...greater appreciation for the careful intertextuality of Nightwish's albums. The overt 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' reference in 'The Islander,' I got, as well as the '... up--certainly, there's the spectacular and the supernatural, which dovetail more or less neatly with earlier ...as much a reaction against the spectacular and the supernatural as it was an engagement with it; it...

Movie Horror: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

... a Final Girl doing the wild thing in the water and that rules-violation ignites the supernatural? I'm in. Some dude drowns and his lifeforce passes to the corpse? Rockin'. But... pops up every 10 minutes to say only, "You're all gonna die!" complete with creepy eyes. Rime of the Ancient Mariner, anyone? --Yes yes, there's also the fact that Jason's a much bigger predator than anything NYC can come ...

which means

...to let me appreciate it. There was good writing, there were good characters… the supernatural aspect was a bit off-putting; it’s the only reason I read it,...Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Inazo Nitobe (Japanese) Bushido: The Soul of Japan Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” John Keats “Ode to a Grecian Urn” E. T. A. Hoffmann (German) The Serapion Brotherhood (trans E. ...

Writer's Block: Reading Aloud

... accent! Samuel Taylor Coleridge : He wrote poems that are widely recognized as Christian allegories, but a closer look suggests that he was fascinated with the supernatural and paganism. I'd like to see how he reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".