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11/10/19

MIRACLE VEER: WRITERS WORKSHOP- RESERVE NOW!

PRESENTS

MIRACLE VEER:WRITERS WORKSHOP

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

INSTRUCTOR: MATTHEW STEELE

Sharpen pursuits and lily your thrust,

for a writing workshop unlike any other is reaching its commencement.

Call me Steele, a cold blade conducted by Castro, to carve literature into bear and pig flesh alike. Through this relationship, we are able to breed insight and gather it towards your voices:

in short, we cut away what you shouldn’t say, shaping it to what you should.

We are only human, but our eyes are tuned to a fine sheen, a miracle veer.

Castro is cut of a finer blood, and me a metal mind.

Allow us to lay you down, remove all question.

WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ONCE A MONTH

AT AN INSPIRATIONAL HOLLYWOOD LOCATION

$35 PREPAID RESERVATION REQUIRED

please choose payment option family/freinds

(LOCATION & DIRECTIONS SENT UPON RESERVATION)

NEXT WORKSHOP~ DECEMBER 15TH

1PM TILL 3PM

INFO- ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

10/11/18

8/9/18

BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD TEA SALON

PRESENTS
BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD
TEA SALON

AUGUST 15TH 5PM
(SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM)

   $15-PREPAID RESEVATIONS
   $20 DAY OF THE SALON
   PREPAY- antebellum@earthlink.net

~ENJOY~
  HAND-BLENDED TEA
   CAKES & DAINTIES
   VIEW EROTIC ART
ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS
   RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
CELEBRATE BELA
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

   TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
1421 LAVETA TERRACE
ECHO PARK, CA 90026
   INFO-ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

BELA LUGOSI

20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956),

Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula

in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

He had been playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary

before making his first film in 1917, but had to leave the country

after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919.

In 1927, he appeared as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. He later appeared in the classic 1931 film Dracula by Universal Pictures.

Through the 1930s, he occupied an important niche in popular horror films,

with their East European setting, but his Hungarian accent limited his repertoire,

and he tried unsuccessfully to avoid typecasting.

Meanwhile, he was often paired with Boris Karloff, who was able to demand top billing.

To his frustration, Lugosi, a charter member of the American Screen Actors Guild, was increasingly restricted to minor parts, kept employed by the studio principally in order that they could put his name on the posters. Among his pairings with Karloff, he performed major roles only in The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939); even in The Raven, Karloff received top billing
despite Lugosi performing the lead role.

By this time, Lugosi had been receiving regular medication for sciatic neuritis, and he became addicted to morphine and methadone. This drug dependence was noted by producers, and the offers eventually dwindled to a few parts in Ed Wood's low-budget movies—most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Lugosi, who was married five times and had one son, Bela George Lugosi,

died of a heart attack on August 16, 1956.

6/16/18

WELCOME HOME!

2/6/18

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET & LUCA GUADAGNINO- FACEBOOK LIVE

Timothée Chalamet & Luca Guadagnino- FACEBOOK LIVE- 2/6/18

12/29/17

RICK CASTRO & TOM'S HOUSE PRESENT~FIRST TEA SALON 2018

PRESENT

FIRST TEA SALON 2018

JANUARY 3RD 2018

5PM

SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM

$10 COVER

PREPAY RESERVATION GAURANTEES SEAT

PREPAY- antebellum@earthlink.net

~PLEASE JOIN US BRING IN THE NEW YEAR THE BEST WAY~

~ENJOY~

HAND-BLENDED TEA

CAKES & DAINTIES

VIEW EROTIC ART

ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS

RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK, CA 90026

INFO-ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

9/28/17

RICK OWENS WOMEN'SWEAR SS- DIRT 2018

8/30/17

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST TEA ROOM

1/6/17

MONKS SERVE TEA IN RUNNING SHOES

10/11/16

ZAZ ZUH ZAZ

Cab Calloway - Zaz Zuh Zaz (1933)

5/7/16

MAORI HAKA FOR MR. TAMATEA

The entire high school of tarawera, new zeland performing the Haka during the arrival of Mr. Tamatea in the hearse. This was a very emotional and powerful performance. We are extremely proud of our boys' performance and we know that Mr Tamatea would be too.

VIEW ANOTHER HAKA HERE-

I WAS A REAL PUNK ROCKER!

Jordan, 60

Then: punk style icon

Now: veterinary nurse

Jordan worked at the forefront of punk. Photograph: Alan Powdrill for the Guardian

People said, “You must be so brave, looking like that out in the street.” I’d often wear a mohair jumper with suspenders and stockings and see-through knickers. It was nothing to do with bravery. Quite the opposite. It was about feeling comfortable and at one with yourself. I always liked dressing my own way. When I came up to London to try to get a job at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s shop, Sex, I was already wearing the stuff they were selling – I had just cobbled it together myself. But there wasn’t a job available straight away, so in the meantime I went to work in Harrods with green makeup on.

