Double Feature: The Dark Crystal & Legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5_0CEXrf0 Released in 1982 by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, this weird, animatronic, psychedelic fantasy world is worth a (re)watch, if you haven't seen it (recently). And, why not make it a double feature with Legend? The DVD has Ridley Scott's remastered version that is, by all accounts, a much better movie than the theatrical … Continue reading Double Feature: The Dark Crystal & Legend

Clark Ashton Smith

"While Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Joyce, Stein, H. D., and Stevens explored new ways to map human experience and interior-reflection, Smith abandoned any belief that human dreams, history, and character concealed any deep meaning at all. Instead he boldly marched off into his fantastic, improbable visions of a far-future earth populated by dueling necromancers, kings crowned with … Continue reading Clark Ashton Smith