I'm really relieved that I'm finally going to get some help with this. Almost nine months of crippling depression and grief is quite enough for anyone to deal with almost completely alone. Truth be told, if it hadn't been for you guys, my Internet family, I probably would not be here right now. You've been such a comfort and joy to me over the past few months, I can't imagine being without any of you. So major thanks and props to every last one of you. I just hope that someday I can repay you in kind in any way I can, no matter how small and insignificant my contribution will probably be.
I'll be writing about what goes on at this new doctors as things develop. Here goes nothing!
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relieved - Music:'High Anxiety' on the telly
Just embedding the Vimeo version of #82, 'cos You Tube blocked it for copyright issues. Bastards.
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #82 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #83 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
Offering up the Vimeo embed and the link to You Tube, since YT disabled the embedding. Damn them!
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #84 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
You Tube Link: http://youtu.be/-20Ht_clC9E
More to come, although I'm seriously considering retiring the Tutorials once I reach 100.
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tired - Music:'The Fountain' on DVD
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #81 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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okay - Music:The Universe on H2

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enthralled - Music:Alpaca Liptic Porn with Samuel L. Jackson
- First tweet was about my belief that radiation, even from human-created nuclear incidences, will affect the next step in evolution. Mutation is just another word for evolution. He tweeted back: Interesting theory!
- Second tweet was to a couple of Hooligans about the horribledays, saying I was going to drive about carolling Pagan songs by XTC He tweeted all three of us, saying: Taxis work out cheaper I find.
- Third tweet was my sending him the link this angry cat picture that I made. He responded with: VERY evil cat, in a planet full of evil cats.
- Fourth tweet was about how humanity's knowledge outshines our barely-present wisdom, and how it will result in our extinction. He tweeted back almost immediately: Knowledge without wisdom is useless
Why he's suddenly all chatty with me when he never answered the first couple of tweets I made to him when I first started following him, is beyond me. I'm not complaining, I love Andy Partridge! I'm sure anyone who reads the Cliffs already knows that. I am making a concentrated effort not to gush all over him over there. I think that, if I can refrain from doing that with B, I can certain do it with Andy Partridge. But it's thrilling to see that it seems we are of a same mind about certain things, so that makes me want to go "ohhhmygodandypartridgeiloveyousomuchwen
This morning, I got up, fed the beasties, threw some clothes on and dashed out to get milk. I like to get the milk as early in the morning as possible. It's fresher and you have more of a choice as to which gallon you want. After I got the milk and gave George (the resident dog at the dairy) a treat, I went on to Ingles to get some cat food and people food.
When I passed the fish section, I spied something I had not had since 1998, when I had breakfast in a hotel in New York while I was on a business trip; LOX! Remembering the admonitions I got from
Right now, I'm eating bagels with lox and cream cheese. Delicious doesn't even begin to cover it. Here's hoping it gives me a couple of red blood cells.
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bouncy - Music:I, Caveman on telly
Feel free to sing along!
NERVE by Shriekbackxml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
Bassline has no point of view
Impatient
Waiting for a statement
Faith don’t come so easily
This proves nothing
Only bursting bubbles
Legs open, eyes crossed
Pressing on the nerve
We all like that
We all like that
Arafat got such evil eyes
cased in armour
Twenty thousand bodyguards
Only trust the devil I know
Drawing circles
Gonna call him up now
head line, heart line
Pressing on the nerve
We all like that
We all like that
Pumping, Gushing, Running, Hiding
Pull tighter
Pull tighter
played on one string
fire is inside
Expressed in Molotovs
Click, flash, no pictures
Make mine Kalashnikov
Compound fracture
Pressing on the nerve
We all like that
We all like that
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sleepy - Music:Dark Shadows 1991 on Chiller
- Cadmus Pariah: I cannot abide it.
- Faust: I can't understand why.
- Thiyennen: I cannot make it go away.
- Orphaeus Cygnus: I can't stop partying.
- Kelat: I can not help but love.
- Dmitri Oskarov: I can not remain in one place.
- Flint: I can't be bothered.
