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A schoolgirl accused of the horrific cannibal murder of a young man has today told cops how she cooked and ate the man’s heart – but it tasted “too sweet”.
The 12-year-old girl – named only Valeria by the media – allegedly described how Alexander Popovich’s “brains turned out to be much more tasty”.
Cops in Russia say Valeria stabbed the 21-year-old and dismembered his body in a gruesome murder.
She has been detained with Arkady Zverev, 22, who has admitted killing Popovich, and confessed to sexual relationships with both Popovich and the underage girl.
Valeria allegedly tore open Popovich’s abdomen as she “always wanted to see what was inside there”. And, police say, the girl ripped out his heart and pieces of his chest, which she cooked in a frying pan and ate.
It’s said she beheaded the man with an axe, butchered off his arms and severed his head in a microwave in their flat.
Zverev claims he was the first to stab Popovich in a jealous row. After he allegedly helped tear apart the victim’s body, Zverev tried to escape with the youngster but police raced to the flat and arrested them.
Valeria
Arkady Zverev
Alexander Popovich
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A ‘cannibal killer’ frat boy who ate his victim’s face as the man lay dying on the floor was convinced he was Jesus and became obsessed with the Illuminati, a mental-health report states.
Austin Harrouff, now 22, is accused of murdering Michelle Mishcon and John Steven, and trying to eat Stevens’ face while police desperately fought to drag the former Florida State student off.
A 38-page psychiatric assessment of Harrouff, seen by the DailyMail.com, which was conducted by the killer’s attorneys as part of their insanity defense, lists a disturbing and frightening descent into alleged psychosis. Among the key points listed in Dr Phillip Resnick’s report, which included a six-hour interview with Harrouff, as well as numerous interviews with family and friends, are:
* Harrouff felt he had ‘superpowers within him’ and felt like ‘he was Jesus’. He began walking around in a ‘slow harmonious manner’ and believed he had a responsibility to fix people’s problems.
* He became preoccupied with the ‘Illuminati’ as well as religious and philosophical ideas. He was convinced demons were after him and refused to sleep in the dark. He studied: ‘Tony Robbins, Lincoln and Krishna’ obsessively.
* He believed water ‘was a source of power’ for him which allowed him to stay young and that he was able to manipulate water with his hands.
* In 2016 he decided he would become a public figure and began creating rap videos under the alias Austi Frosti – some of his songs include the disturbing lyrics ‘there’s a new sheriff in town, he’s going to eat you and make you frown’.
* In another self-penned song, he described a girl’s face as ‘yummy’, and also shared numerous bodybuilding videos where he posed topless.
* Just a day before the savage attack, Harrouff began to think he was half-man half-dog and could run ‘super fast’. Harrouff’s sister said he began wandering through bushes to be ‘one with the animals’, and sat in the back seat of the car where dogs sit.
Austin Harrouff
Michelle Mishcon and John Stevens
AustiFrosti Souled My Soul
What I’m about in bodybuilding
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A nurse with a cannibalism fetish who fantasised about beheading and eating a teenage girl has been kicked out of the profession. Dale Bolinger, 59, bought an axe the day before he was due to meet a girl he chatted with online.
Bolinger was found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming and jailed for nine years last September. Bolinger called himself ‘Meatmarketman’ while communicating with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old Mexican girl called ‘Eva’ on a fetish internet chat room.
He described sex acts he wanted to perform on her and how he would kill her. Married Bolinger arranged to meet her at Ashford International railway station in Kent on September 18, 2012 but she did not turn up. He was arrested on February 21, 2013 after a joint investigation by Kent Police and the FBI.
Bolinger told police he was interested in children as food and that he had a computer disc containing an image of a girl on a serving plate with an apple in her mouth.
The American father-of-three was convicted of two counts of making indecent photographs of children, administering poison with intent, seven counts of publishing obscene articles, and attempting to meet a child under 16 following grooming.
Dale Bolinger
Axe selfie that Dale Bolinger sent to 14-year-old
Bolinger’s profile on The Dark Fetish Network
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A Michigan man accused of murder and cannibalism reportedly suspended his alleged victim from a ceiling by his ankles and stabbed him twice before slitting his throat and cutting off his testicles to eat them, court documents show.
The body of 25-year-old Kevin Bacon was found inside the Bennington Township home of murder suspect Mark Latunski, 50, on December 28, four days after he was last seen alive.
Bacon’s roommate, Michelle Myer, told police she last saw him alive on the evening of December 24 as he was leaving their home to meet up with a man he’d met on the mobile dating app, Grindr, before completely vanishing.
The man he was venturing off to meet, it would later be revealed, was Latunksi – and new court documents reveal the horrifying fate awaiting the 25-year-old hairstylist when he stepped inside the suspect’s home.
Michigan State Police received a call for assistance from Clayton Township Police Department to conduct a welfare check for Bacon inside Latunksi’s home on December 28, after receiving a tip he may be inside.
Officers then conducted an interview with the 50-year-old, who agreed to let them carry out a search of the home after reportedly admitting to killing Bacon by stabbing him in the back and slitting his throat late Christmas Eve or early Christmas morning.
Bacon was found dead hanging upside down from the ceiling naked, where he had been suspended with rope tied around his ankles for nearly four days.
Mark Latunski
Kevin Bacon
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An alleged self-confessed cannibal said to have admitted sharing his mum’s body parts with his petdog. Jobless waiter Alberto Sanchez Gomez, 26, is said to have made the startling confession to detectives when they turned up at his family home in Madrid to inquire about missing OAP Maria Soledad Gomez.
Shocked cops found her body parts in at least six large Tupperware containers inside the flat near the Spanish capital’s famous Las Ventas bullring.
Macabre new details of the gruesome find emerged today ahead of Sanchez’s court hearing reporting 66-year-old Maria Soledad’s body had been cut up into more than 1,000 tiny pieces. It also reported her vital organs were missing and part of her intestines were found mixed with domestic waste inside the flat.
The first photos of Sanchez emerged today as former friends told local media how he had become a problem for his family after becoming addicted to drugs and used to spend time on a park bench opposite his home drinking with tramps.
It is not yet clear when his mum died, with police saying yesterday/on Friday a day after the arrest that they suspected it happened a month ago but a neighbour claiming she saw the missing OAP sunbathing during the week.
Alberto Sanchez Gomez
Arrest
Maria Soledad
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A “cannibal family” has confessed to butchering and eating at least 30 people in Russia over two decades, cops said. Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, allegedly served a stuffed and decorated human head as dinner and pickled human remains in jars.
