her garments for a dip in the water. “So if I die today I’ll be the happy phantom And I’ll go wearin’ my naughties like a jewel They’ll be my ticket to the universal opera There’s Judy... »

pfaff’s bar\/\/ loft dance\/\/ 19th-20th century bohemian nightlife

By mfsandler

The avant garde has its origins in a longer culture of aesthetic dissidence in the West known as bohemia. It’s a style of life that mixes poverty and snobbery as accessories, flipping between arch taste and low company, or low taste and arch company. Bohemians are essentially a sub-sect of the middle class that have flamboyantly and... »

ink \/\/ dreaming in fistfights

By tyler re

Eschewing my normal M.O. of reviewing the nougaty delights of expired pop culture, this week I’m going to tackle a film I’ve been waiting months to see. Ink (2009), the new film by writer-director (producer-editor-etc.) Jamin Winans, circumvented the conventional Hollywood hype machine but still managed a +80,000% IMDB.com MOVIEmeter uptick in its first week... »

air / space

By desira pesta

Humans always want to reach other realms. With the birth of electronic music and its wholehearted acceptance into 80’s popular culture, humans got closer to otherworldliness.  Androgyny reigned and as people summoned their Martian counterparts by way of instruments altering natural sound, they all grew a little closer to the weird and strange, dead, undead,... »

this week on the avant guardian \/\/ ghosts love the rain

By tracey d

In order to designate reality, Buddhism says sunya, the void; but better still, tathata, as Alan Watts has it, the fact of being this, of being thus, of being so; tat means that in Sanskrit and suggests the gesture of a child pointing his finger at something and saying that, there it is, lo!... »