~*Revue_Blanche*~

1 SEPTEMBER -- birth of Bill and Tom Kaulitz.
I asked myself: why the group is called Tokio Hotel? I don’t know why, I only can suppose that it’s because one good Japanese group had the German name SCHWARZ STEIN.
Last year, there was a rumour, that some girlfriend of Bill committed suicide. Well, something of the kind should be expected. *shrugs* ‘Gothic angel’, you know.

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*I am not the only person who supports U.S. President George W. Bush* Lately I’ve found some free time for searching the name of the actor, whose movies I dearly loved for the last several years. (You may ask how could I love an actor without knowing his name and without trying to search the name for a long while? Yes, it happens with me at times. For example, I did not know the name of my beloved actor Nickolas Grace for a long while, for years. This is how it came about. I saw the RoS TV series in the 1980s, and fell in love with the Sheriff of Nottingham at first glance, that is it, but, at the same time, some inner voice said me that one should not love a fiendish decadent like he, and a girl like me mustn’t think of him. I was not a girl who obeyed the voices like that, but I had the problem with my insomnia in these times, that is my insomnia began, and I had some other problems on a personal level, so the fatally gorgeous Sheriff stayed in the background of my life. Years later, in 2003 I fell in love with Nickolas Grace’s performance as Anthony Blanche, and again I did not know his name. Very soon, I acquired PC, tried to search, but failed, and I even thought that there was not his name on the Net--however silly it sounds--but my unskillful armature searching was a success three years later, and I eventually learnt that in different periods of my life I fell in love with the same man. Thus I remained enamoured of a nameless man for years, however funny it sounds. But I digress…) James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning American film, stage and television actor. Woods is a Republican, and he was a vocal supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush. I love him when he plays cops and other good guys. He is a true good guy. As for the U.S. President, I little know of him. It’s simply a tradition among my compatriots in the U.S. to vote Republican. Let it be known, we fear any hue of red colour in politics, even pink. Abstracting from the ‘burning’ sexual associations, the red colour is a symbol of anarchy and riot for you, and it is a symbol of a stagnation and political terror for us in the post-Soviet countries.

Nickolas Grace Appreciation Society:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11033743462
plz join

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*No, I don't care if I die at 12am, I refuse to pass on your chain letter.* Recently I was asked: “Don’t you fear to put your photos on the Net? For everyone can use your photos, doing with them whatever one wants, and even casting a magic spell on you, or putting the evil eye, purposefully or unwittingly.” Voodoo. I don’t care. But it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Brrr…
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*W. Somerset Maugham*
I wonder if anyone tried the power of the mysterious symbol, which W. Somerset Maugham placed on the covers of his books? As he claimed, this ancient Moorish symbol guarded him for his entire life:

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*lab guinea-pigs (?)*
Did you happen to think of one possibility: what if someone watches us, bloggers, reading our blogs, and then uses our spiritual images and personalities in his fiction? It is so easy to do, if one wishes. The brighter personality is, the more tempting it is for a writer. Would you like to be used? Personally I dislike this idea. Or may be, I should be flattered? I’d not like to be an object a survey either.
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*I’ve never been where you have a good time, and I can talk only what I know of, Mr BCUK.* A blogger as a super-star? *shrug* What a star without any photo sessions and profit? You are a popular blogger, surrounded with fans. The Vampire X*** and his Brides. May be too many brides? May be, you enjoy having so many brides? Like a sultan. Every man is a sultan at heart. For my part, I’d like to be a high rock to be impassable to the waves that break against my foot--the waves cannot do harm to me, but… when a rock ever stopped a human?--may damnation take him. No, I regard a blog as a club or literary salon. To exchange information and to chat. And I am only a fascinated researcher.
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*to friends*
We, the women, who look for a nice British husband, seem incline to masochism. Your women, who look for a partner in the eastern countries, seem incline to something opposite, may be to dominating.
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*on friends*
For the last several months I lost several friends, because they proved to be or called themselves anarchists. The point is that, every time I learn a man is an anarchist, my interest to him vaporizes and disappears. The word ‘anarchy’ is a monstrous prosaism like ‘capitalism’ or ‘socialism’.
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*two saddest quotations:*
"You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance."--Wallis Simpson

"I have most loved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed... In order not to hurt their feelings, I have often acted a passion I did not feel."--W. Somerset Maugham
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one more beautiful Oscar Wilde related page:
http://www.skylinesongs.com/my_other_interests_oscar.htm
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Part 1 and Part 2 of my novel have been recently published at Turner Maxwell Books:
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB.htm
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB2.htm
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The Revue Blanche Photo Gallery keeps on producing more and more still-life pictures.

A horse that has thrown its rider off. Ancient motif.

Nature-morte with two volumes of Oscar Wilde’s works.

Something translucent and obscure.

