A Second Helping of Hannibal

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss fireflies, snail sex, Bad Ronald, and birds, birds, birds.

A firefly! Image source: The Tennessee Conservationist[/caption]

Nice links:

• Snail facts from snail-world.com
• 11 Cool Things You Never Knew about Fireflies from Scientific American
• The Nasty Bits: Thoughts On Lungs by Chichi Wang
• The Offal Truth about Easter (article about lamb offal) by Elizabeth Minchilli
• Quinto Quarto: inside Rome's offal obsession from Great Italian Chefs
• Punch Romaine recipe from Saveur
• Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak
• Buzz Kulik's Bad Ronald
• Nicolas Gessner's The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy
• Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies

Thanks to our friend Henry for the proper pronunciation of Fu Qi Fei Pian!

Fu Qi Fei Pian from the Golden Mall in Flushing (via chopsticksandmarrow)

A bucket of snails at the market in Palermo (photographed by Matt)

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Pazzi's need for friendship, how Hannibal got like that and if it matters, fireflies, and little gadgets.

John Glenn's capsule surrounded by guiding lights in The Right Stuff[/caption]

Nice links:

• Clarise and Hannibal talk about high-powered perception in Silence of the Lambs
• Facts about fireflies from the National Wildlife Federation
• 7 Staples of Rome's "Fifth Quarter" - La Cucina Italiana
• The Right Stuff

And here's the AMA logo with the snake Matt referred to:

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss the real Il Mostro at length, the differences between the final scene in Mizumono vs. the opening of Primavera, and Shazam and Isis.

Il Mostro investigation photo from the February 6, 2016 issue of Siena News

Nice links:

• The Shazam Isis Hour
• Amanda Knox Discusses her wrongful conviction in The Atlantic
• Amanda Knox documentary on Netflix
• The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
• Douglas Preston's Atlantic Article on The Monster of Florence

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss skeletons in Palermo, Chloris and Zephyrus (and related winds) Don't Look Now, and Will's vampiric style choices.

Nice links:

• The Monster of Florence (Atlantic article by Douglas Preston)
• I'd Rather Be Blue (Fanny Bryce via Archive.org)
• Capuchin Monastery Catacombs – Palermo, Italy (Atlas Obscura)
• Don't Look Now

Find some nice photos over at secondhelpingpod.com.

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss giallo at some length, make a few movie recommendations, and serve up some Divine Comedy for dessert.

[caption id="attachment_12714" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]The curtain opening in Deep Red. Look familiar?[/caption]

Mostra Note:

Scena di Star Trek

Film da guardare

• Blood and Black Lace
• What Have You Done to Solange
• Deep Red
• Torso
• House of the Laughing Windows
• Death Laid an Egg
• The Possessed

Libri da leggere

• Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

Scena divertente da High Anxiety

• High Anxiety phone booth scene

Groovy soundtracks for your next cena serale

• Case of the Bloody Iris
• The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
• Deep Red

Moriccone giallo musica

• Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Lizard in a Woman's Skin
• Cat O' Nine Tails
• Spasmo

"Tree man" images of Pietro Della Vigna:

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss the start of Season 3, trips to Italy, giallo, snails, and oysters.

Nice links:

• "Snails and oysters" discussion from Spartacus
• Goblin soundtrack for Dario Argento's Deep Red
• Morricone scores for Umberto Lenzi's Spasmo and Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Actual antipasto from Beth's recent trip to Italy[/caption]

Amazing hat from A Lizard in a Woman's Skin[/caption]

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss their second rewatch of S2 E13, the imago stylings of Jung, Lacan, and Klein, and airport arguments.

Nice links:

• Dupont D fountain pen
• Norman Palace in Palermo
• Primer on Jacques Lacan
• Primer on Melanie Klein
• The Best of All Possible Worlds (1974 Cast of Candide)
• Pen fetishist Web site
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
• Under the Skin
• Thief
• Intentions and Intersections of Classical Music in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal (NBC) by Teresa Piñeiro-Otero
• Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria - song by Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould

Wherein Beth and Matt further describe the events of the finale, mourn Bella, and sigh over the most heartbreaking Sip of Death yet.

Nice links:

• Skyler tells the truth (Spoilerific Breaking Bad Clip)
• Sam & Dave's "I Thank You"
• "I have no plans to call on you Clarisse" clip from Silence of the Lambs
• "Tears in the Rain" clip from Blade Runner

Looks like the Champagne on Air France in 2014 might have been a Bollinger 2004 Grand Annee, which will run you $150. It seems to be the brand James Bond prefers, though that probably wouldn't impress Hannibal.

Wherein Beth and Matt embark on part one of a three-part discussion of the Season 2 Finale, Mizumono! Emotions are felt.

Nice links:

• Talk Like Hannibal Reddit Thread
• Johnlock explained (Slate Culture Gabfest)
• Origins of the ""Isnt' that awesome" joke (Chris Farley on SNL)

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Achilles and Patroclus and Matt awakens his distaste for anti-shippers.

• Achilles and Patroclus: The erasure of LGBT+ History by Reyna Jani
• Gore Vidal's spat with Charlton Heston over gay 'Ben-Hur' subtext (Los Angeles Times)

• The Yin-Yang effect Beth mentions

Mason compared to the Thunderbirds guy

Achilles Tending to Patroclus' Wounds via Wikimedia Commons

Nikolas Ge's Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus via Wikimedia Commons