- Rebekah and Mephistopheles: We can't help ourselves.
- Eve: I can't believe it.
- Gethsymonae: I can't reveal myself.
- The Apostate: I cannot be redeemed.
- Mary Magdalene: I can't abandon hope.
- Gideon the Mad: I can't make it stop.
- Paine Bryerson: I can't save everyone.
- Agatha Crawford: I can't not look.
- Piety: I can't resist.
- Kallum McCreary: I cannot falter.
That's all I can think of right now.
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lethargic - Music:Dark Shadows '91 on telly
"It's difficult to remember quite how and when interest in another human being flares into something more committed, more passionate."
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stunned - Music:Twilight Zone on TV
Then we'll see.
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exhausted - Music:movie on telly
It's really quite a lovely song, so unlike "Pin."
Anyway, I garnered a discussion between the three of them, but this one was directed particularly at me, from Carlo. It was fascinating, and so well-told.
"Escaping the tyranny of her own Country, Elissa, an exiled princess of the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, the future Carthaginian Queen Dido, commonly known as Alissar, founded Carthage, the "shining city" that ruled the Phoenician world.
Princess Elissa was the daughter of King Matten of Tyre (also known as Muttoial or Belus II). When he died, the throne was jointly bequeathed to her and her brother, Pygmalion. She married her uncle Acherbas (also known as Sychaeus), the High Priest of Melqart, a man with both authority and wealth comparable to the king. This led to increased rivalry between religion and the monarchy. Pygmalion was a tyrant, lover of both gold and intrigue, who desired the authority and fortune enjoyed by Acherbas. Pygmalion assassinated Acherbas in the temple and kept the misdeed concealed from his sister for a long time, deceiving her with lies about her husband's death. At the same time, the people of Tyre called for a single sovereign, causing dissent within the royal family.
Phoenician, a Canaanite caretaker previously working for King Pygmalion of Tyre, decided to move his residence to the mythical Carthage.
He also decided that, after so many years endlessly spent caretaking, he deservedly needed a loving bosom where he could comfortably rest his tyred body, i.e. a woman to cuddle, fondle and canoodle.
Not being satisfied with one, and wisely knowing that a bird in the hand is worth three in the bush, he fell in love with the whole lot of them : Elissa, Dido and Alissar.
As a result of too much stress and too much tyring caused by intensive physical labour, Elissa died. And with her, the other two readily followed.
Although some contemporary historians, as well as many modern scholars, think it might well be a typical Punic exaggeration, Phoenician, allegedly, cried so much for the loss of the threesome that his tears increased the level of the whole Mediterranean Sea.
(Legend has it that he might also have overflooded the Black Sea because of tears leaking through a strange hole in Costantinople).
Shocked, stunned and shattered by unbearable grief, Phoenician moved back to Tyre and decided to retyre.
All the rest is History.
The song "Phoenician" is a dirge built on this sad and true story centred on such a legendary and caretaking hero.
A Threnody, a Requiem, a Jeremiad, a Coronach, a Lament and an Elegy will be offered shortly.
Thee Caretakers will stay tuned to this Frequency for more happy-sing-a-long songs."
I replied with: Love how you tell this story. And..."A Threnody, a Requiem, a Jeremiad, a Coronach, a Lament and an Elegy will be offered shortly.
Thee Caretakers will stay tuned to this Frequency for more happy-sing-a-long songs." This is heartening to hear, being the carefree soul that I am. ;P
Of course, for me, it will always be for my primary Phoenician.
"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was who invented books." ~ Thomas Carlyle
<3 <3 <3
How I love these guys.
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tired - Music:tv noise
So that obviously means I think Steve Carell is gorgeous. And I didn't even realise it.
WTF
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exhausted - Music:some crazy shit on Chiller
( The Waltham Phantom )
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tired - Music:Santana - Practice What You Preach
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fairly alarmed - Music:Blondie - Under The Gun
READ MORE HERE, IT'S WORTH IT
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pleased for Cusack - Music:Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
http://youtu.be/UN51VU-Zf5M
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amused - Music:Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
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amused - Music:Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself for Loving You
Have a nice day.