More crystal and mirrors.

more photos:
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2008/08/16/stilllife-4595235

Part 1 and Part 2 of my novel La Lune Blanche have been recently published at Turner Maxwell Books. Be sure to get your copy here:
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB.htm
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB2.htm
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Meet my little Princess. She is called Myla Secunda Richly-Angorsky. I call her Mille, which is ‘thousand’ in French, sounding like the English ‘mill’, which in Russian is ‘he is nice’.

She is after the summer shedding of hair now, sorry…

2 essays on her
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2007/10/11/miscellanea~3118263
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2008/01/29/icebound_minstrel_potpourri~3648875
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*my late tomcat*

This is my cute little boy tabby Barrwick. The photo is not so good. He did not trust the photographer, and I had to hold him tight, and another moment, after the picture had been taken, he broke away from my hands.
When he lived with me, I used to talk with him in this way: “Q: Who had thick impressive side-whiskers and a white dickey? A: Writer Pushkin! And now Barrwick has all this.” Hearing that, Barrwick puffed up yet more. He inclined to musing and contemplation indeed, like an intellectual or at least like a young student. And he had so thick belly that several times, when I took him out for a walk (which was my big mistake, because he disappeared eventually), seeing him in my arms people asked: “Your kitty is impregnate?”
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*the ancient deity*
For the ancient Egypt lovers, their pet cat is a living true souvenir from ancient Egypt.
“…Due to the severe disaster to the food supply that could be caused by simple vermin such as mice and rats, and their ability to fight and kill snakes, especially cobras, cats in ancient Egypt were revered highly, sometimes being given golden jewelry to wear and being allowed to eat from the same plates as their owners. Consequently, later as the main cat rather than lioness deity, Bastet was strongly revered as the patron of cats, and thus it was in the temple at Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek) that dead and mummified cats were brought for burial. More than 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at Per-Bast was excavated.
…By the Middle Kingdom Bastet came to be regarded as a domestic cat rather than a lioness. Occasionally, however, she was depicted holding a lioness mask, which hinted at suppressed ferocity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective toward their offspring, Bast was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children.
…The merging of identities of similar goddesses has led to considerable confusion, leading to some associating things such as the title Mistress of the Sistrum, and the Greek idea of her as a lunar goddess rather the solar deity she was. Indeed, much of this confusion occurred in subsequent generations, as the identities slowly merged, as with the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who sometimes named her Ailuros (Greek for cat), thinking of Bastet as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess. And thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks, Bastet was thought of as the sister of Horus, who they identified as Apollo (Artemis' brother), and consequently, the daughter of the later emerging deities, Isis and Osiris.” (from Wikipedia)

In my childhood and youth, as long as I can remember, I was about to be a biologist to work with animals when grow up. I won’t say why I changed my mind, but I still love animals, and it’s my firm belief that the people who work with animals are more careful and considerate to human beings than some physicians or artists.
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I was about to make a nature-morte with crystal and mirrors with the aid of the little funny camera in my little funny cell phone, but my kitty came, and there is the nature-morte with the cat now.

(By the way, the samovar, which we can see in this picture, is small yet a true curio. Samovars were bigger usually. It is said, in Russia in 19th century and earlier, an average family of a merchant consumed tea in volume of 16 big samovars a day, at the average.)
my nature-morte with crystal:

my ring in the crystal:

more:

