tongue-eating parasite

(via sweetspider on tumblr)

" Much mockery has been made of artists spelling their band names with strange typographic symbols, but in the early days of witch house this had a specific intent: namely to create a 'lexical darknet'...A powerful, addictive, stolen kind of music..."

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

--Zora Neale Hurston

Slavic Witch House & beyond.

("Tigers in the Night" by Erik Olson, via Kristin Chang)

More about the Random Darknet Shopper.

"And if they take your sleep away sometimes
They give it back again..."

--Hart Crane

A Fire on Dunwich Beach.

"My father, who had recently been promoted to the position of state painter in the local town bureau in compensation for his sufferings in labour camps during the Cultural Revolution, had all these literary magazines and Western music records in his office – chained to the shelves so that no one could steal them." --Xiaolu Guo via kristinchang dot com

End of the Silk Road anthems.