Dmitry Bakshaev and his wife have allegedly confessed to butchering and eating at least 30 people. One sickening image dated 29 December 1999 appears to show a severed human head being served as Christmas dinner
The couple were arrested after the dismembered body of a young woman was found in a military academy in Krasnodar where they worked.
Dmitry admitted the grim killing and boasted about multiple other murders after a phone was found with pictures of a man posing for selfies with dead bodies. He told interrogators he began his macabre reign of terror in 1999.
Police have so far discovered eight frozen body parts and flayed skin as they attempt to verify the gruesome claims. The pair stand accused of drugging their victims with tranquiliser Corvalol before attacking them and storing their remains in their fridge, freezer and cellar.
The couple allegedly decapitated a number of their victims. Around 19 pieces of human skin were also discovered which had allegedly been “removed from dead people”.
Dmitry was taken into custody after the chopped up remains of a woman were discovered in bucket and bag in a military academy on September 12. Cops uncovered “video lessons for cannibals” at their homes, according to Livekuban.ru.
Dmitry Baksheev
Natalia Baksheeva
Dmitry Baksheev with a human hand stuffed in his mouth
An image dated 29 December 1999 appears to show a severed human head being served as Christmas dinner
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A drunken bus driver left a woman needing plastic surgery after leaping on her and chewing her face, in the latest in a string of worldwide ‘cannibal’ attacks. The entire incident, which took place last Tuesday in the city of Wenzhou in south eastern China, was caught on camera and posted on YouTube.
The bus driver, named locally as Dong, had apparently been drinking heavily during a lunch with friends before running out into a busy street and stopping traffic.
He proceeded to jump onto the bonnet of a car driven by his victim, identified as ‘Du’, and hammer on the windscreen while Du sat inside screaming.
s Du scrambled out of the car to escape, Dong chased after her, catching her and biting her face. As the two fell to the ground, Dong continued to chew on her face, leaving Du with major damage to her nose and lips.
Passers-by said they attempted to pull Dong off Du, but said he was so ‘crazed’ that they were unable to.
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Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student, admitted to murdering his roommate Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, who was reported missing last Friday.
Kinyua’s father called police late Tuesday night when Kinyua’s brother reportedly found human remains — a head and two hands — in a metal tin in the basement. The brother and father left the room for a short time, but when they came back, the body parts had been moved and Kinyua was washing out the tin, the paper reported.
Officers searched the house and arrested Kinyua. The man allegedly confessed a shocking revelation: not only had he killed Agyei-Kodie by cutting him up with a knife and then dismembered him, he ingested parts of the victim’s brain and all of his heart. He then allegedly dropped most of the remains in a Dumpster behind a church in Joppatowne.
It’s yet unclear what Kinyua’s motive may have been, but he was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday. In another incident on May 20, he was charged with first-degree assault when he allegedly beat a fellow student randomly with a baseball bat and then fled into the woods.
Alexander Kinyua
Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie
Agyei-Kodie’s remains were found in the trash container, left, and recycle container
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A man has been jailed for life after he was convicted of killing and eating three men. Russian meat plant worker Eduard Seleznev, 51, said that “voices” in his head had told him to commit the gruesome crimes. He also confessed to killing and eating cats, dogs and birds, say reports.
The bearded cannibal’s victims were a 24-year-old acquaintance followed by two other friends aged 19 and 21, a court was told. The first victim was knifed in the chest and after eating part of the body, the rest of his corpse was thrown in a river in Arkhangelsk region.
The next two men were also stabbed then sexually assaulted and after eating part of their bodies, the dismembered remains were packed in plastic bags and thrown in Lake Butygino. Seleznev was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony,” said a statement from the regional court. He will never be freed.
Eduard Seleznev
Unidentified victim #1
Unidentified victim #2
Unidentified victim #3
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A Russian ‘toy boy’ has been accused of cannibalism after he allegedly killed a woman he dated, fried her brains and then drank her blood.
Dmitry Luchin, 21, is accused of beating a 45-year-old woman, named only as Olga B, to death on March 8 – International Women’s Day – this year. Luchin, from Valdai, was known as a talented poet with a high IQ level before carrying out his alleged crimes.
Police witness Alexandra – present at a reenactment conducted by detectives with the accused present – said: ‘At first they were drinking wine together and chatting about everything. Then she went to sleep and he decided to smother her with a pillow. He was asked “what for?” and replied “something clicked in my mind”.
‘The woman resisted and survived. He went to smoke, then picked up an empty wine bottle and hit her on the head.
Police say Luchin has confessed to his crimes and said he drank Olga’s blood after cooking a piece of her brain because ‘I needed something to drink with my food’
Luchin faces life in jail if convicted of the charges and a trial has been set for next year. He has yet to enter an official plea.
‘She passed out. He went to smoke again. Then he came back and woke her up, but soon again hit her on the head with a bottle and this time she died. He put his finger in her blood and draw a devil’s symbol on the door. Then he took the kitchen meat cleaver and began to strike her on the head.
‘When he reached the brains he cut off a piece, fried it and ate it. He liked it and went to cut off another piece, and ate it too. Then he gathered blood flowing from her head into a glass and drank. When asked why. he answered, “Because I needed something to drink with my food.”
‘Next he cut her stomach and all the organs spilled out. He cut off her ears. One he put one into the cat’s bowl. The other – into the mouth of the dead woman. He used an empty wine bottle to sexually abuse the woman’s corpse while cutting off her nipples, and also slicing open her throat.’
A policeman on the case said: ‘This has to be the most appalling murder anyone can imagine.’
Dmitry Luchin
Olga B.
Cannibal, 21, told police ‘I liked the taste of her brain’ after eating lover, 45
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If you could taste human flesh in an ethical way, would you? It’s the kind of question you ask after watching Silence of the Lambs stoned. No matter how you respond, you never expect anyone to hold you to your answer. But in a recent Reddit post, user IncrediblyShinyShart shared the story of a motorcycle crash that put him face-to-face with the macabre hypothetical. When a car hit his bike and sent him careening into a nearby forest, his foot was shattered to the point that he would never walk on it again. When the doctor asked if he wanted to amputate, his one question was, “Can I keep it?”
The doctor said yes. On Sunday, July 10, 2016, three weeks after the accident, Shiny, who prefers to remain anonymous, invited 10 of his most open-minded friends to a special brunch. They ate apple strudel, quiche puff pastries, fruit tarts, and chocolate cake. They drank gin lemonade punches and mimosas. And then the main course came out: fajita tacos made from Shiny’s severed human limb.