Oh, and someone please tell me if it uploaded okay 'cos, like I said, even as I remain consistent in my support of All Things Shriek (and related!), I'm not ever listening to 'Pin' again. Ever. Again. O_O
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wtf seriously - Music:not this

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out of my head tired - Music:Jim Stafford - Spiders & Snakes
The screening was at 10:30. I left at 10, in plenty enough time to get there and maybe get a drink...if my nightblindness had not made me miss the exit and make me have to double back to Woodruff Road. I got in just under the wire, and walked into an empty theatre. This was actually how I wanted it and one of the reasons I chose to go to the last showing. But just before the movie actually started, a man walked in. And he sat down a couple of rows behind me. Right behind me. This was night, I was alone, and we were about to watch a movie essentially about serial murder. I began running through the few Kung Fu moves I know. Now, I may have a death wish and, given my taste in men and characters, I've always figured I'd end up being murdered by a serial killer, but I want to do it on my terms. I at least wanted to see the movie first.
What can I say about The Raven? It is in every way a brilliant film. I've been following the development of the movie closely, because I have a deep affection for Edgar Allan Poe, and John Cusack is my homeboy from a past life. And there's never been a movie I've seen him in that I haven't loved. He's been talking on Twitter about his immersion into the person of Poe for some time, and it was fascinating to see him get so involved with and come to love the author and his works.
You could really tell. Even though this was a fictional Poe, John Cusack really brought as much reality as he could to the man. He went over and above board with this role, and he should be given multitudinous props. The supporting cast was also stellar. When I saw Brendan Gleeson, I was pretty damned thrilled. Love that man. Luke Evans certainly matched Cusack in talent, but that's what happens when a Welshman and an Irishman get together. Sparks fly.
There were some aspects about the movie, especially later on in the film that really kind of freaked me out. It has to do with the ending, and I don't want to give anything away, but a couple of quotes near the end hit waaaaay close to home. Suffice to say, it's that synchronicity thing. Of course, it just got weirder when I got in the car and cranked up the iPod. XTC hasn't shown up on the iPod in ages, and what's the first song that comes on? "Rook," by XTC. Even though the song is about European folklore surrounding this bird and its cousin the crow, both are related to the raven, and I'd always equated "Rook" with Poe's "Raven." And it's even more relevant now, considering the plot of the movie.
So, that's freakin' strange. Here are the lyrics to the song.
XTC "Rook" from the album Nonsuch (1992)
Rook, Rook Read from your book
Who murders who and where is the treasure hid?
Crow, Crow Spill all you know
Is that my name on the bell?
Rook, Rook Gaze in the brook
If there's a secret can I be part of it?
Crow, Crow Before I'll let go, say is that my name on the bell?
Soar up high, see the semaphore from the washing lines
Break the code of the whispering chimneys and traffic signs
Where's the message that's written under the base of clouds?
Plans eternal, I know you know, so don't blurt out loud
Rook, Rook By hook or by crook
I'll make you tell me what this whole thing's about!
Crow, Crow Why can't you show
If that's my name on the bell?
On the wings of night, I fly too, above field and stream
My head bursting with knowledge 'till I wake from the dream
If I die and I find that I had a soul inside
Promise me that you'll take it up on its final ride
Rook, Rook Gaze in the brook
If there's a secret can I be part of it?
Crow, Crow Before I'll let go, say is that my name on the bell?
Oh, in case you haven't noticed, my viewing partner did not kill me. He left before the credits rolled, and I always stick around for the credits. That's how I've always learned my movie trivia, even though IMdB has pretty much made the practice redundant. Old habits die hard, and apparently so do I.
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jazzed - Music:U2 - Hawkmoon 269
It has always been my contention that Andy Partridge was a Jedi and Barry Andrews was a Sith, just from the music they each make. Now, I don't believe that so much anymore, considering some information that has come to light since that time; but the music is still very much Light Side/Dark Side sounding. Here's a fine example.
The Jedi:
"Don't you know, in this new dark age, we're all light."
