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Calendar Events / Announcements '06 II / Re: an amusing reference
« on: September 12, 2006, 12:45:45 AM »
I don't think I know Jane Forth, unfortunately. I've seen some fascinating screen captures recently from the Olga films of the mid Sixties (available, of course, through Something Weird)--deliciously sleazy stuff.
You might enjoy Liz Renay's autobiography. She was in one or two of those John Waters films--Desperate Living, I think, was one of them? It's called something like "My Face for the World to See." Such drama!
I've heard of quite a few celebs from the Sixties, both mainstream (like Jackie O) and counterculture, who were fascinated by Dark Shadows, particularly around 1968 and the whole Dream Curse period. Quentin and the 1897 storyline mirrored a certain fetishism for Victoriana that one finds in the lyrics to some of Donovan's songs, album art of some bands of the then-nascent acid-folk genre, the whole tea-granny trip, etc.
G.
You might enjoy Liz Renay's autobiography. She was in one or two of those John Waters films--Desperate Living, I think, was one of them? It's called something like "My Face for the World to See." Such drama!
I've heard of quite a few celebs from the Sixties, both mainstream (like Jackie O) and counterculture, who were fascinated by Dark Shadows, particularly around 1968 and the whole Dream Curse period. Quentin and the 1897 storyline mirrored a certain fetishism for Victoriana that one finds in the lyrics to some of Donovan's songs, album art of some bands of the then-nascent acid-folk genre, the whole tea-granny trip, etc.
G.