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24 July - 26 October 2008
Reading Room
Ј12, concessions available
Website with informations:
http://www.britishm useum.org/whats_on/all_current_ exhibitions/hadrian.
This special exhibition explores the life, love and legacy of Rome's most enigmatic emperor, Hadrian (reigned AD 117–138).
Ruling an empire that comprised much of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East, Hadrian was a capable and, at times, ruthless military leader. He realigned borders and quashed revolt, stabilising a territory critically overstretched by his predecessor, Trajan.
Hadrian had a great passion for architecture and Greek culture. His extensive building programme included the Pantheon in Rome, his villa in Tivoli and the city of Antinoopolis, which he founded and named after his male lover Antinous.
This unprecedented exhibition provides fresh insight into the sharp contradictions of Hadrian's character and challenges faced during his reign.
Objects from 28 museums worldwide and finds from recent excavations are shown together for the first time to reassess his legacy, which remains strikingly relevant today.
FULL PRESS RELEASE:
The Roman Emperor Hadrian (117 to 138AD) is best known for his passion for Greek culture, interest in architecture, his love for Antinous, and of course the eponymous wall he built between England and Scotland, then Caledonia. This exhibition, supported by BP, will look beyond this established image and offer new perspectives on his life and legacy, exploring the sharp contradictions of his personality and his role as a ruthless military commander. Incorporating recent scholarship and the latest spectacular archaeological discoveries, the exhibition will feature over 180 objects from 28 lenders from Italy to Georgia, from Israel to Newcastle. Loans of dramatic sculpture, exquisite bronzes and architectural fragments will be brought together and displayed for the first time in the UK, alongside famous objects from the Museum's own collection such as the iconic bronze head of Hadrian and the Vindolanda tablets. This exhibition will be held in the Round Reading Room, often compared to one of Hadrian's architectural masterpieces, the Pantheon in Rome.
Hadrian's family were originally from Spain. As the Roman Empire expanded and became more diverse in the 1st and 2nd century AD it became possible for people outside the traditional elite to come to power. Hadrian was adopted by his predecessor Trajan, also a Spaniard, on his deathbed. By the time of Hadrian's accession, the Roman Empire covered much of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East. But Hadrian recognised imperial overstretch and acted quickly to re-draw the empire's borders, to consolidate and strengthen rather than continuing the expansive campaigns of his predecessor. His first act on coming to power was to withdraw the Roman forces from Mesopotamia, present- day Iraq. Another example of this consolidation was the wall he had built in the north of England to mark the furthest reach of his empire. Hadrian was remarkable in that he travelled extensively across his empire, meeting more of his people than any other emperor before him.
Hadrian was a man of great contradiction in both his personality and reign: a military man and homosexual, he combined ruthless suppression of dissent with cultural tolerance. He reacted with great ferocity against the Jewish Revolt in 132 AD (examples of poignant objects belonging to Jewish rebels hiding in caves near Jerusalem will be included in the exhibition), but he was also a dedicated philhellene, passionate about Greek culture. He took a young Greek male lover, Antinous, who accompanied him on his travels around the empire. In AD 130, Antinous drowned in mysterious circumstances in Egypt. Consumed by grief, Hadrian founded a new city, Antinoupolis, close to the spot where he died and had Antinous declared a god, linked to the Egyptian deity Osiris. A cult of Antinous-Osiris sprang up resulting in statues, busts and silverware featuring the image of the newly deified youth.
A central theme of Hadrian's life and his legacy can be found in his strong personal interest in architecture. Under his patronage, highly innovative, iconic buildings were constructed throughout the empire and form a major part of his legacy. The most famous are the Pantheon in Rome and his magnificent residence at Tivoli, a few miles east of the capital. The villa was like a small city, the empire in miniature. It evoked famous sites in Greece and Egypt and was a playground for new architecture, filled with exquisite works of art. The villa is still being excavated and exciting new finds and research will be presented in the exhibition.
Thorsten Opper, curator of the exhibition said: "This will be a unique opportunity to see important objects related to Hadrian in one exhibition. Hadrian was an extremely successful emperor who left an immense and enduring legacy, but one that is often not recognised or appreciated. This exhibition will allow for a reassessment of his character, his life, love and legacy".
For further information or images please contact:
Hannah Boulton: +44 (0)20 7323 8522/ hboulton@britishmuseum.org
Katrina Whenham: +44 (0)20 7323 8583/ kwhenham@britishmuseum.org
Benjamin Ward: +44 (0)20 7936 1297/ bward@brunswickgroup.com

(Source: Ekklesia Antinoou)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ekklesia_antinoou/

‘Jonquille du Vallon’ was my former pen-name which was the pen-name that Oscar Wilde offered to Alfred Douglas, and which Douglas refused, and I caught it up.

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*one more beautiful boy at Revue_Blanche*
River Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American film actor. You can see him in the film My Own Private Idaho. His birthday is in August.

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24 AUGUST -- birth of Stephen John Fry, one of the most handsome men in the world, the last true gentleman and the brilliant author, whose brilliant novels left me cool.

29 AUGUST -- birth of Michel Jackson.
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*one more forgotten name at Revue_Blanche*
Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923)--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Radiguet
--French author of two novels, who died aged 20.
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*one more detective story at Revue_Blanche*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richey_Edwards#Disappearance
Richard "Richey" James Edwards (born 22 December 1967 in Blackwood, Wales, UK) is the former co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995, and his status still remains open as a missing person.

fan site
http://www.archives-of-pain.piczo.com/?cr=6
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*purely for my pleasure*
my list of the TV series, which I was able to watch and liked, is updated once again:
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2008/05/06/intermediation-4137004
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The set of associations for the Revue: literature--forgotten names--boys--Oscar Wilde--detective stories.

Lately I’ve defined my life priories:
1)cats & dogs and life in general as antonym to death
2)my own writings and computer as my children
3)food, health and money (which is connected directly with 2)
4)how I look (which cannot be alien to 3)
5)boys and guys
6)books and fine arts
7)sublime ideas, religion and spirituality
8)all the rest (I have no idea what)
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Part 1 and Part 2 of my novel have been recently published at Turner Maxwell Books:
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB.htm
http://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/LLB2.htm
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