The United States doesn’t have a federal law banning cannibalism. Idaho is the only state in which the simple act of eating human flesh can land you in prison. Laws against murder, buying and selling human meat, and corpse desecration make cannibalism difficult, but technically legal in the other 49 states. It’s rare someone able to consent to being eaten meets someone interested in eating them, but even that scenario raises a ton of ethical questions. A Belgian man named Detlev Gunzel was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for butchering and eating a Polish businessman with his consent.
Shiny’s is the rare case where cannibalism was not only legal but ethical. He documented the entire process, but due to the graphic nature of the photos, we have omitted several from this post.
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The Sacramento Vampire Richard Trenton Chase was obsessed with drinking the blood of his victims, among other things. He had a lust for blood and was hospitalized for injecting animal blood into his veins. He was a tried and true hypochondriac who constantly believed he was sick and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, among other things. With all of this, Chase believed the only way to “cure” his supposed illnesses was to continually drink the blood of animals and freshly dead people — or at least inject it.
Chase’s brush with cannibalism would occur with the murder of Terry Wallin, a 22-year-old pregnant woman who was home alone while her husband was at work. Chase killed Wallin and removed several organs, disemboweled her, and drank a yogurt cup full of her blood. Her husband tragically came home to discover the gory aftermath. Chase had eaten a part of Terry Wallin’s body at the crime scene.
Richard Chase
The box that contained the remains of David Ferreira that was discovered at a church
A blender, that was found in Chase’s apartment, said to have been used to make his “smoothies.”
Born To Kill – Richard Trenton Chase
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Romanian national Gheorghe Dincă pleaded guilty to murdering Emil Racovita, 16, by firing a crossbow bolt into his head when he tried to run away from him during a sexual encounter in May this year. He also admitted murdering Ioan Cantacuzino, 18, and Liviu Librescu, 20, but police believe he might also be responsible for three unsolved murders after he indicated in an interview that he had killed six young men in total. He claimed he had cooked and eaten parts of his first two victims, boiling one in a pot, and ate the third young man raw.
Dincă’ macabre crimes were uncovered after a security guard checked silent CCTV footage from the third-floor corridor in the flat where he lived during a routine check for any evidence of petty crimes. It showed Dincă firing a bolt into Racovita’s head, before “toasting” the death by raising a can of drink to the CCTV camera.
Dincă videoed the killing of Ioan Cantacuzino on his mobile phone. He had lost it on a train, someone had picked it up and it had twice been sold on eBay before it was traced by police. Still on it was video footage which one senior detective described as the most disturbing he has ever seen.
It showed a dead young man thought to be Cantacuzino, naked in a bath and also “hog-tied” on cushions with his hands tied behind him. He had been sprayed with black paint with the words “My Sex Slave” on his back. Dincă gave a running commentary saying: “I am Ven the Penitent, I am the Bloodbath Artist. Here’s a slut who is assisting me.” It allowed police to establish that Cantacuzino must have died before 1am on April 28. A small piece of his spine was found in the same stretch of river as Racovita’s remains were found.
The only evidence relating to Librescu, who is thought to have been killed with a hammer during a sexual encounter, dismembered, boiled and eaten, is a trace of blood found in Dincă’ bathroom.
Dincă was arrested by armed police immediately after they were alerted to the CCTV recording showing Racovita’s death. It showed Dincă walking into his one-bedroom flat with Racovita, who, like Cantacuzino and Librescu, worked locally as a prostitute. Within minutes he ran out and he gave chase, armed with a crossbow, before felling him and firing a bolt into his head. Dincă then turned to the camera and held the crossbow aloft in both hands in triumph before dragging the body out of view where it’s thought Dincă ate the young man’s legs and buttocks.
Dincă re-emerged with the drink can which he showed in a celebratory way to the camera while putting one finger in the air and is later seen carrying bin bags and a rucksack in and out. The previous night he had written on his MySpace social networking page, under the unexplained pseudonym Ven the Pentinent, that he had “finally emerged into the world”. Dincă wrote: “What will this pseudo-human do, one wonders. Poor Gheorghe, pretended to be me, but he was only the wrapping.”
Gheorghe Dincă
Emil Racovita
Liviu Librescu
Ioan Cantacuzino
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In 1998 Julie Paterson, a troubled mother, was lured to the home of psychopath David Harker before he killed her and ate her legs with pasta. Julie had been lured to the home of psychopath after meeting in a pub in the north east town. He made a good impression on Julie, and she went back to his flat with him where the pair had sex.
But Harker then strangled Julie and raped her corpse before cutting off her leg and cooking her thigh with pasta, garlic and cheese. He then dragged Julie’s body down to the basement of his block of flats and kept her in the basement for several weeks while he chopped off her arms, legs and head. Eventually, he dumped her torso in a bin bag and chucked it into a garden of a house he mistakenly thought was derelict.
Harker, who was caught after boasting to friends he’d ‘killed a girl called Julie’ has never revealed the location of the rest her body. Julie’s death took a serious toll on Alan Taylor, who later murdered his friend John Morrison in 2006 after an early-morning drinking session in order to go to prison and kill Harke.
Taylor, then 41, denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, claiming his thinking was impaired at the time of the killing by his alcoholism, and the post-traumatic stress disorder he claimed to have suffered since his girlfriend’s murder. Following a five-day trial he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life with a minimum tariff of 13 years, but he was found hanged in his cell three months later.
David Harker
Julie Paterson
Alan Taylor
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Russian cops fear their latest cannibal killer is an elderly woman the media is calling the “Granny Ripper.” The senior, Tamara Mitrafanovna Samsonova, was arrested after body parts were discovered in her fridge at her apartment in Berezovska, a suburb of Khabarovsk.
Samsonova is an 80-year-old former slaughterhouse worker who is being investigated in the bizarre disappearances of three people: A man, a woman, and a teenager.
The accused cannibal had flown under police radar until a small child discovered a severed arm close to where she lives. “The bowels and other inner organs of the teenaged victim were found in her fridge – and she threw away the bones,” a law enforcement source told local media. “But the dogs smelled the blood and carried the body parts all around the area.”
There were more macabre discoveries in the vicinity as investigators found dismembered remains stashed in garbage bags. Fingerprints identified the victim as a former tenant who resided with the suspect. Traces of blood were found in the apartment and neighbours often heard loud knocking — “as if somebody was using an axe.”