The Sith:
"I feel our two young deaths so close now, smiling soft and shiny, the blade is sharp and fine, it could just slit us open."
So yeah. To this day, the dichotomy strikes me. They're like the faces of Janus or sommat.
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contemplative - Music:Queen - I Want It All

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irritated - Music:Klezmer Conservatory Band - The Dreydl Song
Her: Beiber stinks even dubbed. lol
Me: can't agree more, but I love it when he's made fun of. He's a superstar while my beloved Shriekback is delegated to obscurity. >:[
Her: Who is Striekback
That's not a typo up there. ::slams head on a concrete block::
Talk about having your point proven almost instantly.
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HORRIFIED - Music:Sweet - Wig-Wam Bam
So, while at work one day, I moseyed out to the warehouse and snagged a copy of Tal Bachman's album. In the liner notes, he thanks Jeff Lynne. Now, to my knowledge, Tal never actually met Jeff Lynne (he's the son of Randy Bachman, of BTO fame), but Lynne was enough of an influence on the boy and man, that he felt compelled to thank him in his album. I think he does a pretty impressive job at honouring Mistah Lynne.
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nostalgic - Music:The Folksmen - Start Me Up
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #79 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #80 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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- Mood:
really kind of embarrassed - Music:Stic Basin - Six
That said, I'm going to the 10:30 screening of The Raven tonight. Because I want to. And I can.
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GAH! - Music:Eliza Gilkyson - Odyssey
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indescribable - Music:Stic Basin - Phoenician
Tim Roth Tutorial #77 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #78 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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dorky - Music:Shriekback - Signs
It turns out that I'm severely anaemic (again), so much so that he wanted me to go see my PCP as soon as she could get me in. He was giving me a hairy eyeball when he was telling me about my lack of hemoglobin. I could tell that he was fairly alarmed by it all. His exact words were: "It looks more like a major blood loss more that just low hemoglobin. Have you had heavy menses or any major wounds lately?" What the hell?
I did tell him that the time before last I was in the hospital, it was partly because of anaemia, and that they actually had to give me a transfusion. His hairy eyeball got more intense and he made some extensive notes.
Now, I don't mind Dr. Pilch looking at me because he's damned gorgeous; however, when he looks at me like I'm about to die, it's entirely a different matter. It was as though he suspects me of being a Vampire.
Grant Morrison is a big proponent of reality being changed by what you write. The character based on himself, King Mob, went through some pretty trying times in The Invisibles, and everything he went through, Grant experienced in some form or fashion, up to and including getting a kind of staph infection on his face after he wrote about King Mob having part of his face eaten off in a parallel reality. He still bears those scars. After that happened, he wrote about King Mob making all sorts of merry (sex drugs, rock-n-roll - the whole megillah) and, lo and behold, Grant began having the time of his life.
All that said, perhaps my writing my Vampires has intruded upon my health, particularly Cadmus' insatiable thirst for blood. He is, after all, my Demon Child, so I figure his literary influence may well have altered my own reality. Who the hell knows?
Anyway, Dr. Pilch got me an appointment with Dr. Adams for next week, telling me that he was going to have her do some extensive blood work on me, as well as possibly put me on iron injections. He said that iron supplements may not be enough. Hell, she may just put me on a slow blood drip and check to see if I have an aversion to crucifixes.
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worried - Music:XTC - Ballet For A Rainy Day
@Tinhuviel: pffft.You & Bazzer create Magick and should make music again, in any way, shape, or form. Just sayin'...
@xtcfans: agree with you.
Not sure why he's started talking to me, but I am not going to complain. It always thrills me when brilliant people, particularly musicians I've admired for ages, communicate with moi. Now...if there were some miracle that would get me in touch with Jeff Lynne. The mere thought fries my onions.
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WOOO! - Music:The Silent Comedy - Bartholomew
( Cadmus meets Litania )
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exhausted - Music:'Manhunter' on telly
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"Hell is other people."
(This one is really relevant to Cadmus Pariah)
"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."
"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
(This is what makes me wonder if Clive Barker is a student of Sartre)
"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
(Another Cadmus interlude)
"We must act out passion before we can feel it."