I eventually worked right at the forefront of punk with Vivienne and Malcolm. I styled the Sex Pistols – messing up their clothes. I appeared on stage with them, including on their first TV appearance on Granada’s So It Goes, to lend weight to their performance fashion-wise. I also managed Adam And The Ants during their punk era.

A lot of the major music moguls were extremely sexist. An A&R guy once said to my face, “This is not a woman’s job. You should be cooking and laying on your back.” I didn’t want to be there any more, so I came home to Seaford.

I wanted to work in something meaningful, so I got a job at my local vet’s. I’ve now been there for 22 years. It’s not pushing bits of paper around. It’s a real job where you can make a difference to how animals are cared for. Punk showed me you could be whatever you wanted to be, and that’s the way I’ve lived my life. I haven’t changed.

A lot of my old teachers still live locally and bring their animals in. They remember all the trouble I got in at school. I had a row with my headmaster. He said, “I can’t have you looking like this. You’ve got red and pink hair. You’ve got a mohican. They’ll all start copying you.” I told him, “No one’s going to copy me. Look at them. They’re laughing.” They made me wear a headscarf when I walked between lessons. Now these teachers say, “Oh, I always loved how you looked.” A bit of history has been rewritten.

2/26/16

BOUNCE BITCH!

9/14/15

TRUE MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY~ IS SEPTEMBER 16TH

PRESENTS

TRUE MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

(ARTIST~ LALO UGALDE)

FEATURING ARTWORKS BY

LALO UGALDE
RAYMOND SANDOVAL
LEE FRANK PEREZ VARGAS

RICK CASTROKENT ART

AND MORE

SEPTEMBER 16TH

7PM TILL 9PM

(ON DISPLAY THRU OCTOBER 2ND)

$5 COVER

NO HOST BAR

ROMANTIC PATIO

(ARTIST~ LEE FRANK PEREZ VARGAS)

MANY CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO THE WAY THEY CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS,

THANKSGIVING & HALLOWEEN, WITHOUT ANY REAL CONNECTION TO

THE HISTORIC DATES OF THE ACTUAL EVENTS.

SEPTEMBER 16TH IS THE TRUE MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY~

This is celebrated on September 16, 1810.

Hidalgo y Costilla’s "cry of independence"

has become emblematic of Mexican independence.

Grito de Dolores

¡Mexicanos!

¡Vivan los héroes que nos dieron la patria y libertad!

¡Viva Hidalgo!

¡Viva Morelos!

¡Viva Josefa Ortíz de Dominguez!

¡Viva Allende!

¡Viva Galeana y los Bravo!

¡Viva Aldama y Matamoros!

¡Viva la Independencia Nacional!

¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México!

Mexicans!

Long live the heroes that gave us the Fatherland (and liberty)!

Long live Hidalgo!

Long live Morelos!

Long live Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez!

Long live Allende!

Long live Galeana and the Bravos!

Long live Aldama and Matamoros!

Long live National Independence!

Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico!

LALO UGALDE & RICK CASTRO

7/31/14

SUFI "DHIKR" DANCE

Post by Sam AryaSound.

Sufi dance Zikr in Chechnya

"What they are doing is a very typical Sufi Muslim thing called 'dhikr' which means remembrance or recitation. They use Quranic verses, poems or Islamic chants to remember and praise God and sending blessings to the Prophet. It is practised all over the Muslim world and extremely hypnotic. For a few moments you forget all pain and suffering in your life."

4/3/14

120 DAYS OF SODOM RETURNED TO FRANCE‘

By Agence France-Presse

The original scroll on which the Marquis de Sade wrote the draft of his novel on sexual depravity, murder and paedophilia “The 120 Days of Sodom” has been returned to France following years of legal wrangling.

The parchment piece — originally recovered from a cell wall at Paris’s Bastille prison — will go on display in the city from September to mark the bicentenary of the eighteenth century nobleman’s death.

Written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, the book details the sexual orgies of four wealthy French libertines who rape, torture and finally murder their mostly teenage victims.

The 12-metre (39 foot) long scroll was found in its hiding place when the jail was stormed during the 1789 French revolution and over the years has repeatedly changed hands and had its ownership disputed through the courts.

But now current owner Gerard Lheritier, president and founder of Aristophil, a firm specialising in rare manuscripts, has brought it to France so that it can go on public display at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris, which he owns.

Frenchman Lheritier, who bought the manuscript for seven million euros ($9.6 million) and until now kept it in Switzerland, said he would one day like to see the manuscript in the hands of the National Library of France.

“I had proposed keeping the scroll for five years and then gifting to the library but the Ministry of Culture has not acted on this,” he told AFP.

Described by Sade as “the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began”, the novel was published in Germany in 1904 after being acquired by a German psychiatrist.

The draft scroll was then bought in 1929 by the husband of Marie-Laure de Noailles, a direct descendant of Sade.

But after it was subsequently stolen, smuggled into Switzerland and resold to Swiss erotica collector Gerard Nordmann, a Swiss court ruled in 1998 that the Noailles family had no claim to it as it had been bought in good faith.

The scroll was put on display for the first time at the Bodmer Foundation near Geneva in 2004.