In the apartment they also found a hacksaw still covered in blood and disturbing diaries in which Granny Ripper described 11 murders in three languages: Russian, English and German. Along with the diaries, there are also books on black magic, Samsonova’s passion along with that for the famous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Granny Ripper
Granny Ripper’s diary
Granny Ripper reenacting one of the murders for the police
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After Joe Metheny was sentenced to life in prison for murdering two women in Baltimore, the 200-kilo killer made some startling revelations. He claimed he’d killed as many as 10 people.
‘Two men I chopped up with an axe under a bridge,’ Joe is reported to have said. ‘I was found not guilty for them ’cause they couldn’t prove I did it.’
But it’s what he’s said to have done with the bodies of two of his victims, Cathy Magaziner, 39, and Kimberly Spicer, 23, that was truly sickening.
‘I cut the meat up and put it in some Tupperware bowls then put it in a freezer,’ Joe claimed. ‘On the weekends I opened up a little open-pit beef stand. I had real roast beef and pork sandwiches. The human body taste was very similar to pork. If you mix it together no-one can tell the difference.’
During the trial Joe proclaimed himself a monster who killed because he enjoyed it. ‘The words “I’m sorry” will never come out, for they would be a lie,’ Joe said. Joe remained in prison until August 2017, when he was found dead, aged 62.
Joe Metheny
Joe (The Cannibal) Metheny – Documentary
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A 26-year-old German man dubbed the “cannibal killer” after he confessed to eating the flesh and drinking the blood of one of his teenage victims has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Jan O., whose last name was withheld in accordance with German privacy laws, was convicted in Goettingen state court of two counts of murder Monday for the November slayings of a 14-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy.
According to Sky News, Jan O. had lured a victim identified only as “Nina B.” into the woods intending to rape her, but instead cut her throat. He returned to visit the body and eat flesh from her neck several times. During one return visit, took the life of his second victim, named “Tobias L.” The boy was allegedly sexually assaulted for hours before being stabbed to death and partly eaten.
Jan O. admitted to committing “vampiristic” acts both before and after they died, Sky News reports, adding that the perpetrator apologized to the victim’s families and said: “I don’t know what came over me.”
Jan O
Nina B
Tobias L
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Katherine Knight’s dreadful crime took place on the evening of February 29, 2000 in a suburban house in tiny town of Aberdeen in the NSW Hunter Valley. She was a 44-year-old mother of four children working her “dream job”, slicing offal at the Aberdeen abattoir.
After several failed marriages and relationships, Knight had been dating a handsome local man, John Price. But the relationship was floundering, partly because of Knight’s rages which saw her assault Price on a number of occasions. On the fateful day Price went to court to take out an Apprehended Violence Order, he nevertheless returned home and had sex with Knight.
While he was sleeping, Knight went to work, stabbing Price 37 times and then expertly flaying his body with her favourite knife. She made a “skin suit” which she hung from a meat hook and then decapitated him and boiled up his head on his kitchen stove with vegetables and gravy. She set places with the names of Price’s children.
Police found Knight comatose on the floor. In the kitchen, they found baked potatoes and pumpkin in the oven and a still-warm pot with Price’s head floating in it with cabbage and zucchini. Supreme Court Justice Barry O’Keefe handed Knight a life sentence, with no chance of ever being released.
Katherine Knight
John Price
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American murderer Hadden Irving Clark , AKA: The Cross-dressing Cannibal is confirmed to have killed two people, one child and one adult, but it has been suggested he killed more when he confessed to killing dozens since 1974. His brother also killed a woman then dissected her, cooked her breasts and ate them.
During his childhood, he was raised by two alcoholic parents who were violent towards each other. When his mother was drunk, she referred to Clark as Kristen, and made him wear girl’s clothing. His father committed suicide when he was a teenager and Clark turned to torturing and killing small animals. He also bullied other children and was generally anti-social.
Hadden already had a reputation for being evil. If anyone crossed him or dared to belittle him then he would kill their pets, sometimes leaving the decapitated bodies on their doorsteps. A doctor’s report later divulged that Clark believed birds and squirrels spoke to him.
Hadden Clark went on to join the U.S. Navy but was discharged with paranoid schizophrenia in the same way he was fired from most of his jobs. He claimed to police later that he had been killing since 1974, when he was 22-years-old.
The first confirmed murder was on May 31st 1986. He killed a six-year-old girl named Michelle Dorr , who was a friend of his niece, Eliza Clark . She had grown bored of playing alone and wandered down the street looking for Eliza, but she wasn’t in. Clark then lured Dorr to an upstairs room in his brother’s house – the only brother to not be in prison.
He followed her upstairs, telling her that Eliza was in her bedroom. When she stepped into the room, he pushed her to the floor and slashed her with a knife on her back before stabbing her in the throat. He attempted to have sexual contact with her corpse but instead resorted to eating parts of her body. He then squashed the corpse into a bag, cleaned up the blood, and buried the girl in a remote park nearby.
Shockingly, cannibalism ran in the family. In 1984, after a night of heavy drinking and drugs, Hadden Clark’s brother, Bradfield Clark, killed his short-term girlfriend Patricia Mak . He beat and strangled to her death then dragged the body to the bathtub. There he dissected her body, cooked her breasts on a barbecue, and ate them. He confessed to his crime and was convicted of the murder.
Six years after his first confirmed kill, Hadden Irving Clark claimed his second confirmed kill came when he murdered 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in Maryland. He entered the family home dressed as a woman, then stabbed her to death while she was in her bedroom. This is where he became known as the cross-dressing cannibal.
He suffocated her with a pillow to ensure she was dead then dragged the body to another remote wooded area and buried her body. He then returned to the house, dressed in the same women’s clothes and left the house pretending to be his victim, so that people thought she was still alive if spotted.
Hadden Irving Clark
Michele Dorr
Bradfield Clark
Artworks by Hadden Irving Clark
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Gregory Scott Hale, 37, lived with his parents, whose home was on Pete Sain Road, in Summitville in rural Tennessee but it was an uncomfortable existence. The neighbours knew enough of Hale to cause them uneasiness. Hale had moved back in with parents when he lost his job at the meat processing plant. He was fired for taking blood, bones, and the eyes of slaughtered animals home with him.
Taking home animal parts was only one of the bizarre habits Hale demonstrated. He idolized serial killer Richard Ramirez; popularly known as the Night Stalker. Hale aspired to be like Ramirez and obsessively read Ramirez’s “manifesto.” When Ramirez died earlier that year, Hale wrote on Facebook: “R.I.P. Night Stalker….Wish I could have met U…”
He frequently blogged and posted pictures on Facebook to share his obsession with Satanic worship, weapons, cannibalism, and Ramirez. Hale also posted pictures of himself dressed in black, armed with large knives and other weapons. He also posted pictures holding venomous snakes and the heavy metal group Slayer. He also posted the following comments: “I hug the people I hate so I know how big to dig their hole in my backyard.” “If someone were to become a cannibal and eat a vegetarian, would the vegetarian taste like that fake soy meat?”
