A little Chinese music to start your weekend.
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Radio Karavansara
Five minutes in Ancient Egypt
… thanks to this beautiful animation.
Enjoy!
A podcast for your consideration
I have just discovered a wonderful audio-drama podcast that offers beautifully produced horror and darkly grotesque stories written by a choice of fine authors.
Their latest program, for instance, is a cruelly funny story by Kim Newman.
The show is called Tales from Beyond the Pale, and it is highly recommended.
Check it out.
Horror movies for families and other wonders
I am going to share a video-essay I just saw on Youtube, because it is really interesting and has a lot to say about writing horror and writing my kind of horror, but before we get to that I’ll have to make a little introduction and give a little explanation.
Back in the mid-80s I started getting really interested in Hong Kong movies. Up to that point I had seen mostly Bruce Lee features (lots of friends from primary school got sent to karate lessons because of that), the occasional kung fu movie and of course Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, the Hammer/Shaw Bros collaboration. In the second part of the ’80s more Hong Kong movies started being distributed more regularly in my country, and we finally got Jacky Chan and his former team, the Lucky Stars.
Then, in the early ’90s movies by Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and John Woo finally hit the screens.
Seize the day
Considering how liked have been so far these videos, I think I’ll go on posting them for a while. Nothing better than a little Chinese music in these hard days.
Enjoy!
Kyoto by Night
Nothing very complicated, just a beautiful short video about the night in Japan’s treasure of a city, Kyoto.
Isn’t it wonderful, how we can explore the world from our home?
Enjoy!
Cruel and Unusual
Quite a few years back, I used to contribute reviews and articles to a small literary magazine based in Turin. It was a lot of fun, I met some great people, and started to develop the habit of writing regularly on themes and with schedules set by others.
The magazine hosted a number of independent writers, and it even had some international contributors. One of these was a Japanese gentleman who was writing a book about the Tokyo underworld of fetish and BDSM clubs. He would send chapters to the magazine, that published them as a series. He was quite a good writer, and his pieces were always a great read, very literary and really in no way X-rated.
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