"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
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tired - Music:Ancient Aliens on H2
Yesterday, I took a wild hair and Tweeted Andy Partridge, saying: "Hey you, any more musical collaboration with Barry Andrews in the future? Love the Monstrance project! :D"
I didn't expect to get an answer. He gets so many Tweets, there's no way Andy Partridge could feasibly answer everyone, and my question wasn't the most popular in the world. There is a contingent on Partridge's page that still holds a grudge against Barry because of the messy break-up of XTC in 1979/1980. I figured I'd be cursed out by strangers, but not ever hear from Partridge himself.
I was wrong.
At 11:55 this morning, I got this Tweet from Andy: "Thanks Tinny. No, as Barry didn't like the project enough to carry on. Shame, I thought it truly had merit."
Sucks that Monstrance won't be heard again, and I'm still wondering if B and Andy might work together again on another Shriek album, but the most brain-burning part of his message was his calling me Tinny.
Andy Partridge called me Tinny.
**dies, then comes back to life so that I can die again**
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- Mood:
gleeful - Music:Ancient Aliens on H2
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson 76 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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uneasy - Music:Stic Basin - Phoenician
About 45 minutes ago, I heard a song I will not ever listen to again. That may have happened...well, I don't know that it has ever happened.
Suffice to say, this is an extremely rare occurrence, especially considering who is involved in the recording of the song. It takes a lot to scare the living fucking hell out of me. One of the main things is Japanese ghost stories made into film, like Ringu and Ju-On. Since this song has vocals that, for all the world, sound like the creaking noises Kayako Saeki makes in Ju-On. Just to make everyone reading this miserable, here's a clip of the Japanese ghost.
When I get permission to share the song, I assure you that I most definitely will...so you can all share the horror that is my life.
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scared - Music:freaked right the hell out again
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okay - Music:Shriekback - Berlin
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #73 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
Tim Roth Tutorial #74 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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groggy - Music:'Captives' on Telly
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It's very seldom that a character I write about proves to have a will of its own. In fact when I hear authors claim such things I tend to.....roll my eyes.
Well,I was wrong.
A character called Preyer Kry ,who has been waiting in the wings of ABARAT until the fourth volume has just kicked this author very hard..
..and once he had my attention made a full list of THE SINS OF PREYER KRY.I am now going to sit and give thanks to the deity who made Kry.
It wasn't me.
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Welcome to my world, Mr. Barker. Welcome to my world.
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fairly alarmed - Music:Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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uneasy - Music:Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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exhausted - Music:Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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cranky - Music:Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #72 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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productive - Music:Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner (Single Version)
Here's the final song, all thanks to Khanada Taylor and Barry Andrews! And the lyrics gave me the opportunity to feed my Great Mortality fascination. Morbid? Yes. Groovy? I think so.
And here's the full playlist. Actually there's a fourteenth song, but B won't share it with me because his Virgo nature finds it unfit for consumption, even private consumption. How about that?
Hope you enjoy these, and please spread the love! These songs deserve to be heard.
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accomplished - Music:Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
"“I am Cadmus, called also Pariah. I am the Child of Night, born of Kelat and Thiyennen, and was once an agent of the Apostate. I killed the man whose body you seem so keen on digging up tonight.”"
"“I am Cadmus,” the Dark Chylde of Night replied, his voice caressing the night with a velvet sonorousness. “Known also as Pariah.”"
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fairly alarmed - Music:Ancient Aliens on H2
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amused - Music:Poco - Call It Love
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #70 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
You Tube Link (because they won't let me embed, the bastards!): http://youtu.be/_0Pp6oaPQFw
Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #71 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.
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tired - Music:Shriekback - Feelers
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giddy - Music:Thee Caretakers - Ain't Gonna Eat Your Doggy
- Music:i - Walking
Bebbeh Timmeh straight from the 80s.

( more unbelievable sexiness if you dare to click )
And there you have it. Are there more out there? Only The Roth knows for sure...
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I think you know... - Music:Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better (Extended Mix)
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weird - Music:Illuminati - Walking on the Wind

Clive Barker