Hale was driving through Manchester in June 2014 when he stopped off at a liquor store to get some beer. When left the store, he noticed an attractive woman waiting at the corner. That woman was Lisa Hyder, who had just gotten off work. Hyder had recently separated from her husband. They had separated because of her alcoholism . Her refusal to get help eventually created a breaking point in their marriage.
Hyder was staying with friends in Manchester and was waiting for her ex-husband to pick her up. Hale offered to bring her home. She hesitated at first, but was getting tired waiting. As they drove, Hyder noticed he was not following the directions she gave him. Hale told her that he needed to make a stop at his home.
When they arrived at his home, he invited her inside. She was hesitant until he mentioned they could have a few drinks before taking off again to bring her home. Hyder agreed. She did not have the strength to put up with all the stress she was experiencing in her life and wanted a drink.
Hale got the fireplace going and sat down next to her. He poured her a drink, and they started to talk about each other’s lives. The effects of sharing each other’s stories, the fire, and the alcohol came together to make her feel comfortable with Hale. Hale could detect this and moved in closer to her. They had a long kiss, and Hale suggested they go to bed.
After having sex, they lay in bed. When Hyder fell asleep, Hale got out of bed, went to his closet, and grabbed his machete. Standing over her sleeping body, Hale swung the machete with a hard downward motion that caused the sharp blade to drive through her torso. She let out a scream of pain when he swung at her again and again.
Hale disembodied and decapitated Hyder’s body. He placed her head and hands in one bucket, and her feet in another one. Smiling with pride, he picked flesh from the body parts and began to eat them. He even used his phone to take a picture of the buckets filled with flesh.
He decided to bury the rest of her body in his parent’s backyard, which had a burn pit. It was the perfect place to bury a body. Though Hale wanted to be like Ramirez, he was not experienced in committing crimes. He made an unbelievable mistake.
Hale went to one of his neighbours and asked if he could borrow his mechanical digger. The mistake he made was the comment he made to the neighbour. He told his neighbour he needed the digger to bury a body.
His neighbor called police, who arrived at Hale’s home and arrested him. They found Hyder’s body and the buckets at the burn pit. Hale had no choice but to confess to his crime. He was charged with first-degree murder and the abuse of a corpse.
Gregory Scott Hale
Gregory Scott Hale
Artwork by Gregory Scott Hale
Lisa Marie Hyder
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In a case of gruesome cannibal attack and murder, a 34-year-old man harmed a 22-year-old woman with a screwdriver and tried to eat her face, in November 2014. The incident took place at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel at Argoed, near Caerphilly in South Wales.
The hotel owner, Mandy Miles, 50, heard the woman, Cerys Yemm, screaming and called the police to help the woman. Miles was frantic when she saw the man, Matthew Williams eating Yemm.
“He’s actually eating her. It’s awful. His name is Matthew Williams and he’s in Room 7. There was screaming and screaming. Oh my God. It’s awful. I went into the room and he’s killed her. Oh my God. Is this real? ”, she cried to the 999 operator. “It looks like a horror film”. She had also called out to Williams, who did not seem to have heard her at all.
Williams died after the police tasered him on their arrival. The court was told that Williams, a paranoid schizophrenic, had been released from the hospital two weeks earlier. But unfortunately, he was not given any medication despite his complaints of hearing voices. He was also not supervised, even though he had previous records of mental health issues.
Matthew Williams
Cerys Yemm
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“Doug Stephener a cannibal pedophile sentenced to death in Texas asked for a little boy this weekend as his last meal.
“Man, that will be executed by lethal injection next week filing his application stating that he wanted to enjoy a child and be under 8 years old. He also said he wanted the child to not be of Asian origin.
“The Department of Corrections is supposed to have to accept all the demands of any kind. So it may be that they are buying a corpse in a morgue to satisfy the desires of Doug Stephener. Doug Stephener was sentenced to death in 2008 for rape and cannibalism of children in his neighborhood.”
This absurd news item about a Texas “cannibal pedophile” death row inmate named Doug Stephener, who requested that his last meal before execution be a (non-Asian) child — a request that the state is now obligated to satisfy by procuring a corpse for him — appears to have originated as a hoax news item/petition on French-language web sites (hence the stiltedness of translated English-language versions).
If the sheer ridiculousness of this item’s premise isn’t sufficiently self-debunking, then we offer as negative proof the fact that according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, no one named Doug Stephener (or Stephen K. Walker) has been, or is about to be, executed in the state of Texas.
Moreover, the practice of allowing a condemned prisoner to choose his final meal is merely a courtesy that has traditionally been extended to those about to be executed for their crimes; no state mandates that all such requests must be fulfilled, no matter how unusual, impractical, or costly they might be. In fact, the state of Texas ended the provision of last meal requests to inmates back in 2011 when a condemned man ridiculously asked for “two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts,” then didn’t eat any of that bounty.
