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3/30/20

BOOK CLUB- VIRTUAL MEETING- APRIL 26Th

presents:

FETISH BOOK CLUB

virtual edition

our book this month

SWIM

Eric C. Wat

april 26th, 1pm

donations greatly appreciated

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rick castro is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

rick castro is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: fetish book club
Time: Apr 26, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 116 460 509

SWIM

Carson Chow is a high-functioning addict.

For years, he's been able to meet the increasing demands from his aging immigrant parents, while hiding his crystal meth use every other weekend.

This all taking place in San Gabriel Valley of L.A County.

please donate to rick castro: it's the right thing to do- here

2/24/20

FETISH BOOK CLUB: LONDON TRIPTYCH

PRESENTS

FETISH BOOK CLUB
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

LONDON TRIPTYCH

   JONATHAN KEMP

  MARCH 29th
   1PM

$15 COVER

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK CA 90026

INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net

Rent boys, aristocrats, artists, and criminals populate this sweeping novel in which author Jonathan Kemp skillfully interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in gay London across the decades. Moodily atmospheric and rich with history, London Triptych is a sexy, resplendent portrait of the politics and pleasures of queer life in one of the world's most fascinating cities.

1/21/20

MIRACLE VEER: WRITING WORKSHOP_ FEB 16TH

PRESENTS

MIRACLE VEER:WRITING 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

$40 PREPAID RESERVATION REQUIRED

please choose payment option family/freinds

(LOCATION & DIRECTIONS SENT UPON RESERVATION)

NEXT WORKSHOP~ FEBUARY 16TH

1PM

INFO- ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

11/29/19

MARQUIS DE SADE TEA SALON

PRESENTS

MARQUIS DE SADE

TEA SALON

DECEMBER 4TH

5PM

(SALON ENDS @7PM)

$25 PREPAID RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

JOVIAL CHATS

HAND-BLENDED TEA

CAKES & DAINTIES

EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MARQUIS DE SADE

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE ECHO PARK, CA 90026

info- antebellum@earthlink.net

THE MARQUIS DE SADE

(June 2nd, 1740~December 2nd, 1814)

was a sadist.

The French aristocrat became so notorious for his deviant sexual practices, perversions,

and erotic writings which combined pornography with philosophy and violent sexual fantasies,

that his name gave rise to the terms sadist and sadism.

His sexual fantasies’ emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy –

and his real life partaking of criminally violent sexual practices –

kept him behind bars in prisons and insane asylums for most of his adult life.

He spent 32 years behind bars, including 10 in the Bastille.

Most of his writings were penned while he was incarcerated.

11/18/19

BOOK CLUB~ JAN 5TH 2020

PRESENTS

FETISH BOOK CLUB

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES

SAEED JONES

JANUARY 5TH, 2020

1PM

$15 COVER

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK CA 90026

INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net

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"People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.' "

- Saeed Jones

10/7/19

MIRACLE VEER: WRITERS WORKSHOP

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 WILL TAKE PLACE ONCE A MONTH
AT AN INSPIRATIONAL HOLLYWOOD LOCATION

$35 PREPAID RESERVATION REQUIRED

(LOCATION & DIRECTIONS SENT UPON RESERVATION)

1ST WORKSHOP~ NOVEMBER 10TH

1PM TILL 3PM

INFO- ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

9/23/19

FETISH BOOK CLUB- A SEASON IN HELL

PRESENTS

FETISH BOOK CLUB

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

A SEASON IN HELL:

ARTHUR RIMBAUD

OCTOBER 20TH

1PM

$15 COVER

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK CA 90026

INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net

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A SEASON IN HELL

is an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer

Arthur Rimbaud.

It is the only work that was published by Rimbaud himself.

The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, including the Surrealists.

Arthur Rimbaud

20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891)

French poet known for his influence on modern literature and arts, which prefigured surrealism.

Born in Charleville-Mézières, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away from home to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood he began the bulk of his literary output, then completely stopped writing at the age of 21, after assembling one of his major works, Illuminations.

Rimbaud was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul, having engaged in an at-times-violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, which lasted nearly two years.

As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to Symbolism and, among other works,

for A Season in Hell, a precursor to modernist literature.

8/20/19

FETISH BOOK CLUB- PASOLINI

PRESENTS

FETISH BOOK CLUB

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

PASOLINI

SEPTEMBER 22ND

1PM

$15 COVER

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK CA 90026

INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net

antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

Pier Paolo Pasolini

(5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975)

an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure.

He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.