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Pat Spillane is one of the best-known sportspeople in Ireland.
Selected for the GAA’s Team of the Millennium and winner of eight
All-Ireland senior football medals, he is one of the greatest
Gaelic footballers ever.  He has also been one of the
most controversial GAA pundits of all time, driving the agenda on
The Sunday Game and in the Sunday World for thirty years. Â
In this honest and revealing book, Pat reveals the sadness of his
childhood when his father died young; his dazzling football career
and encounters with other immortals, from Mick O’Dwyer onwards;
the reality of life as pundit; his years as a primary school
teacher; and the stress of dealing with the government after his
spell with the state advisory group on rural affairs.
Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes--along with
sociologists, police officers, theologians, and occultists--recount
how the satanic Black Metal, a spin-off of the heavy metal
underground, devolved into acts of church burning, murder, and
suicide in Scandinavia.
"American Grotesque" is a lavish retrospective of grotesque,
occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer
William Mortensen (1897-1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary
whom Ansel Adams called the "Antichrist" and to whom Anton LaVey
dedicated "The Satanic Bible."
Mortensen's countless technical innovations and inspired use of
special effects prefigures the development of digital manipulation
and Photoshop. Includes a gallery of more than one hundred striking
photographs in duotone and color, many of them previously unseen,
and accompanying essays by Mortensen and others on his life, work,
techniques, and influence.
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