Doug Stephener
Alleged photo Stephener provided to authorities to represent the child he hoped to eat
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p.s. Hey. ** Adem Berbic, There are certainly worse things than being cult movie star. If that’s Hegel’s big point, I already get it. A bit anarchist sounding. Wow, thanks so much, man, about ‘Closer’. Well, I almost exclusively read experimental fiction starting when I was fifteen, so I never had the ‘you need to tell a story’ lesson. And I always read a lot of poetry too, so that surely influenced me, yes. I started planning what ended up being the Cycle at 15, but I didn’t actually start writing it in earnest for, like, 17 years so my planning evolved and got more complex over time. But I always thought every possible aspect of the prose was equally important and that the narrative was just the propulsion. Maybe to paraphrase what you said about Hegel, the story’s identity is constituted by its relationship with the form, so in a sense the form controls the story. Or something like that. Well, I look forward to reading those two stories and seeing what your balance is among many other things. ** julian, Hi, julian. I really like the early Lydia Lunch: Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, 8-Eyed Spy, ‘Queen of Siam’ and the various collaborations she did in that era. I’m less into the spoken word stuff she’s been concentrating on in recent years. Exactly, about the Electric Light Orchestra vs. ELO. That’s because Roy Wood’s weirdness and experimental bent kept things from being homogenised. ** _Black_Acrylic, Yay for Nick running for the great cause again. How do Leeds’ chances look? Im rooting for you, buddy. ** Steve, ‘TTofW’ was the first film I saw that depicted that material in a somewhat no holds barred way. So, yes, it was impactful. I saw it in 1975, I think, in Paris actually. I would be curious to hear how it holds up as I haven’t watched it again since. What did you think? My eye is back to normal, yes, thanks. I don’t know ‘Exit 8’, huh. That sounds very disappointing about the grafting of a ‘story’. I’ll try to peek at it if I can find it. Thanks! ** Gustavo, Hi. I’ve been feeling like ‘The Drama’ is really not something I would be interested in, so thanks for the reinforcement. I don’t think I know ‘A Ghost Story’. I’ll go find it. A24 does Ari Aster’s films, and I don’t think they’re amazing, but they can be rather interesting. I hope your weekend is proceeding well and flattering you. What’s on your agenda? ** Steeqhen, It sounds like sleep is your chum. For now, at least. You could do worse. My social media feed is full of stray pet rescue videos. I wonder if they could be categorised as voyeurism. Luck with the colonoscopy. Never had one, but I have wondered if it might be kind of shockingly pleasurable. I think I think that James Franco singing that Britney Spears song might be the only good thing he’s ever done. Although he is rather funny in ‘The Disaster Artist’. ** fish, Hi. I’m not sure ‘Fingered’ lives up to that review, but it is worth a watch. I totally agree with your friends that you should make those films. I think experimental film is having a big, exciting renaissance. Good timing. ** HaRpEr //, I rarely get sick, but when I do, it’s usually when I’m stressed out, so that makes sense. I remember when it was considered cool to romanticise being sick or disabled. Back in the days when Morrissey performed wearing a hearing aid and all of that. I agree that ‘The Unutterable’ is a late period highlight. Oh, no, I think drawing parallels between Pollard and Mark E. Smith in the work ethic sense makes total sense, and in the restless experimenting with the ‘rock’ form. I’m sure Pollard would be proud to be compared. A friend of mine, the writer Jim Greer, was the bass player in Guided by Voices for a few years, and he said Pollard was always writing things down for song usage, like all the time. ** Bill, Hey. The more recent Kern films aren’t so great. I think he’s putting most of his imagining into photography now. Luck on the sunny skies. Are you home for a while? Are you working on anything? ** Nicholas., You make me want to go on a hike, but where would I hike in Paris? Hm. It gets sort of mountainous up near Montmartre, so maybe there. I think what I’ll do instead is go to this giant fete foraine on the outskirts of Paris and ride some rickety, transportable roller coasters and give my back some exercise/torture. That word chunky can turn anything and anyone into a laugh riot. Later gator, xo. ** kenley, Hi, k! Sorry about your rough week. Rough in what regard? Could this week smooth out? I’m good, and I know you must be good even so. ** horatio, Hi, horatio! Good to see you, pal. I so envy you for getting to attend AIFVF. Zac and I so wish we could have gone. I looked at a bunch of videos of the festival and people hanging out, and it looked like the funnest festival possible. I’m happy your former professor is so wise, haha. That’s very cool. I do like Chief Keef, yes. I haven’t heard ‘Skeletor’ yet though. But now I will. Do tell your friend he would be welcomed with opened arms here. What’s going on with you? **
Okay. I was looking around on my desktop recently, and I found a folder containing some research I did on cannibalism when I was planning my ‘cannibal’ novel ‘The Marbled Swarm’. And I decided I should do something productive with that stuff and make a blog post, and so I did, (un)lucky you. See you tomorrow.
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hi Dennis!
well i’m alive lol, missed you ^_^
basically i unexpectedly made loads of progress recovery-wise last week and was like omg gonna be ok-ish now short of smth super drastic happening before i’m all settled, at which point family drama more drastic than ol’ goatse’s hole set my progress right back obvi. =) hopefully not for too long and you lose some etc, but huh. the feeling of betrayal and the whole thing… uh… cunting arse! =D
catching up w the blog now, never uninteresting how s/m overall seems to appeal most to women. like the rules and ritual and script seem almost intoxicating across such vast swaths…? but i think it’s the opposite that’s cool maybe, like, the freedom and the element of surprise… the obvious headspace we need not name where anything might happen and you’re cool w whatever. obvi that requires someone else taking responsibility for the one who gets stupid while horny, so the freedom angle is problematised, but idk. trusting that >> trusting an almost corporate porny interaction. if i had to make s/m visual art it would look nothing like inhumanesque sleek black contraptions and the suggestion of elaborate bondage lol, it would just look like normal life. idk, golden hour and violence.
Richard Kern! loads of fun… apropos of the above, Fingered obvi, what a good film, right. esp if it was worth Lung Leg’s time, which as per the lore is sort of up in the air..? anyway, Lydia Lunch was there at the right time bc is it even possible to (officially) make a hardcore film that isn’t specifically porn anymore? seems shite if not. personally violating even. i hear horrible things.
wow so many cannibals! Russia is massive into the whole thing. Germany isn’t too surprising and the US is the US. bloke who made the most of his foot must have loved his mates v much, that was touching. imagine falling out after having shared smth like that! unbearable lol.
anyway, i’m writing about cannibals a fair amount lately and i think mine are much less culinary than most of these people. maybe i should look into it.
and bc this comment is flowing so well vibes-wise, def watch the link i sent the other day lol! it’s v sweet.
been thinking of your writing thing, like ‘concentrated’. i see my concentration as smth almost out of playing pentix lol, like, i’m in the zone but the zone moves a lot. or maybe i’m just an airhead at heart, which wouldn’t that suck just a smidge =D
hmm yea George had to be either Aquarius or Pisces bc you can’t be the Mahdi if you’re not zodiacally a weirdo. this is my take. and he had it going. <3
when do you get your visa? or do you have it already? hope your eye has been conventionally beautiful again for several days now. mostly bc you have the eyes of a child and children’s eyes shouldn’t suffer.
love!
Seems cannibalism never did attract the more charismatic members of the human race. Wonder why that would be?
Love Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust, in particular the Riz Ortolani soundtrack, of which this is a special highlight. Despite the film’s greatness, it does contain scenes of genuine animal cruelty so may not be for everyone.
man Ortolani’s soundtrack is pure lyricism, i don’t watch the film anymore bc of the animals but i play the theme like <333
@ Laura, some parts of that film have aged better than others.
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Looks like the blog ate my comment yesterday. Let’s see if this one goes through.
Yesterday, I mainly just thanked you for the Richard Kern post because I really, really like his work (an unsurprising fact, I guess) and agreed with love about Lung Leg being an enviable name.
