- clips from Dark Shadows 2:08:42 & 1:46:26, house used for exterior shots is
the Carey Mansion (
formerly Seaview Terrace) in Newport, RI, now part of Salve Regina University. The house on the show
is in Collinsport, Maine & the house is called Collinswood.
- from DAME DARCY
"I can't help but feel so many mixed emotions about the world lately. I
am in utter and childlike awe of the wonderous beauty of the sparkling
aquamarine ocean, the mountains, european and antique archecture and
staturary, and the beauty of animals and other humans, while at the
same time feel complete repulsion over how disgusting everything is at
the same time. Case in point, seals and relationships.
I went to the Hearst Castle for Valentines Day, it was awesome. A
patchwork collection put together by a fun and visionary millionare,
showing off his cowboy know how about European culture. I like to go to
touristy things like this, last year I went to New Schwannstein, the
castle built in Bavaria by my gay king Ludwig. Gay as in gay (he was
not happy) any way, I digress.
Though I really love these palaces, the way i got to see them was
absolutely disgusting. How could humans be so incredably ugly, wearing
gortex sandles and taking photos of the ugly construction waterpumps at
the hearst castle, sucking on sugar and pushing their prodigy and ugly,
fat, lover people around. I feel disgusted by it because I am no
better, unfortunately. And made of nothing different. I wish i could
just be a fairy made of light and just fly away from this dirty world.
I saw the seals near the castle. I loved their cute ways but was also
disgusted by their smell and loved/hated their weird sounds like
monkey/pig/dogs. They were lying around on each other wallowing in the
mud and having sex near their dead pups.
The tourists watched them facinated.
The old lady who smelled too strongly of lotion, the fat man and wife
in matching red track suits, the lady with the long barbie hair and her
daughters with the same hair. It all made me sea sick.
I think that I think sex is gross. Whats wrong with everybody anyway? I
can't remember what I thought before? I vaguely remember thinking this
stuff as a kid though, seeing the brazen vaginas in trees and knowing
it was going to be my turn soon. Why does everything have to be so fat
and rutting?
Anyway, I don't want toseem too negative, I just have put so much
faith and expected so much from people and the world, and perhaps I
shouldn't think so much."
- OTHER TEXTS RELATED TO HEARST CASTLE
- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
- Joan Didion, The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador
- LAURA MULVEY - marian davies as another fetished object, a souvenir. fetish changes the orginal, reproduces it
"fetishism holds time in check" hearst's collection not to reconstruct history but to create a history out of old stuff.
it had to be divorced...
- Emily Post, The Personality of a House, 1930
- "A very high ceiling makes a room masculine to begin with." - Emily Post, The Personality of a House, 1930
- "...all rooms of dignity and untrimmed simplicity are suitable for a man. Curtains may be of beautiful stuffs, but they must be lain and severe in effect.... Emptiness is an asset of suitability - especially in a man's drawing room or any room that is set apart for his guests. Emptiness is always an essential of classic beauty and of dignity." - Emily Post, The Personality of a House, 1930
- "...there is neither sense nor beauty in the popular belief that manliness can be expressed only in the sort of solidity suitable for caging a grizzly bear; that a small room set aside for his personal use must be known as a 'den,' and be furnished with an overstuffed sofa that would support an elephant and with chairs obviously made for baby hippopotamuses." - Emily Post, The Personality of a House, 1930
- "That any normal man should be repelled by the least suggestion of effeminacy is only natural." - Emily Post, The Personality of a House, 1930
- "There was an elephant named after me. I was insulted." - Marion Davies, The Times We Had, 1975
- " He wanted it to be a museum." - Marion Davies, The Times We Had, 1975
- Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp
- "Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." - Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
- "Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization." - Sontag
- "For Camp art is often decorative art, emphasizing texture, sensuous surface, and style at the expense of content." - Sontag
- "Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not." -Sontag
- "Today's Camp taste effaces nature, or else contradicts it outright. And the relation of Camp taste to the past is extremely sentimental." - Sontag
- Susan Sontag, An Unguided Tour
- Sara Meyer, Susan Sontag's "Archaeologyof Longings"
- Susan Sontag, Project for a Trip to China
- Winchester Mystery House
- The Breakers, Newport, RI
- dad's great room here, & here, & here.
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