FATE RATTLES AND THROWS ITS BONES – The Vampire's Wife

Fate Rattles

Will, who runs one of my husband’s fan clubs sent me this Elton John video, made back in the nineties, asking if I were the evil seductress that walks into the video about halfway through. Yep, it’s me.

I’ve been in a few videos back in the day, but my favourite, of course, was playing a weeping woman in what my husband calls the ‘rather beautiful but kind of depressing’ ‘Into My Arms’ video made by ‘one of the truly great filmmakers’ (also Nick’s words), Jonathan Glazer. I appeared in this video long before my husband and I ever actually met—Fate rattling and throwing its bones! Love, Susie x

I COME FROM THERE

I love this poem, Tropical Town, by Salomón de la Selva. The poet was born in 1893, in León, Nicaragua, writing in both Spanish and English. He was active throughout his life in numerous labour and political movements He died on February 5, 1959. I love the line ‘I come from there…’, suggesting that the poet is an immigrant, far from home, dreaming of the repose of the cemetery, ‘where the green trees are.’ So very beautiful.

YOU MIGHT AS WELL LOVE

Someone called Vivienne from Auckland sent this beautiful poem/piece of philosophy from Pádraig Ó Tuama to my husband’s Red Hand Files this week. Such a wondrous thing as it falls to its very most simple and touching conclusion. Thank you, Vivienne, for enriching our little corners!

GRETA BELLAMACINA IN VENICE

Actress, poet, filmmaker, style icon and dear friend, Greta Bellamacina prepares to take on Venice Film Festival in her bespoke Raspberry Vampire’s Wife Dress and Cape. ‘There's such a magic to the shape of the dress–and the colour. It felt very special. There's also this timelessness to it. A lot of pieces from The Vampire’s Wife transcend the decades,' Greta says of the dresses. We adore Greta here at The Vampire’s Wife. Love Susie. x Black Under Heaven everything lives unnerved tiny cups and scissors hungover lilies in heaven marching in glass on the table our child arranging the sky,...

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