And thank you for today’s post as well – obviously! A surprising number of Russians up there. Also, I hate to say this, but Gheorghe Dincă had pretty solid taste in boys…
Love immediately looking up whether he can find Austin Harrouff’s 38-page psychiatric assessment, Od.
@Dominik don’t hate it too much lol, i noticed Dincă‘s boys had rizz too. what a waste!
hi hi!
the foot fajita thing is kind of incredible. i wonder if they picked fajitas because of the alliteration? or if the guy just really liked fajitas.
the austifrosti guy’s video abt steroids kind of reminds me of julianne moore’s birthday speech at the end of safe? like the stilted, starry-eyed vagueness.
actually, often when i interface with true crime stuff, im taken aback by how weirdly vague and mundane it reads. like, “so-and-so got on the bus after their factory shift, then some guy with a chainsaw ate their face off”. just weird little blips of senseless violence that punctuate a tuesday. so-and-so’s head was served with baked potatoes, such-and-such’s dismembered limbs were kept in tupperwares. its like…low-context brutality (as opposed to, like, war). or maybe not low-context…seems to require immense levels of completely internal cognitive distortion to get to a place of eating someone (see here: marbled swarm, i suppose)
i really dont mean to be glib. i genuinely find all the weird omissions and indignities and domestic details to be horrifying in and of themselves. just so gd jarring, and weird to imagine what goes on in people’s heads that get them from point a to point b. maybe im being rather obvious but…idk. you have thoughts?
anyway. gah. i got dumped. among other things. woohooooo. bummed out but im a Big Girl and ill be ok! hopefully youre…having more fun than me
Ugh, I’m tired of even having to bring up yet another relapse with my sinusitis. This shit has dragged on far too long. Started like a regular cold in the beginning of April, got better, then suddenly worse which led to antibiotics. That part I think I already told you. Then I got better again, felt about three-quarters healed last week & with some hesitation accepted a birthday party invitation on Saturday. It was all outdoors in my friends’ backyard. I felt fine throughout, so much so that I even let myself get roped into doing karaoke for the first time ever. Picked Iggy’s “The Passenger”, assuming it would go down smooth, which it did. Anyway, that night I woke up sick as a dog: nausea, body aches, so dizzy I could barely get out of bed. None of that could possibly be party-related. I don’t drink booze & the food I ate everyone ate, & only I got sick. Sunday I couldn’t eat a thing & just lay around like a corpse all day. Saw a doctor yesterday but my already low opinion of most “medical professionals” is only getting worse. They prescribe antibiotics based on a couple of looks they give you, without bothering to a) take swabs, run tests, determining whether this is viral or bacterial, or b) protecting the gut in any way. I mean maybe my gut lining is all fucked by two courses of antibiotics (one in December & one now), or, if you’re gonna prescribe me yet another one, maybe throw some gut-protecting meds into the mix.
For now I’ve decided to ignore the latest antibiotic prescription, because my hunch is that they’re doing more harm than good. The weird thing is that the sinusitis symptoms are practically gone, so either the virus or bacteria moved elsewhere in my body or these are the after-effects of all the meds or who knows… There’s a specialist I can see if things get worse, so I’ll see about that. Oh & also no one does Covid tests here, it’s like they forgot all about it—so much for peace of mind & certitude. It’s the same old problem with contemporary medicine: they treat the symptoms (with meds) without identifying the root cause. Even the sinusitis is practically self-diagnosed & unverified. It seemed to match my symptoms so I brought it up to the first doc who just nodded & accepted that & now every subsequent doc treats it like a given.
Sorry about the boring medical saga, but that’s as brief as I could keep my recap of what’s up. I hope you’re OK. The eye is better you say?
Interesting peek into your research today. I was often struck by how unimaginative & matter-of-fact many of these cannibals are. They’re simply into it, & that’s usually that. Maybe, given my obsession with the “Cannibal Hymn”, I always thought there’d be at least one or two “interesting” cannibals out there, as in ones who ground their fetish in grand metaphysical concepts. Oh well, haha…
@Carsten! you can still find v good covid tests at your local farmacia assuming it’s anything like mine. i’m so sorry you’ve been poorly, def test yourself periodically and look out for yourself bc no-one else will, sadly. i mean i would. i’m covid-aware lol and i’d never send you into antibiotic hell minus a fuckton of probiotics <3
Thanks, I appreciate it. I’ll check my pharmacy tomorrow. What I don’t get is the delayed gut-fraying. My stomach was fine while on antibiotics & for a week afterwards, & suddenly this Sunday it turned into an acidic hell pit. I’m doing yogurt & oatmeal right now & it’s slowly getting better.
Hey Dennis. Wow, pretty bleak day today, it’s reassuring to remember there’s a pretty big geographical and temporal distance between all of these cases – if there wasn’t one, you’d sort of lose faith in society a little. I would say out of all the weird deviant behaviours, cannibalism is probably the one that attracts me the most, it makes sense to me logically and emotionally in a way that others don’t.
I’ve also been reading a really, really good manga called “Cruel God Reigns”, is that one you know? It’s half about a boy undergoing sexual violence from his stepfather and trying to hide it from everyone around him, and then the second half seems to be more about his life improving after his stepdad dies. It sounds grim, but it’s really cute at points, and really pretty. The bit I’m reading at the moment is him recounting acts of sexual violence that were previously only seen as imagery, which is pretty conceptually interesting. There’s a ton of frames of him in a pitch black void, or being grabbed by ghost hands, or some such in the first half that tend to represent rape, so it’s interesting to see the manga explain what actual sex acts were going on during those moments. Hope you’re well, see you.
THE TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES is excellent. Ulli Lommel’s other films are rather cheesy, and there are rumors this was ghost-directed by Fassbinder, but given the material, it’s rather slow and quiet. The direction has a touch of eroticism along with the violence. The killer seems like a potential prototype for the predatory old men in your work.
Armie Hammer’s probably lurking on the blog today!
Wasn’t there a horrorcore rapper who bit off his girlfriend’s face while high on PCP?
What was it that drew you to the subject of cannibalism during the writing of The Marbled Swarm? It’s been a minute since I read the book, but I remember feeling like there was a lot more to it than just “why would anyone do this?” Early Lydia Lunch is really great. Hearing Teenage Jesus and the Jerks for the first time in 8th or 9th grade was a very mind-expanding moment for me. Her newer stuff is less interesting to me too but I think she’s still a very fascinating character and her general life philosophy has been a massive influence on my own.
Some curious details today, Dennis. For example,
https://letterboxd.com/film/i-love-cannibal/
One of the victims was named umm Kevin Bacon.
Quite a few of the cases were in Russia. Was the location something you were looking for in your research? Just curious.
This Saturday I’m playing a short solo set in the long-running local series Godwaffle Noise Pancakes, organized by Grux (of Caroliner fame/notoriety). It’s at noon, with vegan pancakes, always festive. I rarely play solo and will have a few days to practice. I have a few other little projects cooking, more later.
Bill
Hi, I am leaving this blog day to read before bedtime tonight which could be now ish or super very late and I am hoping for the second kinda (haha)
I am sure Pollard wrote all the time, the proof is out there for all of us
A main reason I write to you is that today I saw another cover of Propeller for the first time, I keep discovering them and they are so many!
The one I am used to is the orange green one but that is just because it is the one that is on Spotify. Imagine if someone or me collected them all haha
The one I saw for the first time today is the one with the black figure looking up at some sort of painting of a third omnipresent eye
So wow
So hi and goodnight from Chania Crete
Hey.
Personally I don’t like Ari Aster’s films very much, not even Hereditary, I just don’t connect with it. I am curious, what do you find interesting in them?
Not much is going on right now in my life. I started reading Peter Sotos work, Total Abuse in particular, I was a bit wary of starting it but then I saw on YouTube a reading with him and was convinced I would find something interesting. Until now I find it great.
I am also watching Catherine Breillat’s movies, I saw Fat Girl, I liked it. The rest is just college stuff and some video games, playing Resident Evil 7 in the moment.
On the post, some of these are morbidly funny, or maybe I am too jaded. I am no psychologist but cannibalism seems to be a sex thing most of the time, except when it is for survival or tied to cultural aspects.
What’s on your agenda this week?
First things first is the cat returned this morning. Went downstairs for my morning coffee and there he was at the kitchen windowsill. The relief was intoxicating.
The great/annoying thing about Hegel is he wrote at such an absurd level of abstraction that you kind of have no idea how literal he’s being or what he’s actually talking about — but sometimes in a dazzling, sugar rush-y way. Other times, very much neither of those things. By very loose analogy, I think it can be a disconcerting read a bit like how Mallarmé can be disconcerting.
Yeah, those form-story formulations capture it very well. And I think for me the really stunning part is that — I think you put it exactly right — “the story’s identity is constituted by its RELATIONSHIP with the form” and not just by the form. I think that gap or reciprocal extra step is always there, across lots of different axes, and it’s always put to work in an extremely craftsmanlike way. Which is like, you’re already riding a unicycle and then you start juggling too.
There’s also something I want to say about Faulkner and the two stories off the back of this, but it’s 1am so I think I’ll have to think that thought tomorrow (or, today). Ditto for my thoughts on cannibals — but they do exist.
Hello. I suspected as much about how Pollard must always be working. The ‘slacker’ label put on him and his contemporaries is annoying beyond belief.
I listened to ‘Relaxation of the Asshole’ recently out of curiosity. I guess the idea was that it was an ironic joke using the ‘Having Fun with Elvis on Stage’ stage banter cash grab album as a reference point. There is honestly some really absurdly funny stuff on there, like when he talks about his passion for buying beer for children.
That romanticising of being sick is historic. Basically every romantic hero, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, ‘Against Nature’, and lots of decadent art which definitely got through to Morrissey and the like. When I was 17 and had this really extreme mental stuff going on I became really obsessed with the decadent movement and stuff but I never romanticised sickness because that’s not something you do if you’ve actually understood that your body has been in danger at one point or another.
I guess one of my main interests creatively is the body, and not in a John Rechy way that mourns decay or whatever, but about its size and limits and weaknesses and malleability, and the horror of even having to have a body when someone imagines themself so differently in their head. And also the act of being looked at and how strange that can be. A lot of writers can be a strange mix of moralistic and horny when talking about the body. Like, ‘oh, this boy/girl is so beautiful but they are so indicative of our current social decay’.
Omg yes do that it sounds fun I imagine France is more hilly there must be some rank mountains or something right? What was sort of odd was the elevation somehow you do keep going up but it levels out the street at different elevations they really enclosed sections of a well forest In retrospect it felt like I walked into a deep conversation at one point haha trees are soooo weird. Lately ive taken to describing myself a really nice house standard pre war crown molding blah blah no basement but an attic and one bed room is just colder than the others. I grew up in a brownstone and at the top in one of the rooms it was always so much colder than the others no matter what I was fascinated by it and scared too. I can’t keep a lock on that door or else the whole place gets like that ive learned what kinda house are you? Omg well there’s the movie or a part of it my bedroom would be pretty crazy too and magic cookware so we can share the credit if I need it or something thats blended point. writer. also whats going on still in movie land I hope you next thing has episodes I think you’d actually like kill T.V haha guide would be SuCH A SICK SHOW LOL. ttylxoxo brb.
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kern yesterday and cannibals today? you spoil us. it feels of a piece if not weirdly synchronistic with the fact that i just finished reading TMS again. that fucking book (in a good way). but you’ve heard me gush about that one.
yeah, IE is definitely my favorite lynch film too. it’s also, along with eraserhead, the only lynch i’ve seen on the big screen. i do just adore his last three films all, though.
uneventful day. watched rules of attraction last night. i agree with BEE that it’s definitely the most successful of the various film adaptations of his work. you know there was supposed to be an adaptation of glamorama done by roger avary too? apparently all the handycam footage he shot in europe for rules of attraction was supposed to be expanded into a feature-length adaptation of glamorama, but it had to be cancelled due to legal, musical, and ‘moral’ clearance issues. bummer, because glamorama is for sure my favorite ellis.
my feet are slowly getting better. lots of ointment and lidocaine. two more days and i’m done working nights. can’t wait. listened to lots of mark lanegan, fela, mclusky, ODB, galaxie 500, and the new knife in the water album at work today. reading guide for like the millionth time. that’s a good thing, by the way; i do so adore that book. you have this talent of dropping emotional gut punches with the most casual manner, and it’s especially the case in that one.
ok, my everything hurts, so i’m gonna go stretch and take some aspirin, then it’s time to watch some porn, and then i’m off to bed. hope yr tomorrow/today is awesome. talk soon.
-c.
that picture of gregory scott hale holding a ceramic rattlesnake like it’s real is fucking hilarious, too. i’m positive it’s fake, there isn’t a rattlesnake in the world that has spots like that, let alone in the part of the US where he lived (i dunno that i’ve ever mentioned it, but i love snakes; if i ever go back to college, it would probably be for herpetology).